5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

Who’s the most famous affiliate hugger of all times? Many of you know hugs from Scott Hazard are called the ScooterSqueeze. Male as well as female affiliates stand in line for what many call the best huggaroo in the biz.

If you are a new affiliate manager, have new staff or even if you’re an old pro that needs a refresher, this free resource is one you can’t afford to miss. The book is setup in three sections: What Affiliate Marketing Can Do for Your Business, Setting Up Your Affiliate Program, and Managing Your Affiliate Program.

Affiliate ‘Thang’ should be lively and the chatroom rowdy. It always is when the WickedFire guys show up and they will since Jon, their fearless and outspoken leader is the star of the show.

They used to call me the datafeed Queen. I’ve been meaning to blog about this HOT tool for awhile, but forgot - so they are taking my title away.

Having a hard time waking up after the long weekend? Heres a video I’ve been wanting to share. Take a little break. You deserve it after all that hard work you did at the lake all weekend.

Brian Tracy, a world renowned speaker and author on personal development, sales and success training is offering affiliates a higher commission rate on sales, PLUS the chance to earn a $1,000 cash bonus

Just added a job board to the 5 Star forum and there are a few good affiliate management openings posted already. The 5 Star forum membership includes primarily affiliate managers, SEO and SEM types, media buyers, affiliate network reps and bloggers so those are the only types of job ads allowed at this time.

There are corporate affiliate that make that much, but this story in the WSJ is about a guy that runs his affiliate biz pretty much single-handedly from his apartment. Wall Street Journal writes: When you have that kind of traffic, you can make money three ways: via affiliate marketing…

Kellie has an eye for these things and a knack for telling it like it is. Both merchants and affiliates need to read as Kellie explains the ramifications of the subtle, yet important changes to the COC.

Start thin and grow fat! This goes along with a post I recently wrote about a very efficient method for testing new affiliate marketing campaigns and new niche ideas before investing too heavily with your time

Bloggers rev up those blogging engines and get ready to win some cash! 2 prizes! $300 CASH - BIGGEST Buzz! :: $100 CASH – BEST Buzz!

Rich Jerk is reportedly selling his biz to avoid bankruptcy. Pretty funny considering yesterday I blogged about Mad Guru Disease. Predicted The terminally-infected Guru’s will die off, with shrinking lists and dried up streams of revenue

It’s ravaging our industry and the death toll is rising. Thousands, dare I say millions, of would be affiliates and Internet marketing newbies drop off the face of the Internet each year, never to return. Why? They are sick.

I don’t care how great you think your niche or product is. When trying to sell anything online it all needs to start with one thing and one thing only - The Exact Targeting Test.

I’m sure you’ve seen some of the press Tumri, a 5 Star Client, has been getting from TechCrunch, Ad Age, Clickz, Cnet and more. NETexponent just announced 2 of their clients, Audible and WineEnthusiast.com, just launched on Tumri.

With some of the moves being made by the engines lately, you need to wonder if search engines will soon become the biggest affiliates.

Google is shutting down tons of Adsense publishers June 1st because they are using an “unsuitable business model”. This is really good news on a couple levels.

Google breaking news about MAJOR updates and new universal search model. What does it mean for affiliates? Much less room for YOU in top results, but a hidden bene if you know how to play the cards right.

One of the most important things affiliate marketers need be able to do is get traffic to their web site. “5 Days to More Free Traffic” will give affiliates a Monday through Friday list of the best ways to get more free traffic to your sites plus several other good articles about traffic.

Bloggers rev up those blogging engines - win some cash! We are giving away 400 in CASH prizes. Which blogs can create the biggest and best BUZZ before the forum’s 2nd Birthday?

You can launch your own social network read blogs from industry experts or go to the new affiliate or merchant universities. And of course there is Digg style voting so you can review, ‘back’ or ’slap’ member and expert blogs.

$1000 in Cash Prizes :: 5 Contests :: 7 Lucky Winners. Bloggers check out the BLOG BUZZ CONTEST - $400 in Cash Prizes.

I work with so many affiliates that have small kids, juggle a million things at once and still manage to get everything done. This cartoon reminds me of some outsourced affiliate managers and affiliates I know…

HOT Link List will MAKE YOU MONEY! If you are a pro, the most DYNAMIC way to profit from niche marketing is to discover hot new products, needs and problems. Target market early & dominate it!

The new Tumri AdPod is extremely easy and flexible. The video below will show you in 3 minutes how it works. Earn ADDITIONAL REVENUE From MAJOR BRANDS with TUMRI!

This may very well be the 1st Daddy-to-be that blogs his baby’s birth LIVE on Twitter. Many of you guys know Nick Wilson, who previously founded Threadwatch and Performancing. He’s a great guy, previous client of mine and someone I respect a great deal.

Ok, so you’ve just created your new blog or site and you are ready to be indexed on Google. So I devised a little plan that gets my site indexed within 24 hours, every time, and starts making me money immediately.

Tumri a 5 Star Client - just took the ad world by storm and everyone is talking about the company today.
Here are just a few of the bigger news stories from TechCrunch, Ad Age, Clickz, Cnet and more…

Imagine being the ONLY affiliate for a hot selling niche product. Now imagine making commission on EVERY SINGLE SALE the merchant makes - even if you didn’t refer the customer. If you are an out-of-the-box thinker and a PRO affiliate, web designer or SEO then this idea could make you a mint!!!

Google just launched the beta for their new Adsense marketing widget called “GADGET Ads.” If 2007 is the YEAR of the Widget, May may go down as the MONTH of the widget. Yesterday I blogged about the new Shareasale Affiliate Widget.

Shareasale, the network affiliates love to love, just announced a new marketing widget… this smaller, more nimble network is the 1st to market with a widget option… I will wager that the 1st Affiliate Management company to jump on the widget bandwagon is…

Learning the affiliate marketing business by studying success stories of other affiliates is one of the best ways to get started and into profit quickly. Too often affiliates try to “reinvent the wheel” or pay for ebooks following a certain “guru” system when there is plenty of info out there that lets you milk the knowledge of other top affiliates at no charge.

the FTC is getting ready to crack down even harder on Freebie and other type of incentivized offers. ValueClick and other majors players are in the FTC crosshairs. Be sure the ads you display and the advertiser landing page you send leads to is in compliance.

Direct competition with these goliaths for affiliate sales is frequently futile. However, creative, competitive webmasters can make a significant affiliate income if they can identify niche opportunities and execute effective SEM strategies to exploit them.

Partner Fusion hires Karen White previously the AM at Wynn Las Vegas and the winner of a CJ “Horizon Award” to build and grow the Company’s Affiliate Marketing Division.