CTO, PHP Programmer, Affiliate Marketer & IT Consultant
Even though it’s now a month later, I wanted to write about my experiences as a first-time rider on Amtrak.
This has nothing to do with affiliate marketing (except I took the train to an affiliate conference) so if you’re looking for marketing tips, stop reading now.
Affiliate Summit is just a couple of months away, and one of the frustrating things I hear people complaining about is that they bought the wrong pass.
affiliatesummit.com describes the differences, but maybe this will help you visualize what you’re getting, and what you’re missing out on:
I know a lot of my posts are rather technical, but this one is a bit different. I’m going to show you an affiliate website that anyone can build, and walk you through exactly how I did it.
First, you need a niche. I’ve covered this before, How to Choose an Affiliate Offer to Promote. For this site, it was all about a love (some may say obsession) I have with Christmas and the movie, A Christmas Story.
I met with A Christmas Story House at the recent ShareASale ThinkTank, which boosted this project to the top of my list. (Hear that, merchants? When you meet with affiliates face-to-face, you become a priority to them). What resulted from this meeting is Buy Leg Lamps.
Previously, ThinkTank was by invitation only, and everything but your travel to the event was covered by ShareASale. This time around, they opened it up to everybody, charged a whopping $50 for the event, and you were on your own for mostly everything else.
Was it worth it? Most definitely.
Google announced the availability of +1 today, and gives you the code to add +1 to your website. But if you’re using Thesis, how can you add it to your posts?
I have buttons to Tweet my posts, like them on Facebook, and Stumble them, and I wanted to add +1.