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As a Star Wars fan, when I am faced with a difficult task, I ask myself, “What would Luke Skywalker do?” And this morning. I asked myself that question and it got me to thinking that Luke Skywalker would make a great affiliate marketer. Here’s why:

There are many ways to build an affiliate datafeed site and there are paid tools that make it super easy. However, if you have some coding skills and want to build a datafeed site from scratch – for free – this series is for you.

What do you get when you combine the world’s love for pizza, social media and affiliate marketing? Saw this in the news yesterday and thought it was a brilliant use of affiliate marketing for the masses. The Dominos ‘Social Affiliate Tool’ is available through the Affiliate Window affiliate network and

Gosh darn it’s frustrating isn’t it? You’ve been working soooo hard on your affiliate sites, often staying up till 2am on a work night to try and make your big break into affiliate marketing or push your affiliate business on to new heights. Here’s my top ten reasons why those hours spent

Angel will be sharing his insights into the affiliate marketing industry… Hear what he has to say about affiliate program management, the fight against the advertising tax and the future of our industry.

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In spite of the fact that Colorado affiliates were able to get affiliate nexus language removed from HB 10-1193, Amazon still sent termination letters to thousands of Colorado affiliates, informing them they are being dropped today without notice. What is really crazy about this is

…aggregates millions of products, coupons and news from more than 7,500 merchants. It even incorporates a URL shortener that allows you to create shortened, monetized URLs for Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media

Check out FlexOffers affiliate network, featuring hundreds of affiliate programs from top brands like Macy’s, Stubhub, Discover, New York Life… They provide various automated content delivery systems including: free templates, datafeeds, XML and web services.

by Mike Moran

Social media is free, but what’s the catch? Time. We only have so much time to spend putting our message out there, but we don’t want to limit how many people can hear what we have to say. This problem comes up in many ways, but the simplest is the dichotomy between Facebook and Twitter. Many folks decide to spend the bulk of their social time on one or the other, with relatively few people using both. If Google Buzz catches fire, this fragmentation might only increase. What’s a marketer to do?

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Let’s face it. There’s no real difference between “friends” and “followers,” nor between “”status updates” and “tweets.” And why would you decide to spend all your precious social media time updating one venue and not the other, if your customers use both of them? But how can you double the amount of time you spend in social media updating both?

You don’t have to. I decided that I prefer Twitter to Facebook so I have every tweet I send out mirrored as my Facebook status. And I do the same thing on LinkedIn. I haven’t taken the plunge on Google Buzz yet, but I’ll probably do the same thing there, also.

If someone wants to see what I am up to, they can use their favorite method to keep up and I only have to update once. I know people using FriendFeed to accomplish the same thing. In each of your social media lives, you can set up these mirrors to make sure that your customers can keep up no matter what network they are in, while you only need to update once.

Now, I find even though I update in only one place, that I still have trouble making time for more than a few tweets a day, but there isn’t anything I can do to help with that.

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