Affiliate Marketing

Interested in becoming a top player in the affiliate marketing game?  Stools are on the left; grab on. You're gonna be here a while.

Below you’ll find all of Outspoken's posts dedicated to the subject of affiliate marketing.  The affiliate game has changed considerably over the past few years and no one is better qualified to give you the tools you need to succeed in today's market than Outspoken Media.

Over time, this section will be built out to include timeless resources and comprehensive guides to educate marketers on the top branding strategies specific to affiliate sites, how to build out and monetize an affiliate site, how to create a commission structure, how to evaluate affiliate programs, and more.  This is information you won't find anywhere else, so we highly recommend you bookmark this page and check back often.

For real.

While we take the time to build up our arsenal, we humbly point you to some of our favorite blog posts and resources on affiliate marketing.  We think you'll find them useful, too.

When you're done reading and ready to act, contact us about our affiliate marketing consulting services.  When it comes to the affiliate game, there's no one who can take your site and brand further than us.

5 things that make my affiliate life easier

August 13, 2009
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It’s not a secret that one of my companies publishes affiliate websites. We utilize what I consider an evolved method of building affiliate sites and monetizing them primarily via affiliate marketing.
And creating evolved sites means trying to find evolved affiliate programs to work with so you can make the most money possible.
If you’re a merchant [...]

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Profiting off Sponsored Conversations

July 27, 2009
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If you weren’t tied to the blogosphere this weekend, you may have missed two very interesting conversations taking place on two very different and reputable blogs. Brian Solis started a sensible conversation about full disclosure for sponsored tweets on TechCrunch, while Chris Brogan looked at brand relationships in his post Quid Pro No. The issues [...]

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Evolve or Die? Amazon.com Chooses To Die

July 7, 2009
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Over the past few years, big business has had to learn that you can’t bully people into doing what you want. The social Web has changed things and we can no longer force customers to come to us. We need to go where they are. To embrace that. To evolve with the times. [...]

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Are Affiliate Links Unethical Without Disclosure?

May 15, 2009
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Time to break out our ethic sticks!
Jeremiah Owyang says that when it comes to affiliate links on Twitter it’s all about intent. To make sure you’re playing inside the lines of what’s “ethical” in social media, you need to exercise of strategy of disclosure, full transparency and yet even more disclosure. Over at Econsultancy, Patricio [...]

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