http://affiliatemarketingjournals.com Blog About Affiliate Program Marketing. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:24:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Your website is a marketing tool. Don’t take it lightly. Your copy is the most important aspect of your website. Don’t shortcut it. Too many new website owners try to write their copy themselves and pay ooodles of hard-earned money on design. Don’t do that. If you are going to spend ... http://affiliatemarketingjournals.com/affiliate-marketing/website-copywriting-more-important-than-design/08/14/2008/ When it comes to tracking your affiliates, should you use a manager or do it yourself? To be sure, there are pros and cons to both approaches. If you do it yourself and you have a lot of affiliates you could find yourself spending most of your time managing affiliates ... http://affiliatemarketingjournals.com/affiliate-tracking/affiliate-tracking-options-diy-or-affiliate-manager/08/01/2008/ Many affiliate marketers start off thinking they will get rich if they choose the right program. They’ve heard that there is good money in affiliate marketing so they rushed out and put up a website on the first affiliate marketing scheme that they found. Then they waited. And waited. And ... http://affiliatemarketingjournals.com/affiliate-marketing/the-biggest-mistake-affiliate-marketers-make/07/24/2008/ You can run your affiliate marketing program yourself using a software program, design one for your own use, or join an affiliate marketing program. There are several programs you can join and which one you choose depends a lot on your personality and what you expect to get out of ... http://affiliatemarketingjournals.com/affiliate-network-management/affiliate-marketing-programs-you-can-try/04/10/2008/ Affiliate newsletter writers are always trying to stay ahead of different trends, and using dedicated RSS feeds is starting to become more popular. We are not yet at a stage that it would be feasible to put out an affiliate newsletter solely through RSS, but we are getting there ... http://affiliatemarketingjournals.com/affiliate-newsletter/affiliate-newsletter-email-or-rss/03/03/2008/ One question that keeps being raised is, "Is affiliate site verification is necessary in affiliate network management? Another is, "How closely do I need to monitor sites in my affiliate network?" These seem to be about different topics, but are actually somewhat different issues of affiliate network management. Should ... http://affiliatemarketingjournals.com/affiliate-network-management/affiliate-network-management-does-it-pay-to-verify-and-monitor-affiliate-sites/02/20/2008/ When you are running your own affiliate marketing network, a decent payment solution is definitely worth considering. As you are no doubt in the e-commerce field in some way, you will probably be aware of the different payment systems that are around. Chances are that you accept credit ... http://affiliatemarketingjournals.com/affiliate-marketing/affiliate-marketing-network-payment-solutions-that-work/02/19/2008/ Nothing is more disheartening than an affiliate marketing campaign that has lost its focus. What can you do if you find that your affiliates are no longer turning over the same amount of sales as before? What can you do if you have more people leaving your program ... http://affiliatemarketingjournals.com/affiliate-marketing/fire-up-your-affiliate-marketing-campaign/02/18/2008/ Affiliate newsletters are something that many affiliate program managers would rather do without. They can be a lot of work, finding time to produce affiliate newsletters when you are already busy with a thousand and one other things can be trying at the best of times. What makes ... http://affiliatemarketingjournals.com/affiliate-newsletter/affiliate-newsletters-do-you-need-one/02/17/2008/ If you are doing the bulk of your writing for your affiliate marketing materials, then there are a few things that can really improve your writing technique and get you a much better response. The following advice comes courtesy of Site Pro News, but follows along similar lines to ... http://affiliatemarketingjournals.com/affiliate-marketing/affiliate-marketing-materials-how-to-write-link-bait-press-releases/02/16/2008/