As an affiliate, you will eventually face a Catch-22: The majority of your time is spent juggling menial day-to-day tasks like customer support requests and administrative duties, leaving you unable to work on the more important tasks like increasing conversions.

At the same time, you don’t have enough cash to hire and train a new staff member to alleviate the situation. Could outsourcing to offshore contractors be the solution you need to take your business to the next level?

Why...

I’ve been getting quite a few questions lately about Facebook advertising as a viable option for affiliate marketers so I wanted to address it and give you guys an idea of how it works, what I like about it, and whether it’s a good place to spend your advertising budget.

What is Facebook Advertising?

For the most part, Facebook advertising should look familiar to any current or former AdWords marketers. You create an ad, choose your demographic and bid on ads at a per-click rate. There...

As you might be aware, October 2010 is the month we’re talking about all things social media here on Affilorama.

This ‘web 2.0’ stuff can be pretty baffling to many of us because it is simply so new, and it’s growing at such a fast rate it can out pace even the most savvy of us!

How are we ever supposed to keep up? Do you even bother trying to figure it all out? Well if you’re an affiliate marketer, you definitely should.

Not to worry, we have a ton of resources on Affilorama that...

We are very excited to announce a brand new free feature available to everyone on Affilorama that we know you're going to love. Introducing (drum roll please) … The YO Blog!

What is the YO Blog?

YO stands for 'Your Opinion' (and appropriately, it's also a casual greeting). The YO Blog is your chance to put yourself in the spotlight in front of your peers, and it’s also a great place to get well-articulated advice and opinions from fellow affiliate marketing friends.

It looks exactly...

Twitter marketing receives a lot of attention these days, yet many affiliate marketers still struggle with how to make it work as an effective affiliate marketing tool. In fact, quite a few people I’ve spoken to recently aren’t sure if Twitter is even worth the effort.

Although Twitter doesn’t make affiliate marketers money in the literal way that a newsletter series or article marketing does, it’s still a very powerful weapon in your arsenal because it gives you a way to build...