Affiliate Reviews
Affiliate Applications – pending after 3 months
In another of my series of posts about the length of time it takes for some merchants to review and approve or deny applications to their programs, I have today noticed that an application with Staples on buy.at has now been outstanding for nearly 3 months… good job I do not really want to promote [...]
Application accepted over 2 months after application
Following on from my frustrated post about the length of time taken for merchants/networks to accept affiliate applications I have just got an acceptance by a merchant more than two months after I applied. I could name and shame but I am feeling in rather a better mood than I did when I last posted [...]
Affiliate Window – Payment Status Traffic Light System
Affiliate window have this week launched what they are calling a ‘Payment Status Traffic Light System’ It is a system designed to indicate how good a merchant is at paying out commissions. Which in these troubled economic times is a vital bit of information for an affiliate. The traffic light colours have the following meaning: [...]
Length of time for approval on merchants
It is beginning to frustrate me waiting to be approved (or denied) on merchants affiliate programmes. With the many projects I am working on, I make daily applications to different merchants for different things, this evening I have gone through my four main networks, Trade Doubler, Affiliate Window, Affiliate Future and Buy.at and reviewed how [...]
Affiliates requiring a certain demographic
Yesterday an email came through from one of the affiliate programs I market. You know the ones, changes in terms, changes in commission structures, more often than not reducing the amount of commission they are giving. The have the right to do this as much as we have the right to stop selling their products [...]
How to make money online from selling your Photographs
Photography is a great passion of mine, a hobby which I try to engage in as much as I can. Unfortunatly due to work and Business commitments my time for photography is limited to holidays. Never the less, recently I have identified a way to combine, my making money onine word with my photography hobby. This [...]
Amazon Affiliate Sales and Orders Reporting
I currently have several projects marketing products from Amazon, indeed in the past this very blog has promoted books that I have read and recommend. with the recent success of Great Hampers, many of the sales are via Amazon, and looking back at the stats it seems that users are very interested in a specific [...]
PayPerPost for Bloggers
I have just signed up for the PayPerPost service, which allows bloggers like you and me to earn money from writing reviews and posts on their blogs. I signed up this evening because I had a spare 5 minutes and decided to look into the whole payed per post and reviewed post angle of affiliate [...]
Problems with getting approved for Google Adsense
I applied to join Google Adsense for this site and what do you know I was rejected. Apparently this site does not meet their approval criteria… no other information than that. Seems to me rather a silly decision, firstly this is a site that looks at affiliate and online marketing, and reviews and recommends services which include [...]
GetAFreelancer.com Review
I have used GetAFreelancer.comseveral times in different projects, and it occurred to me that it maybe of interest to people in the Affiliate industry. Lets admit it right from the start, we cant all be an expert in every aspect of our industry and there are times that it may be prudent to get a [...]