Affiliate Marketing

It doesn’t matter if you’re new to the affiliate game or if you’re a seasoned super affiliate who’s been building, ranking and monetizing sites for years – you’re going to find value in the posts located in our Affiliate Marketing category. Though Outspoken Media stopped providing Affiliate Marketing services at the end of 2010, we still like to hope back into the conversation every so often and share our thoughts. When we do, this is the corner of the Outspoken Media blog where you can expect to find all the nuggets.

If you want to learn more about affiliate marketing, we recommend you get to know the folks over at Affiliate Summit. We love what they do and are always honored when we get the chance to speak at one of the Affiliate Summit conferences. With Missy Ward and Shawn Collins, you can’t go wrong.

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. And for [...]

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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, [...]

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