Written on July 5th, 2008 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse

Amazon Video Widgets - Earn Money From the Amazon Affiliate Program and Video

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Amazon have launched a new handy Video Widget that will interest many bloggers wanting to combine the use of video and the Amazon Affiliate program.

The widget allows you to make a video and then upload it to Amazon to be hosted where you can add little pop-up product links and pictures that appear throughout the […]

Written on July 3rd, 2008 at 11:07 am by Darren Rowse

Want $10? Sign Up for the Pepperjam Affiliate Network Today

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One of the innovative new affiliate networks to hit the market in the last 6 months is Pepperjam Network - and today they are offering you $10 as a signup bonus for becoming one of their publishers.
If you want to earn money by recommending products from companies like eBay, Cartoon Network, StarTrek.com, Jelly Belly, Sesame […]

Written on July 1st, 2008 at 10:07 am by Darren Rowse

AdSense Retire their Referrals Program and Launch the Google Affiliate Network

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Today AdSense announced that they are drawing their ‘Referrals’ program to a close and are relaunching a new Google affiliate network. In actual effect the new affiliate network is not ‘new’ - but a rebranded version of DoubleClick’s Performics Affiliate Network which they acquired in March.
This is news that many of us expected - particularly […]

Written on May 18th, 2008 at 06:05 am by Darren Rowse

Making Money from 2nd and 3rd clicks with the Amazon Affiliate Progam

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Yesterday Jeremy Shoemoney Twittered to tell me that the review that he wrote of the ProBlogger book generated 38 sales of the book through his Amazon affiliate link. He went on to say that he made money money from the other things that people then went on to buy after clicking through on the link.
The […]

Written on May 17th, 2008 at 04:05 am by Darren Rowse

Amazon Associates Introduce MP3 Clips Widget

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If you have a blog with a music focus the Amazon Associates program have today announced a widget that you’ll want to check out - it’s an MP3 Clips Widget that lets your readers listen to clips of music live on your site.
You can hand select songs to be included on the widget or […]

Written on May 3rd, 2008 at 05:05 am by Darren Rowse

How to Use Social Decision Making To Increase Your Affiliate Sales

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Almost a year ago I started experimenting with a new technique (new for me at least) of creating ‘Best Seller Lists’ as a technique to drive more sales at Amazon’s Affiliate Program.
The concept was simple:

Analyze the things that customers have bought previously from your affiliate links to Amazon (they give you this information in their […]

Written on April 13th, 2008 at 06:04 am by Darren Rowse

Amazon Associates Program Introduce Carousel Widget

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The Amazon Associates program have announced a new widget in the last day or two - it’s called the Carousel Widget. You can see one in action below with six blogging books.
Amazon.com Widgets
The unit above is a ‘carousel’ format (horizontal) but they also have a ‘ferris wheel’ format (vertical). Each come in […]

Written on January 17th, 2008 at 06:01 am by Darren Rowse

Do You Tailor Your Affiliate Program Messages?

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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had 109 emails through the contact form on my two main blogs that all start with exactly the same words:

“I represent a company that specializes in a new form of Internet advertising that guarantees that you will get a 100% conversion rate on 100% of your website traffic….”
The […]

Written on January 5th, 2008 at 12:01 am by Darren Rowse

Why my Wife would make a Great Internet Marketer

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Recently at a family dinner I heard ‘V’ (my wife) raving about how much she loves her pillow (I don’t know how that came up). Since she bought us new pillows (Denton pillows) she says she’s not had a bad night’s sleep.

I chuckled to myself as I heard her as it’s a conversation I’ve been […]