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Q: I am fairly new to affiliate marketing, but have been around the blog world for about a year. I am currently out of work with a back injury and my [...]

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Q: I was wondering if you know how to embed an affiliate link into a multimedia Flash movie presentation and offer the movie as a marketing tool for affiliates?
A: I am not familiar with the technical process of doing embedding affiliate links to a video, but I have worked with a vendor that can [...]

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Q: Where can I go to find a coach? I am stuck and need to work with someone to not just get to the next level, but to move at all.
Since you are so early in your affiliate marketing efforts, I would suggest making forums your first stop.
Check out ABestWeb - you can go in [...]

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Q: I have a downloadable product that I want to market through affiliates. I’d like to run the affiliate software myself, instead of running through an affiliate network. What is the best software for tracking affiliate sales?
A: There isn’t a single answer there, as there are a number of variables, such as price-point, features you [...]

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Q: Is a storefront a successful way to promote products as an affiliate?
A: It can be successful, but I would consider it to be an introductory way into affiliate marketing.
With affiliate storefronts, you are using a widget or script to generate it, so i don’t think it should be a long-term plan for you.
I’d look [...]

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Q: What kind of information do I put on a Web site once I decide on a niche?
A: That’s sort of an unusual question. I would think you’d typically pick a niche where you have some background knowledge.
My topline advice would be that you should develop some original content.
Rather than pick a niche, because it [...]

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Q: Is it still possible to make money today as an affiliate marketer, or is it harder to make money with Google axing the thin AdSense sites? Also, what are the top niche sites to look at if I was starting in affiliate marketing today? I see posts about making sites based on my interests, [...]

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Q: Is anyone making money with those forwarded emails everyone gets? The ones that either have a long list of funny pictures, or the ones that say send this to 30 people or you’ll have bad luck? All of those emails seem to have an ad on the bottom. How do I [...]

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Q: I recently got the Link Capture to help recruit affiliates, but I can’t figure out how to use it. I know how to do a search on the software, but I don’t know how to find affiliates that make sense for me.
A: I am sure there a lot of different ways you could use [...]

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Q: I want to embed video on my site without it having any logo or bug in the bottom, right area of the screen. I also have a problem when I paste the code for four videos on a page where the videos don’t all show all the time.
A: As far as the different companies [...]

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