Dear Ms. BlahBlah.com Merchant, I have a huge list of established customers with a demonstrated need for your company’s products. I therefore applied to your program through the Linkshare affiliate network on November 28th, 2005 while readying my sites for Christmas. I could hardly contain my excitement therefore, when today, on January 17th, 2006, I […]
Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is a revenue-sharing arrangement between online merchants and distributors (affiliates) in which the affiliate earns a commission.
Affiliate Commissions to Reach $6.5 billion in 2006
I just picked up a quick recap on the Affiliate Summit through Shawn Collin’s blog. In her keynote address at Affiliate Summit this week in Vegas, Anne Holland, publisher of MarketingSherpa, forecasted affiliate commissions will reach $6.5 billion in 2006. She also reported that the #1 moneymaking opportunity for affiliates in 2006 will be writing […]
Affiliate Manager? Like to Write?
Revenue Magazine’s senior editor, Maria Sample, is looking for affiliate managers to contribute to their ‘Manager’s Corner’ column. To keep things spicey over there at Revenue, they’re looking for input from a different affiliate manager for every issue… so it’s not a long-term commitment. So, if you’re an affiliate manager with an opinion and who […]
BeFree’s GREAT Service… NOT!
On my first attempt to logon to BeFree to get some affiliate links this morning, I was ‘locked out’, so I sent them a little note.
Here was the auto-generated response:
How to Make Money as an eBay Affiliate
If you were planning to attend the Affiliate Summit , and haven’t purchased your tickets yet, you should know that I just read the following on Shawn Collin’s blog…
eBay Flexible Destination Linking
Have you ever wondered how affiliates send traffic to specific pages on eBay? Wonder no more! First of all, visit eBay’s “Flexible Destination Tool” at http://affiliates.ebay.com/tools/linking/. There you’ll see you need to enter 3 items. First is your Commission Junction PID, which is the the number represented by XXXXXX in http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-XXXXXX-5463217. Secondly, you need the […]
Latest Scam Emails
A couple of days ago I received the following in an email… Dear ebay member, Thank you for bidding on my item, you are the highest bidder at 1520$ . Please respond to this email by clicking the button below so we can provide you with shipping cost ! We will need your zipcode . […]