5 Tips for Affiliate Marketing Beginners

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What’s one of the most reliable ways to earn an income online?

If done right, affiliate marketing is a hard model to beat.

Problem is, there’s a lot of bad (and unethical) advice out there on how to approach it. So, I’ve invited Sonia Simone and Jessica Commins to jump on the line today to counter that bad advice, and offer their best strategies for effective, ethical, and profitable Affiliate Marketing.

Where do you begin? How do you attract customers? What are the pros and cons of various Affiliate Marketing business plans? How do you make money by building a loyal audience?

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Introducing The Lede: A Copywriting and Online Marketing Sheet

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Welcome to The Lede.

Every week I’ll be digging up and linking to stories, news, and opinion relevant to online marketing and copywriting.

Email, social media, innovation, SEO, productivity, mobile, conversion, publishing, and everything in between.

No commentary, just a fast, single page of headlines that you can grab, scan, and squeeze for all they may (or may not) be worth.

All right then, on with it …

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Why Split-Testing is Like Sex in High School

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Everybody’s talking about it.

Most of it is rumor, hearsay, and innuendo …

We idolize the exploits of the people we look up to, and try to skirt the mention of our own experiences (and shortcomings).

No, I’m not talking about sex — I’m talking about split-testing.

What does split-testing have to do with sex?

Actually, quite a lot…

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Why The New FTC Guidelines
May Become Your Best Friend

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If you’ve read the Federal Trade Commission’s new 81-page Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, you might think the FTC is a really nice bunch of guys trying to do the right thing by consumers — which, for the most part, is true.

And yet, I just don’t think they give most consumers enough credit.

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Join the Freelance “X” Factor
Affiliate Program

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Whether or not the Freelance “X” Factor course is right for you, it might be of interest to your audience. So, after making sure everything is running smoothly over the last 4 days, we’re opening up the affiliate program to Copyblogger readers.

The program is with E-junkie, and the commission is 50% of the $87 sales price.

Sign up for the affiliate program here.

And if you’re interested in the course itself, there are still a few spots open for the 3 bonus Q&A calls. Check out the details and hop on board.

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How to Turn Affiliate Marketing Disclosure
Into a Selling Point

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The big news yesterday?

Blogging is finally being taken seriously.

The Federal Trade Commission announced that they will begin going after bloggers – as well as the companies that compensate them – for any false claims or failure to disclose compensation, free gifts, and other conflicts of interest.

This isn’t really a surprise.

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