5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

Here are a few of the points I got a chuckle from as I read this blog, swapping the word affiliates in place of entrepreneurs.

CPA Element to it. I did some consulting for Nick Wilson several months ago when they 1st came up with the idea for the ad network, but was not able to discuss it while it was under development.

Rate, Review, Compliment, Expose, Complain, Recommend, Avoid, Berate, Shame and Share info on all the affiliate networks plus “individual affiliate merchants …. ALL affiliate programs that you’ve ever dealt with - any and every corporate, big-time, small-time, crooked, cheating, honest, good, bad, great, indifferent or any other type.”

I’ve heard of some high commissions but this one’s pretty big! A new affiliate program from Roy Oron just launched that pays almost $800 per sale with a reported 6% conversion rate.

This 15 pound affiliate manager training course really over-delivers and is a must have for new as well as experienced affiliate managers that want to take their program to the next level of growth!

Dr. Andy Williams is an affiliate marketing guru and trainer similar to James Martell and has a loyal following of affiliates that swear by his software and training methods.

When people click a product, the product serving box lets them quickly purchase the product right there on the affiliate’s site. 50% Revshare. Beta test starts this week.

Who’s the funniest man in Affiliate Marketing? Read some of the hilarious quotes below and try to guess.

Co-branding, XML and affiliate datafeeds available. One of their affiliates is Monster.com who has a beautiful co-branded page full of magazines up on their site. Monster is earning TradePub cash and so could you!

In an effort designed largely to reign in Adware advertising, the DMA has just released a new “best practices” document after a formal request by the Federal Trade Commission was made.

This is Google’s ValueClick (VCLK) killer, this spells the end of ValueClick’s Commission Junction business.

Heads up especially to those of you going to Affiliate Summit and to affiliates that hang out at Starbucks surfing all day. Put your logo and your URL on your notebook or iPod.

Medical marketers are selling patients via pay per lead and the cost for California doctors could be a $50,000 fine, or prison time.

Guess who got nominated??? There are lots of great blogs in our industry and most of the best are syndicated right here at 5 Star so you can easily read excerpts of them all - all in one place.

Jon is a mid twenties SUPER affiliate who is most well known for flashing his $81K CJ check… Also be sure to TUNE IN to Jon’s new Internet Marketing Radio Show.

Affiliates, please let any clueless affiliate managers you run into know about a huge new AM training course that is about to launch.

I often warn affiliates about promoting PPC - Pills, Porn and Casinos. Linking to online gambling in can now get you a cease-and-desist order and potentially a criminal charge.

Numerous Amazon affiliates have had their sites shut down and have lost income. Why? For displaying product info on their sites that is provided to them by Amazon in the AWS datafeed. Big merchants like Sony and Crutchfield

This new blog monetization solution for Amazon affiliates is not contextual. It’s keyword based, so according to the developers, it can work along side Adsense on your pages. The service is free, but like GoldenCan

I just stumbled across an offer for a free 6 part video course on affiliate marketing. I don’t know Mark Ling, who states in the press release that he’s been making over $50K a year for 5 years.

You KNOW how hard it is to find a good web hosting affiliate program. Let us show you the difference a 5 Star web hosting affiliate program can make! Our newest advertiser, Hostland, offers several advantages over other web hosting affiliate programs.

Vinny Lingham is a pretty cool guy! I met him at CJU and blogged about him last year when he released this very fun pic of himself begging for commissions on the street.

Want to learn to earn some shoe money, like ShoeMoney does? Here’s a pic of his $132K+ commission check. This dude knows how to rake in “Net Income!”

Well another big player is ready to jump into the contextual ad market. Ebay just announced the news at the eBay Developers Conference 2006 which is happening right now in Las Vegas.

f you are looking for an anti-cookie stuffing, parasite hunting Super Hero, look no further. Just click the link below for a good chuckle.

Now here’s an interesting new concept. This company combines off-line word of mouth marketing with affiliate tracking in a unique way that sounds like it can be adapted to work with any existing affiliate program, regardless of the network or software the merchant currently uses.

Big Congrats to our New MVP and the lucky winner of our $200 Forum Posting Contest! Was it you? Also here’s our June Newsletter with new programs and more!

180solutions the company affiliate marketers love to hate, just pulled a ‘Gator’ and will soon change it’s name. They are merging with Hotbar another company that has a bad reputation and will be changing the name of the company to Zango.

In January Digital River acquired Direct Response Technologies and DirectTrack one of the leading affiliate tracking solutions. Now rumor has it, they have snapped up Todd Crawford, previously, the “voice of CJ” as their new VP of Sales & Business Development for OneNetwork.

What popular dating site for Catholic singles has more traffic than the Vatican? Welcome to our newest 5 Star advertiser!

Affiliate Marketing helps save baby’s life. Watch it on the TV news below. Sounds like an Enquirer headline but it’s true and an uplifting story.

This week key players in the affiliate marketing space gathered for a RoundTable event to discuss the hottest issues and to look at trends that could shape our industry’s future.

The performance-based affiliate marketing model continues to offer top ROI for major brand name retailers. 324 of Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Retail Sites have affiliate programs and it looks like CJ has the lion’s share