On March 1st Amazon.com is making a fairly substantial change to their commission structure. In the past they had a tiered structure based on the number of units you sold. Their commission rates started at 4% and went up all the way to 8.5% if you sell more than 3131 items per month. This was […]
6 Things All Type-A Bloggers Can Do To Start Monetizing With Affiliate Links
Posted on 5:18 pm · 1 Comment
This post is monetized with affiliate links. If you click and buy something I will probably make some money. I just returned from my first Type-A Parent Conference and was able to connect with a ton of awesome bloggers. Some of them are well seasoned in affiliate marketing, some have dabbled in it a bit, […]
Using the ShareASale Product Discovery Bookmarklet, Baskets, and Make A Page Tools
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ShareASale.com has done an awesome job of putting out some great tools for bloggers over the past few years. If you were at the ShareASale ThinkTank this year I am sure at some point you saw some of these tools but maybe you weren’t able to get a feel for all they can do and […]
10 Random Thoughts about the Shareasale ThinkTank
Posted on 5:33 am · 2 Comments
Once again, Shareasale hit a home run with their ThinkTank event in Chicago. This is the 8th ThinkTank I have been to (Scottsdale, San Diego, Newport Beach, Half Moon Bay, Austin, Denver, Charlotte are the others). I attended 4 of those as primarily an affiliate and 4 as primarily an affiliate manager and while the […]
5 Affiliate Tools to add Products to your Posts
Posted on 3:16 am · 1 Comment
For many, many years banner ads and text links were the primary ways affiliates drove traffic to a merchant and sadly in many cases those two forms of links are still the primary affiliates promote a merchant. Don’t get me wrong, I am not against banners and text links. They are an awesome tool to […]
Two Reasons Why the Affiliate Industry is Amazing
Posted on 3:09 am · 3 Comments
Another great Affiliate Summit is in the books. It is hard to say this is the best one ever because they all deserve that title in some way and every time I go to Affiliate Summit I come away reinvigorated, not necessarily because of what i learn at the sessions there but because of the people. Along […]
5 Reasons a Multi-Network Affiliate Strategy Sucks
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Is a multi-network strategy good for an affiliate program? If I am a merchant looking for an affiliate manager or OPM should I go with one that advocates running the program on multiple networks? If you don’t want to read everything here I will give you the simple answer up front here: NO!!!!!! NO!!!!!! NO!!!!! […]
New Shareasale Tool : Product Showcases
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I was in Shareasale.com today looking at the Get Links page when what do I see? A new tab? One that says Product Showcase??? What could this be? Well I decided to check it out and I was very impressed with what Shareasale has put together here. Let me give you a quick walkthrough: First, […]
Affiliate Summit West 2014 In The Books
Posted on 2:38 am · 12 Comments
Another great Affiliate Summit is in the books. I am on my way back to Jacksonville and am fired up for things to come this year. Affiliate Summit West in January is always a great chance to blow off steam after a crazy Q4 but it is also a great chance to think about the […]
Yet Again The Shareasale ThinkTank Does Not Disappoint
Posted on 2:04 am · 2 Comments
Well, another Shareasale ThinkTank is in the books. I am back from Denver and yet again Shareasale knocked another ThinkTank out of the park. And this wasn’t just an altitude adjusted homerun that you normally see at Coors Field. This would have been on to Lansdowne Street. This one would have been on to Waveland. […]
