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The online calendar is a free service provided to their customers as an added value. Promotional services like that are always helpful to affiliates looking for new marketing angles.

And, one feature that I thought was very cool was that the calendar can send you reminders by text messaging your cell phone. No more forgetting birthdays, anniversaries, and special days. I don’t about you, but that free service would help keep me out of trouble!

The AmericanGreetings.com affiliate program pays a nice 40%-60% commission rate payout for every new subscription. The parent company also owns BlueMountain.com, which is where I have my account, and they offer a combined affiliate program. So, you can promote both services and get paid as one combined affiliate program. That means payouts more often for the affiliates!

Even more so, I whole heartedly agree with the soon to be announced change.

As of Monday, bloggers who write for PayPerPost will be required to disclose that they are being paid for their posts.

I’ve started to blog about this topic a little when I wrote A Few Posts Here and There, and not because I knew change was coming. I didn’t. I think it’s the ethical thing to do. I think that when a blogger is earning some income through using their posts to feature advertisers, then they should disclose it. We’re kind of the Paul Harvey’s of the blogging world if we don’t make that distinction.

This move by PayPerPost is most likely related to the FTC’s moves to force disclosure of word-of-mouth advertisements.

I actually think a Disclosure Policy is and should be in the making for every blog that runs advertisements on them … and I mean every blog.

 

I never thought of Water Cooling and my computer’s box case in the same thought before, but that’s exactly what Xoxide.com has gotten me to do today.

Water Cooling

It’s a fair simple concept, but you really should click the link to see the photos to get a full idea of how the Water Cooling cases work.

Makes me want to go get some fish!

Pretty Lights

You have to check out the ULTRA 550W X2-Connect Power Supply in Titanium with Aqua Blue UV Lights. It glows! What else does it do? I don’t know. It glows!

I’m kidding, … the ULTRA 550W X2 was designed for ultimate gamer environments, but so is the Xoxide UFO Ultimate Aluminum Cube Computer Case. It glows too!!!

Xoxide Computer Cases

There are a whole host of gamer’s computer cases to be honest with you. This stuff is a really hot market right now.

       

Their Affiliate Program Information:

Are you a member of LinkConnector? That’s cool because Xoxide uses their tracking software. Their linking options include direct links to specific product pages, sections, or the home page.

Xoxide pays out 8.00% on any affiliate generated revenue. That’s the good news, the bad news is that the cookies set are only good for five days after clicking the affiliate’s link to Xoxide.

Xoxide affiliates are paid through LinkConnector tracking on the 20th of each month.

Affiliates should remember what’s cool about using LinkConnector is their naked link technology. You will have to ask your Affiliate Manager to add you to the Xoxide’s naked link program.

If you’re interested in getting paid for some of your blog posts, then go up there and click on that ad now!

Otherwise, continue to read more as I share a few comments about paid posting on this blog and yours.

First of all, I think it’s important for you to be very honest with your readers about the fact that you will occasionally post blog topics where you’ve been paid to talk about their topic.

I think it’s important that you find relevant topics if you’re going to take these paid opportunities. Stay true to what your blog is all about.

this blog happens to be about Affiliate Marketing, so when I do take a paid posting opportunity it will be focused of the Affiliate Industry in some manner.

Paid posts do two really nice things as far as I’m concerned. One, they offered an opportunity for the guy interested in paying for a link to his product or service. It’s an equitable way to get backlinks.

The second is that it offers the blogger a way to value to amount of time and loyalty keeping blog takes. I love blogging, and I think it’s wicked fun, but it doesn’t pay the bills. So, having an opportunity to throw in a few paid post helps to pay for the costs associated with keeping a blog in the first place.