Since I know some of you are busy multi-tasking and don’t always get a chance to read 5 Star every day… and since I spend lots of time on each post, trying to bring you the most relevant tips, tools and industry news… I thought I would start posting some of the best posts from the previous month. So here are some April highlights you may have missed, jumbled up in no particular order.

Affiliates Find Your Passion – the Money will Follow A couple new affiliates in my forum have high hopes for their affiliate businesses and want to get out of their J.O.B. so bad they can TASTE it. I sincerely hope this will help them find their way.

Uncover New Niches – Find Emerging Trends and Consumer Demand Put your finger on the pulse of consumer demand. With millions of shopping searches conducted weekly, it can reveal emerging trends and hidden gems while highlighting hottest products.

Tumri Marketing WIDGET – Macys, Walmart + 2000 more on YOUR Site What if you could let consumers shop right on your site for 2 MILLION products from Macys, Walmart, OverStock, Sears, Nordstrom, Buy.com, Home Shopping Network and you didn’t have to join an affiliate program, pull datafeeds or load banners?

Guerrilla Affiliate Marketing You’ve all heard of Guerrilla Marketing. Well what does it take to be a Guerrilla Affiliate? The attitude of a guerrilla affiliate toward marketing is dramatically different from that of a non-guerrilla affiliate.
Guerrilla Marketing could be described as “the artful use of imagination mixed with hard work – to reach a highly targeted audience.” Hmmm, sounds like some affiliates I know!

Wheres the Buzz? Web 2.0 Niche Research Tool Create your own trend graphs that plot “buzz” about specific niche ideas, search terms, issues, people, brands, sports, health concerns, etc. – to see if the buzz is growing or dying out and to see which topic is hotter.

April Shower of NEW Affiliate Programs – 5star Forum Turns 3000 Happy to announce our 5 Star forum just hit the 3,000 member mark! We also just launched a new NICHE Marketing Forum. Plus check out all these exciting new affiliate programs.

Easily Discover Profitable Niches by Uncovering Pain and Passions One way to discover a good niche is to find a problem, need or pain and fill it! Another is to find out what people want MORE of, what their goals, hobbies or passions are. Heres a great place to scan for niches based on both ideas above.

Get Paid 4 your CLICKS – New PPC Affiliate Program Launch Want to be compensated for driving new traffic to a merchant even if no one buys or fills out a lead form? With this new affiliate program, you can get paid for every click AND potentially generate up to 88% more revenue than standard pay-per-lead affiliate programs.

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