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70 Subscribers and Counting
2008-01-03 12:20:00 Success! Today, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the FeedBurner chicklet update. We've reached 70 subscribers and that is truly a great feeling. I'm glad to know that the information I post here is helpful enough to people that they want to come back to find out what else there is to know, because ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Counting
December Recap
2008-01-03 02:52:00 Happy new year! It's officially 2008 and it's time for a recap of our first official month as a blog. As you probably know by now, the basic idea behind this blog is to help affiliates to make their first dollar and then to hold their hand until they can walk on their own. So why ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Recap , December
Keyword Tracking The Right Way
2007-12-30 10:04:00 To build on three previous posts Why Use Tracking Code, How To Put Tracking Code On Your Landing Page and How To Cloak Your Affiliate Links, the intention of this post is to inform you on how to track the keyword someone used to get to your site from a PPC (Pay Per Click) Ad, ... More About: Tools , Affiliate Marketing , How-To , Keyword
Affiliates, Be Inspired
2007-12-28 11:23:00 Here's one of my Azoogle screen shots from when I broke the $1,000 mark for a day back in October. I've since then kicked the ass of this screen shot, but the purpose behind this post is to show what is possible. I mean, I basically write this blog for the affiliates who either don't know ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Affiliates , Inspired
Affiliates, Be The Best Or Die
2007-12-27 10:45:00 Let's be honest for a second. Most people starting out in this business just won't stick with it for the long run. You'll have your people who quit when they don't make a sale right away, people who quit once they figure out they can make sales but it's not easy and then you'll have ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Affiliates
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
2007-12-25 22:27:00 Just wanted to wish everyone a merry Christmas today. I hope you all have a great day with family and friends, whether you exchange gifts or not. Share This More About: Holidays , Happy Holidays , Happy , Merry Christmas
Great Book: Small Is The New Big
2007-12-24 09:33:00 While we're on the topic of books, I just wanted to point out yet another great read you should get your hands on. My brother-in-law gave it to me as a gift and I'm still in the middle of reading it, but what I've learned so far goes extremely well with affiliate marketing. Regardless of the ... More About: Great , Book , Small
The Art of Affiliate Marketing War
2007-12-24 01:21:00 Last night, I was reading the Art of War as I was inspired by watching Wall Street to do so. In one particular scene, Gordon Gekko says: "I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought.." Now I don't ... More About: Marketing , Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate
Affiliate Toolbox Landmark
2007-12-23 09:59:00 I hope you're all having a great holiday. Mine has been pretty sweet so far. So the Affiliate Toolbox has officially surpassed the 50 mark when it comes to RSS Subscribers. I wasn't even paying attention to the count and when I saw it, I took a double-take. As it is my goal to provide serious ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Landmark
Affiliate Marketers: Mind Your Taxes
2007-12-20 10:36:00 As you're probably aware, tax season is right around the corner and now is the time to get organized for your tax man if you aren't already. A while back, I posted a thread on Digital Point Forums asking those more experienced than I how to approach taxes as an affiliate marketer. You can read ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Taxes , Affiliate , How-To , Mind
AdCenter, O How I Misjudged Thee
2007-12-20 02:25:00 So you know how I wrote that post about how AdCenter is Sucking Harder Than a Dyson vacuum cleaner? Well, it seems that my friend Jonathan Volk disagrees and since I have made it my job to keep you guys informed (hopefully without too much bias), I felt it necessary to inform you of what ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Judged
BANS Fans For The Holidays
2007-12-18 18:07:00 BANS (Build a Niche Store) is the hot phrase this season and with good reason. Shoemoney not only mentions it in his blog, but my affiliate manager gave a distinct nudge in the direction as well. And it's all good for those that know how to make them work and profitable. So what's the problem? The ... More About: Holidays , Affiliate Marketing , Fans , The Holidays
The Case for Ringtones
2007-12-15 08:54:00 It's no secret that the playing field for ring tones is being re-turfed and the new grass ain't so green. Search engines are locking down on what qualifies as a ring tone-related keyword and affiliate networks are beginning to enforce an extra step in the confirmation process. So what does this mean for affiliates? Well, essentially, ... More About: Case , Ringtones
3 Things Affiliate Marketers Can Learn From The Sopranos
2007-12-11 23:40:00 Tony Soprano is the classic definition of a businessman. He's got hundreds of connections, knows what's going on in his network at any given time, and is skilled at getting the information he wants-be it through bribes or the business side of a gun. As an affiliate, you can learn some great tips ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate , The Sopranos , Sopranos , Things
Affiliate Marketing: What NOT To Do
2007-12-10 20:57:00 Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, affiliate marketing gurus are telling you what you should do to make it big in the business. They tell you what types of products to sell, how to sell them and where. Well, today I'm in an anti-mood so I'm going to ... More About: Marketing , Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate
ShoeMoney, John Chow, Etc.
2007-12-09 04:56:00 One thing I've noticed lately in keeping up with all the major players in Internet marketing is that once they've surpassed a certain level of authority among the thirsty public, they stop pumping out quality content and start generating catchier but less informative articles. Much in the fashion of news reporters who focus mainly on ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , John , Chow
Affiliatizing YouTube
2007-12-09 04:44:00 If you've never heard of this, you should take the time to learn. Sometime at the beginning of this year, someone (perhaps Shoemoney) wrote about the untapped video-advertising market on YouTube. Well, to this day, I still haven't seen a lot of people taking advantage of the fact that videos can be seen by hundreds ... More About: Youtube , Affiliate Marketing
Affiliatizing Your Blog Posts
2007-12-07 20:22:00 Make sure to use every chance you get to affiliatize. Especially when it comes to your blog. A friend of mine runs the People You'll See In Hell blog, which features tons of interesting posts on the scum of the earth. Much like the evening news, this gets people thinking about their lives and how ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Blog , Posts
AdCenter: Sucking Harder Than A Dyson
2007-12-07 04:47:00 You might enjoy using Microsoft AdCenter and at one point, I was as well. If you'd used Microsoft's AdCenter about two months ago, you would've been somewhat content with their turnaround time on approving ads and keywords. Well fast forward to now where it takes about 12-24 hours to get your keywords and junk approved, I ... More About: Words , Dyson
What You Can Learn From People You?ll See In Hell
2007-12-06 23:13:00 Jeff over at People You'll See In Hell recently posted a contest with two purposes in mind: 1) Humor and 2) Link Bait. The rules of the contest are simple, you enter the contest to win half of the earnings of the website for the entire month of December. The other half goes to the ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Learn
How To Choose A Winning Offer
2007-12-06 22:02:00 Now that I've opened my doors to help people with affiliate marketing, I tend to get asked similar questions a lot. One question I get asked all the time is how to choose an offer/niche. In general, my answer is usually along the lines of "try all of them." At its heart, this is basically ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , How-To , Choose , Winning , Offer
Affiliate Marketing For Your Business
2007-12-06 20:24:00 You may have heard the term 'Affiliate Marketing ' floating around and you might not be so sure what it is and what it's all about. Well, here's the Wikipedia definition: Affiliate marketing is a web-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's ... More About: Business , Affiliate Marketing , Sine
Top 5 Tips to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing
2007-12-05 02:06:00 You knew I had to do it sooner or later. That's right, I'm going to give you my personal best five tips for success in affiliate marketing. Only, these aren't just random useless tips- these are what make or break you as an affiliate. Okay, maybe it won't break you if you don't use them ... More About: Marketing , Affiliate Marketing , Networking , Affiliate , Tips
Keyword Trimming
2007-12-03 03:25:00 Lots of people write about trimming your keywords in order to reduce spending and increase profit. As good and easy as that sounds, I haven't read many methodologies on how to do it. E-books I've read and I'm sure you've read mention "trimming the fat" or "tweaking your campaign," but rarely have I seen a ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , How-To , Keyword
NeverblueAds.com - Diamond in the Rough?
2007-11-28 10:28:00 When I originally signed up with Azoogle Ads, I had been with Click Bank for about a month and immediately, I was drawn to Azoogle's cleaner interface and the idea of having a personal affiliate manager. Not that I'd ever stop using ClickBank as they do provide a customer experience that is unique, but I was definitely ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Diamond
Do I Need A Landing Page For Affiliate Marketing?
2007-11-27 17:30:00 This must be one of the most frequent questions I get asked. The short answer is no. You don't technically need a landing page to be successful with affiliate marketing. Overall, you basically just need a referral link to send traffic to in order for your sales to get tracked properly. If you had a ... More About: Marketing , Affiliate Marketing , Affiliate , Page , Words
Why People Fail At Affiliate Marketing
2007-11-27 00:55:00 For every person I've talked to that is successful at all with affiliate marketing, there are probably nine others that are either in the red or failing. I know, not just from talking to people, but from my own personal experience that it's likely you'll fail your first couple of times around in the Affiliate ... More About: Marketing , People , Affiliate Marketing
How Experts Can Make You Money
More articles from this author:2007-11-26 06:38:00 I just got done reading Getting Money Out of Gurus - Part I over at the UberAffiliate blog and was inspired to give it a quick mention in my blog. Just to enforce the message of this blog a bit more, I want to emphasize on two things mentioned in the UberAffiliate blog: Share This More About: Affiliate Marketing , Make Money Online , How-To , Experts 1, 2, 3, 4 |



