ASW11 Session Recap: Creating a Successful Mastermind Group

January 13, 2011

The first session I attended at Affiliate Summit West 2011 was Randy Cassingham‘s Creating a Successful Mastermind Group. I’ve been in a Mastermind Group in the past, and have organized one as well, which I didn’t feel worked as I had hoped it would. So I was looking forward to learning how to create a [...]

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How to Choose an Affiliate Offer to Promote

January 3, 2011

Even if you understand all the technical aspects of starting an affiliate website, and understand how to get traffic to the site, something many affiliates struggle with is choosing an offer. There are thousands of merchants waiting for you to partner with them and to have you start promoting their products or services. I asked [...]

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Build a Niche Site, Quick

December 1, 2010

I was listening to the Affiliate Juice podcast, featuring Girly Checks, and learned a bit about the checking business, so thought I’d make a small niche site on Border Collie checks. Here’s why I chose border collies:

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Milk Your Cash Cow

November 22, 2010

There’s been a lot of talk lately about diversification, but I’m going to talk about the opposite view. When you have a cash cow, keep milking it! What got me thinking about this is some projects I’m working on, or have worked on in the past, that are now almost dead. The title of this [...]

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Image Sitemap for WordPress

October 26, 2010

I was looking for a good image sitemap generator for WordPress, but of course found nothing really good. So, I wrote my own

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Using the LinkShare Merchandiser Web Service

October 25, 2010

Building a product site using the LinkShare Merchandiser Web Service is one of the easiest and most straight-forward tasks you can do. If you’re just getting started with datafeeds and product-based sites, you may want to start here. If you don’t have an account, you first need to signup with LinkShare. Then login, and click [...]

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ShareASale Think Tank 2010 Recap

October 22, 2010

Earlier this week, I had the honor of attending ShareASale’s Think Tank at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California. Being my first Think Tank, I didn’t quite know what to expect, and looking back on the event, there are some things that as an affiliate, I should have done differently. I left Buffalo [...]

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Vote for Affiliate Summit Sessions

October 6, 2010

Affiliate Summit West is just about 3 months away, and the board is working on putting together a session schedule. Once again, they’re looking for attendee input, allowing you to vote on what sessions you’d like to see. You can vote at affiliatesummit.slinkset.com (you have to register, but if you voted last time, it’s the [...]

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An Exhaustive Review of Raven Internet Marketing Tools

September 30, 2010

I first signed up for Raven Internet Marketing Tools about a month ago, played around with it for a bit, but couldn’t really make heads or tails out of it. I added some websites, set up some SERP tracking, but then pretty much forgot about it. But recently I revisited my Raven Tools account, and [...]

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Wordtracker Webinar: How to Build Links to Your Website

August 24, 2010

Wordtracker held a free webinar today entitled, How to Build Links to Your Website. The webinar will be live again a few more times, or you can watch it at your leisure at the webinar page. I’ll try to recap the important points: First, let’s call the webinar what is really is: an infomercial. But [...]

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