5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs

Salute to Work at Home Moms - Mothers Day Cartoon

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Work at Home Moms I work with so many affiliate Moms that have small kids, juggle a million things at once and still manage to get new sites built and campaigns optimized. I don’t know how they manage it all. I sure do admire them though! This cartoon TOTALLY reminds [...]

Advaliant - Not All CPA Affiliate Networks are Created Equal

I'm proud to introduce our newest 5 Star Affiliate Program, Advaliant, a trusted pay-for-performance network. Highly regarded, Advaliant was recognized by ad:tech for the Best Affiliate Marketing Campaign of the year in 2007.

10 New 5 Star Affiliate Programs - May Newsletter

We have 10 great new affiliate programs for your linking pleasure. Plus be sure to catch the latest 5 Star merchant news for program updates, affiliate contests and commission increases that could help increase your bottom line this month.

5 Copywriting Tactics for Affiliate Marketing

If you’re building authority sites you get more than one shot at affiliate revenue. You profit first with your direct readers who trust you, and then continue to generate revenue over time with... The lowest form of affiliate marketing engagement comes from…

Vote for your Favs in the UK Affiliate Marketing Awards

The final nominations have been made for the "Community Choice" UK Affiliate Marketing Awards. Members can now cast their votes. The winners will be announced on June 5th at the evening Award Show. Here are the finalists:

In spite of Competition & Economy - CJ (VCLK) is up by 16%

I was anxious to see how the numbers from ValueClick's 1st quarter results look. In spite of increased competition from DoubleCLick, Pepperjam and despite the economic downturn, CJ is up by 16% in Q1. Industry growth figures are always a nice thing to see!

12 Ways Affiliate Managers Can Use RSS for Affiliate Communication

Affiliate managers know a affiliates are notorious for not reading email. Plus half the words we need to use (free, offer, sale, money, contest, win) set off spam filters and create deliverability issues. Here are 12 things affiliate managers could communicate real-time, through RSS

Use Social Proof and Best Sellers Lists To Boost Affiliate Conversions

Whether you call it herd mentality, social proof, safely in numbers, follow the leader or keeping up with the joneses - today more than ever, social decision making plays a big role in consumer purchase decisions. Use these ideas to boost affiliate sales conversions

Rash of Insurance Affiliate Programs Closing in the UK

I hope this isn't a sign of things to come here in the US. Financial lead based programs are the core revenue earners for many top affiliates I know. Mortgage loan affiliate programs are suffering right now, hopefully insurance affiliate programs aren't next on the list...

5 Lessons Affiliates Can Learn From American Idol

OK I admit it. I'm a big Idol fan. Even if I wasn't I would still appreciate this! 5 Lessons Affiliate Marketers Can Learn From American Idol. Awesome post! Wish I would have thought to write it! My Fav lesson is about conversions…

Amazon Sues New York State Over Affiliate Related Sales Tax

The new tax law states if Amazon has even one affiliate in New York they need to charge sales tax, just as if they had employees in NY. Here is a copy of the actual complaint Amazon filed against the State of New York.

MVP and Bright New Star Award Winners for April

The MVP (Most Valuable POSTER)Award goes to the person we think stands out as an insightful poster and helpful member. Congrats Niche and genuwine4532! Thanks for all you do to make 5 Star the most positive, helpful affiliate community around!

Mike Allen of Shopping-Bargains on Affiliate Marketing Insider

Host Linda Woods welcomes Mike Allen of Shopping-Bargains to the Affiliate Marketing Insider radio show. Shopping-Bargains began in 1999 as a hobby. 2008 - finalist for the Affiliate of the Year in the Affiliate Summit Awards. 2005 - finalist for the LinkShare Merchants Choice Award.

3 Killer Content Strategies for Affiliate Marketers

I blogged last week that Brian would be starting a series of posts on copywriting strategies for affiliate marketing. The 1st in the series and it's really well done and info-rich. 3 Killer Content Strategies for Building Affiliate Marketing Assets…

Should Merchants Use Multiple Affiliate Networks?

Should Merchants Use Multiple Affiliate Networks? It's a multi-dimensional issue and there is not a single answer that's right for every affiliate program. Industry veterans answered. Affiliates - what do you think?

Shareasale Gets a Make-Over - What Do You Think?

In my virtual journeys this AM I noticed Shareasale has a new look. I think the new design just launched today. Since a pic is worth 1,000 words I'll just show you the before and after. What do you think?

InformationWeek - Web 2.0 Changing Affiliate Marketing

Information Week had a good article about the affiliate marketing session at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Always great to see our industry get positive play in mainstream media. I blogged earlier about

Prosper202 PPC Tracking Launches - Free from Tracking202

Some affiliates were afraid that if they used Tracking202, the team could potentially steal their data and mine their best keywords. So this one is self hosted. Unbelievably, just like Tracking202, Prosper202 is FREE.

How to Recruit Affiliates - Leaders Share Top Tips

A few months ago I was interviewed by Revenue Magazine for a feature about recruiting affiliates. The article titled: Looking for a Few Good Affiliates was published in the January/February issue and was just added to the web site, so even non-subscribers can read it. The 3 page article is filled with great tips from [...]

Win a Free Pass to Affiliate Summit 2008 East

For affiliates who have always wanted to go to Affiliate Summit, but cannot afford it, here’s your chance! Affiliate Summit will be giving away a free, full conference pass to Affiliate Summit 2008 East every Monday through June 30th. All you have to do to enter is to follow Affiliate Summit on Twitter and submit [...]