I sometimes find that I’m addicted.  First, I check CJ. Then I check google. Then I check clickbank, then yahoo, then on and on, until I’ve totaled up the days earnings.  Except that it’s only 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Surely I’ll make twice as much by 10 pm. Or maybe not.  Maybe I should [...]

The ads always sound great on paper.  ”Follow these five steps and earn $$$$’s a day!” “Make $1,000 in just ten minutes a day!” “Earn $$$$’s on your Blog”But how do you really make money with your online website, blog, or just dive into affiliate marketing?   There are many variations on these basic models for [...]

I recently downloaded a copy of John Leger’s  FREE SEO Myths Exposed report.  In a nutshell, he says that there are too many SEO “experts” out there who are talking and not enough who putting their money where their mouth is.  So, take a look at the PDF, it’s worth the read. I must say, he’s [...]

Today I was wading through a list of new publishers for an advertiser’s program that I oversee, and I was amused to find that someone wrote that their site incentive was – and I quote –  ”I give you kiss if I make sale.” Someone else preceded to enlighten me that Travelocity and Office Max [...]

Wading through the various affiliate programs can be complicated enough, but choosing an affiliate company to work with is sometimes even more complicated.  The determining factor can be as simple as which company has the affiliate program that you want to use for your website, or could be determined by payment terms and schedule (Amazon, [...]

When reading an affiliate advertiser’s terms and conditions, a common restriction says something like “you are forbidden from bidding on “ourbrand.com, brandmisspelling.com, and our brand name”.  For some PPC publishers, this means it’s time to move to a new advertiser.  But should you be so hasty to dismiss these brands? More and more advertisers are hesitant [...]

I open up my inbox occasionally and read the emails from CJ.com that say something like so-and-so advertiser is no longer in the program or has deleted you from their program and I immediately hit the delete button. After all, I didn’t really want to promote that guy anyway, never really managed to make that [...]