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It sucks there are so many shady people in IM. It seems that for a lot of affiliates and product creators, the profit it really the only thing that matters. Unfortunately, it seems almost too easy for product creators or ‘gurus’ to pull a scam. I’ve seen this happen a couple times. The formula usually [...]

This is the first part of a series I did in the forum called ‘Building a profitable affiliate business’ Part 1 – Can you be a long term affiliate? Some people think that affiliate marketing is a get in and get out type of thing. Jump on the hot niche, ride the latest hot traffic [...]

How many of you would like to be seduced by your affiliate manager? How many have seduced your affiliate manager already? Now get your naughty affiliate minds out of the gutter! What I mean is that you need to learn how to communicate with your affiliate manager and not get screwed. See, contrary to popular [...]

Hope you enjoy these posts from some of the blogs I read 11 Lessons from Bruce Lee Javascript & SEO = No? Adwords Split Testing Tool Newbie Entrepreneurs Why self improvement courses suck Money making myths Bing vs. Google Beginners guide to starting an online business How to avoid becoming a workaholic Free SEO tools

Ghetto cats be stealing my Affbuzz hats

I am a big Chuck Palahniuk fan. Well, maybe not so much his last couple books but that’s a topic for another post on another blog. Many of you are familiar with the book or movie version of Fight Club. In the story, the narrator is basically working a dead end job, going through the [...]

Paid traffic is great and it’s the majority of what I do. I like the fact that you can test things quickly and control the amount of traffic you get somewhat. But what about ‘free’ traffic? Does it have any place in the serious affiliate marketer’s business plan? First, I want to talk about the [...]

We all know how shady affiliates can be…cloaking, spamming, flogs, etc. But what about CPA networks? Yeah we know about the shaving/scrubbing.. blah, blah…how else do affiliates and advertisers get screwed by CPA networks? Networks are middlemen between the advertiser and affiliate. As a result, their goal is to get as much volume as possible. [...]

The grass is always greener, or so it would seem. This is especially true in affiliate marketing where people are always looking for the next best thing. Where do so called ‘guru’s fit into the picture though? Are they the ones raking in all the money while affiliates are slaving away at campaigns? A common [...]

Hmm..ok now I have to think of one! Ad Tech is over and I am exhausted! I live pretty close to San Francisco so it was a short drive down. The exhibit hall was a lot bigger than Affiliate Summit and there were some pretty interesting companies to talk to. One thing that really stood [...]