Articles About Running An Affiliate Business

27/11/08 - Think Woolworths and Think Of...

Unless you live under a rock, you'll have heard about the trouble Woolworths is in, after 99 years trading. But when you think of Woolworths, what do you think of?

Woolworths Storefront

(Woolworths Storefront photograph care of markhillary) More

13/11/08 - You Know When You Are Not Wanted...

You know when you are not wanted when you click on a deeplink from a product page only to be taken to this page: More

23/09/08 - 5 Rules To Making Your Affiliate Marketing Campaign A Success

Over time you learn a thing or two and you get accustomed to the way the industry ticks. For example, I can now distinguish between an idea that will make me money and one that won't. That's a skill that takes time and is always being fine tuned by actual results.

I thought it might be handy to jot down a few simple "rules" for ensuring your affiliate marketing efforts are a success. More

31/07/08 - Understand The Value Of My Time

I understand the value of my time. I understand that if I am not doing ABC because I'm doing XYZ, I'm running behind.

This week has been a crazy week of messages from networks, potential merchants, affiliates and clients. However, all seem to have a common theme - they all don't understand how much my time is worth. More

08/07/08 - The Merits of Free Delivery

LoveHoney, the purveyor of adult toys rather than honey based products, has removed it's free delivery minimum order value threshold in favour of universal free shipping across the entire range.

That means that if you want to order just one whistle or Birthday card, you can do so and not pay any postage.

So is this a good tactic in terms of their affiliates? More

27/03/08 - Replicators, Emulators and Innovators

In my post It's All Complimentary I discussed how complimenting websites rather than copying them was a smart move. Rather than copying a website, building something that could compliment it or improve upon it is a smarter solution.

Today I'm looking at the strategies behind the sites: the affiliates themselves. More

11/01/08 - 3 Mistakes Made By Wedding Venues That You Should Avoid In Affiliate Marketing

In my Confetti Wedding Planning book, it says a bride takes on average 250 hours to plan her wedding. But given that wedding co-ordinators work office hours and my other half works roughly the same, it would be difficult to get any venue sorted quickly. So I've leant a hand and have been doing the venue research. It's taken me 4 solid days but we seem to be getting somewhere.

Nevertheless, there are a couple of things I've noticed about wedding venues that will help your Internet business.

Here goes! More

13/12/07 - Bloggers - Don't Make It Difficult

If you run a blog and you enable comments, please don't lock the comment form behind a user login. I've come across a few recently where comments are enabled but I'd have to sign up to comment.

That's a sure fire way to make me not comment, and probably not return as sometimes the comments are as interesting / more intersting than the blog post itself. More