Hire One Employee, Get Hundreds
by Janet Meiners

My article on affiliate marketing is in the March issue (which just printed) of Connect magazine.

Anyone interested in starting a group of affiliate marketers in Utah to learn and share information for affiliates (not managers). If you're interested, email me at grocerybike@gmail.com.

Brad Pace, quoted in the article works for 2m Corp.

Affiliate Resources Referenced in the article

Books:
Super Affiliate Handbook – by Rosalind Gardner, great resource to understand how it works and more in-depth about the networks. Written for people wanting to be an affiliate.

Instant Niche Web-Site Builder - build an affiliate site based on these templates

Affiliate web sites:
Affiliate Classroom
Return on Affiliate site for affiliate managers
Affiliate Tips Blog www.affiliatetip.com/blog/
Affiliate Summit conference: www.affiliatesummit.com/
Rocky Mountain Association of Affiliate Marketers hosts a monthly meeting for affiliate managers to share information (the web site is often down – try emailing Paul pauls@rmama.com)

Affiliate Networks:
Commission Junction – www.cj.com
LinkShare.com – www.linkshare.com
Share-a-sale – Shareasale.com

Newsletters:
Quit Your Day Job Newsletter: http://www.quityourdayjob.com/

Affiliate Tracking Software:
Kowabunga – www.kowabunga.com
DirectTrack – www.directtrack.com

“Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. ” – Lily Tomlin
Tom Asacker’s blog makes a good point about stress. It’s not solved by avoiding it. Stress isn’t best addressed by indulgence, diversions, entertainment, escaping, or making more money. Instead change your attitude and approach to life. Obviously if we improved in these things most of us wouldn’t need the other things.

Read more…

Trademark Protection, Copyright and Search Engines

By Sara Holoubek,
March 30, 2006

This article talks about protecting your trademark online. The web changes so quickly that the law can't keep up. The bottom line is cases will come up and things will be decided but in the end most web site owners will comply if caught using your trademarks or copyrighted material.

Read more…

Have you outsourced your PPC or SEO campaign management to an offshore company? 

I'm curious about outsourcing the management of Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising and search enginge optimization (SEO) activities. It seems like it could be an ideal thing to hire someone in the Phillipines or India to handle it. Anyone know of case studies? resources? experiences? 

If you’re new to affiliate marketing and want an exhaustive resource on what it is and how to do it, I suggest you get the 300 page ebook called, “The Super Affiliate Handbook” by Rosalind Gardner. You could spend a lot of time reading and not get the quality information that you’ll get from this book in one place.

Also check out Jeremy Palmer’s Ebook on being a Superaffiliate coming in a few days.

Turn Words into Traffic to learn how to write well online.

I forgot about this web site but just rediscovered it. Find out what your competitors are paying for their keywords. If you do pay-per-click this will give you an idea of how much you'll need to spend it you want to be one of the top links. It's integrated with overature's keyword tool so you can get an idea of traffic and idea of cost side-by-side.

Check it out.

http://www.pixelfast.com/overture/

My coworker just launched a new site that sells compressed movies that you can download to your ipod or other viewer: http://www.ishowstogo.com/.

Check it out.

Create keyword optimized press releases to these PR site for maximum exposure and higher search engine placement

http://www.mediasyndicate.com/
http://www.prweb.com
http://www. prnewswire.com
http://www. businesswire.com

I read Business 2.0 magazine cover to cover as soon as I get it.

Tidbits/ideas/todos from most recent article:

• entrepreneur designs ads for business rooftops so you can see their logo when using google earth or satellite images
• Somethinglocal.com should take note of how an Oregon bank installed music download kiosks in every branch. Free tunes from local artists and you can burn a CD for $8. If you open an account at the bank you burn the CD for free.
• doodle whiteboards at google for employee expression/fun/culturalexpression
• check out digg.com
• how Ryanair gives away free airline tickets and charges for everything but
• simple idea of online cards created by actual usersthat paid nicely for Firefox. Maybe we can let our IPCs design cards and use the best ones. p.92
• SAIC rewards a big contract by giving a tiered bonus to everyone on up, sort of like a network marketing company rewards the whole group for sales, not just one person. Most of the Best Kept Secrets section are fascinating.
• Geekcorps is like peacecorps but they teach tech skills!
• Check out I-O Display Systems I-theater. Your ipod screen could look giant! Plus, they have an affiliate program (10% commissions!)
• Find a free wireless network wherever you are (print it before your trip!). Not one listing for Orem, but in there is one at the Juice 'n Java – 280 W 100 N in Provo.

Misses:

• The story on Hello Kitty receptionist kisoks – DUMB
• Souped up (overkill) SUVs for execs that get even worse gas mileage than regular SUVs…less than 8mpg!! Shouldn't people with money find a way to get the same benefits with less damage to the environment?! This bugs my hippie heart!

Godaddy.com has a domain name auction that works like Ebay. It’s a great place to go for ideas. I wish I had kept a few of my domains, I just didn’t know how to sell them. Now I do. Pretty soon Europe will open all their non-taken registered business domains to the public. I smell opportunity.