How I Vet an Affiliate Program Before It Goes in a Post
Most advice on how to choose an affiliate program is a list of programs. A list tells you where other people earn commissions.
Where My First 100 Email Subscribers Came From, and How You Can Get Yours Without Paying for Ads
Most advice on how to get your first 100 email subscribers is a list of tactics with no way to tell which one is working for you.
I Swapped One Thing at a Time on My Affiliate Posts, and Here Are the Conversion Numbers
There is no single change that reliably raises an affiliate conversion rate, because the answer depends on the post, the reader and the product.
The Hosting I Actually Use for My Affiliate Site, and the Speed and Uptime Numbers Behind It
Affiliate income depends on a reader trusting your recommendation enough to click, and a site that loads slowly or goes offline weakens that trust before…
The Email Tools I Actually Use to Run My List, and What I’d Skip as a Beginner
If you are searching for the best email marketing software for beginners, you will find long comparison tables with dozens of rows.
The Affiliate Mistakes That Quietly Kill Your Conversions (and How to Audit Your Own Posts)
You check your dashboard and the numbers say the links are being clicked. The commission column stays at zero or close to it.
How to Build a Brand That Outlasts Your Affiliate Links
Search for almost any affiliate product and you will find dozens of near-identical pages: a feature list, a pros and cons box, a button.
Why Your Landing Page Isn’t Getting Opt-Ins, and the 7 Fixes to Make First
If your opt-in page gets visitors but few sign-ups, the cause is usually one of a handful of problems, and they can be checked in a sensible order.
High Ticket vs Low Ticket Affiliate Marketing: Which Model Fits Your Time, Budget and Traffic
Affiliate marketing beginners often pick between two kinds of products before they have published anything: cheap items that pay a small commission and…
What to Automate in Your Affiliate Business, and What to Keep Doing by Hand
Affiliate income usually starts with manual work: you write a post, share a link, answer a question in a comment thread, and now and then someone buys.