5 Star Affiliate 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?