Custom Linking on LinkShare, ShareASale & Commission Junction

An affiliate emailed me the following question about a program run on an affiliate network: I’d like you to send me a custom text link that I can modify as necessary — the html...

3 Steps to Take Yourself from Good to Great

In a good economy, you can do reasonably well with “good enough.” Good enough design, good enough marketing, good enough skills. When demand is high and dollars are sloshing...

ShoeMoney Scam? Shoemoney ?’s Ep. 3

Promoting Facebook Apps For Big Reliable Money

As you probably know by now, I'm a huge fan of Facebook as a traffic source, BUT... Facebook is uber sketchy! Now I'm going to help you simplify your Facebook campaigns so you can...

Affiliates Who Fake URLs

Today I’ve had Caterpillar apply into an affiliate program I manage. At least so it looked from the URL on the application. Had it happened 5 or 6 years ago I would have probably e...

Announcing the Prose Theme for WordPress

You may have seen recently that we merged StudioPress, creator of the powerful Genesis theme framework, into Copyblogger Media. Why did we do it? I can sum it up for you in a sin...

What Affiliate Program Managers Affiliates Want

Earlier today, Shawn Collins has published a long list of comments left by affiliates in response to 2010 AffStat encouragement for affiliates to share their “complaints, ideas, su...

7 Tips for an Authentic and Productive Writing Process

Does this sound familiar? You’re sitting in front of your laptop, staring at a blank screen. The deadline for the article you need to write is approaching, and you’re struggli...

The Accidental Millionaires

This is the October ShoeMoney Newsletter. I normally never repost them here, but this one got such a good response I decided to post it. When my father dropped out of high school...

Value-Added Affiliate Marketing – Domai.nr Case

Yesterday I discovered a cool tool, tweeted about it, and obviously wasn’t the only one who loved the idea: So what exactly does Domai.nr do? It helps you search for domain...