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 […]
Merchant Restrictions on their Affiliates
Posted on 8:32 pm · 7 Comments
Throughout my years as an affiliate marketer I have seen all sorts of different terms of service, marketing restrictions, prohibited keywords, etc. from the merchants I work with. Some of these restrictions are good for both the affiliate and the merchant and some are just outright stupid for one or both parties. Let me break […]
Affiliate Summit East Recap
Posted on 2:42 am · 4 Comments
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
Posted on 10:21 pm · 1 Comment
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. […]
The 1450 Mile Roadtrip
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First of all let me give you a bit of a background on this trip. A very good friend of mine, Josh, moved to Phoenix from our hometown of Spokane, WA a few years ago. He is the type of friend I would do almost anything for. He was teaching in Phoenix and due to budget […]
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
Posted on 8:20 pm · 2 Comments
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 2
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If you missed the first week of training I gave Seth, my intern, you can check it out at http://whatdoesjoethink.com/2009/06/affiliate-marketing-week-1/. During week 1 we went over some of the basics of affiliate marketing. For week 2 we looked at how to find a niche, how do to some keyword research, and what to look for […]
Affiliate Marketing 101 – Week 1
Posted on 6:55 pm · 1 Comment
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
Posted on 8:51 pm · 1 Comment
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 […]
