I got this question from a member of my online mastermind group of affiliate marketers:
I’m encountering the following barrier:

Whenever I wish to review products/brands offered on a new affiliate
partner site, I cannot view them unless I sign up.  To do that, I need
an active website with a history of traffic and relevance.  I have one
site [...]

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I just got an email from my account rep at the Hydra Affiliate Network (http://www.hydranetwork.com/) who announced they will conclude 2009 with $100 Million in revenue.
Congratulations to Hydra Media!
I always find it amazing that many affiliates have never ever heard of this network…while it quietly generates 100 Million in revenue each year!

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You may not know that when Dave and I got started
with our businesses we were complete computer
idiots. We painfully struggled to do the simplest
tasks. We quite literally had to build our
businesses from scratch.
Even when we figured out enough to bang out a
basic website, we still struggled because we had
no idea what to promote on our [...]

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We had a great group for our seminar in Chicago this year.
Where else can you learn about Affiliate Marketing, network with some of the brightest minds in the industry, AND have a bonding experience like this?

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We get this question quite a bit. I discovered that people are totally clueless when it comes to getting started.
Unfortunately, rather than focus on one topic, new affiliates often put up sites with dozens of completely unrelated offers (it’s probably not a good idea to sell web hosting and adult toys on the same site [...]

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I love Google Adwords.
I love Yahoo! sponsored search.
I love the price I pay with Yahoo! sponsored search even more!
I have always found the click costs are way less expensive in Yahoo! as compared to Google. Lower CPA’s, bid prices, great customer support are all reasons I love Yahoo! and am always sitting in their corner [...]

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Lots of people ask about the health of the credit card affiliate market. So few people have good enough credit to get cards these days, banks are tightening lending, and fewer people have jobs. All of these things may have certainly changed the industry. It is different. The easy money is not as easy but [...]

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This morning I got an email from my rep at The Hydra Network. I learned they have now included the new (vague and ambiguous) FTC guidelines on testimonials into their terms and conditions.
This means that ignoring those guidelines could get your affiliate account suspended and/or forfeit your commissions! Ouch!
Here are the new ts and [...]

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We got this question in response to our new traffic tele-seminar last week:

Great tele-session, good info. Took a look at the two sites you mentioned.. Are they basically the same as the linkshare and shareasale links I got from your program? Basically sign up with them and get your advertisers through them? How many of [...]

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I am thrilled that Yahoo! is now allowing advertisers to employ search retargeting. This allows you to show ads to people you know are interested in your product or service. The way it is explained makes me think of it like CPV traffic on steroids withOUT the annoying intrusive pop-ups.
Yahoo! already provides a lower [...]

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