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Amazon Says Bye Bye PPC Affiliate Marketer

Today, Amazon announced that they will no longer payout commissions to affiliates for users generated through pay per click search marketing. To take effect May 1st, if I am not mistaken.

Interesting move by Amazon, the “we do not need you anymore but thanks for helping us grow since day one” is unfortunate. However, as affiliate marketers know – the honeymoon never lasts forever.

I remember when Amazon first set up their affiliate marketing program. What a trailblazer they were and continue to be, let us hope not all affiliate programs will follow this latest move.

I wrote a Profiting Online eBook and it is Free

I decided to write an eBook about Profiting Online. It took a while and is 40 pages, meant to be an easy read and instructional. Why an eBook and not just posts on a site? While blogs are a great tool to easily publish information, they typically list the posts and articles in order of the most recent to the oldest, which does not convey information in a step by step instructional method.

Making Money Online eBook
I wrote this book for many reasons. Online technology, websites, services, tools, social media tools, social media sites, however you want to categorize the latest site or service you have seen changes almost daily. It can seem overwhelming. However if you peel the layers off of any web product or service and look at the business model, how they make money, they are all very similar.

Whether you are starting from scratch and do not have your own site, or have an existing site and looking or new marketing methods or ways to make money online, I hope you find this very useful.

Download your copy for free here

Background
You will see from my background that I have been involved with online businesses in many ways, from starting my own online businesses to assisting others. I spend a lot of time merely analyzing business models and I have learned, as will you, that every business needs to make money, period. I have heard many tell me about the great “idea” that they have, many of which are amazing, however the bottom line is the answer to the question “how are you going to make money?”.

If you have ever walked through and viewed the paper copies of patents in the Patent & Trademark Office you will be amazed at what you see and many times wonder “why is that not being marketed or sold today?” and in many cases the answer is that there is either no demand or it cannot be made and sold for a profit. However, all of them are very cool and amazing, but if they cannot make money they will typically not see the light of day. Let’s discuss money making.

How Online Businesses Make Money
There are two ways to make money with online businesses, either make money as part of your business model or your model is to build an amazing technology and hope to sell it to another business that will either monetize it or provide it for free as a value added service. I will not be discussing the “I will build this cool thing and then sell it later” approach, which is valid but not for discussion here.

In many ways this book, these instructions and explanations, may seem simplified however I have chosen to touch on every aspect from start to finish with step by step instructions so anyone can set up a site, promote it, drive traffic to it and generate income.

The other approach I could of taken would have been to go in depth into one area, however I would prefer to get you started and then you may use many of the online sites to explore and learn more about any one particular topic in detail.

Confused with Affiliate Marketing on Google?

Affiliate marketing can be very confusing, especially when you constantly receive a “disapproved” for your ad due to an “inaccurate display URL”.

LinkShare Affiliate Program

LinkShare has been around for years as an affiliate marketing provider. LinkShare aggregates affiliate programs so you do not have to sign up for multiple programs and hope that they pay you. All your reporting is in one area as well.

Make Money with LinkShare Affiliate Program

LinkShare is an affiliate program that allows you to have one common interface to multiple affiliate programs. LinkShare powers many companies affiliate programs, and allows affiliates to join and earn commissions. You can join for free.