It’s not a secret that one of my companies publishes affiliate websites. We utilize what I consider an evolved method of building affiliate sites and monetizing them primarily via affiliate marketing. And creating evolved sites means trying to ...
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Hey, affiliate kids. I'm about to head to the airport to start my trek back to the East Coast, but first, let’s recap Day 3 of Affiliate Summit, shall we? Sadly, due to my flight and this silly little thing called "lunch" that the speakers ...
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...And we're back with another day of blog coverage for Affiliate Summit West. If you missed Day 1, feel free to go check it out. Otherwise let’s get on with today’s big takeaways. This blogger hasn’t eaten since last ...
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Hey, kids. Now that I've been an affiliate marketer for almost a whole week, Rae sent me to Vegas to attend Affiliate Summit West to pick up some skillz and report back to her what I learned. And since liveblogging is punishable by death in the ...
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About 18 months ago, I wrote what I consider to be the best post I've ever written on the topic of affiliate marketing, how to survive the affiliate evolution. When I say that I wrote out my business plan and posted it on my blog in that post, I'm ...
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Recently a new merchant we're working with made the move over to Pepperjam Network (they're an affiliate network and yes, that's an affiliate link), which forced us to get familiar with them. After a few days of working with their backend a bit, I ...
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While last in the list of reasons you fail at affiliate marketing from this week, it is the most common plague I see new affiliates suffer from. When you're building a new affiliate website, you're usually filled with motivation. From design, to ...
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Whenever I get an email from a newer affiliate asking for advice on a site, it usually contains a 14 paragraph, in depth explanation of what they were thinking of doing and why no matter what route they take, it might be the wrong route because ...
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I twittered a few weeks back that affiliate marketing (or any Internet marketing for that matter) is a lot like weight loss. Tons of people has it as a goal, the majority won't do the work it takes to achieve it and those who are in shape often ...
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I'm going to keep this post short since I'm sick of constantly rehashing the topic. Unfortunately though, it could not be ignored as a top five reason for failure in the affiliate marketing industry. "What is fame? The advantage of being known ...
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