Have you tried the 300×600 unit on your site yet? I finally added it to one of my higher trafficked pages (within the content) just to see how it will pan out. The first week… I had deplorable click-thru rates and less-than-stellar earnings. I was tempted to take it down, but then I remembered a situation where the earnings got better with time so I decided to be patient. Next week… Earnings were up a bit and the click-thru rate...

Associate Programs Newsletter #548 This week we have an interview with another affiliate who has turned a hobby into a full-time affiliate business. Mother of four Kim Rowley loves shoes, shopping, fashion and couponing. She has turned the things she’s passionate about into a successful business. Our business writer, Kate Buckland, interviewed Kim about the things that make her successful. For busy people, I’ve added a Key Points summary. Here’s the interview… Couponing Hobby Becomes A Business ========================Unusual addition to...

What started as a longtime hobby turned into a full-time income and a prestigious affiliate marketing award for US based marketer Kim Rowley. A single mother of four from Nebraska, Kim was working in a doctor’s surgery when she began affiliate marketing and learned about web pages because a doctor she worked for “liked to talk computers” and bought her a book to help her learn HTML. She said she first learned about affiliate marketing when she realized there was...

The writing has been on the wall for some time and I could kick myself for not taking action sooner. Everyone’s been talking about the death of Google Reader and many are also speculating Feedburner is the next service to get the boot. Why? Well in case you didn’t know, last year Google abandoned the Feedburner Twitter feed, shut down AdSense for Feeds, and hasn’t put anything into the development or support of Feedburner for quite some time. So with...