Thoughts for Affiliates

Articles and blog posts that may be of help to affiliates

US Affiliate Networks on Twitter and Facebook

It’s Friday again, and in the best traditions of Twitter #FollowFriday today I’d like to bring you a list of US affiliate networks which are actively using Twitter to keep both affiliates and merchants up-to-date with their latest news, developments, blog posts, and so on… I see that in 2009

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How Affiliate Marketing Provides High Job Satisfaction: Case Study

Yesterday Jeremy Dean, a British psychologist, and author of popular PsyBlog (self-characterized as the “website about scientific research into how the mind works”), put up a great blog post, entitled 10 Psychological Keys to Job Satisfaction. The opening paragraph of his post states: …Clearly many are finding it hard to

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How to Calculate Affiliate Marketing ROI

ROI, or Return on Investment, is one of the key indicators of your affiliate marketing campaign’s success of failure. Analyzing your campaigns’ ROI figures is a must both for merchants, and for affiliates. As a result, you get a better understanding of what works and what doesn’t. And since at

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Performance Marketing Guide 2011 – Free Downloadable Affiliate eBook

In case you haven’t yet heard, Affiliates4u.com has released its 2011 “Performance Marketing Guide”, and I’ve just picked up my copy. It is an impressive 143-pages-long reference book on all things performance marketing, and the best part of it is that it’s available for a free-of-charge download (so, it’s an

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SearchReviews Launches Innovative Affiliate Tool for Consumer Reviews

Enhancing conversion with consumer reviews isn’t a new idea. It always works, even to the point of negative reviews having a positive effect on sales. Empowering affiliates to quickly put reviews (thematically-sorted across different merchants) to good use, and doing this in a manner than helps merchants monitor affiliate compliance

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10+ Affiliate Marketing Podcasts to Follow in 2011

Definitions first: pod·cast /ˈpädˌkast/ Noun: A program (as of music or talk) made available in digital format for automatic download over the Internet  [source] There is an array of affiliate marketing-related podcasts all around the place, and to help you navigate the ocean, I’ve decided to put together a list

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5 Popular Affiliate Marketing Questions Answered

Using Google Suggest (aka autocomplete) to spot some of the most popular affiliate marketing-related questions, we see 5 questions score particularly high. I’ve answered them all in my previous blog posts and articles, and today I’ve decided to put them together into an easy-to-use compilation. 1. What is affiliate marketing?

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50th Anniversary of Gagarin's Space Flight. Lesson of the Day

All I have done and lived for has been done and lived for for this moment. — Yuri Gagarin Fifty years ago (on April 12, 1961) when my father was eight and mother only five years of age, the Soviet Union “conquered” the space, having a hero complete the first-ever

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