April 5 Star Affiliate Blogs Archives

Google Affiliate Network – New Affiliate Programs

New programs available through the Google Affiliate Network include Rainbow Appliance, Roku, GiftsWish.com, AlwaysForMe

DevHub – Over 1.6m Affiliate Products Now Available

Instead of just incorporating Adsense and a couple other revenue options, like Squidoo – DevHub is hooked into ALL the major affiliate networks. Just drag and drop products into your new site.

Good News for California Affiliates re Advertising Tax

California affiliates can breathe a sigh of relief, for now. The hearing for AB 178 was canceled yesterday which means we should be safe from this issue for the remainder of 2009

3 Reasons Why Smaller Niches Equal Bigger Profits

Think small – to earn big! I haven’t focused on niche marketing for awhile so wanted to share a great post I read recently. If you haven’t noticed, the web is already saturated

Connecticut and Hawaii Affiliates – Action Needed

The anti-affiliate sales tax bills being debated by YOUR legislators, will have a serious, detrimental impact on your business. It will cause many merchants to shut down their affiliate programs in Connecticut and Hawaii. This has already happened in New York

Affiliate Management and Super Affiliate Insights – Podcast

Heather Paulson is a well known industry veteran. Topics include – An insight into how super affiliates operate and key strategies and techniques they use, how affiliate managers can enhance programs they manage

eBay Partner Network on Affiliate Marketing Insider Today

William Martin-Gill, director of Internet marketing at eBay, live edition show today. Discussing PartnerCentrics new role at EPN, new tools for affiliates and more.

PartnerCentric to Assist eBay Partner Network and More EPN News

eBay has brought PartnerCentric – a 5 Star client – on board as an agency partner to help EPN work with more U.S. affiliates directly to grow the volume and quality of their traffic. Also new tools and more

Monetization Builds Strong Websites 12 Ways

Obviously, we all want to make more money from our affiliate marketing ventures. But sometimes, how to do so is not quite so obvious. A revenue stream keeps a website running strong

9 New Affiliate Programs Join Google Affiliate Network

New programs available through Google Affiliate Network – Logotolltags.com, Designer Linens Outlet, NCH Software, Holland Bulb Farm, Nicole Miller, Sports Kids, CeilingFansGalore, iModernLighting and Shop-Mirrors.com

a4uexpo is Next Week – If I Was Heading to Amsterdam

The event includes 40 conference sessions, 4 simultaneous tracks, 3 networking parties, 2 vertical receptions and an exhibit hall. If I were attending these are the sessions I would hit.

8 Smashing Tips for Optimizing Conversion Rates

Designed to Sell: 8 Useful Tips to Help Your Website Convert kicks major butt, and I thought you’d both enjoy the article and a few comments/additions thrown in for each of the 8 tips

A CPA Network Reacts to FTC and Cracks Down on Flogs

As I have been reporting, the FTC is cracking down on affiliates on several levels. If affiliates don’t clean up their act the government will do it – in the meantime some CPA networks are imposing limits on affiliates.

Offers from the Advaliant Performance Marketing Platform

Here are the latest offers available through the Advaliant performance marketing platform.

Status of Advertising Tax Legislation by State

The number of states that have affiliate sales tax legislation planned or pending is growing rapidly. So far California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Tennessee are the states we know about.

Google Affiliate Network – New Affiliate Programs

New programs available through the Google Affiliate Network this week include Peruvian Connection, DrLark.com, Gump’s San Francisco, DrWhitaker.com, Petit Bateau

@ ad:tech – Performance Marketing Panel Discussion

Next week our client Advaliant/MediaTrust heads to San Francisco for ad:tech. They are sponsoring a panel about performance marketing and it’s the only panel that covers our segment of the industry, so I wanted to let you know about it.

Affiliate Voice Founder on Affiliate Marketing Insider Thursday

Linda Woods and Melanie Seery will discuss the new organization, its mission and how it differs from the Performance Marketing Alliance, another group dedicated to supporting the affiliate marketing industry.

FTC To Clamp Down – Affiliates Beware

The Federal Trade Commission plans to begin regulating blogs and social media. A large percentage of the people who review or endorse products on social platforms, are of course, affiliates. The FTC is planning to get tougher on

Affiliate Success – Attitude And Out Of The Box Thinking

Using all their skills wisely, the average affiliate marketer will have an average business and make average money. Marketers that take those same skills and reverse engineer the rules by thinking out of the box with an attitude of finding solutions instead of complaining