Right now there are tens of thousands of Ecommerce shops gearing up for their holiday marketing promotions, some have even begun. They say the early bird gets the worm, but I think when it comes to holiday shopping online, it’s the loudest bird that gets the worm. Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus or whatever you celebrate means people are in a shopping mood and there are many opportunities to reel them in.

A lot of what I’m going to cover here isn’t new and ground breaking at all, but it should get you in the right mindset. If you haven’t started plotting your December marketing attack already then you best get moving asap. A lot of companies we deal with only want to employ one or two tactics and this usually annoys me to say the least. Holidays, while a time for family and harmony, are also an easy time to build your brand up even stronger.

The focus for the holidays is always content marketing and we ran some numbers from all our clients to give you an idea just how much action we got. We found that humorous link bait and contests were the real winners and we can focus on those aspects in just a bit, but for now, this is what we counted;

Links Attracted: 32,563
Facebook Followers Acquired: 88,102
Facebook Likes(On Content): 130,221
Twitter Followers: 23,411
Tweets On Content: 60,002
Youtube Subscribers: 8,914
Comments On Content: 783

Remember that this was from all the holiday campaigns we ran for clients last year and I imagine that the Tweets On Content numbers are “botted out” a little.

Guest Blogging Outreach Statistics

We gathered stats from 4,137 emails sent asking if we could could guest post on behalf of a client. Almost all of the potential guest blog spots were small to medium sized blogs with nice little devoted niche followings.

Guest Post Outreach Conversions

Social Followers Paid vs. Unpaid

Infographic Stats

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March 20 | Link Building | Geoff

There Is No Such Thing As Grey Hat

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March 20 | Link Building | Ryan Clark

I often run into people talking about “grey hat” link building strategies and thought it was time to address this issue.

Quality Link Building For Affiliate Websites

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March 20 | Link Building | Ryan Clark

I hate most affiliate marketers. There, I said it. I spend a lot of time hearing from people who run affiliate sites and the woes they run into and I thought I could lend some advice. Perhaps that’s a little harsh but I’m tired of hearing from people who think they their ill conceived website should be ranking when in fact it’s utter junk. It’s time we take a look at what’s wrong with the affiliate marketing mindset and help those who have a brain actually make some money in this day and age. I can gladly talk about this without worry because 99% of them will not take my advice because they are way too lazy.

I started in the world of online marketing and learned how to flop, as well how to make more money in a couple months than most make in a couple years.