Affiliate Marketing Blog - Category: Business tips

You never forget your first time.

I'm talking, of course, about sales. There is no greater buzz in business than the first time you get a sale. The first sale I ever made was a $500 sponsorship for a charity event I ran in high school. We were running an event to raise money for World Vision, and me being the budding 17-year-old business wannabe that I was, had devised a...

When I arrived at work yesterday I received a serious shock. All the Twitter accounts run by our company, including our primary @affilorama account, had been suspended. Months of hard work building up a sustainable following disappeared. Not only could I no longer communicate with our followers, who have come to expect our daily updates of...

A few months ago I wrote that the FTC were considering regulating bloggers who make paid endorsements or false statements and affiliates disclosing their links. Now that it looks like this is going to happen, you're probably asking yourself; what does it actually mean? How will I have to change my affiliate site? And will I one day get a fine in the mail for promoting an...

We all know that has email revolutionized communication, both for business and in our personal lives. And while applications like Skype and MSN Chat, Twitter and Facebook are providing new channels with which to connect with people around the world, for most of us email is still the primary means of communication. So why, I must ask, are so many people SO...