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Rosalind Gardner

Super affiliate, blogger, and speaker, Rosalind is best known for her affiliate marketing training in the Super Affiliate Handbook: How I made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other Peoples' Stuff Online. You can connect with her on Facebook.

Affiliate Rip-Off

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Here's a question I received this week from D.R. about the potential for affiliates to get ripped off by merchants under certain circumstances.

Is it true that ebook writers using an email capture box on their sales pages are ripping affiliates off when customers being sent to them sign up for the emails, then they sell them a book weeks or months later and we never see a dime for it.

Also if a ebook writer has 2 forms of checkout on his order page if the customer uses the optional one (not clickbank) then again we get no commission.

You have the clout, can you find this out and answer in your newsletter. I received an email from a guru about this very practice. If true then they will lose ALL affiliate selling their product by the thousands.

Thanks.

Well D.R., I'm not sure that I have any clout, but I do understand your concern and do know something about these issues. [Read more…]

Irritating Advertising

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Take a look at the picture to the left and notice how the advertising graphic totally obliterates the text that I was reading.

I had inadvertently cursored over the Nokia ad and when I tried to close it – by clicking “Close” button – the darned thing wouldn't close. Only by carefully cursoring to a section of the page that wasn't filled with irritating advertising graphic pop images was I finally able to read the rest of the article.

Really – is this necessary or just another way for advertisers to irritate web users? Your thoughts?

Bad Combination: Affiliate Checks and Paper Shredders

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Cross Cut Paper Shredder, destroy the evidence Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later… I was going through a small stack of morning mail that included 6 affiliate checks. What I normally do is open the envelope, remove the contents and throw the envelope in the paper shredder for recycling.

Well, I pulled out the contents of an envelope from Friendfinder, shredded the envelope and when I looked for the check that came with the affiliate letter … it wasn't there! Could it be that there was no check?

Nope.

I sifted through the tiny shreds and sure enough, there was a bit from ‘dley.com'… or Medley.com, the company that handles Friendfinder's affiliate commission checks. :-/

Bummer.

She Quit Her Job Within 5 Months of…

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I received a wonderful success story letter from one of my readers today. Here it is…

“The Super Affiliate Handbook” has been my step-by-step guide on how to get started with an internet business. I looked at many programs carefully before I chose this book to teach me what affiliate work was all about.

I started with absolutely no knowledge of business or websites. Before I was even finished with the book, I had a profitable internet business going that took only a few days to get started. Within five months, was able to leave my job and work as an affiliate full time. Five months later, I produced my first product.

Seven months after that, I was earning over $20,000 in gross sales per month – 85% of that through affiliate sales – and this is with only doing a fraction of what is possible. I'm on track to easily double this income within the next six months. Now I am able to provide the schools my children need and deserve, be there when they are out of school for the day, help a lot of other people – and enjoy some wonderful extras that would not have been possible without this .”

L. Recinos
(Website Name withheld by request

So, have YOU got the The Super Affiliate Handbook yet? 🙂

My Favorite Traffic Strategy

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Anik Singal finally convinced me to give up my lazy affiliate ways and be more specific about my favorite traffic generation strategy.

To that end, he and I co-authored a very thought-provoking report that is available for download right away – and we're not charging for it. This report reveals a “tool” that I started using almost 2 years ago that basically tripled the traffic to my site almost immediately.

Anik has also been using this tool for close to a year and recently just used it to launch a new niche site that generated traffic to it the DAY he launched it (all because of this tool). We not only reveal this tool, but an additional 5 reasons you need to start using it right away as well.

By the way, the tool takes about 3 minutes to install and we give you the URL where you can go get it at absolutely N0 cost…

All in all, this is a *must-have* report. And yes, the report ACTUALLY gives you great resources and links – it's NOT a “gimmick”!

Read it and Prosper!

Do Your Visitors Need a Shrink?

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Now, here's an interesting offer from eAdvertising.com.

It's a lead gen offer for Finding a Therapist (marriage counseling, therapy, psychological help).

The user enters ZIP on first page, selects from “issue” pulldown on second page, and then selects on a REAL therapist in their area, from whom they will receive a FREE first visit.

Affiliates get $8 per signup, which requires your visitor's first name, last name, phone number, best time to contact, email address zip. The offer is not incentivizable and accepts US Traffic Only.

I'd recommend placing this offer on any page of your site that receives copious traffic from comment spammers. Maybe they'll get the hint. 🙂

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