Affiliate Blog

Wirefly has asked us to take a look at their InPhonic affiliate details for their affiliate program. The link we’ve provided for will take you to their brief affiliate information page and then, to their sign-up page on LinkShare.

Imagine taking affiliate programs and using them for charity, that’s what some people are doing on the net these days.

Loren Baker, at Search Engine Journal, posted tabulations for the
awards & publishing winners for the top Affiliate Marketing Blogs.
This years winner is ShoeMoney!

Here are the results:
ShoeMoney 3.46
PepperJam 3.14
5 Star Affiliate Programs 3.08
ReveNews 2.99
Super Affiliate Blog 2.22

Congradulations to all you other Affiliate Marketing Blogs for the
great services you provide our community. You're all winners in
our eyes!

 

Anik Singal, of Affiliate Classroom, announced an improvement for their affiliates.

We have been trying to do this for over a year, and thanks to the hard work of our editor, Helen Montgomery, this is the first month that you can directly profit from the Affiliate Classroom magazine.

In just 2 minutes you can brand almost any link in our Affiliate Classroom magazine!

This means:

1) All links going to Affiliate Classroom
2) All links to product reviews we do

You can even place your name and website prominently in the Table of Contents (it will show as being disributed by you).

Can you imagine the viral implications of this? Every month we are giving you a new viral tool to use to draw traffic to your site, to get your name branded and to earn money from the product reviews we do!

 

Branding is very easy:

Step 1:
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Download the magazine:
http://www.affiliateclassroom.com/magazine.php

Step 2:
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Follow the instructions in our branding kit:
http://www.affiliateclassroom.com/affiliate/brandingmagkit_Dec06.zip

Ted wanted me to tell that he’s giving away a few new 6 mega pixel digital cameras and photo printers that Hewlett Packard just happened to give to him … well, actually, I made Ted slip me a few bucks to share his news with you, meaning HP sponsored this post. Hey, even Affiliate Bloggers gotta pay the rent!Anyhow, Ted’s going to be giving these digital cameras and photo printers away as part of a whacky promotional Hp is doing to increase consumer awareness for the HP products and their HP Digital Camera buying guide informational pages.

American Greetings has come out with a new product for their affiliates to market. It’s an online calendar system that helps the user to remember important dates … dates that they might want to send an email greeting for.

Here’s a colorful affiliate program. I like color on landing sites because they excite the viewer to become a buyer. This site’s product is called Ad Pack.

Hey affiliates, here’s another interesting affiliate program for a newly launching product line of computer based training videos that would sit within the Education niche.

BECOME A MEMBER OF THE AFFILIATE GUILD TODAY!

Affiliate Guild is a self-help learning resource for people who want to learn to be affiliate, are already affiliates, and want to learn to be super affiliates. The website offers a wide variety of help-tools and is a great resource to keep open on your desktop as you work on your affiliate programs.

Are you interested in becoming an Affiliate Guild Member?

• Affiliate Guild members can enjoy courses taught in the Affiliate Guild online school classes.
• Affiliate Guild members are the only ones legally allowed to use the Affiliate Guild logo with a link back to the Affiliate Guild indicating they are working within professional guidelines as an affiliate.
• Membership is FREE for all affiliates!
• Affiliate Guild members also enjoy our exclsuive Affiliate Guild Newsletter.

Affiliates thinking about working with the coupon type of affiliate marketing should take a look at this nice affiliate coupon site called www.couponchief.com.

I’m big on Apple products lately, so I was enticed by the link to their Apple listings and coupons … especially the engraving part.

I like how they broke apart the featured coupons from the hot deals. It real has appeal for different types of buyers.

The site clearly displace their terms of service and privacy statement, which is a must and something a lot of affiliates over look. Me included sometimes!

The other thing that’s nice about this site is that I can search by merchant or by category … meaning they have a quick-glance navigation on the sidebar. It really is a very simple design and easy to navigate site that most any affiliate could model their coupon site after.

Debra Rabin has written a new article for AffiliateClassroom that outlines the features of the Perfect Affiliate.

Some of the qualities discussed in the article include profitability, an eye for success, research, relationships and communications … amoung other attributes.

It’s a good read and represents the point-of-view of the Merchant. Affiliates might get a better understanding of what the Merchants wants in their relationship with you. I think any time, the two sides can get a better understanding of each other, the better this business is. Feel free to add your thoughts on it too!

I’m SO tagged!

I didn’t even see it coming … suddenly there she was! Linda Buquet with that smile of hers, politely pinging me to let me know that I should consider myself tagged. Wicked wench! LOL

So, here’s the deal. There’s a tag game going around where bloggers have to share five things about themselves that most readers wouldn’t know, and then tag five other bloggers mercilessly. 

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Bobbie Grennier

1) Like Linda Buquet, my dad wanted to name me Linda Loo after his favorite gravel truck too! Thankfully the buoy industry was doing better than gravel that year, and so “Bob”-bie was the agreed upon name.

2) I’m very allergic to all alcohol. I love the taste of beer, so besides being a big bummer, it also makes attending affiliate events not so much fun as the others guys seem to be having.

3) I used to be a school teacher and I love helping people learn new things, but you probably know that last bit since I created the Affiliate Guild to help affiliates learn the ropes.

4) If you phone me you’re very likely to hear birdies chriping and doggies barking from time to time. I’ve got a full on zoo in my office and feeding the animals is required … Starbucks for their trainer.

5) I live near the coastal redwoods of California, so my favorite past time is hiking in the woods. I never weary of just how special and beautiful these giant trees are.

Here are my blog tag predecessors. I was tagged by Linda Buquet who was tagged by Anik Singal who was tagged by Rosalind Gardner, who was tagged by Jeremy Palmer, who was tagged by Scott Jangro.

Now I’m passing the torch to Ros Phillips of LinkConnector, Arlene & James Martell of Affiliate Bootcamp, Tom Avery of RevenueSource Affiliate Forums, Stephen Ralph of Top-Affiliate.com and Marifer Vergara from the queenofcheap.com.

I was reading a very interesting article on TechCrunch tonight and thought it was news worthy, and when I saw that PayPerPost was offering me a few bucks to chat about this article that didn’t hurt either. Always nice to get paid for chatting about things I enjoy chatting about.The article is titled “PayPerPost Does Something Right” and it’s referring to the PayPerPost blog.The article is leaking the news that this coming Monday, PayPerPost will be making a significant policy change … and according to Michael Arrington it’s a positive change.

 

I was reading a few relevant tips from Darren at ProBlogger about some Do’s and Dont’s for professional business blogs. I wanted to pass on his wisdoms because I think that they’re right on the money, no pun intended.

These are the same strategies I use on my blogs Affiliate Blogger, Affiliate Marketers and Affiliate Blog.

The topic was about what to do if you have viewers coming to your blog, but they never buy anything through you. The advice is sage:

Product relevancy and quality - unless the products you’re promoting relate to the content/topic of your blogging you’re wasting your time. Not only should they be relevant - they should be quality affiliate products. Don’t get sucked into promoting something just because it relates to your site. Test it for yourself and if it’s rubbish - stay clear. You can hurt your own reputation by recommending second rate products.

Traffic - the more people that see the promotions you run the better. While traffic isn’t the only factor, it is certainly a big one. Work at drawing people to your blog and particularly to the pages that you are featuring affiliate promotions on.

Placement - affiliate links IN content tend to out perform promotions that you run in sidebars or banner ads. One genuine review of the product (see next point) seen by a handful of readers can be much more powerful than a banner at the top of your blog seen by many readers.

Your reputation and ‘Sales Pitch’ - I find that affiliate products work best for me on sites where I have a loyal readership of people who respect what I say and when I give genuine recommendation that show not only the positives of a product but the weaknesses in it. The way you promote the product is as influencial as almost anything else. Don’t hype, don’t lie and don’t spin it.

Absolutely one of the coolest affiliate programs I’ve seen in awhile.I say that because I like the products a lot, but why wouldn’t I? I’m a geek at heart!

You might have noticed a new little ad in the upper right hand of this blog advertising for PayPerPost.PayPerPost is an ads on blogs service.