mfishy - 3:20 pm on Apr 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

I know often I see aff marketing through an entirely different perspective than most, but have made it work pretty well for a long time, so take this for what it's worth...

1. Affiliate managers are largely meaningless to me as an affiliate. Their purpose is to recruit and maintain affiliates for the merhcant. However, there is nothing they can say or do if the conversions suck. Support is nice to have, though rarely needed.

2. If you can rank on Se's for competetive terms, you dont need to know anything. Jut get a nice "click here" link and you will get rich.

3. The "secret" or 1% niches IME are ones where there is no affiliate programs, but private deals are struck.

4. For the beginners, even the most competetive areas may have a lot of "fringe" traffic where you can pick around the edges. before you start selling shower curtain rings, think hard about whether you can bulld enough traffic in the niches you are looking at or whether you could get the 2 leads a day in say, finance that pay $130 total....

good luck to all.