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The AFA Average Frustrated Affiliate is an affiliate who has no game and rarely manages to convert offers profitably. Also an affiliate who tends to look to gurus for validation, buys a lot of ebooks, but never takes action, according to Josh.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity… It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Here is Scott’s post about the One Cause toolbar which is actively overwriting affiliate cookies AND is owned by Linkshares parent company. This does not just affect Linkshare affiliates, but the toolbar is overwriting CJ and other affiliate network cookies as well. It’s a big issue and one you need to head over to Scott’s blog to check out.

I think we are moving towards a Renaissance. A movement back to the early days of affiliate marketing where the small business owners and individuals are the heroes… and we didn’t focus on the top 20%. With the surge of social marketing

The economy is in a scary place. However that does not mean the opportunity for affiliates to earn revenue is necessarily diminished. Some affiliates who switch gears and look for ways to profit in this economic crisis could actually fare quite well.

The holidays are just around the corner and before you know it people will be trying to make decisions on last minute gift purchases. Some of the major retailers featured include Sears, Kohls, Target, Red Envelope, Crutchfield, Circuit City, Kmart

Think you can promote, e-mail or SEO your way out of this recession? Survival today requires divorcing yourself of the comfortable myths of “branding”, easy answers and digital hocus-pocus that pass for most marketing strategies.

PPC Classroom is sold out however they have a huge LIVE event coming up in in Orange County California – next to Disneyland. I have 10 free passes to give 5 Star Readers so they can learn from Anik, Amit and a few other super affiliates.

Just in time for the Holidays a hot new keyword tool from Google to help you pump up your Adwords campaign. Even if you don’t use Adwords and just want to find more KW for SEO this is an awesome tool. Finds your competitors keywords too and a bunch of other features. See screenshots.

Dating affiliates! Work with the #1 dating site in the US and the highest paying dating publisher program online today. The Singlesnet.com direct program offers publishers the highest commissions PLUS weekly commission payments.

AffiliateBenchmarks is a research report that was compiled using survey data from over 450 affiliates and will be free til 12/12. Affiliate managers DEFINITELY want to grab this data. Some of the info could be helpful for affiliates as well.

Datafeedr is a powerful push-button store creation system that makes it easy for affiliates to set up and update a complete affiliate store WITHOUT touching any datafeed files, having to learn a programming language or hire a programmer.

So if you need to reach CJ and have a problem, just be aware they are dealing with a severe emergency. People could be off because they lost or are about to lose homes or off helping family spray down their houses. The offices could even be closed, I’m not sure.

So far not that many people have blogged about the affiliate sessions that just took place at Pubcon. The 1st 3 posts are pretty in-depth and include play-by-play details of the sessions. Some nuggets are hidden inside if you can make the time to read these.

This month we have 7 exciting new revshare programs for your linking pleasure as well as Holiday contests, bonuses and important merchant updates. Find out how you can win an 8 day Expedition to Beautiful Costa Rica in the National Geographic Holiday Contest.

Declan Dunn joins the podcast this week to discuss the emerging social media marketing landscape and ways in which it resembles affiliate marketing. The two will discuss ways that affiliates and merchants can leverage social media to drive brand awareness, traffic and sales.

Affiliates wanting to jazz up their sites with Holiday promos… eBay is offering several special Holiday deals and promotions this year, and has put together some drag-and-drop creatives to help drive traffic to these deals. See a sample deals widget below.

If you’ve been tempted by the dark side of affiliate marketing – the black hat side – read this issue first. Your reputation is at stake, so be sure you know the difference between white and black (and gray), and the consequences.

I wish the IAB US was as pro-active about affiliate marketing issues the UK. Here’s an example of what they are doing to prevent abuse of and set standards for the use of affiliate coupon codes… prevent fake coupon code cookie stuffing and

Need some hot Holiday graphics in a hurry? Want to spruce up that landing page with some Holiday cheer? It’s cheaper and easier than you may think. I threw together a collage of Holiday graphics just to show you some variety