Shareasale Think Tank 09: What an amazing weekend. Shareasale once again blew the roof off the joint with another great ThinkTank. If you aren’t familiar with the Shareasale Thinktank I will give a brief overview. It is basically a conference where Shareasale brings in some of the merchants that work with them, some great OPMs, […]
How good is Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk?
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Let me start off by saying I read VERY few books. I can probably count the number of books I have read in the past few years on my fingers. Maybe it is my short attention span, maybe it is the fact that in general I find reading for more than 5 or 10 minutes […]
Real Sports Fans Wear Pink
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Help me help others Since October is breast cancer awareness month I decided to do something I have never tried before. I wanted to set up an affiliate site for the purpose of raising money for a charity. I know there are many affiliate marketers who do a lot of work for various charities and […]
Affiliate Summit East Recap
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Back from Affiliate Summit East in New York and my head is still spinning. Between all the networking, learning, new ideas, new friends I met, old friends I saw again, some very late nights, and an overall great time I am just starting to get back in the swing of things. I have been trying […]
Prepping for Affiliate Summit
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With just 4 days until I hop on a plane to New York for Affiliate Summit East I am in the middle of getting my last minute preperations done. I have most things set to go but still have a few minor details to get finished. The last week has been pretty busy for me. […]
Who should an affiliate site benefit?
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Who should an affiliate site benefit? Building an affiliate site is easy. Building a good affiliate site is another story. Nearly anybody can slap up a site, throw on a few affiliate links and call it good. But sites like that will rarely make any sort of serious money. A quality affiliate site […]
First 2 sites for my Intern
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Well, it has been about 3 weeks or so that I have been working with my intern, Seth Weber. We spent the first couple weeks going over some of the basics of affiliate marketing and last week we got started building some sites. To start out we chose a niche I have worked in for […]
Affiliate Marketing 101 – Week 1
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As some of you know I now have an intern. You can meet him here: http://whatdoesjoethink.com/2009/05/my-new-intern/ Basically my goal is to train Seth over the summer and teach him affiliate marketing. How do I condense 10 years of my own learning into 3 or 4 months? I have no idea but I will do my […]
Getting the most out of a conference
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I was reading a blog post by a friend of mine (What constitutes a friend? We follow each other on Twitter and have talked a bit there and that is good enough for me) Logan Thompson where he talks about Preparing Early for Affiliate Conferences and he is spot on in everything he says. Some […]
Say Hi to my intern – Seth Weber
Posted on 11:59 pm · 5 Comments
After sifting through piles and piles of applications (OK, there were only 5 of them), talking to others, taking bribes, and figuring out who I could best mold in my image I have chosen my intern for the summer. Say hello to Seth Weber. He will be working with me over the summer and learning […]
