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Affiliate Blog Competition

How to hold an affiliate blog competition and get it right.   Running a successful blogging competition is not easy but Affiliate.com has done it the right way. Here is how: -They have a good basic concept, blogging about warring a t-shirt which has their branding on it include them I the post. -The t-shirt [...]

Affiliate Blogger bought by Murray Newlands

I am happy to say that I have bought Affiliateblogger.co.uk and I will be developing it out over the coming months. So look forward to some updated.   affiliate blog

Voucher codes god long tail

The way people search in Google is one of the key foundations in SEO and affiliate marketing (particularly niche), interestingly there has been a trend over the last few year that users are searching more and more specifically, with 4 word key phrases offering the highest conversions, giving indication that users are looking for very [...]

Converting CPM to CPA

I was chatting to a sales lady at upmystreet today, now normally i wouldn’t want to name and shame, but this lady’s sales skills were tragic, no surprise when the head of display advertising at the agency i work at warned me she’d be useless. basically there’s been a lot of noise about how CPM [...]

Affiliate marketing is a buzz word

I stumbled on this wonderful viral video about…viral marketing. as an comedian will tell you, comedy has its foundations in truth, and the truth in this viral is how big companies get brain washed in to the latest marketing craze, first it was display, the PPC, then the mysteries of SEO, and oh wait, affiliate [...]

Just started reading…

After being at my new job for a week, i’ve decided the main skill i’m lacking is in analysis, planning and report, which basically boils down to understanding and being able to put together accurate forecasts, and be able to provide accurate clearly justifiable plans and reports, whilst i’m certainly no genius at this, i’m [...]

Twittering affiliate links = no commission

I jsut found out off a us affiliate site that Amazon have decided that affiliate links posted via twitter will no longer be acepted and commissions will be declined. Many merchants and networks prohibit affiliate links from being posted on forums or in blog comments and state links need to be on your own site. [...]

Affiliate management basics

affiliate management is a key part of any affiliate program, affiliate managers are highly skilled analyist and negotiators, we’re people-people and entreprenural by our very nature, infact, affiliate managers have to be in order to do the job we do, we have to negotiate deals and spot opportunities in a heart beat as well as [...]

Network merchant approvals

One of the pains of being an affiliate especially a part time affiliate like me, is the sheer number of merchants, terms and conditions, voucher codes and all sorts of other restrictions put in place by merchants who, may or may not understand affiliate marketing. Networks typically take a back seat for most small affiliates [...]

Whats the best ever affiliate incentive?

I’ve been mulling over this partly out of curiosity and partly because some merchants I do affiliate management need this kind of information to make decisions on how to incentivise their affiliates, I touched on the fact that you need to budget for these here, and that affiliates like to be incentivised with ‘things money [...]