Admittedly, my last post on spam may have left you wondering, “Why should I care?” Perhaps your only spam-related activity is regularly cleaning out your email’s spam folder. And you may think of the CAN-SPAM Act, a 2003 law that made spamming illegal in the U.S., as your friend in that cleanup effort.
Well, unless you plan never to utilize email in your promotional efforts, you should care.
Email is a powerful promotional tool that, if applied properly, will provide tremendous and ongoing benefit to your affiliate business. All it takes is a little compliance and a little common sense.Let’s talk first about opt-in lists. A ready-made audience that wants to receive your messages…Sweet! However, even with opt-in list mailings, you must comply with the CAN-SPAM Act. (The details of this law are available http://www.spamlaws.com/federal/can-spam.shtml ) That means your email should identify you accurately in the “From... Read More →












Every single method that is intended to help drive traffic to our affiliate marketing websites also seems to come with a built set of potential problems. And, of course, social bookmarking isn’t an exception.
A few million words have been written on the advantages and the disadvantages of social bookmarking. However, social bookmarking has been around long enough now to readily see the more obvious advantages for our affiliate marketing websites.
Here are four ways to use social bookmarking to give your website a boost.
Content sources: All of the social bookmarking sites are well equipped with RSS, HTML or Flash. that you can easily grab and display on your web site -providing instant content. You can use these tools to have a continuously updated stream of links that relate to the products and services you sell.
Implement tagging: You can get tagging plug-ins for all of the content management systems (CMS) or blogging systems. You tag your pages and your content, and then submit the pages to tag aggregators. Be sur...
There is an old adage out there that says, “It takes money to make money”. The good news is that when you are an affiliate marketer, is that it doesn’t take near as MUCH money to make money.
I’ve been thinking about the differences between starting a brick and mortar business and starting an online affiliate marketing business and financial differences as well as the time differences are just amazing!
I'm a little confused. I just found out about the new course called
Anik's little game seems to have backfired - I got tagged twice, first by
Remember when we were little we loved playing "Tag, you're it!" - So that's exactly what I'm doing right now. I'm starting a tag game for affiliate bloggers officially today - July 18, 2007 (this is my sneaky attempt to become famous!).
Here's how it works - I say 1 thing I learned at The Affiliate Summit then I tag 5 other lucky people and they have to reveal 1 thing they learned and tag 5 others!
Here it goes:
1 Thing I Learned At Affiliate Summit
Actually I learned a lot, but one of the moments that sticks out was a presentation by Chris Henger, VP of Affiliate Marketing at DoubleClick Performics during his presentation titled: Desirable Demographics In The Affiliate Channel...
He revealed a very interesting study that they had a 3rd party company do when they took a good sized pool of their merchants and studied their traffic and the average order size it led to and the conversion rates.
I don't remember the exact numbers (I lost my notes, but Shawn & Missy will release the videos soon anyways). But I do remember being blown away.
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This month's AC magazine is all about using Pay-Per-Click advertising in your marketing efforts.
In the first article, “PPC Essentials for Affiliate Marketers” Matt Van Atta explains the concept behind PPC, then gives you a brief overview of which areas to be careful of when spending your PPC dollars. He also adds the four essentials that should be included in every PPC Campaign - do you know what they are?
“The Many Uses of PPC Marketing” by Kathy Jackson, will show you other areas where PPC can be used - it's not just for Advertising anymore. .
In "How to Write Winning PPC Ads" Katalin Torok walks you through five-steps that will make sure you writie ads that get clicks, and that will lower your monthly advertising budget. You'll feel like a real copywriter after you discover these helpful pointers.
Then, you'll be amazed to find out that AdWords has even more uses! You can use your AdWords campaign to do research in a variety of areas. It's all told in: “Google AdWords: The Ultimate Niche Resea...
Google really wants you to have great success with the AdSense advertisements you put on your web pages.
Google would love to see you become an AdSense multimillionaire. Why? That's easy. The more money you make with your Google AdSense advertisements, the more money Google makes.
So, basically, with their own interest foremost in their mind, Google has designed some really helpful tools to help you optimize your AdSense income.
Yahoo might be a little behind Google, but I see they are trying to catch up by launching their own customizable Search Engine.
If you look at our AC Blog sidebar, you will see the Google AFFoogle box (cute huh!). This engine allows the owner, in this case Affiliate Classroom, to customize the search results shown to the searcher.
It seems like everyone in the Affiliate Marketing world is blogging about how great the Miami Affiliate Summit was, so I thought I would add my two cents worth.
If you've never been to an Affiliate Summit, now might be the time to make plans for the next one. It will be in





