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Top 6 hurdles for an affiliate marketing newbie

Top 6 hurdles for an affiliate marketing newbie

I have to confess, it can be kind of hard working for Affilorama.

All around me people are doing affiliate promotions and earning cash on the side... while I'm the fresh graduate whose eyes boggle at the very prospect of it all.

So six months ago (has it been that long?) I started following AffiloBlueprint and putting together my own affiliate site.

Here I am with all these resources around me, this great course to follow, and a very big student loan I'd like to pay off... and still...

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Is Eben Pagan the real deal?

Is Eben Pagan the real deal?

Hi everyone,

Over the years I've indulged myself in reverse engineering different successful people's businesses.

Eben Pagan (A.K.A. David De Angelo), the multimillionaire owner of DoubleYourDating.com (and 9 other niche websites) is one guy that I've followed extra closely.

I've even gone to the lengths of buying several of his niche products to figure out his marketing sequences, product quality, where his upsells are, and so forth.

Here are some photos that illustrates the lengths that I go...

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Traffic Travis Professional Giveaway

Traffic Travis Professional Giveaway

Hi guys,

We've got some more great news to share with you (well we're pretty excited about it anyway).

Our very own SEO and PPC software, Traffic Travis, has just hit the 100,000 download mark on CNet.com!

If you're not yet a user of Traffic Travis, you will probably be familiar with it as the software that Mark uses in many of his lessons.

Having been sitting at CNET's number 1 spot for free SEO software for quite some time now, and also boasting a 4.5 star Editor's review,...

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I'm now a proud father!

I'm now a proud father!

Hey guys,

I've been meaning to make this blog post for a while now, but time has just flown by with all that has been happening.

Anyway, without further ado I'm very happy to announce that my wife Michelle and I are now parents to a beautiful baby boy called Benjamin Logan Ling.

He was born on April 22nd weighing 9.4 pounds.

He's our first child.

He has been keeping us up till all hours some nights, then others he has given us blissful sleep (between feeds anyway). All in all he is healthy and...

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Affiliate Sales Videos – How to convert great sales using online video

Affiliate Sales Videos – How to convert great sales using online video

The following guest blog post is from Alen Sultanic:

Hi Affilorama blog readers,

Let ME ask YOU a simple question....

 “What if you could create a quick 5 minute video that could potentially change everything you know about making money as an affiliate?”

Take a moment, and think about that...and if your reply is,  “Sure Alen, let’s hear it”...then here it is.

You see, I’ve done pretty well with what are now known as “sales videos."

What I’ve learned is pretty amazing, and I’ll share that with you...

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Vote For the ClickBank and Google Joint Session at Affiliate Summit East!

Vote For the ClickBank and Google Joint Session at Affiliate Summit East!

The following blog post is a guest post by Clickbank Account Specialist, Jeni Rogers.

Affiliate Summit is using a different system from previous years for picking the speakers and speeches for sessions at Affiliate Summit East in August. They are putting the topics up to a vote for the general public!

In the wake of the Google Slaps that have occurred over recent months, ClickBank’s VP of Sales and Business Development, Dush Ramachandran,  has been working very hard to cultivate a...

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Have you developed a case of “nofollow” tunnel vision?

Have you developed a case of “nofollow” tunnel vision?

Have you ever found yourself passing over chances for building links to your site just because they are 'nofollow' links?

Time and again, we see people who have developed a case of tunnel vision - seeing only followed links as useful, and ignoring nofollow links altogether.

Come on, you know I'm right. I can hear your words echoing through the dark, narrow tunnel:

"I'm not going to waste my time creating links on sites with nofollow links, because it's not going to help my search...

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