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Has anyone told you that your “EVIL”?  I was on the phone yesterday and for the first time ever someone told me I was “EVIL”.  For feeding my twitter account with RSS from one of my blogs.  Evil?  I don’t think so.  And you shouldn’t either.  But the person I was talking to took it [...]

You know the “Seven P’s”?  Oh come on now…  It’s Q4.  The busiest and most profitable time of the year.  The time when your PPC and Affiliate Marketing competitors are raking in the dough.  And it’s all related to the “Seven P’s”.  It’s a cliche’, and I know you’ve heard it before.  But just as [...]

Sometimes you’ll read something and you think “WOW”…  I had that moment again yesterday with a thread at the AffSpot Affiliate Marketing Forum.  Daniel is a “noob”, doesn’t know anything about SEO, PPC, etc., etc., etc.  He was obviously frustrated and was asking for help “going blackhat” thinking that it’s easier than just doing it [...]

An old friend used to tell me “It’s not that it takes all kinds, it’s that we have all kinds and have to put up with the stupid ones”…  And looking at my portfolio of programs right now it’s the stupid ones that have entered the Affiliate Program Abandonment Cycle.
You have an idea for a [...]

There’s a new survey of Web users from the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California Berkeley School of Law and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.  And the findings arn’t all that suprising to me.  People don’t want targeted advertising.  No matter what advertising agencies and [...]

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 (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 [...]

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 [...]