Using an affiliate marketing calendar to plan your yearly promotions in advance is a great way to ensure that you take advantage of all the important events to maximize your profit potential.
We all know that Valentine's Day is on February 14th, Halloween is on October 31st, Christmas is on December 25th, and New Year's is on January 1st, but did you know that National Beer Day is on April 7th or that World Book Day is on April 23rd?
Any or all of those holidays might be important to add to your affiliate marketing holiday calendar for planning purposes.
Listed below are links to the affiliate marketing calendar that highlight holidays and events for each month of the year. Content in these posts will change from time to time, so be sure to check them regularly for new and additional promotional ideas.
Did you find this post informative and useful? If so, please share it with others! If you have a comment, question, or suggestion, please leave a comment below!
Cheers,
Hi Ros,
I have both your books “The super Affiliate” and “Make a fortune promoting others peoples stuff on line” and was wondering which one I should read to start my affiliate business.
Thank you
Warm Regards
Moya
Hi Moya,
Either book will teach you how affiliate marketing works. I always suggest you read the book all the way through once first, then read it again as you follow the steps. I hope that helps!
Cheers,
Ros
HI Rosalind —
Great site, I purchased your “Super Affiliate Handbook” following the coaching step-by-step.
Question? How do you protect your e-mail/customer list from affiliates/manufactures that want to market to your list?
Is it possible to do this??? I hate to develop a customer list and give it away to my affiliate partners? Ideas? Thanks, Mike
Hi Michael,
Glad to hear you’re following the plan in the Super Affiliate Handbook. 🙂
I’m not really sure what you mean by “How do you protect your e-mail/customer list from affiliates/manufactures that want to market to your list?”
Your list is your list and what you send subscribers is up to you. If those subscribers join other lists based on your recommendations, that’s up to them.
Just be careful what you promote and try to avoid launches where the main point of the exercise seems to be list generation.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Ros
have signed up as an affliate marketer but don’t know what to do next to make money with affiliate marketing??? I don’t have a web site and don’t know how to get or make one! Help!
Hi Lora,
That’s exactly why I wrote the “Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other Peoples’ Stuff Online“… to teach folks like you how to make money as affiliate marketers.
Check it out!
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Rosalind,
I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for putting this list together and keeping it up to date. It’s really useful as I plan out my content for the upcoming months to be able to see when I should focus on something. I’m going to work on some holiday-centered themes a few weeks early this year, in hopes that the search engines will pick them up and have them indexed when the holiday searchers arrive 🙂
Hi Kristen,
My pleasure. I’m glad to hear that you find it helpful! Thanks kindly for sharing.
Cheers,
Ros
Super post, as usual. One of my sites is a costumes site, for which I change the header throughout the year to focus on whatever holiday is most current. This will help tremendously!
Not sure this is the right place to put this question, so if not…apologies!
I bought your “Super Affiliate Handbook” and (in the better-late-than-never category) am just getting started with a new site. This is not the costume site, which I am converting to a Datafeedr site, but a brand new one for which I am already ranking in the top 5 of Google with my main keyword.
Last month I had sales of $805 — my commission earned was $12.76 (mostly from organize.com). That seems mighty low to me. I just noticed their CJ rating is only 2. Maybe that’s why you recommend using vendors with a higher rating than that!
In order to succeed with Affiliate marketing, should we be going for higher ticket items or just make sure our vendors have a 4-5 CJ rating?
Thanks!
Hi Kelly,
Thanks for the kudos and the question. 🙂
Choosing a great merchant with great products and a great commission rate can be challenging.
When selling ‘real products’ (as opposed to digital products), you should consider the brand (people like to purchase through ‘big names’ online, ’cause they feel more secure in their purchases.
Unfortunately, many of the bigger brand names take advantage of this knowledge and pay lower commissions.
The best way to promote a product is to show that you have and use it. So when YOU buy something, make sure its from a merchant that is more generous with their revenue sharing.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Ros –
Great stuff as always! I think you need to check the link for January (quickly, I hope – going through withdrawals!) as I got the following notice when trying to click:
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/netprof/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.php on line 225
Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/netprof/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.php on line 225
MySQL server has gone away on line: 255
Looking to do bigger and better things this year with your guidance!
Happy, healthy and successful New Year to you and yours!
Art
Hi Art,
I wonder if I was working on something at the time you clicked. That link seems to be working fine now.
https://rosalindgardner.com/blog/affiliate-marketing-in-january/
Cheers and Happy New Year to you as well,
Ros
Thanks for this article Rosalind, this should be of great benefit to people that are just getting started with affiliate marketing.
I’ve found that staying fresh and original in unsaturated niches and with efficient techniques are the most important things you can do in aff marketing. There’s big money to be made so the competition is kind of stiff.
You’re welcome, Roger!
very good advice that you give, Rosalind. I’ll be sure to double back more often to check out your informative blog posts 🙂
Thanks, Drewry!
Hi Rosalind,
How are you ?
I once took a WordPress blogging course with you and Anik Singal.
Anyways, sorry this not directly related, but I had a WordPress SEO question.
I was wondering why you choose to have Categories and Tags on this blog if you’re blocking them from robots ? I guess it’s only for User Experience ?
BecauseiIf you look at other SEO professionals’ blogs, like Micheal Gray’s wolf-howl, they do-follow those pages (displaying snippets only) to aid with crawl-ability and indexation of posts.
Is there a reason why you chose to block them ? It seems you would get an added benefit for SEO, and rank for more terms.
Many Thanks
Sebastien
Hi Sebastian,
Good question. I do it simply for user experience. Google is happy to look at my xml sitemap. 🙂
Having said that, I’ll look deeper into the question of follow vs. nofollow.
Cheers,
Ros
Hi Ros,
Thanks so much for this list–it’s great, super useful.
One question: are your “National” days for Canada or the US? Silly me, I have never heard of National Kazoo day (among others) and I wonder if it’s because I’m woefully kazoo ignorant, or if I live in the wrong half of the continent!
Thank you,
Julia
Hi Julia,
I’ve tried to indicate when a specific holiday occurs only outside the U.S. Too, many of these are ‘celebration days’ (not really holidays) and who knows who started National Kazoo Day or where they’re from.
Cheers,
P.S. I have a kazoo… never play it. 🙂
This is wonderful. I’ve never thought about this concept.
Ros,
Thanks so much for putting all of these monthly affiliate marketing lists together for us. I think I have them all but appreciate these links so I can check them out. 2012 will be my first full year following you and we are looking forward to a productive one.
Hope you have a good holiday season!
Hi Edie,
I’ll also add a link to that post on the sidebar to make it easier to access.
Happy Holidays!
Cheers,
Ros
Awesome, thanks so much!
My pleasure, Ruth.
Great! The entire list…thanks again Ros. Bookmarked for sure!
You’re most welcome, Jane!
Thats great idea will implement it in my affiliate dates.
Hi Ross – I really want to learn how to create WordPress affiliate sites, is that something you teach in you Affiliate Pro??
Best / Mark.
Hi Mark,
You bet. I teach a step-by-step method for installing and setting up WordPress blogs at http://AffiliateBloggerPRO.com
Cheers,
Ros