Five Successful Strategies for Monetizing Blogs Through Affiliate Marketing

Shawn Collins and I are speaking at Inbound Marketing Summit in Dallas today about employing affiliate marketing strategies to monetize blogs.
Below are the slides that we provided during the presentation.
If you have any questions about the presentation or if you have any other affiliate marketing questions that you’d like answered, please feel free to ask [...]

How You Can Contribute to FeedFront Magazine

The June issue of Feedfront isn’t even out the door and we’re already working on the next issue of which will be coming out in August 2009.
This edition will be double-the-size as it will also serve as the conference program for Affiliate Summit 2009 East in NYC.
You can contribute to this issue two [...]

Blog Entrepreneur: Blogging Is the Perfect Internet Business

Copyright 2006 Angela Booth
If someone were to tell you that you could create a global business, completely for free, with nothing more than the tools you already have, and the investment of your time, you’d question their sanity.
Nevertheless, it’s true. If blogging appeals to you, you can create a viable Internet business within a few [...]

Seven Common Pitfalls New Affiliates Should Avoid

If you’re new to affiliate marketing, you’re probably already up to your ears in “new stuff” that you need to learn, which can be somewhat overwhelming.
On top of everything else, you also need to get your arms around things that you really should avoid, so that your efforts aren’t for naught.
I put together this video [...]

Get FeedFront Magazine On Your Kindle

If you’re a Kindle owner like me, you already know how convenient it is to have your reading materials housed in one easy-to-carry-around place.
That’s why FeedFront Magazine is now available in a Kindle edition from Amazon.
You can subscribe to FeedFront Magazine for your Kindle for $1.99 a month, which includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet. [...]

Izea Raises the Bar; Introduces Disclosure Audits

I just finished reading Ted Murphy’s announcement on the Izea blog regarding their new disclosure audit capability, and had a few thoughts on this that I wanted to share.
I wondered to myself whether Izea’s adversaries, would look at this strategic move as simply “window dressing” to appease sponsored conversation critics, like Andy Sernovitz. [...]

Free Affiliate Marketing Information

I’ve been receiving a lot of emails lately from folks that are interested in getting started in affiliate marketing. Maybe it’s economy-driven or maybe…just maybe…. bloggers are finally realizing that it’s OK to make money from their blogs
Either way, I dig it. There’s no better feeling than teaching someone how [...]

TheSpew, Episode 7: Defying Gravity with Peter Shankman

Listen above, on GeekCast.fm or download to iTunes.
I (@MissyWard) of Affiliate Summit moderated this week with panelists:

Lisa Riolo (@LisaRiolo), Internet Marketing Consultant

Karen Garcia (@KarenGarcia), Co-founder of GTO Management

Our special guest this week was Peter Shankman, is the founder and CEO of The Geek Factory and founder of Help A Reporter Out (”HARO”), which connects journalists [...]

Thesis: Raising the Bar for WordPress Users

I spend a good portion of my week talking about the features and benefits of Thesis for WordPress and their affiliate program.
Recently, DIYThemes put out some great videos on Thesis – the most innovative and user-friendly, SEO-optimized WordPress framework available on this great planet of ours.
In the video below, Brian Clark of [...]

PubCon South ‘09 Interview

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I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Vanessa Zamora (@MsVanZam) of WebmasterWorld at PubCon South.
We talked about:
The changes happening at Affiliate Summit and new trends that I’m seeing; including many more bloggers attending the show who want to learn how to monetize their blog through affiliate marketing.

Risks [...]