What To Expect From Affiliate Marketing in 2006

The December issue of the Affiliate Classroom Magazine focuses on what to expect from affiliate marketing in 2006.

This issue covers:
* Future of Affiliate Marketing...
* How search has influenced affiliate marketing in 2005
* Top technologies for affiliates in 2005
* Tired of SEO? Brad Callen talks about how to make it easier…
* Who won the AC Thanksgiving Competition?!

This FREE, professionally produced, monthly magazine is available in three formats:
1. The beautiful magazine PDF
2. Our printable (text only) PDF
3. A zip file of both

Subscribe now for the AC affiliate marketing course and receive your free, monthly Affiliate Marketing Magazine: http://tinyurl.com/ar9ta

Merry Christmas from Downunder

Merry Christmas from Australia

Ron Passfield
Affiliate Marketing Coach


(Photo - Courtesy of Bill Ockendon)

Affiliate Marketing: Why Go It Alone?

One of the advantages I have found with the Affiliate Classroom is that I have been able to develop a learning partnership with my affiliates.

The Affiliate Classroom provides all the up-to-date resources for affiliate marketing - success case studies, tutorials, step-by-step coaching approach, niche product profiles, conference calls and interviews with leading affiliate marketers and an e-marketing library with software and ebooks.

I have been able to add value to these offerings by engaging my affiliate members in a learning partnership. What this means is that we share what we learn through the Affiliate Classroom as well as our other resources. We also provide supportive critiques of each other's articles, websites, strategies, etc. In this way, we are able to help each other focus and develop an integrated approach to what we are trying to achieve with affiliate marketing.

Sometimes the solution is right in front of you but you need another pair of eyes and another brain to help you see it. I think "two heads are better than one" in affiliate marketing. You also need someone who is willing to ask you questions to test your assumptions about your approach.

We have been able to use the free voice over internet service provided by Skype.com as part of our strategy for exploring the way forward together.

The approach underlying my coaching strategy is known as "action learning".

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Ron Passfield, PhD, affiliate marketing coach, is developing his affiliate business through the step-by-step coaching offered by the Affiliate Classroom:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270

Enrol in the Affiliate Classroom's FREE affiliate marketing course today:
http://tinyurl.com/ar9ta

Paul Colligan talks about Podcasting for Affiliates

Anik Singal of the Affiliate Classroom recently interviewed Paul Colligan about the use of podcasting for affiliates.

Paul is a widely recognized expert in a new exploding industry - podcasting. He explains how he uses podcasting to generate several streams of income.

In the interview (recorded as an mp3 file), Paul maintains that the real benefit of podcasting lies in the ability to catch a person's attention for a concentrated period of time. Typically people listen to podcasts on their iPods or mp3 players when they are travelling in their car, on the train or bus, or at the gym. People will spend up to 20 minutes of dedicated time listening to a podcast but only 20 seconds on an email.

Paul covers the following topics in his extensive interview:

• How affiliates use Podcasting
• How to start with podcasting
  
• What equipment you can use - free and paid sources of equipment/software
  
• Where to broadcast your podcast - the best podcast directories
• Will podcast replace ezines?
• The power of podcasting
• Paul Colligan's many podcasts -tools for podcasting, affiliate reviews
• Podcasting for niche marketing
• How to market premium (paid subscription) podcasting
• The "must do's" and "things to avoid" when podcasting
• The future of podcasting

You can access free open source software for podcasting at:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

You can access Paul Colligan's interview and the Affiliate Classroom case studies, tutorials, marketing library, niche product profiles, conference calls and unique step-by-step coaching, by taking the $1 trial:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270

Find Your Niche - Get Niche Product Profiles

The Affiliate Classroom provides numerous Niche Product Profiles

Each Niche Product Profile gives you these details:

• Company
• Niche
• Company Background
• Description
• Commission Type
• Target Market
• Marketing Plan/Ideas
• Pros
• Cons
• Competing Merchants
• Other Relevant Information
• Our Recommendations
• Our Rating (1-10)

Niches enable you to focus your energy, your spending and your marketing. By focusing on a niche product you can learn the best way to market that product and how to develop an integrated marketing approach. You can also learn how to dominate a niche. The Affiliate Classroom has done the research for you and offers marketing plans/ideas for each niche product.

You can FIND YOUR NICHE by taking the Affiliate Classroom $1 trial:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270