5 Star Affiliate Newsletter May 07

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Read on for this month’s edition of the 5 Star News. Check out our exciting NEW 5 Star programs and be sure to catch the latest merchant updates and offers below.


New 5 Star Affiliate Programs

Tumri AdPod - Ultimate EASY Marketing Widget - Imagine profiting from an extensive list of the internet’s top brands - including Macys, Walmart, OverStock, Sears, Nordstrom, Buy.com, Home Shopping Network and more, without ever having to join any of their affiliate programs and without having to pull any datafeeds. Imagine offering your visitors the ability to browse and shop from over 2 million products from 2000 merchants right on your site. Now you can! 5 Star Review.

NEW PPC Affiliate Program - Brokers Web - Get paid for clicks & potentially earn up to 88% more revenue than most pay-per-lead affiliate programs. If your site gets TARGETED traffic, you could make an average of around $4 PER CLICK! 65% commission  from generated CLICK revenue Refer an Advertiser - Earn 10% residual of a referred advertiser’s spend (for the life of the account) Refer an Affiliate - Earn 5% of a referred affiliate’s advertising revenue (for the life of the account) More Info…

Introducing Design Public - Earn up to 12% commissions on fresh and innovative home decor! From the ultimate in modern bedding, rugs and furnishings to new trends in the baby nursery, Design Public has a wide range of products to excite your site visitors! (Managed by PartnerCentric)


Affiliate Program News & Updates

Affiliates… it’s the Season for Mommies - ShareResults has great programs for mom products.

Top Sellers & More - zZounds Music Gear Affiliates - May zZounds newsletter featuring: Top 10 Products for May - April Affiliate Checks to be mailed May 7th - Graphic Ad Creative Survey.

Full Gaiam Product Data Feed This is to let you know that we now have a full product data feed for Gaiam. There are two feeds: Check it out! (Managed by Amwso)

New Affiliate Fitness and Wellness Coupons for May from AMWSO

Skin Care Best Sellers from AMWSO

MySpace to Buy Photobucket - A ShareResults Program

New American Medical-ID Promotion from ShareResults

NetQuote News They are currently in the process of reviewing affiliate payouts, and anticipate an increase over previously published payouts. NetQuote is looking to be more competitive within the Insurance Lead Aggregator industry and hope to attract more quality affiliates with a better defined payout schedule. Stay tuned for when they release their new and improved payouts! Join here! www.netquote.com/affiliate

Getting Started with Affiliate Marketing Video Ads - An informative guide to using advertising videos with affiliate links embedded. Hot stuff from James and the AMWSO crew.


Hot Forum Topics you May Have Missed

Niche Tools MAIN Link List - IMPORTANT Resources - Linda’s HOT LIST :: of HOT LINKS :: for finding HOT NICHES! If you are more of a pro, the most DYNAMIC way to profit from niche marketing is to discover hot new products, hot new interests, hot new problems that need to be solved. Target the niche early and dominate it! Discover tons of resources in this thread. BOOK MARK THIS PAGE - MORE TOOLS Will be ADDED

Affiliate PPC - Help Me, Losing Money - Avoid Common Newbie Mistakes - Ok this is some REALLY good stuff from 2 blogs. If you do PPC or are trying to pick a niche or have a niche you think may be too competitive you need to read!

Finding a Profitable Niche - Free Detailed Tutorial - Note: It’s important you read every word in this article. There is NO FLUFF! Found a VERY good, in-depth blog today - basically a tutorial for finding profitable niches. It’s written for Adsense but could apply to niche affiliate sites and niche blogs too.

Catch this Video - Tumri AdPod - Build & Profit - The new Tumri AdPod Marketing Widget is extremely easy to set up and flexible too. On Monday I blogged about all the press Tumri, a 5 Star Client, has been getting from TechCrunch, Ad Age, Clickz, Cnet and more. The video below will show you in 3 minutes how it all works. Check it out!

HubPages -Easy Way for Newbies Get Started (Like Squidoo) - I’ve looked at HubPages a couple times and thought it may be an Easy Way for newbies too Get Started. This alone will not make you rich but it’s a FREE and easy way to get started without having to…

VRE Toolbar - HOT Niche Marketing Tool - This tool is SO HOT I considered buying not only the tool, but the site and company as well. After thinking about it I realized I just don’t have time right now for another project, so I’m just going to share it with you.  The FREE VRE Toolbar give you over 100 tools to build and promote niche content websites at your fingertips!

Legal Warning - FTC Crack Down on Freebie Offers - If you have or are considering any of those offers for free computers, free ipods, free credit reports, free vacations, free ringtones (I hope know better than that!) or any other type of FREE or incentivized offer you better READ UP!!!

Thanks for reading this issue of the 5 Star News. JUMP INTO THE CONTESTS and as always, let me know how we can help your efforts and increase your revshare success!