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What Does it Take to Sell Through Affiliates? - Part 2
July 30, 2009
See the importance of PAD files when selling through affiliates. Learn how PAD files can make the work easier for you and your affiliates. Continue to Blog post

What Does it Take to Sell through Affiliates? Part One - Affiliates Info Page
June 24, 2009
Learn how to attract more affiliates to your products directly from your website - best practices. Continue to Blog post

7 Tips for a Successful Affiliate Sales Channel
June 19, 2009
Starting from the affiliate responses, I put together a list of tips for the vendors that want to use the affiliate sales channel at its upper capacity. Continue to Blog post

Vendor involvement – key element in motivating affiliates
May 27, 2009
What do affiliates mainly need? I think you'll agree with me that this is a question with many possible responses. But, as you will see, there's one thing it really matters to affiliates and that is the involvement of the software vendors. Continue to Blog post

Incentives for affiliates joining your program
May 05, 2009
As I mentioned in my last post on how to recruit software affiliates, an important part of the recruiting process is the reason you give them to join your program. Continue to Blog post

How to Recruit New Software Affiliates
April 21, 2009
OK, so you have the software products to sell and you want to extend your sales force with minimal costs. Using affiliates is a perfect solution, but where do you find them? Continue to Blog post

Ways to Communicate with your Affiliates
April 17, 2009
Once you have a number of affiliates in your portfolio, keeping in touch with them and helping them make sales become paramount. Continue to Blog post

Discount coupons for affiliates
March 05, 2009
How are discount coupons used in affiliate marketing? They are not a new technique for affiliate marketers, but in the near future we could easily foresee an abundance of promotions, discounts – let’s call them „deals”. Continue to Blog post

Affiliate Second Sale
November 26, 2008
If there are things to do to have the first affiliate sale, then you should know that there are things to do for the second one and for the next to come. There are some easy steps you should take to align the stars again in their lucky position. Continue to article

6 Tips for Affiliate Managers
March 25, 2008
Affiliate behavior, one of the most important aspects to consider for you, as an affiliate manager. An article about affiliate typology, control panels, add-ons for performance, and eventually about how to have more prospects and to develop your business. Things really look different depending on your positions; always place yourself in your target's shoes. Continue to article

Make Your Download Portal Different with a Blog
October 30, 2007
Most download portals nowadays are built and updated by automatic content feeders - the so-called PAD files. Sure, importing 20-30k products automatically is a good way to start a download portal, but then again, most download portals look and work the same, just because of that. Find out how to make your download portal different with a blog. Continue to article

Affiliate Stress
October 05, 2007
The most common questions you will find on any affiliate forums are around the ways of getting some sort of success in affiliate marketing: getting visitors to the site, convert them into sales or increasing the volumes. An article revealing 7 tips to deal with the affiliate marketer stress Continue to article

11 Major Mistakes When Choosing Affiliate Products
September 25, 2007
Most affiliate marketers today are facing the problem of not knowing which particular affiliate products to promote due to the fact that there are lots of niche affiliate programs to choose from. Here are some of the most frequent mistakes affiliate marketers tend to make. Continue to article

Affiliate Resources Shortlist
September 06, 2007
When you are just starting up as an Affiliate Marketer and decide you want to make money online, it's very easy to get distracted by get rich quick scams, hyped e-books or false assumptions about the affiliate business. Continue to article

How to Prevent Affiliate Fraud
September 05, 2007 (2 comments)

Affiliate fraud is any type of illegal activity designed with the intention of cheating merchants, other affiliates or buyers. The merchants are at a loss by fraud affiliates that mislead them into paying commissions that they shouldn't be paying. Here are some symptoms specific to affiliate fraud. Continue to article

Difference between affiliates and resellers
September 04, 2007
Learn more about the difference between the affiliates and resellers. The biggest issue doesn't come from choosing between resellers and affiliates but mostly from vendors that are questioning the channel conflict that might happen between their resellers/distributors and the affiliates. Continue to article

Unleash the Affiliate Performance Metrics
August 10, 2007
Most of the affiliates miss to understand the importance of metrics and how the metrics could explain their level of success in affiliate marketing. Understanding metrics won't increase your sales, but it's the single most important thing in finding out what improvements you might need. Continue to article

Make your Download Portal a Successful Affiliate Business
May 03, 2007
A special breed of affiliate marketers are the ones that sell software, most likely download portals. They all look the same, sell the same products have the same targeted buyer and somehow some sell very well while other are junk sites. Continue to article

Choosing the Right Affiliate Program
April 18, 2007
Affiliate marketing is really a 90/10 business and the most common reason for that is because affiliates sign-up for "getting rich" programs, or, a better alternative, for generic and non-targeted products. Continue to article

Affiliate Merchants Mistakes
April 13, 2007
It's very hard for an affiliate to understand a product, learn all it's features, see its strong /weak points then write insightful content about it. Even harder to find the best ways to promote it, use the appropriate "marketing slang". Continue to article

Mistakes in Affiliate Programs
March 28, 2007
Affiliate marketing does not qualify as a "get-rich-quickly" scheme. Here are the most common 10 mistakes that are usually made when joining affiliate programs and advices about how to avoid them. Continue to article

Don't Overpay for Selling your Products. Use Affiliates
March 16, 2007
One way to sell online your products is by having affiliates program. Find out more about affiliates program and what are the benefits of having your affiliates program. Continue to article

Why Join Affiliate Programs?
March 06, 2007
Affiliation is becoming an increasingly powerful online marketing tool. Find out how these programs are working and what the benefits of becoming an affiliate marketer are. Continue to article

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