Despite being a professional writer and editor, there is a limit to how much I want to communicate with others.
So, though maybe it's really because I'm just too old, I don't get Twitter.
Touted on its website as:
A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!Ok, maybe I get it, maybe I don't. But, clearly, some do. There are thousands of people talking to friends and total strangers about items both strange and familiar. So, on second thought, that might actually have some value. You want to establish a new pool of potential customers and you've selected a product or service to focus on. But creating an email list, then feeding it with valuable content to build relationships of trust, takes a year. Building a blogging audience can take months. Generating traffic to a new site is often quic... Read More →
As we prepare upcoming issues of Affliate Classroom magazine, we want to make sure we're addressing areas important to our readers.
So, it's (long past) time to get some feedback. We'd like to hear from you. Tell us your three top challenges, this time relating to traffic.
Do you have trouble getting it? Is it hard to analyze? Do you have trouble using it to improve your site?
If affiliate marketing is based on a single thought, it could be this:
Lots of successful businesses didn’t succeed by relying solely on direct sales to customers. They outsourced at least some of the sales process to other parties. This enabled a wider product distribution in a cost-effective manner. Hence, we have affiliate marketers, and we have resellers.
Reseller programs, like affiliate programs, promote products made by somebody else. Both programs provide a great service to the product manufacturer by getting the word out about a product to an ever-growing target audience.
This leads some to think that the two are synonymous. But don’t be fooled. Resellers and affiliate marketers act on vastly different scales.
Our goal here at Affiliate Classroom is to offer you information, training, and products that make your life as an affiliate easier - and increase your profits! So we're giving our loyal blog readers a heads up about a new service we'll be launching on Tuesday, April 24, at 12 noon EST.
I don't want to reveal too much about this new service yet, since we're giving 
We seem to be finding a lot of new freebies for you lately! It's great to have a blog to let you know about them.
Speaking of blogs, this will be especially interesting to those who have WordPress blogs.
As you may know, the Affiliate Classroom has made a commitment to keep you up-to-date on Web 2.0 and how you, the affiliate, can better monetize your websites using new Web 2.0 ideas.
Last week we showed you how to get the excellent report by Jack Humphrey discussing the details of how Web 2.0 can make you money and generate traffic.
Today, we have located an absolutely free tool you can use to instantly convert any website into a Web 2.0 property.
Most affiliate marketers have heard of Web 2.0, but the real concept behind the thing is still a little fuzzy. So, instead of trying to grasp this new concept, we continue to use the old ways of marketing: Trying to optimize our sites and blogs, buying lots of PPC advertising, writing articles and mass submitting them to directories, etc.
Now, don't get me wrong, these things still work - I use all three of them in my marketing strategy. However, I recently began to wonder why some big Internet marketers were beginning to eagerly push expensive eBooks on these subjects, since these methods have been around for years.
Well, after reading a free report titled "
When I was growing up my Mom's favorite saying was “There's No Free Lunch!'
She was trying to teach us that you have to work for the things you want; no one is going to just hand out riches and self-confidence.
For the most part, I've found her saying to be true. However, every now and then I do run across something that is entirely free! Since that doesn't happen very often, it's a good idea to take advantage of it when it does.
That's why I was excited when I saw the note Anik wrote the other day. It's about a freebie that isn't just free, It can pay you back ten-fold.
Enough suspense! Here are two things you can get through a special arrangement that Anik made with his friend and amazing affiliate marketer, Jeremy Palmer.
