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Good special affects and horror analogies illustrate how scary it can be to navigate the dangerous Internet Marketing labyrinth. Dare to enter the scary world of Internet Marketing! The video below shows you “The Horror Of IM And Making Money Online

Increasing traffic is like a one night stand… However during a bad economy you can work on this. SEE these important Google guidelines about how much she does not like thin affiliate sites and what to do about it.

According to Shoemoney the Trigget ads dont suck like Kontera. No double underline, no page load problems. Once the code is placed, Triggit will automatically create highly relevant text link ads in your site or blog and you get paid per click.

Most affiliates have new sites or blogs in the works quite often and I know the cost for graphics design, logos and headers can add up. So launching new graphics resource. Heres 2. Truly amazing that these are free!

LinkShare now offers interactive webinars for affiliates. The sessions cover beginner, intermediate, and advanced level training to help affiliates get the most out of partnering with LinkShare.

Summit Pinnacle Nominations close Friday 10.31. There are some stand-out people in our industry that work hard to help us all, so head over and show your favs some support. Nominate your favorite industry peeps today!

I know lots of affiliates and pro bloggers use Brian Gardners Revolution Themes for Wordpress. The bad news is, all the current Revolution Themes will not be available for sale after 10/31. The GREAT news is

Help them give the gift of choice – launch your own quick and easy Gift Card Store. This is another: gee, why hasn’t anyone thought of this before tools. Makes SO much sense! However be sure to see my WARNING below the image before you build your store.

Loren Baker just launched a new video sharing community for Internet marketers today called IMBroadcast.com. So now you have an option to get your videos in front of SEOs and other marketers instead of just being buried on YouTube

If you owned a real-life bricks-and-mortar store, this would be easy: You’d hear their objections. You’d be able to ask questions. You’d hear what they muttered as they headed for the door.

Nominations are only open through next Friday. There are some stand-out people in our industry that work hard to help us all, so head over and show your FAV affiliate, manager, merchant, blogger, advocate some support and nominate them.

I often share niche research tips, tricks and tools here at 5 Star. You can find a compilation of the best in the stickies over here. I hadn’t yet looked at any Twitter tools for niche hunting, so was happy to see these – found a cool domain name using one of them too

Was reading Good and Bad Guys in the Affiliate World written by an authority blogger today. That lead me to – Overcoming Your Own Constraints. Identify and DISSOLVE the constraints that bind you – watch your productivity and income grow!

Every now and then in our industry an innovation comes along that makes you stand up, take notice and say – Why didn’t anyone think of this before? The new Amazon Site Stripe is one of those innovations! Considering everything

PPC Classroom launched a week ago and Amit just announced they are shutting it down tomorrow at noon, to accommodate and support thousands that have already joined over the past week. I’m going over to get in now.

Do you have keywords on the brain? You run across a keyword – get excited – wonder if a niche exists – plan to research but before you can fire up your fav keyword tool 16 other things hit you and you forget all about it. Sound familiar? Happens to me at least 10 times a day.

There are multiple affiliate networks springing up every day – they all claim to have the highest payouts, exclusive offers, and best tracking. How is an aff going to decide what network to join?
AFFpinions is based on real feedback from real affiliates.

Billy Kay over at the AffSpot forum has some great points to ensure you capitalize on all your Holiday hits you get to your site. Tips To Get The Most Out of Q4 Traffic Don’t forget about #9.

Lots of you were frustrated because the servers kept crashing. Looks like they are up and stable now, so if you could not get in yesterday try again today. So I’m diving in before they close it down. Who wants to join me?

If you’ve ever felt like you were getting in the way of your own success, you may have fallen into one of the traps below. The Reasons You Fail at Affiliate Marketing is an entertaining series about patterns that can slow down or prevent affiliates from getting to the next level