Affiliate Progress

Defining the perfect niche for your website or blog is a skill that all affiliate marketers need to work on and develop, particularly if you want to carve out your success using SERPs traffic. Many types of business only need to identify a single niche that they want to attack, but as an affiliate marketer in the online world, it is a trick you will probably have to successfully repeat many times over. But look on the bright side, practice makes perfect!

In this post, I will go through the current thought process I use whilst selecting a niche, and how I might apply this to different types of project. For me this is most definitely still a work in progress, and I learn new things with every site and blog I set up. (more…)

I was reading a post on Moon Hussain’s blog Experiments in Passive Income recently which set me off thinking about how we manage and control our online workloads. Moon raises the point that had she known the amount of work involved and the difficulties to be overcome before she started her blog, she might possibly never have even started it in the first place.

I’m sure that’s a feeling that a lot of us have had, whether in relation to a blog or to one of our other affiliate marketing projects. So what is the key to managing that workload so that we can keep progressing without things getting on top of us? 

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Affiliate marketing is no different to most other modern day careers with respect to the number of acronyms and mysterious terms that are bandied about. Sometimes people will use these to bamboozle you or make themselves sound clever, but mostly it is just a shorthand to allow subjects to be discussed easily. Either way, if you are a newcomer these affiliate marketing terms and acronyms might seem like a different language, and one which you will certainly need to get to grips with in order to succeed. In this post I hope to list and explain some of the commonly used terms to help you on your affiliate marketing journey. (more…)

One of the aspects of setting up a new project that I find most interesting is investigating and deciding on the best affiliate networks and affiliate products to monetize my new baby. Finding the best affiliate networks is an area that is sometimes not given the amount of consideration it really deserves. It needs research to see what affiliate networks are available for the niche products that you wish to promote, and amongst other things, you need to consider the returns you are hoping to make and the promotional tools that the affiliate networks provide.

This post aims to highlight some of the areas you may wish to consider when deciding how to monetize your blog or site. (more…)

In the last of my six part series – Free Affiliate Tools – we will cover free affiliate reports and guides. Whilst there is a huge amount of free information available to the budding affiliate marketer on web sites, blogs and forums you can also often get free reports and “how to” guides from some of the world’s most successful marketing gurus just by signing up to their news letter.

Use a webmail account like Google Mail if you don’t want to give out your primary e-mail address, but you can certainly learn an awful lot about marketing from the news letters and offers that you will inevitably receive from these guys. Take a close look at both the products and marketing techniques they use, nobody is forcing you to buy anything, and you can always unsubscribe when you want to, so you are in a win-win situation. (more…)