The Affiliate Lifestyle Blog

Here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed reading (or re-reading).

Affiliate Summit East 2009 just finished wrapping up in New York. If you are a newbie, I highly recommend going. There’s a lot of newbie information in the sessions, and you’ll probably pick up a few tips that make the whole trip worth it. I met up with a bunch of my affiliates, affiliate managers [...]

If you’ve never heard of Adwords Editor, match types, or basic keyword strategy, then this mp3 is for you! Click the “Play” button below to listen to Mike Cowles interview me. The interview was recorded last month. (Feel free to Right Click –> Save “As” to download to your computer / iPod).

In PPC, you are handsomely rewarded for helping people to find what they are looking for. If you want to be successful in PPC – keep that in mind. When you fail to satisfy your visitor (ie. your campaigns suck and you are going broke), it’s usually because: 1) Your ad promised something that you [...]

I lucked out and got a “media pass” for Affiliate Summit (because of this blog).. So I’m going to try to post about the event.. Here are the talks I’m attending: Sunday, January 11th Affiliate Meet Market: 12pm-6pm – This is basically a meet up for affiliates & networks. I’m going to meet my affiliate [...]

1) Success in affiliate marketing is the result of persistence, a great team (copywriter, web designer, programmer, keyword researcher), and a solid system that you can duplicate for different markets, and understanding how to optimize and scale a campaign. 2) You have to push yourself outside your comfort zone. I have a good friend who [...]

If anyone is interested in meeting up in Vegas for Affiliate Summit, shoot me an email.. I’m arriving Saturday afternoon. Affiliate Summit is a conference held bi-yearly that brings together affiliates, merchants and everyone in between. Basically, it’s a chance to listen to some newbie related topics, visit booth babes, meet your affiliate managers and [...]

Cash4Gold is a company featured on many affiliate networks including NeverBlue, CX Media and Affiliate.com. The company allows jewelry owners to send in their jewelry by mail in exchange for fast cash. For each lead generated through their website, Cash4Gold pays affiliates $12-$13. While doing some research, I noticed a post by a former employee [...]

I’m all for making fast, short-term, easy cash. However, there are some serious down-side’s to affiliate marketing. I subscribe to Uber Affiliate’s blog. He just made a very humbling post titled “I made $182.64 Profit Last Month.” Now, if you know anything about Paul, you know that he made $200,000 in revenue with Azoogle in [...]

AFA – An average frustrated affiliate who has no game and rarely manages to convert offers profitably. Also an affiliate who tends to look to “gurus” for validation, buys a lot of ebooks, but never takes action. Yes, we’ve all been there. I was there for a long time. Here’s the game plan: 1) Write [...]