Affiliate Marketing Overview
This is the first post in my new Affiliate Tips Tuesday weekly series. These will be short posts containing tips and links to benefit affiliate marketers and merchants who have or are considering starting their own affiliate programs.
Many do not realize there are only a few highly ethical affiliate marketers and affiliate marketing managers who work hard to keep their affiliate programs clean of parasiteware and affiliates who steal from merchants and each other.
Unlike the many resources I shared in the post I wrote about How to Evaluate a Merchant Gift Affiliate Program, in this column I will be recommending only trustworthy sources who promote only ethical affiliate marketing strategies.
I could not do this before I met Adam Riemer and Ron Cripps because I did not have enough experience or skills to identify who could be trusted and who could not. These are the affiliate marketing experts I personally trust:
- Adam Riemer, Affiliate Manager for Executive Gift Shoppe and many other merchants; expert on keeping affiliate programs parasite free and ensuring that both merchants and affiliates benefit.
- Ron Cripps, Power Affiliate Marketer and Affiliate Marketing Blogger. Don’t miss his Affiliate Marketing FAQ and his Affiliate Marketing Tips that Get Long Term Results and How to Become a Super Affiliate.
- Murray Newlands who has one of the top Affiliate Marketing Blogs and is the founder of our private blog collaboration.
- NEW: While controversial, Pace Lattin has a reputation for taking on fraud in the affiliate and performance marketing industries as can be seen in this letter of recommendation for Pace Lattin from Jim Lillig
I highly recommend all three of their blogs to anyone interested in learning how to ethically use affiliate programs. I will be sharing some of their best posts in future Affiliate Tips Tuesday posts.
Recommended Affiliate Marketing Tips Book
Another book I keep next to my monitor provides an abundance of affiliate marketing tips. While I do would not use all of them there are many that I will definitely be implementing. This is that book:
Internet Marketing from the Real Experts; 3 Minute Lessons on:
- Affiliate Marketing
- Email Marketing
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Social Media
- and Much More
I will be sharing excerpts from some of their tips in future Affiliate Tips Tuesday posts.
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Hey,
Very interesting and informative especially for someone who is new to this whole affiliate marketing thing. I just started out using Amazon, any tips for a newbie ?
Your friend,
Martin
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May 9, 2012 at 2:04 pm
Hello Martin,
While Amazon does convert, they pay one of the lowest of all affiliate programs and more importantly to me, they have an atrocious human rights record. Please read Why Many Boycott Amazon and consider supporting better companies that care about people.
Tricia Meyer wrote a guest post for us about getting started in affiliate marketing that has a video in it and I offer some Tips on Choosing Affiliate Programs.
Since your site covers technology, you could write reviews of some products you wish to cover anyway and use affiliate links in those. I would suggest researching related affiliate programs on the ShareASale Affiliate Network because they have a lot of high quality merchants and a reputation for running a clean network.
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June 20, 2012 at 9:31 pm
I agree they suck big time..as for low,,.it’s very low so i really don’t bother with it!
thanks for such an informative blog post, you helped me a lot in learning many important aspects. keep guiding.
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February 13, 2012 at 7:00 am
Thank you for let me know about Murray Newlands, Ron Cripps and Adam Riemer. I’ll check out their blogs
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This was excellent. Just what I needed. I actually print this post and put it in my library. Thanks, I will read more of your posts soon.
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January 14, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Excellent post. Although almost two years old it still ranks well for ‘affiliate tips’ so your SEO is working:) I am familiar with Ron but not the other two so will check their blogs.
Ron has been very helpful to me over the last few months as I develop my affiliate sites and the wealth of information on his site is worth its weight in gold.
Quick tip for anyone wishing to get advice from Ron:
Step 1: Search his site for the topic your question relates to.
Step 2. Read the posts relevant to that topic.
Step 3: Add a sensible comment below one post and include your question if it wasn’t already answered.
Also be sure to subscribe to his “Affiliate Marketing Tips” newsletter.
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