Amazon.com WidgetsAmazon just announced that they’ve made the following changes to widget creation: 1. You can search for widgets by size, and; 2. You can Select a predefined IAB (Internet Advertising Bureau) size or create a custom-sized widget for My Favorites and Search widgets. Too, most of the popular widgets are now available in additional [...]
10 HOT Niche Market Research Sites
How do you know what people want buy online? Fortunately, a number of sites make answering that question very simple by publishing weekly, monthly, and annual trends; interest comparisons, top lists and market research reports. Various online services publish the number of times keywords and phrases are searched over a given period of time. Here [...]
Affiliates Can Make More Money with Amazon Unbox Video™ Referals in June
Amazon announced today that they’ve increased commissions on Amazon Unbox Video™ downloads. For the month of June 2008 only, associates (affiliates) can earn 20% referral fees on Unbox Video™ downloads, which doubles the amount you’d normally make on these products. The Amazon Unbox video downloads store has thousands of DVD-quality TV shows, movies, for your [...]
Stupid New York Tax Law Gets Affiliates Axed
How’s this for stupid? New York state brings in a new tax law that makes out-of-state businesses with New York based-affiliates collect sales tax on Internet purchases made by New York State residents, if the company’s affiliate sales in the state exceed $10,000. By result, merchants that don’t want to deal with additional tax collection [...]
Do You Sell Books? Try out the Amazon aStore Beta
I just learned about the Amazon aStore Beta in a blog post on Linda Buquet’s “5 Star Affiliate Programs” site. Here is a sample aStore widget: And here is the the standalone store version that resides on Amazon. (Admittedly, not very pretty…) However, creating an aStore to place on your own site is pretty easy. [...]
