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Killer Tactics Journal - 16 Feb 2000 In this issue you will find: 1. Article: The Top Four Things Every Affiliate Should Be Doing *Right Now* 2. New App - Affiliate Assistant 1.0 --------------------------------- 1. The Top Four Things Every Affiliate Should Be Doing *Right Now* (Last week I wrote an article about testing your affiliate program advertising campaigns. I later realized that the article was a bit technical for most and probably went into more detail than necessary. Quite a few people wrote back and asked me to provide some simpler feedback that was a bit more general. Here it is.) Volumes have been written about what affiliate program managers can do to increase the effectiveness of their campaigns. Very little, however, has been written about what affiliates can do to make their participation in an affiliate program worthwhile. The bottom line is - they need to be earning money. Otherwise, it's just a waste of time. After observing and interviewing many of the successful affiliates I know, I was able to compile a list of things that are common to all of them. Every successful affiliate I watched did most, if not all, of these things. I have also come to the conclusion that these methods can be applied to any affiliate program - as long as the products are marginally good and the marketing efforts put forth by the company you are promoting are solid. Of course, if the products and marketing are superb, it helps your cause, but it doesn't seem to be a prerequisite. That is, some of these affiliate were promoting products that I thought weren't all that good - but they were still making money! (However, as a matter of personal integrity, I recommend only promoting products which you stand behind 100%.) Here is a list of what I found starting with the least important: To read the rest of this article, please visit: http://foreverweb.com/cgi-foreverweb/library_click.cgi?
2. Affiliate Assistant 1.0 Allan Gardyne called this "the most important tool ever for affiliates". Enough said? This little gem will allow you to increase the commissions you earn from *any* affiliate program. http://foreverweb.com/cgi-foreverweb/aa.cgi? Until next week, Mark Mark Joyner CEO, Aesop Marketing Corporation P. S. Would you like to share this newsletter with your friends or post it on your site? Please read below: The entire contents of this newsletter Copyright 2000 Aesop Marketing Corporation. Please feel free to share this newsletter with your friends or post it on your site as long as it is left intact with all links unchanged and this notice
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