5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

Information Week had a good article about the affiliate marketing session at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Always great to see our industry get positive play in mainstream media. I blogged earlier about

The affiliate widget shows up to 10 products without taking up much real estate. If you select vertical placement which would work well for sidebars, it’s called a Ferris Wheel and that’s just how it moves. Hope consumers like it and it helps affiliates get some good conversions.

LinkConnector’s Widget technology makes it simple to offer product content on blogs and social networks. Bloggers. Facebook, and MySpace users can now provide revenue-producing product content on their pages and participate in the growing world of affiliate marketing.

I’m happy that the event organizers recognize affiliate marketing as part of the Web 2.0 mix, so I wanted to be sure to share the info with 5 Star readers. Sam, Lisa, Stephanie… will be discussing responsible affiliate marketing strategies in a web2.0 world.

The hottest thing going at Affiliate Summit West 2008 was the new widget being offered by Qoof.com. This revolutionary widget combines the power of video ads with affiliate tracking codes. This widget is poised to take affiliate marketing by storm

Widget advertising is a growing trend, especially within social networks. According to eMarketer, 22 percent of marketers surveyed used widgets as a social media marketing application last year. They predict that this year, the number of marketers who plan to use widgets will double to 47 percent

Everyone knows video marketing is hot, but if affiliates want to use it they have to use a 3rd party tool to try to embed their affiliate ID to get credit for sales they send the merchant. To my knowledge none of the affiliate networks have come up with a seamless solution - that is […]

New Video Widget allows you to share your new or existing video, overlay product ads/links - with your affiliate link embedded. Viral video embed feature means people can grab your video, show on their site and you get the commish!

Seth Godin and the Grok - These two will offer insights into Web 2.O and beyond. They have both totally revolutionized the way people think about marketing and will share their insights with our listeners. This is the just the beginning of many special events with industry icons on our network…so stay tuned for more to come!

Think eBay user-powered classified ads on Facebook with user-defined affiliate commission built in. An affiliate widget for the masses! No expensive affiliate program, no affiliate manager needed - just user2user affiliate marketing. BRILLIANT!

It’s a video marketplace that makes it easy for potential advertisers to select from and customize professionally produced video to create their own custom ads. Think of it like a high quality customizable video template store. No YouTube crap - PRO videos. Pretty cool. Very cost effective!

Trust me when I say that if you get a Mom or a Grandma to one of these videos of the right toy, you’ll make a sale. A static image vs adorable little kids actually playing… no contest! No embed option so use my video trick below.

Facebook will be making a major ad-related announcement in New York at AdTech. A flurry of rumors say it could be a rival to Adsense and could provide contextual ad targeting on sites other than Facebook, using the demographic data offered up in personal profiles. Major buzz includes…

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Hot on the heels of the GoogTubeSense Video launch is Blinkx with a slightly different approach to monetizing videos.
So one of the major differences between GoogTubeSense and Blinkx is that Blinkx does a 2 way rev share (you, them) instead of 3 way (you, them, video producer.) The other difference is that instead of being limited

eComXpo starts tomorrow and it’s FREE. Here are some of the affiliate marketing educational sessions. A couple of our 5 Star Affiliate Program Managers will be speaking and/or moderating sessions.

Was trying to keep this under wraps not blog it, but Shawn and Jim already spilled the beans. Facebook is up in arms and it’s harder to advertise now due to the black hatters catching wind of it. See example of my Facebook Flyer here.

Videopreneur Shawn Collins goes in drag and doubles as Missy to give us a simulated video replay of their presentation at Affiliate Summit London titled: Affiliate Marketing View from the U.S.

Wow, Amazon just launched a bunch of cool marketing widgets including a product tag cloud widget (pictured left), a slideshow widget, video previewer widget and … The quick linker widget lets you easily auto-link within your content a variety of ways.

This thing just launched yesterday, I added the widget today and am getting LOTS of additional targeted traffic and it’s coming from high quality blogs like ShoeMoney!

Andy and others say this is FREE no-fluff, step-by-step program is better than most of the Web 2.0 traffic secret guru ebooks that you have to pay for and most say it’s well worth your time to read if you are invested in driving free social traffic.

We all know how hot video is, however until recently screencasting software was either expensive or free and buggy. I’ve been meaning to blog about Jing for awhile now. An affiliate IM’s you with that same question. It’s hard to explain but would be quick and easy if he was sitting right there with you and you could just show him how…

KickApps is 1st to market with an option that allows their affiliates and the audiences they serve the ability to share video through the iPhone.

Do you like reality TV and love Internet Marketing? 12 contestants will compete for a $25,000 prize. Here’s the trailer. It makes the show look a lot more polished and professional than I expected it to be. This could be really be interesting and fun. Tune in!

Shawn launched an Affiliate Wiki ithat died due to an underwhelming lack of interest by the affiliate marketers, overwhelming interest by spammers. But today a big new Affiliate Marketing Wiki launches that is team managed.

If a 3 year old can do it… so can you! Such a super viral video idea to use a cute kid to show how easy PopShops is.

Theres a new banner technology that has eCommerce transaction capability built right in. This could revolutionize affiliate marketing if it takes off by letting consumers buy from merchants right on your site without having to leave your site and click off to the merchant.

Looking for yet another place to do that social network thang??? If you are into SEO, PPC and Internet Marketing you just may want to take “Sphinn” for a SPIN. Danny Sullivan from Search Engine Land just launched…

The lab has been investigating the recent drop in ranking for Squidoo lenses in Google’s search engine results. Squidoo has already implemented many new spam control measures that could impact you even if you are not a spammer../

Some great “Multiplicity” action here by Bill Reyes. He’s all 3 guys in the video and he sings a cool little rap.

There is a burgeoning market for free and paid video info-products plus now there are sites like Free IQ providing the next-generation platform for video publishers. Just released software special link only $29.

I can totally see a Shawn Collins “Guru Bubble” floating up over the AffiliateTip blog, reminding everyone the Summit is almost sold out, so you need to register today!

We are constantly inspired by and proud of the accomplishments made by the AMWSO affiliate management team - lead by Chris Sanderson. Their innovation and leadership skills shine through once again, as two of their affiliate programs are nominated for prestigious industry awards.

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