February 2009

One thing about the affiliate business is that you are never out of options as far as programs to promote and networks to join. Networks such as CJ, LinkShare, Clickbank, and Pepperjams provide you with everything you need to promote products online and make money. Personally, Clickbank and CJ have been the best networks to [...]

Every affiliate makes mistakes. When you are new to this field, it’s easy to make mistakes. But one of the biggest mistakes that I made when entering this business was not doing my homework. I entered markets that I shouldn’t have, and I failed to do a proper market research to understand the dynamics of [...]

I don’t know about you, but I truly envy the young generation. Our kids have Macbook Airs and Netbooks to play with. I may not be that old but the best I had in the 90s was a commodore or an Amiga. And let’s not forget that the Internet was not what it is now. [...]

Affiliate marketing is a low-risk method to generate leads for businesses online. Whether you are a credit card company or just want to sell life insurance online, you are better off investing in creating an affiliate program and use your affiliates to drive traffic. But getting the best out of an affiliate program is not [...]

The times are tough. You do not have to be a genius to figure this out. Many folks are losing their jobs, and that trend is expected to go on for a while. What really amazes me how clueless some of these folks are. I get it. You are worried about your family and providing [...]

I have talked in the past how important it is for new affiliate marketers to get the basics down. Affiliate marketing is a fun busines, but it can be hard breaking for a lot of us. If you your basics, you can always go back to them and come up with profitable campaigns. But if [...]

If you think about it, there are really three types of affiliate marketers out there. There is one group that only cares about making money. They sugar coat even the worst products on the market and sell them to their leads regardless of how much value they can get from those products. The second group [...]

I know how this sounds. I have been preaching about affiliates building assets online to secure their long-term future in this busines. But in reality, you do not need to have your own website to make money with affiliate marketing. Now, don’t get me wrong. There are not too many affiliate programs that allow offline [...]

A lot of gurus tell you that you should follow their success blue-print to make money online from affiliate marketing. Got to admit. If you find a blue-print that actually works, then you should use it to make money. But in reality, you don’t need to pay hundreds of dollars to get your hands on [...]

We have all heard it before. Action is all that matters. You simply can’t expect to do nothing and make it in the affiliate marketing world. Now, a lot of affiliates who don’t make it keep spending time on things that don’t matter but since they don’t consider that non-action, they never realize where they [...]