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May 24, 2012

California Affiliates Get a One Year Reprieve

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After having my sites offline for over a week, I’m happy to return and share some reasonably good news that pertains to the Affiliate Nexus Tax. Thanks to Amazon and other retailers in California, new legislation was passed that repeals the tax temporarily. The retailers must lobby for a federal tax solution to be implemented [...]

Nix the Hype to Increase Your Conversions

The following is an excerpt of an article that I wrote for Issue 10 of Feedfront magazine, the official magazine of the Affiliate Summit conference. Basically, I wrote it out of frustration after seeing the hyped-up promotion approach so many affiliate marketers, especially newbies, take then wonder why the heck their copy doesn’t convert to [...]

Make More from Your Merchant Affiliations

Ed is the guy who will spend hours researching and analyzing product listings on eBay, Amazon and other independent online merchants to get the best deals. He proudly announces his ‘wins’ whenever he buys something on eBay for $24 that sells in town for $79. He’s equally proud when he saves just 5 bucks. To [...]

10 Reasons to Avoid the Product Launch Bandwagon

If you promote tools and services to online entrepreneurs as an affiliate, you understand the term ‘product launch bandwagon’. It’s the process by which your inbox is suddenly filled with promos — all for the same product. Scan those messages, and you see that most of them are verbatim ‘cut and pastes’ from the merchant’s [...]

Resolving Merchant-Side Affiliate Commission Tracking Problems

I just re-read the following comment regarding a merchant-side affiliate tracking problem that Kaycee posted to our forum some time ago. I was appalled by her merchant’s response and wanted to make all of our readers aware of how best to handle a sticky problem such as this one. I have a niche website featuring [...]

Sell Products to Spanish Markets through Clickbank

On March 18th, ClickBank announced its Phase One launch of their Platform Globalization project which allows Clickbank merchants to capture sales from new markets. The first phase of Platform Globalization includes a currency calculator and the ability to offer products to Spanish-speaking markets. Clickbank has also made it easy for affiliates to identify which merchants [...]

Click2Sell: Clickbank Has Some Competition

Have you heard about Click2Sell, the new online marketplace that has positioned itself as a direct competitor to Clickbank and Paydotcom? While chatting with one of Click2Sell’s owners, Vytis, I learned that the Click2Sell group really took Clickbank merchant and affiliate complaints into account and built a much-improved marketplace and affiliate network. Unlike Clickbank, Click2Sell [...]