August 2010

Affiliate marketing is not a new business model, but it is getting a lot of flak from people who are just getting familiar with it. For some reason, people have difficulty believing that affiliates can actually be honest with their reviews and claims. That could be partially due to the fact that some affiliates have [...]

Affiliate marketing is a game of percentages. Getting paid 8.5% percent per sale instead of 7% can make a big difference if you have enough volume going for you. Affiliate programs such as that of Amazon’s for long have practiced this concept. The more you deliver to them, the more they are willing to increase [...]

You don’t have to look hard to find people who are supposedly selling the secrets to a hidden fortune. A fortune that they have been tapping into while everyone else’s been just doing things the wrong way. It’s funny how not a lot of people pause for a minute to think about how these folks [...]

Let’s face it. Not every affiliate has the technical & marketing knowledge to develop highly sophisticated affiliate campaigns. Some of the tactics used by newbie affiliates is sound and can serve as a stepping stone to build a highly sophisticated affiliate business in future. Spamming blogs is not one of those tactics. Blog spamming has [...]

There are plenty of experts who are being too optimistic about the possibility of an Internet tax being legislated by the current administration and the upcoming Congress. We all want to believe that the legislators won’t make the mistake of taxing small businesses further in these economic times. But with the country’s deficit hitting astronomical [...]