September 2008

That’s the question many new affiliates ask themselves at some point in their career. In fact, a lot of affiliates start out promoting products that are related to their passions/hobbies. A lot of gurus talks about how you should pursue things that you love and promote products in niches that you are passionate about. I [...]

you have been in the affiliate marketing world for a while now, there is a good chance that you have received a note about your low number of sales from a merchant. If you haven’t, then just bare with me. We affiliate managers like to motivate our affiliates to do better every day. We do [...]

I can tell you from experience that many affiliate marketers only think about making a few quick bucks and nothing else. We all want to make a decent living. There is no question about that. But the merchants are out there to make profits as well. So at some point, asking for more commission is [...]

That’s the main question many beginner affiliates have to wrestle with. Let’s say you want to promote an insurance offer. Do you build your own page and then redirect people to the merchant’s site, or do you just buy Google Adwords traffic and direct them to the merchant’s site? The latter is really what was [...]

Pay per click marketing is the most popular way for affiliates to promote merchants’ products. Pay per click marketing is easy to implement and can be used to test affiliate ideas very quickly, but most new affiliate marketers make the mistake of stepping on the toes of their merchants and feel their wraths. One mistake [...]

The most important success factor in the affiliate business is doing your homework. When you do your homework and know your market inside and out, you can tap into the potential of the market and satisfy the unique needs of your prospects. So how do you do market research? It really sounds intimidating and many [...]

I mentioned a couple of days ago on SEO ABC that the Immediate Edge is now going 2.0 as Dan and Ed take on FaceBook, Google Slap, and other new developments in the interenet marketing world. The immediate edge is a pragmatic training program for affiliates, PPC marketers, and product owners. I have personally tested [...]

I had a post about outsourcing a few days ago, and how it can move you from being an ordianry affiliate making decent money to extraordinary masteraffiliate making possibly millions. The fact is as an affiliate marketer you only have 24 hours to accomplish so much. Even if you are very good at multitasking, you [...]

I posted a note on SEOABC about the Search Engine Strategies event that is going to happen in Chicago, this December. The Search Engine Strategies make look like an event that is only helpful to search engine optimization guys, but I have personally gotten more than a few ideas from my last trip to SES [...]

Affiliate marketing is real business, and like any real business, you need to account for business expenses in order to be prepared to run your business more effectively. Some expenses are straightforward, but it is surprising how affiliate marketers fail to account for some the most obvious expenses in advance. Here are the expenses that [...]