http://www.affilorama.com/http://www.affilorama.com/blog/the-dangers-of-using-social-media-to-promote-my-businesshttp://www.affilorama.com/blog/the-dangers-of-using-social-media-to-promote-my-business When I arrived at work yesterday I received a serious shock. All the Twitter accounts run by our company, including our primary @affilorama account, had been suspended. Months of hard work building up a sustainable following disappeared. Not only could I no longer communicate with our followers, who have come to expect our daily updates of affiliate and online marketing news as well as the latest updates on Affilorama, but communication with potential business partners was lost. While this fortunately turned out to be a human error on Twitter's part, and our accounts were restored last night, the incident was a massive wake up call. A reminder that no matter how much work I put into maintaining our social media presence, at the end of the day, someone else controls it. Whether it's our Twitter accounts, our YouTube channel or our Facebook groups, the fact remains that all chrisgoddardSun, 12 Jul 2009 20:41:52 +0000http://www.affilorama.com/blog/affiloramas-very-special-independence-day-promotionhttp://www.affilorama.com/blog/affiloramas-very-special-independence-day-promotion Hi Everyone! While we know that we have members from all over the world, we also know that a large proportion of our customers come from the United States. Because of this we've decided to run a very special, limited run promotion for 4th of July weekend. If you purchase AffiloBlueprint between the Friday the 3rd of July and Sunday the 6th of July, we're going to throw in an additional bonus worth $197! AffiloBlueprint is a complete guide for getting started with affiliate marketing, with step-by-step videos that take you through the entire process of setting up a successful affiliate marketing business. To find out more about AffiloBlueprint, check out the information page here. However one of the keys to taking your initial success and growing it into the tens and hundreds of thousands of dollar range is learning how to outsource. By outsourcing the repetitive and lower lechrisgoddardFri, 03 Jul 2009 04:02:00 +0000http://www.affilorama.com/blog/ftc-plans-to-regulate-bloggershttp://www.affilorama.com/blog/ftc-plans-to-regulate-bloggers A few months ago I wrote that the FTC were considering regulating bloggers who make paid endorsements or false statements and affiliates disclosing their links. Now that it looks like this is going to happen, you're probably asking yourself; what does it actually mean? How will I have to change my affiliate site? And will I one day get a fine in the mail for promoting an affiliate program without disclosure? I've read many blogs on the subject and skimmed the 84-page document from the FTC (which you can download here), and I've tried to summarize what it means. But first my own little disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer and I don't live in the US so I don't come under FTC regulation. This is my best interpretation of what the law means, but you should be sure to do your own research to make informed decisions for your business. We've all seen these words in tiny text at the bottom of infchrisgoddardSat, 11 Jul 2009 04:46:54 +0000http://www.affilorama.com/blog/writing-for-the-web-a-beginners-guidehttp://www.affilorama.com/blog/writing-for-the-web-a-beginners-guide Whether you like it or not, writing is a key skill for any internet marketer. The most successful affiliates and internet millionaires are often the ones who have got writing for the web down to a fine art, crafting compelling articles and sales copy. And while you can use services like elance.com to outsource your writing, or use PLR (private label rights) articles (you can have a look at the Affilorama lesson on elance and PLR articles here), investment in improving your writing skills will only ever pay off down the road. This is by no means a complete guide, but rather some starting tips or techniques for how to write for the web. Research – Know your topic! This sounds obvious, but the number of people who attempt to write about stuff they don't understand astounds me! Good writers are informed writers. We're not talking about becoming experts here, just a solid groundingchrisgoddardTue, 30 Jun 2009 21:26:32 +0000http://www.affilorama.com/blog/affiloblueprint-has-reopened-its-doorshttp://www.affilorama.com/blog/affiloblueprint-has-reopened-its-doors Hey Everyone, We're really excited today to announce that we have reopened the doors on AffiloBlueprint. If you missed out last time, you can now access the best affiliate marketing training program on the internet right here. AffiloBlueprint teaches you step-by-step how to build lots of mini websites that make from 200-$2000 per month each and more. The blueprint itself contains the following: Over 60 comprehensive step by step video lessons (with written versions of each lesson) Full Search Engine Traffic Strategy Pay Per Click Strategy Email Marketing Secrets Accompanying software to support the training And much, much more! Best of all, this time around AffiloBlueprint is staying open! It is now a permanent fixture here at Affilorama, so once you've signed up and extracted heaps of value out of it – tell your friends! We're looking forward to helping all our new schrisgoddardSat, 11 Jul 2009 16:25:56 +0000