Some of you already know that Alice Seba and myself will be holding a Blogging Bootcamp for Internet Marketers on March 3rd - just a few days to go! That will be a 4 week intensive program. Very quickly, the bootcamp will help you:

1. Understand your audience, defining your target, writing just for your audience and so on.
2. Establish a blogging routine and give you ideas for blogging material
3. How to build a blog that sells. Building a good blog is great but if it doesn’t generate income, it’s only a hobby. Contradictory to what many tell you, you can ’sell’ through your blog. But the ’selling’ process is different and requires a lot more finesse.
4. How to promote your blog for bigger, better traffic

That’s it in a nutshell. Lot’s more planned. Knowing Alice, she’ll work hard - and make me work super hard for your benefit. Get on the priority notification list

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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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