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What a weekend!  After the “breather” day on Friday I took the weekend off.  Hey, being an Affiliate Marketer doesn’t mean you have no life!  But today..  Well, today is a big day.  We start deploying our network of minisites for real.  To recap what we’ve done so far (and why you need to go [...]

Building an Affiliate Marketing Powerhouse with a network of microsites has proven to be pretty simple.  But it’s a “breather” day…  All that math on Tuesday, research on Wednesday, and setting up servers, registering domains, loading software on Thursday…  That’s alot of work.  Some fun, some not…  But it was all work.
It’s time to build [...]

Building an Affiliate Marketing Powerhouse (if you’ve been reading along) isn’t that difficult.  Oh, it took some work.  On Day One we did the math and figured out how many sites (25), on Day Two we learned how to find niches, local markets, and offers in an efficient manner (still work).  Today we need to [...]

Yesterday we did some math and figured out the economics of building a network of localized niche minisites:
25 minisites x $3.00/day avg net = $75/day x 30 = $2250.00/month
We assumed it would cost $500/month in expenses which means we either raise our sales expectations/site, raise the number of minisites, or take the cost out of [...]

(This is the first in a series of blogposts describing one of many methods of establishing a business in Affiliate Marketing.  Consider this an instructional foray into an example that hopes to deliver value no matter what approach you may take with your own Affiliate Marketing business.)
So you think you can be successful in Affiliate [...]

In my normal weekend I don’t blog…  I research for the blog.  Which generally consists of reading 50-60 newspaper indexes, a fair amount of Google News, and visiting a big list of research sites.  This week it was the news that got my attention.  So much so I’m blogging on a Sunday morning.
The Government is [...]

I love minisites…  I mean I really LOVE minisites.  You see, minisites are easy to deploy, low maintenance, and if you build your templates right you can just plug them into your favorite CMS and really make things easy for yourself.  Which means you can target niches like crazy.  Which is good.
This also means I [...]

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“Going Local” seems to be the latest “Hot Phrase” that has been storming the Affiliate Marketing world.  Add this to “Quality” and the challenges of the GAN move to Adsense for payouts, Pepperjam being bought, etc. and the last thing on your mind is expansion.  Let alone expanding internationally.  You’ve been [...]

I know that I will beat this til it’s dead.  And boy do I want it dead.  Dead, lifeless, copycat affiliate sites that are nothing more than exercises in delivery canned content.  I look at 5 affiliate sites per day minimum.  Every day, just to keep up on what people are doing.  And every day [...]

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Across the State Road that I live on are a few cornfields.  Pretty big ones, actually.  This year has been very different in that they’ve been hybridizing for seed.  If you’ve never seen this before once the corn reaches full height special wagons are towed through the field with ros [...]