Marketing Ideas

Looking for a little creative inspiration for your promotions? In this section you'll find a bunch of suggestions for thinking "outside the box" in your affiliate campaigns. If you've whacked up a website and peppered it with affiliate links and you're not sure where to go next... take a look at some of these lessons.

• Alternative Marketing
• Web 2.0 Marketing
• Email Marketing
• Blogging in Affiliate Marketing

UPDATED!How to use Twitter for Affiliate Marketing

It has a silly name, and some might argue that it's also a silly concept... but Twitter is an internet phenomenon of massive proportions, and it's very useful for affiliate marketers as well. Discover Twitter in this lesson, and see how you can use it to give your websites a nudge in the right direction.... read more »

Creating a buzz with viral PDFs

No, they're not nasty brochures that infect your computer with spyware! Viral PDFs are a clever way of getting other people to (willingly!) spread your affiliate links around the internet. In this lesson we show you how to make them and how to use them.... read more »

Customize your WordPress blog with essential plugins

A plugin is a small program written by a third party that can be integrated into an application for increased functionality. In a nutshell: plugins turn your blog from something ordinary into something sophisticated and optimized for maximum traffic. There are over 2,000 plugins available for Wordpress that allow you to do everything from managing spam, creating an events calendar, improving tags, viewing statistics…and much more. You can find the full list of available plugins at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ One of our favorite plugins: The All in One SEO pack Automatically helps you to avoid duplicate content found on typical Wordpress blogs. Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines Allows you to override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want. Automatically generates META tags Allows you to fine tune ... read more »

Four bonus Web 2.0 tips for even more profit!

Reckon you've got the hang of this Web 2.0 business? In this lesson we give you four more tips for making the most of Web 2.0.... read more »

Affiliate Marketing on Facebook

Facebook is one of the biggest social networking sites out there, and receives a huge amount of traffic. How can you use this resource to your advantage? In this lesson we talk about promoting your site on Facebook: How it works, why it's great, how to set up an ad, and some important tips for getting the most out of it all. ... read more »