Do you find affiliate marketing to be overwhelming, and you feel like you could really benefit from some guidance? Well, I’ve got great news for you. The Affiliate Summit forum is free and there are lots of experienced affiliate marketers there who are happy to help. Jump right in and start asking questions, and a [...]
Jim Kukral has started up a free service for fiction and non-fiction authors called the Author Marketing Club. Author Marketing Club is a community of authors who are going through the same pains and successes, and who want to work together to help one other learn how to promote their books. We just recently published [...]
I hear from a lot of people that they want to get started in affiliate marketing, but they feel overwhelmed. But really, affiliate marketing is pretty easy for anybody to break in and try. It’s not rocket science – I’ll boil it down to just two simple steps for you to start an affiliate content [...]
My Job Chart is a great example of a useful site powered by affiliate marketing. The site is a tool to manage chores for kids and provide them rewards, some of which are available through Amazon affiliate links for parents to purchase for their kids. I’ve found My Job Chart to be a fantastic resource, [...]
Affiliates should be split testing their landing pages, but many I’ve asked have never bothered. For the uninitiated, split or A/B testing is a process where you serve up different versions of your page to different visitors to determine which is more effective. I’ve tried various ways in WordPress and found they were largely a [...]
There has been a steady drumbeat for years that we’re on the verge of video and/or mobile dominating the affiliate marketing landscape, but neither have really happened, yet. But I think this is the year curation becomes the new affiliate marketing hotness. Two curation tools I’m currently using are Pinterest and Shareist. One reason I [...]
I used to write a zine (printed, not online) back in the mid-90s called Velocity NYC, and I recently re-discovered a bunch of the stuff I wrote back then on archive.org. This is one of the editor notes that I liked from back then… What do we talk about when we talk about our dreams? [...]
I used to write a zine (printed, not online) back in the mid-90s called Velocity NYC, and I recently re-discovered a bunch of the stuff I wrote back then on archive.org. This is one of the editor notes that I liked from back then… I woke up the other day freaking. The clock mocked me [...]
I recently had a nice chat with Ken Evoy, founder of SiteSell and creator of SBI!, and we discussed the differences between blogging vs. building a theme-based content site. I’ve known Ken since the 90′s(!), when I read his book “Make Your Site SELL!” (MYSS!), and it was fun to catch up and talk about [...]