Welcome to the YO Blog. YO stands for 'Your Opinion' and is your place to share your thoughts and knowledge with Affilorama's community. Read advice and opinions from fellow affiliate marketers below, or submit your own YO post (you must be an Affilorama member to submit a post). We want to hear from you!

4 Reasons Forums are Beneficial To Building Your Online Brand

4 Reasons Forums are Beneficial To Building Your Online Brand

When it comes to marketing your business, you need a solid source of leads, traffic, and content to build your business with, as well as great products that you can promote within your niche. Without all of those, you will struggle to make your business a success.

However, can you find a single place to find all of those?

Over the last 3 years, I have used forums to find all of those and more. In fact, they are often the first stop I make when looking into a new niche. Through them, I can...

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How to Get an Email List That Converts at 5% or Better

How to Get an Email List That Converts at 5% or Better

Hey there, my name is Clayton, and I run a lifestyle design blog where I write about marketing and making money online.

I have to admit it. I’ve been converted.

I’m not talking about a religious experience, though the realization I had just about shattered my understanding of marketing.

It all started about a year ago.

An internet marketing guru somehow stumbled across one of my websites. He thanked me for promoting his niche product on my site and wanted to have his assistant set up a call...

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5 Ways to Overcome a Negative Mindset And Succeed In Your Online Business

5 Ways to Overcome a Negative Mindset And Succeed In Your Online Business

 Ever since I started my affiliate business, I have seen people come and go. Most of the time, when I see people give up, it is not because they don't have the right tools, or the right training. It is because they have a negative mindset, and they stop themselves from achieving the success that they want in their lives. 

For everyone that I see give up on their dreams, I have seen others succeed with the same training, the same tools, and sometimes even less "potential" than the ones that...

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What's Keeping You From Success? Procrastination, Laziness or Bad Advice?

What's Keeping You From Success? Procrastination, Laziness or Bad Advice?

What's keeping you from success?

Procrastination? This will keep you from progressing. 

Laziness? This doesn't work, even for the rich and famous. 

Bad advice? This keeps you in the dark.

There are many ways to make money online. To do so, however, we must overcome all three of the above. Once you learn to identify these issues in your business, you can begin to put together a successful business plan.

Overcoming Procrastination

Putting off taking action is quite common. When we were kids in...

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Thailand Sucks: 3rd World Marketing is Taking Over The Internet and Killing Your Sales

Thailand Sucks: 3rd World Marketing is Taking Over The Internet and Killing Your Sales

Your list is valuable. The bigger it gets, the more money you make. But making your list bigger is not the only way to make more money. In fact, making it bigger alone is weak. Here's why.

You can have a list of 100,000, but that doesn't guarantee that they will buy. You need to know how to convert subscribers into customers. And the better you do that, the more money you make – no matter the size of your list. Here's how:

3rd World Marketing

But first, a peculiar story (you'll see why this...

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