From the category archives:

Affiliate Marketing

Customizing BANS

March 29, 2008

I’ve been using the BANS software (Build a Niche Store) for the past couple of months to quickly and easily create eBay sites that are automatically populated with the categories, sub-categories, and product listings from eBay. I had been wanting to diversify my income stream, which was coming primarily from AdSense. BANS is only $97, [...]

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Selling Cafe Press Products

January 21, 2008

In my continuing efforts to expand the diversity of my income from various sources, I have just set up a couple of Cafe Press stores: St. Patrick’s Day t-shirts for Masons and St. Patrick’s Day t-shirts for Shriners. I’m promoting these on the Masonic Memorabilia site, which is getting a surprising amount of organic [...]

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Commission Junction’s "Program Performance"

January 16, 2008

Last month I started adding eBay listings to some of my web sites, and since then I’ve seen an increase in the number and frequency of my commissions from Commission Junction. I’m not earning very much from CJ; I still make a lot more from AdSense. But it’s nice seeing those commissions come in on [...]

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Time Out: It’s Not Just For Kids

January 14, 2008

Doing affiliate marketing through Commission Junction’s affiliate network has made me a little bit of money. Nothing to write home about, but enough that I can see the potential.
Commission Junction is one of the biggest and best-known (if not the biggest and best-known) of the affiliate networks out there.
So I just don’t understand why [...]

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Used Tennis Shoes on eBay

January 11, 2008

I’ve been running affiliate links on a few of my websites for the past few months. I’ve been promoting well-targeted products from reputable, well-known merchants who should have a high level of name recognition and trust from my target demographics. I’ve had lots of click-throughs to the merchant sites, but not that much in the [...]

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