I've mentioned this before, but this is a really important key point to success with affiliate marketing, so I thought I would give it a bit more attention. By very nature, as an affiliate marketer, it is your job to recommend products to others in hopes that they will buy them based on this. This is the concept of the pre-sell; you warm them up to the idea of buying, and let the merchant's sales page do the rest. This pre-sell has to be the focus of the entire page to ...

I discovered a really awesome tool that can take your affiliate marketing to a new level. There has been a lot of buzz going around lately in the IM community about how video is the future of marketing. While I'm not really sure this is true, there's no doubt that a video presentation can be another effective way to reach people. Of course, making videos can be a pain, and if you're like me, it's not something you really want to do. I don't have software for it, nor do I want to spend $299 bucks ...

Cloaking your affiliate links is a fairly debatable topic. On the one hand, people will cloak their affiliate links because they believe that a link like www.buybuybuy.com/affiliate.php?id=12312 is really obvious, and people will instead just go directly to the site instead of clicking on the link, therefore robbing you of your commission. On the other hand, some people believe it's more honest and better to fully disclose your affiliate links and let the visitors choose whether they want to give you a commission or not. The Yimto Verdict?

Photoshop is my foe. Always has been, always will be. That, and my nemesis, CSS, are my two most hated aspects of affiliate marketing. Sure, dirt ugly websites can sell, but everyone knows a nicer one has much better chances. So, today I bring you an easy little tip that is sort of a spin off of my 8 Great Ways to Increase Affiliate Link Clickthroughs. A rollover button can really entice your viewers to click. When their mouse hovers over it, it changes. That totally catches their attention. Here is a really easy tutorial on how to ...

As an affiliate marketer, your MAIN goal is to get potential customers to the merchant's sales page, where you earn your commissions. If you've chosen the right affiliate program, their sales pages have already been optimized to have the best conversion rates possible, so really you want to get as many people there as possible. Of course getting people to click on your links can be tricky. Chances are they are not simply going to click on your links AND buy your affiliates' products simply because you tell them! You need to warm them up to the idea ...