Time for our weekly help desk column.

Hi Lynette, My website is www.create-a-mural.com I started it about 6 years age is doing well. I am having a problem with understanding how to address: Todays internet marking with an older website.

1-Adding “Bookmark with the little icons

2-I have 2 different providers for my website & my email list making them flow better.

3-Adding a blog (rss feed?) -Do you do business consultation? - Camille

Heya Camille,

What fun and lovely murals. Your site is a classic online store and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. What you need is not to add all these bookmarks to the site because when people are there, you want them to focus on buying.

But I do see where having a blog to compliment the site would be very beneficial. There are so many things to blog about in your line. You can share ideas, talk about

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Does it ever bother you when you score an affiliate sale but can’t tell what it was you sold for the seller? It irks me to death. Usually, this happens when a merchant uses a system where they can sell and manage multiple products. That’s pretty smart of them. Keep everything under one roof. Easier management.

But as an affiliate, I would really appreciate some data. I don’t care so much for customer name and email - although that is nice. Tracking affiliate sales is already difficult. As an affiliate, we do not have access to the sales thank you page so we cannot track our conversions. So the next best thing is the product name.

Actually it is kinda sad. Some of the biggest, most popular and established shopping cart systems don’t do that. Affiliate marketing is rather mature now and this is a simple thing to implement.

Thankfully, the system we use (Fantasos) does show affiliates what

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Hi Lynette, My husband and I are setting up a website that we wil be using for a variety of purposes, including affiliate marketing and selling our own information products. 

We’d like to set up a blog and I’m not sure what the difference is between using WordPress, and using a product like Blogger, because with Blogger you can still host it on your own url, and you have the Blogger community access as it were (I have used Blogger briefly in the past, but not WP). 

Another question we have is we know we need a mailing list, and a way to delivery our info products. I’ve taken a quick peek at your WAHMCart, would it integrate with an existing website, or is it the entire website? We have a start up at http://www.quiverfullfamily.com if you want to take a peek, it’s just a skeleton right now. 

We used to sell physical products

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