January 2009

Are you one? I used to be one. Maybe still am in some ways. Affiliate marketers are often entrepreneurs with big dreams. They don’t want to just make money. They strive to be stars. They want to achieve great things. But we affiliates often get to attached to our work. You spend hours setting up [...]

Affiliate marketing is a wonderful career to pursue, but it is certainly not as easy as some folks want you to believe. Like any other business, there will be times that you would want to pull your hair out. There will be times that nothing you do works, and the temptation of getting a steady [...]

That’s what people ask me all the time. If you have been involved in the affiliate industry with some success, you probably have a gauge on what works and what doesn’t at this point. But a lot of newbie marketers have trouble choosing the right affiliate product to promote. It’s true that you should try [...]

If you have been promoting affiliate products for a while, you have probably seen them — products that allow you to earn 100% commission per sale. But 100% products do not have that great of a reputation in the affiliate marketing industry. In fact, a lot of folks try to stay away from these products, [...]

CPA offers are very attractive to most affiliates. You get all kinds of offers from these networks, and sometimes all you have to do is get people to enter their age and e-mail address to get your commission. Now there are simple CPA offers and complicated ones. The more complicated the action is, you can [...]

In the past few months, I have talked about how you should always try to hide your affiliate links. There is no shame in having affiliate links on your site, but leaving your links on your page can turn a few people off, and it that’s not bad, you can give a lot of information [...]

WordPress revolution keeps going as LinkShare has jumped on the bandwagon by coming up with its own WordPress plug-in. The folks at LinkShare are not dumb. They understand that many affiliates are using WordPress to build their affiliate sites, and you can bet LinkShare wants a piece of that pie. All you need to do [...]

Affiliate summit is one of my favorite events every year. I always try to make myself go to Vegas to take advantage of AS and the networking opportunities that it presents. Well, I couldn’t go this year for various reasons, but thanks to Ustream you can now watch parts of this great show. Don’t miss [...]

Hiding your affiliate links? That’s what experts tell you, right? After all, you wouldn’t want folks like me to hijack your commission. In truth, there are multiple ways to hijack others commission, which I find unethical and just plain wrong. But there are affiliate out there who wouldn’t feel an ounce for you and your [...]

Affiliate marketing is a rewarding business. After all, you get to set your own schedule and make a limitless amount of money promoting others’ products. Best of all, you don’t have to worry about fulfilling or responding to customers’ question. But here is the thing. Most affiliate marketers often end up making their own products. [...]