Landing pages is a term that gets thrown around a lot. If you’re getting started online as an affiliate marketer, I’m willing to bet that you probably aren’t quite sure about what a landing page is or what it needs to be. I thought that a quick information article would suit the task of answering the question just fine.

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Alright, so here’s a little something that I wrote about the age old mystery: how the heck do you generate traffic for your affiliate marketing websites? To answer this question, I’ve written a poem: Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a quick question: would you buy from or commit to an action from a website that looked as if it had been put together by a three year old? Probably not, so why do you expect your visitors to do the same?
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It seems as if it’s been a while since I talked about the wonder of zip submits, and after a couple of e-mails from people wanting a bit of clarification on the subject I’ve decided to post a quick guide to making around $120 a day with a popular zip-submit campaign (most zip submits pay between $1/lead and $1.20/lead). This guide isn’t a bible, so don’t e-mail me saying that you couldn’t make it work- as with anything, you need to bit of your own time and effort into it.
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Ahh yes, e-mail marketing. If there is one marketing method that new affiliates are probably afraid of, I would say that e-mail marketing is second only to PPC (hey, PPC even scares me sometimes). With all of the laws and regulatory legislation that is now in place regarding “spam”, an e-mail marketer needs to be careful about who they send mail to and when they send it- there’s nothing worse than receiving a phone call from someone in the government letting you know that you’re being shut down for violation of CAN-SPAM laws.
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I have deep roots with 1and1.com. I launched my first several websites on 1and1.com because of their ridiculously low price ($1.99 a month at the time). I went from $1.99 a month in expenses and no income to $1.99 a month in expenses and over $3,000 in income. That’s a mighty profit, and for me, it was a great start. Alas, things would not remain beneficial, and unfortunately our relationship was a self destructive one.
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