Rogue Affiliates Arouse FTC Interest
According to a number of emails I’ve received over the last 2 days, it looks like some affiliates are stretching the truth (OK, preying on the desperate) when it comes to promoting ‘government grant’ offers. Apparently they’re... [Read more...]
Why is Colin Smiling?
Good morning. Colin McDougall and I are in the Maple Leaf Lounge in Vancouver airport right now, waiting for our flight to Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas. We’ve been discussing ‘evergreen niches’ for affiliate marketers which traditionally... [Read more...]
Super Affiliate Dan Ho Outlines the Most Common Affiliate Traps
Dan Ho has been a full time Internet marketer for over 7 years now. Up until recently, he was one of those Internet marketers who just quietly made money promoting non-Internet marketing related products and services and built up a multiple six figure... [Read more...]
Video: Which Clickbank Affiliate Gets Credit?
From Todd….If more than one affiliate is involved driving traffic to a Clickbank merchant’s site, who gets credit? The first? The last? The affiliates in the middle are just out of luck? Clickbank cookies last for 60 days. Does this mean... [Read more...]
Pepperjam Store Builderâ„¢: Super Simple Product Feeds
Last week Pepperjam unleashed their new Store Builderâ„¢ and a few days later announced that it had been optimized for bloggers using Wordpress. I gave it a whirl and it’s darned easy to use as implied by the 1-2-3-4 steps indicated on the main... [Read more...]
Brian Gardner’s Revolution Affiliate Contest
Brian Gardner, developer of the Revolution themes for Wordpress is holding a contest for his affiliates in March. If you’re not familiar with Brian’s work, I run his Revolution News theme on my travel blog and it was the theme chosen for... [Read more...]
Gaming Affiliates Set Sights on New Opportunites in Lucrative Niche Markets
This year’s Casino Affiliate Convention held August 27 – 28 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal, Quebec was considerably smaller than its past conferences, primarily due to the passage of the US Anti-Online Gambling Law in 2006. Regardless,... [Read more...]
Four Questions to Ask Your Merchant
Here’s a commission-increasing tip that Willie Crawford picked up from the Super Affiliate Handbook and then wrote about in his blog. (I’d point you to the entry, but Willie isn’t moderating comments on his personal blog and some... [Read more...]
Add eBay Listings to Your Affiliate Site with BANS
Check this out. I’ve placed eBay listings on our travel blog at Roamsters.com. The eBay links are commissionable and eBay pays its affiliates between 40% and 65% on their revenues earned from a listing and between $12-22 per Active Registered... [Read more...]
Disclosure Policy for Affiliates
Here is a question I received from Chris about the new FTC policy and disclosure. I have read the new FTC policy details, and it really seems that it could easily be applied to every single affiliate marketer. After all, we receive a commission (payment)... [Read more...]
