Many of the self proclaimed affiliate marketing experts make affiliate marketing sound so difficult that it seems impossible. These experts like to toss technical terms about and make affiliate marketing sound like a game that can only be played and won by those who are on the ‘inside’.
Those folks usually have something to sell like a ‘sure-fire’ way to become number one in search engine results in only 10 easy (and expensive) lessons. I say, ‘Horse Feathers!’ It just isn’t so!
Affiliate marketing is probably the easiest, quickest and cheapest way that those who want to get into online marketing can use. You don’t have to be a genius!If that were the case, there would only be two or three affiliate marketers who would be making money and I wouldn’t be one of them and I’m not sure I know another affiliate marketer who would be. The first concept of SAM (Simple Affiliate Marketing) that you need to grasp is that the internet is full of successful affiliate marketers who didn’t know the first thing about affiliat... Read More →
Taxes! Everybody hates them and the only thing we hate worse than the taxes themselves are the forms that we must fill out and file. According to Benjamin Franklin: "Certainty? In this world
nothing is certain but death and taxes."
Affiliate marketers are self-employed business men and women. When you are self-employed that means that you are responsible not only for filing your annual state and federal income taxes but also for making 4 deposits each year prior to filing on April 15th.
If you do not make your quarterly tax deposits, you will get hit with the double whammy of interest and penalties and end up paying more than you would have paid had you just made the tax deposits on time.
There are three things regarding taxes that you really need to do as a self-employed affiliate marketer:
You need to find out what taxes that you are responsible for and where, when and to whom to pay the taxes or make the tax deposits:
This information is readily available free from the IRS and from state, city and county tax assessors/collectors. Ignorance of the... 
The January issue of the Affiliate Classroom Magazine is out, and Networking is the Name of the Game!
Here's what's inside:
Avoiding the Loneliness of the Affiliate Marketer - A Guide to Successful Interaction
Mark Thompson gives you important reasons why you should interract with other affiliates, and some tips on where to find affiliate friends who are eager to share knowledge and advice. You no longer have to feel like you're working alone in the Affiliate Marketing field.
Meet Us In Vegas...Baby!!!
Yes, that's right, the Affiliate Classroom team will be in Vegas for the Affiliate Summit on February 24-26. Stop by the Meet Market on Sunday for a chat, or visit our Booth #102 Monday and Tuesday. This will be an excellent opportunity to meet the team and pick our brains for information on your current project.
I know it SEEMS a little early to start preparing for the next holiday, but do you know which holiday is almost as big as Christmas for online spending?
Valentine's Day!
If you think that the statistics regarding your affiliate marketing PPC advertisements are just a bunch of meaningless numbers, you need to think again!
Those statistics can tell you everything that you need to know about what is working and what is not working. They can tell you where your program needs to be tweaked, where you are pretty much getting it right….and so much more.
Sometimes new affiliate marketers just jump into PPC advertising blind. Without doing any research or any planning, they just choose to use all of the keywords recommended by the search engines, set no limits, and run their advertisements 24/7. That is a recipe for financial disaster. You can run up an advertising bill of thousands and thousands of dollars in a very short time and not sell a single product.
