FeedFront Magazine

Running a membership site has exploded in popularity as an Internet business model. Online business owners are finally recognizing what the “early adopters” discovered years ago: membership sites can be extremely profitable, have a low startup cost, and can actually be fun to run...

There will be a convergence of two worlds, MLM and affiliate marketing. If you’re only in one world, you need to understand the other so you can get beyond the misconceptions and better compete. Know that there are legitimate MLM (“network marketing”) companies...

With more than 3,200 in attendance, Affiliate Summit West 2009 in Las Vegas goes down in the record books as a sell out and the largest show to date. Opening up the conference on Sunday was the Affiliate Meet Market; the room was full of energy...

I was recently reading a post that my business partner, Shawn Collins had up on his blog, AffiliateTip.com, entitled “Cynical Marketing.” In the post, Shawn talks about how there are some marketers out there that simply don’t get the fact that not everything they do has to revolve around...

Issue 6 of FeedFront Magazine came in the mail to me yesterday. My son Jack snatched the copy right away to read the interview with super affiliate Connie Berg...

There’s a huge difference between someone saying that you’re amazing and you saying it about yourself. On the one hand, you sometimes have to explain your credentials...

Affiliate marketing is a journey that provides you with the entrepreneurial freedom to choose a business model that caters to your professional strengths and personal interests...

Webster’s Dictionary defines autopilot as “a device for automatically steering ships, aircraft, and spacecraft.” Such systems of directing vehicles without assistance from human beings are excellent when used in the contexts that they were created for. Affiliate marketing is not one of them...

It is the classic “church and state” argument; brand advertisers in TV, print, and outdoor advertising and direct response marketers in infomercials, catalogs and direct mail. Very seldom have the two worlds collided, traditionally...

Few people are aware of, much less understand, the “Vendor Liability” clause of CAN-SPAM...

Product Datafeeds go with affiliate marketing like peas and carrots. They first entered the scene almost ten years ago when merchants and the affiliate networks began to make this information available...

The use of “game promotions” is a popular and effective way for Internet marketing companies to create buzz...

We’re starting to work on issue 7 of FeedFront Magazine, which will also be the conference guide at Affiliate Summit East 2009. The next issue of FeedFront will be coming out in August 2009, and the deadline for articles for issue 7 of FeedFront is June 8, 2009...

As with any social media site, LinkedIn.com offers you a great opportunity to present and maintain your desired brand image. Here are some tips for putting your best foot forward on LinkedIn. Get involved You will only get from LinkedIn that which you put in, so be an active member of the community...

Web sites need images to break up the text and show your visitors things you want them to see. Taking photos that you specifically want to use on a Web site is different than taking family photos or photos for print production. First, they don’t have to be huge in size...

FeedFront Magazine is now available in a Kindle edition from Amazon. You can subscribe to FeedFront Magazine on a Kindle for $1.99 a month, which includes wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet. You can get a 14-day free trial to see if you like receiving the blog on your Kindle...

Most of us know that online video is exploding, and want to capitalize on it. But before we think about how, we need ask why. The only two reasons for posting video online are ego and money...

Getting the prospect in a “buying frame of mind” helps you maximize the amount of money you draw from your traffic, and you do that with the words you use...

Let’s say you’re a total newbie to the world of Internet marketing, and have heard there is “big time” money to be made in affiliate marketing. After researching different affiliate programs, you’ve decided to enter the highly lucrative (yet highly saturated) commercial ringtone industry...

I am working on a feature story for the June 2009 issue of FeedFront Magazine on affiliates being impacted by the “advertising tax” in their state...

We all know that blogging is one of the fastest and most effective ways for you to have your voice heard. However, blogging is also one of the slowest methods for generating money online...

There’s a perception that blogging is just a platform for creating affiliate sites and generating profits with them, which may not be totally undeserved. A well-maintained blog features frequent and new content, compared to traditional article style websites...

Imagine the following scenario… You open up your cellular telephone bill and you have been charged an astonishing $10,000 for last month’s activity. Convinced that there must be an error, you contact customer service to question the charges...

One of the keys to running a fruitful affiliate program lies in understanding that not only should there be a robust affiliate recruitment strategy in place, but also a continuous activation of the recruited affiliates into becoming producing affiliates...

The fifth issue of FeedFront Magazine is out and landing in mail boxes right now, so we’re on to issue 6. The next issue of FeedFront will be coming out in June 2009, and the deadline for articles for issue 6 of FeedFront is April 31, 2009...

Between the current financial climate and the holidays having just passed us, consumers are going to be less likely to make purchases. So affiliates should be considering what kinds of promotions to focus on in the coming months...

In October 2008, Affiliate Summit had a niche one day show at Baruch College in New York City focused on the different aspects of social media in affiliate marketing. Lots of exciting buzz around Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and making videos but how can you make money from them...

Using someone else’s trademarks for marketing purposes can pose legal risks for affiliates. Many trademark owners claim that such use is prohibited. However, it is not that simple. Affiliates can use another’s trademarks under certain conditions...

Back in the late nineties, it was not unusual to attend an affiliate marketing event (or any online marketing event for that matter) and see very few women in the room. Fast-forward ten years later and you’ll find that the opposite is true...

Issue 5 of FeedFront Magazine came in the mail to me yesterday. My kids broke out the wine in honor of the cover story, “Vintage Gary Vaynerchuk, where his keynote from Affiliate Summit West 2009 is excerpted. They actually had some boxed wine, but I let them hold bottles for the picture...

One of the most frustrating exercises for an Internet marketer can be the task of picking the right niche. In general, there are two ways to go about deciding on a niche for a Web site or blog, depending on the reason that the site was created...

With an ever growing number of publishers and bustling campaigns, affiliate managers are certainly busy people. Amongst the affiliate manager’s long list of concerns is affiliate fraud. Both click and CPA fraud are continual concerns in the affiliate marketing industry...