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The Affiliate Marketing Insider podcast on WebmasterRadio.fm tomorrow features discussion about Pay per Call, how affiliates are using it for online and offline call tracking and success stories about affiliate programs and networks that are using it. Featuring Ring Revenue.

Affiliate recruiting and activation is a challenge for busy affiliate managers that wear so many other hats.
I have been reading and saving up some great posts, a video and a podcast about growing a thriving affiliate program. Enjoy!

The Unique Blog Designs webinar will cover: benefits of using wordpress for landing pages and other other types of sites, building an email list, tips for creating effective sales pages, how to optimize for high conversion rates, using Wordpress themes

Now that the initial scare about the new FTC Guidelines is behind us, I see more and more affiliate marketers using disclosures creatively and to their advantage. Some smart marketers are even making the art of self disclosure fun! If you are still wondering how to leverage

If you have a local site, for instance a city directory or forum, here are a of couple ideas that could help you generate revenue on a hyper local basis. I’ve been doing a lot of research about local marketing and local affiliate marketing opportunities lately. Here are a couple of local affiliate marketing options you may want to look into.

The new remarketing feature Google announced today should make some affiliates very happy. Imagine being able to show your ad again to a prospect that left your site, later when they are on another related site you didn’t even know about or target? I would think the ROI and conversion rate on remarketing could be higher than standard PPC.

ShareASale’s new pay-per-call platform launched in November and is reportedly performing even better than anticipated. ShareASale advertiser Legacy Learning Systems received 200 calls in the first 30 days and 100 percent of the calls that qualified for an affiliate commission converted to a sale.

There is so much hidden power behind Twitter, but most affiliates are missing it. If you’d like to learn to unleash the power of Twitter as a true affiliate marketing and business-building tool, read on and discover some new ways to use Twitter that go WAY beyond the obvious!

Have any affiliates tried Digg Ads yet? I was reading an affiliate blog post about them, but hadn’t heard anyone in the community commenting about how well they work yet. They are fairly new and could be effective for certain type of niches I would think. If you’ve tried them, please comment below.

Putting your marketing videos on YouTube is really an affiliate marketing no-brainer. Every day there are more than 100 MILLION videos viewed on YouTube. But you can’t just post your video on YouTube and expect to start raking in the cash. You need to to employ some SEO strategies and leverage other video marketing techniques in order to maximize exposure.

This months show will also include a roundtable discussion about the hottest topics in affiliate marketing today including sponsored tweets, video marketing and the recent cancellation of Amazon affiliates in Colorado.

Debbie Bookstaber joins Linda Woods on this week’s Affiliate Marketing Insider podcast to discuss mommy blogging and affiliate marketing. Listen in at 3 p.m. EST Thursday on WebmasterRadio.fm for the podcast. What are the characteristics of a successful mommy blogger? How can mommy bloggers work with affiliate program managers to increase their success in affiliate [...]

With the current state of the automotive market, you would think auto manufacturers would be all over performance marketing and I know some affiliates that would be all over a piece of the action for selling cars. Do you think Ford and others will follow suit?

As a Star Wars fan, when I am faced with a difficult task, I ask myself, “What would Luke Skywalker do?” And this morning. I asked myself that question and it got me to thinking that Luke Skywalker would make a great affiliate marketer. Here’s why:

There are many ways to build an affiliate datafeed site and there are paid tools that make it super easy. However, if you have some coding skills and want to build a datafeed site from scratch – for free – this series is for you.

What do you get when you combine the world’s love for pizza, social media and affiliate marketing? Saw this in the news yesterday and thought it was a brilliant use of affiliate marketing for the masses. The Dominos ‘Social Affiliate Tool’ is available through the Affiliate Window affiliate network and

Gosh darn it’s frustrating isn’t it? You’ve been working soooo hard on your affiliate sites, often staying up till 2am on a work night to try and make your big break into affiliate marketing or push your affiliate business on to new heights. Here’s my top ten reasons why those hours spent

Angel will be sharing his insights into the affiliate marketing industry… Hear what he has to say about affiliate program management, the fight against the advertising tax and the future of our industry.

SUPER Affiliate Strategies for Sustainable Businesses. Developing the right mind-set for long-term success
Site-building strategies Less work, more reward – how to choose the best offers. How to build mountains of free traffic…

In spite of the fact that Colorado affiliates were able to get affiliate nexus language removed from HB 10-1193, Amazon still sent termination letters to thousands of Colorado affiliates, informing them they are being dropped today without notice. What is really crazy about this is