February 5 Star Affiliate Blogs Archives

How Much Money Do Affiliate Managers and OPMs Make?

Ever wonder what the average affiliate manager makes? How much do they make on the high end? What about OPM’s? Most OPMs responded with over 10K a month.

Managing your Affiliate or Internet Business – Free Web 2.0 Tools

Add These to Your Tool Belt (love this pic!) I ran into a few cool free Web 2.0 applications that could help affiliates or really any webmaster or online marketer more effectively manage their businesses.

Tricks and Tools for Affiliate Blog Building – HOT Video

Must See Video – Even if you are somewhat of a pro I guarantee you’ll get resources you didn’t know about. You know I LIVE affiliate marketing and blogging and I learned a couple new tricks. If you are a newbie this video will show you step by step exactly what to do.

New FREE Keyword List Cleaner and Stripper

Many keyword sources you could use to pull keywords for PPC or even for natural search provide data in a format that’s difficult to use – filler with extraneous characters or unwanted numbers.

Kowabunga the Sleeping Giant Wakes Up

I do numerous free consultations a month for merchants. I recommend the best tracking solution for their needs and refer them to the OPM that is the best fit for their specific situation.

How to Get Adwords Clicks for a Penny – Arbitrage Traffic Tip

Here is an extremely easy way to get 1 cent clicks on Adwords. Evidently some people have been using this trick for arbitrage and now they are sharing the info.

Too Hot to Print! Sell it – Share it – Or Keep it to Myself?

If you knew a little known way to advertise to thousands – on one of worlds biggest sites for a FULL MONTH for LESS than the cost of a CHEAP dinner out… Would you share the info, sell it or keep it all to yourself?

ROCKIN Video Ad Tool for Merchants and Affiliates

PERFECT example and hot tool for using video for affiliate marketing. This video ad is so effective it made me want to immediately buy it. Watch this video about “The Secret” (a product that was featured on Oprah last week) and see if the video pre-sells you the way it sold me.

Affiliate Ads Must Pass the Grandma Test – Legal and FTC Issues

EVEN IF the merchant gave you the banner, text link or ad copy – you could be responsible for showing proof those claims are valid. Lose “10 lbs the 1st month” – Prove IT! “Make a bazillion in your underwear with no work! ” You better have PROOF to back up that statement!

NEW – Hottest Free Keyword Tool Ever – Catch this Video!

Hey affiliates, niche content creators, Adwords users and SEOs. How would you like to be able to immediately generate huge sortable keyword lists from any web page – on the FLY! This is so cool!

Top Online Revenue Blogs get Ranked

The blogs that are rated are not exclusively about affiliate marketing but include blogs that also concentrate on contextual advertising and other online revenue generation techniques. You may discover some interesting new blogs about generating income online.

Clean it up! Remove Adware and Improve ROI – Podcast

Listen as Angel, affiliate manager for Onlineshoes (Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award finalist) shares his insights about cleaning up your program and the positive affect it can have on ROAS and revenues.

50% Commission – Free Turnkey Stores – 800 tracking – Lots More

There are over 50 different health and beauty related products and sites to promote. If you’ve looked at this program before and didn’t join – look again and discover what you are missing!

Wynn Affiliates – Stay at the Wynn Las Vegas for Free

Karen has announced new “Affiliate Famtours.” What’s a Famtour? That’s a free stay at the Wynn to let affiliates FEEL the Wynn experience 1st hand.

Raise Conversions, Add Income Streams, Learn From Merchants

Offers ideas from working affiliates on how to increase conversions and sales plus ongoing series of tips straight from merchants and managers…

Finding and Recruiting Super Affiliates

…goes into some methods that some affiliate managers may not know about including how to use Adwords and SpyFu to find and research good affiliates.

Best Affiliate Marketing Blog Competition

5 Star was just nominated again for Best Affiliate Marketing Blog 5 Star always gets nominated and never seems to win. Still, I love the extra attention and always appreciate being nominated. Just makes me want to try harder!

Affiliate Marketing BUZZ Upgrades

I’ve made several improvements over at Affiliate Marketing BUZZ, so wanted to give you all an update.

Happy Valentines Day from 5 Star

This pics for you – Since you are all so unique… Whether you are an affiliate, merchant, affiliate manager, network rep or “other” I value your readership and love pouring my heart into this blog!

Super Affiliates Prove it – that Passion Thing Works

There’s a certain powerful ease that comes with building a site around a topic you are passionate about. Then Ros shows that chasing the almighty dollar doesn’t always work.