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Easy Content Unit Adds youtube feature

Easy content unit has added a feature that allows you to include youtube videos in their units, as if ECU wasn’t already flexible and conversion friendly enough, they’ve responded to the growing trend in the internet age that users like interactive video content, below is a fantastic example, now imagine this, in addition to being [...]

Books on Affiliate marketing

I thought I’d share a list of books, using easy content unit that I’ve either read or have the intention of reading, yes these are affiliate links and the books are mostly from Amazon, I thought I’d share them, and if it pleases you, please feel free to aid a fellow affiliate in earning some [...]

Update for July

Month so far has been interesting commissions from google look ok likely to hit £116.56 assuming no significant changes to patterns. Amazon is doing well too with 10 sales recognized totalling £5.70, however Affiliate Window seems to have stalled with no commissions so far, same goes for Linkshare, Skimlinks is showing £0.19 so far so [...]

Being declined by merchants

I wrote here, that one of my pet peeves as an affiliate is getting declined for a program with out any reason, but it does happen, however getting suspended perminantly for a campaign i’ve yet to promote and only just got approved for really bites the bullet, suspending an affiliate essentially means terminate the working [...]

My new project

so I’ve decided to open up one of my sites to the affiliate community, basically, affiliates are free to add as many articles to the site as they wish, with as many affiliate links or links to any site they wish, they can even put easy content units on there if they wish, the only [...]

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. [...]

Existem Affiliate management Summer BBQ

Existem are an affiliate management agency recent awarded several prizes at the A4U awards, an industry awards ceremony like the oscars, for affiliate marketing. They are having an excellent BBQ down in plymounth for affiliates, networks and merchants alike and is a perfect example of engaging with affiliates. you can book a place for this [...]

Blogging as an affiliate

as an affiliate there are millions of ways to generate affiliate commissions, some affiliates build thin one-page websites, whilst other affiliates create massive generic sites, there are affiliates who only work on discount codes and affiliates who work only on PPC, ultimately, its important that any affiliate understands the priciples of affiliate marketing and how [...]

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 [...]