Archive for the ‘affiliate marketing’ Category

How To Find Good Affiliate Offers

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

There are a ton of affiliate offers out there. There is a lot of money to be made for sure. But scattered among the legitimate ones are the shady offers by companies who charge a lot of money for a much-less-than-awesome product, confuse the customers, withhold the actual amounts they will be charging, and make it nearly impossible to get your money back once you realize what’s happened.

As an affiliate marketer, you have to be responsible for what products you’re promoting, in the same way that you’d be responsible for items you sell in your own shop.

Online Direct Marketing & The New Visa MasterCard Merchant Account Rules

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
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As some of you may know the online marketing world has been through some crazy stuff the past few weeks. This all surrounds marketers who sell free trial and continuity offers (membership sites & monthly autoship offers). This also touches any business who cross-sells and up-sells products and services.

These rules impact other businesses like direct mail and telephone merchants!

It’s important you fully understand the impact of this on your business. Visa, Mastercard & the FTC are all making some big changes and these new rules have the possibility to hurt your business if you don’t understand them.