When you first start a business, money is tight and you might feel that you need to do everything yourself – even things you’re lousy at or frankly, just despise doing.

From handling all your own designing, writing sales copy, managing client relations, managing the sales process, fulfilling products or services, running office errands, bookkeeping and more, you can quickly become overwhelmed and burnt out.

But most importantly, with only so many hours in the given entrepreneurial day, you will be hard-pressed to achieve the success you dreamed of when starting your business if you get bogged down in all of the details.

That was me 10 years ago when it came to designing my affiliate sites. Not only were they visual train wrecks, but much to my dismay, they were taking way too much time to have them turn out that way.

So what did I do? I went out and purchased a different design program and spent many hours learning how to use it, but it didn’t help my sites look any better. I then paid someone for three hours of their time to tutor me until I knew that program inside and out. After countless hours of wasted time and a bunch of wasted money, I realized that no design program was going to help me. I was just an awful designer and I hated every minute I spent doing anything design-related.

At that point, I realized that I was thinking too small and could either spin my wheels in hopes of getting ahead, or hire a good designer that would enable me to concentrate on the things that I do best.

My biggest fear was that I was going to break the bank by hiring someone to help me. But, I quickly found a few designers through recommendations that helped with site skeletons that I could build upon, that didn’t cost an arm and a leg.

Today, there are many more cost-effective options to find folks to help you with design, coding, writing, SEO, social media marketing and more with sites such as Fiverr.com, Goferr.com, Elance.com and Odesk.com, to name a few.

You first need to figure out what you can delegate, so I recommend taking a week and writing down everything that you do. I mean everything!

Then, at the end of the week, take that list divide it into two categories:

1. What *you* could only do, and
2. What someone else is capable of doing for you

Once you find assistants who can handle what you are able to delegate, and probably do it better than you, you’ll be able to concentrate on the brainstorms and the revenue-generating projects that will help you succeed.

Missy is a Co-founder of Affiliate Summit, Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine, and blogs on MissyWard.com.

Download the entire FeedFront issue 16 here – http://www.scribd.com/doc/69193074/FeedFront-Magazine-Issue-16

FeedFront issue 16 articles can be found here as well: http://feedfront.com/archives/article00date/2011/10

When I first started attending affiliate marketing events back in 2000, there were very few women in the audience.

Fast-forward 11 years later and you will find that the very opposite is true.

The AffStat Special Report: Women in Affiliate Marketing 2011 contains survey data from nearly 300 companies. Below are some highlights of the data from the report.

More specific statistics segmented by business category can be found in the full report which can be downloaded for free at feedfront.com/affstatwomen2011.

I am proud to be part of a forward-thinking industry that is overflowing with women — a large portion of which hold management and ownership positions.

Missy is Co-founder of Affiliate Summit, Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine and Co-Publisher of ReveNews.com.

Question: What percentage of employees in your company are women?

Download the entire FeedFront issue 15 here – http://www.scribd.com/doc/61379014/FeedFront-Magazine-Issue-15

FeedFront issue 15 articles can be found here as well: http://feedfront.com/archives/article00date/2011/09

Lately, I’ve received more and more requests to recommend “a social media marketing expert” (their words, not mine) to help create and manage their company’s social media strategy. Overall, it appears that the bulk of the people that have asked, have not been too keen on their existing expert.

Many have even felt duped by the firm they hired. After looking at a couple of the choices, it’s easy to see how the companies might feel deceived, based on the fact that they’ve hired self-proclaimed “experts” who I remember claiming to be experts in something else just a year ago.

A while back, I asked readers of my blog to provide some suggestions on red flags folks should look for when interviewing social media marketing companies. Here are some of their comments I received on my blog, Facebook and Twitter:

“When their email address is @gmail, @msn or @yahoo instead of a “real” company address. If you can’t set up branded email, I doubt you can test, measure and optimize social media campaigns.” – Anne Holland, WhichTestWon.com

“When the first thing they talk about for Social Media is Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.” – Patrick Allmond, AllAboutFocus.com

“When the expert negotiates their consulting fee in free food. If they don’t know how to command proper pay for their services, how are you to expect that they know how to generate actual tangible revenue for you?”- Lori Miller, Twitter.com/PokerVixen

“When you look at their Twitter account and it states they joined Twitter six months ago.” – Karen Rocks, SparkFireMarketing.com

“When they can only talk tools (Facebook, Twitter) and not strategy; when they talk nothing but buzzwords like “engagement, metrics, authenticity” without context.” – Davina Brewer, 3HatsCommunications.com

“When you can’t find anything about them on Google and their site is nothing more than a price sheet splash page.” – Anastasia Hilinsky, HilinskyConsulting.com

“When they talk in %’s instead of real numbers… 200% growth in Fans! (From 4 to 11)” – Kevin Webster, LevelAnalytics.com

“When they neither have an outline, nor a clear plan on how they will promote your business through Social Media” – Geno Prussakov, AMNavigator.com

“When they don’t inventory your current communication channels, know what UGC stands for and have never used PickFu.” – Pat Grady, RhinoFish.com

“If the social media expert insists that you can’t measure the ROI on Social Media, chances are, they don’t know what they’re doing.” – Derek Halpern, SocialTriggers.com

“When you search for the company name on Twitter (or any social media channel) and get no results.” – Sharon Mostyn, SharonMostyn.com

“When you also see them in forums complaining that they can’t get any traffic and are thinking of giving up.” – Malcolm McDonough, PregnantByDesign.com

“When they call themselves a social media expert in the first place.” – Josh Todd, InsideAffiliate.net

Unfortunately, I couldn’t fit all of the comments here, but you can read them at www.missyward.com/NotAnSMExpert.
There are a lot of great firms out there, and it is my hope this will help separate the wheat from the chaff.

Missy is the Co-Founder of Affiliate Summit, Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine and manages MoneyMindedMoms.com.

Download the entire FeedFront issue 13 here – http://www.scribd.com/doc/45332687/FeedFront-Magazine-Issue-13
FeedFront issue 13 articles can be found here as well: http://feedfront.com/archives/article00date/2010/12a>

For the third year in a row, Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back took to the streets with their feet to do their part to fight breast cancer; this time during the 39 mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Los Angeles.

This year’s team consisted of Brook Schaaf of Schaaf Consulting, Chris Pearson of DIYThemes, Melissa Salas of Buy.com, Kevin Strawbridge of DealTaker.com, Lynette LaPlante a 1-year survivor and Team Captain, Missy Ward of Affiliate Summit and Founder of AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com.

After months of fun and sometimes whacky fund raising activities, Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back blew past their goal and raised nearly $53,000, earning as them the #5 highest fundraising team spot overall.
Day 1 started at 5:30am for team as they geared up and headed on the bus for the Opening Ceremony. After some stretching and motivational words, we set forth on our 26.2 mile walk for the day which would take us through panoramic waterfronts, charming neighborhoods, Pacific Coast Highway and the tree-lined parks of Long Beach and Seal Beach.

We loaded up on healthy snacks and hydrated roughly every two miles at the welcoming rest stops. We were doing great until the blisters started setting in and spent lunch wrapping all injured toes with mole skin.
Miles 20-26 were the roughest. All of the hours of walking were finally taking their toll. But watching some of the women at the cheering stations that were currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer along with survivors encouraging us on gave us the motivation to keep on trucking.

The first day ended at Wellness Village, located in El Dorado Park, where many of the 1,800 walkers had dinner and snuggled up in their tents. Our team however, went directly out for a victory dinner at the Grill Restaurant in the Westin Hotel, sans showers. (That could have been the reason why they kept us away from the other diners.)

After sitting down for an hour or so for dinner, it was very difficult to get back up. We clearly provided entertainment value to the employees as they laughed at our stiff waddling leaving the restaurant.

All of us were out cold before 9pm as we knew that 13 more miles were ahead of us in the morning.

Day 2 started out rough for us. All of our muscles were hurting and blisters were oozing, but we knew that the day was only half as long as the Day 1 and we were determined to finish.

We blew past a number of rest-stops out of fear that if we sat for even just one minute, we’d never get going again. With the Queen Mary in sight, our finish line, we drummed up the final burst of energy to make it to the end. Amazingly, even with stopping for a relaxing lunch and a couple of pit-stops, we finished up today’s half-marathon in less than five hours.

We were all excited to learn that the walk that we participated in this weekend raised a total of 4.6 million dollars to support five areas of the breast cancer cause, including: awareness and education; screening and diagnosis, access to treatment; support services and scientific research.

I am proud of my team and I thank them so much for volunteering their time. I’m also very grateful to all of our sponsors and supporters who helped us reach our fundraising goal.

To view our exciting journey or find out more about participating in the 2010 walk, please visit www.AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com

Missy Ward is the Co-Founder of Affiliate Summit, Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine and Founder of AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com

Download the entire FeedFront issue 8 here – http://www.scribd.com/doc/20220412/FeedFront-Magazine-Issue-8
FeedFront issue 8 articles can be found here as well: http://feedfront.com/archives/article00date/2009/10

Loren Feldman is the Founder and President of 1938 Media, which helps companies develop a sound internet strategy and communicate their messages through videos. His entertaining and sometimes biting videos razzing on the tech industry, (often featuring a puppet or two) have become cult favorites.

FeedFront’s Co-Editor-in-Chief, Missy Ward, recently talked with Loren about creating compelling videos, what prompted him to create puppet videos about the tech industry, and the “shock-jock” persona he portrays on the internet.

Missy: Tell us a little bit about what you were doing before you created 1938Media and how you landed into this crazy industry. What is the story of the 1938Media name and what is the goal of the company?

Loren: I was a struggling actor and comedian in Los Angeles. I came back to NY and started ’38. We originally built Web sites, but switched to video production about a year or so in. The name comes from when I started the company. I was 38 and my Creative Director was 19. The goal of the company is to help companies communicate their message via video and sound Web strategy.

Missy: A lot of people know you for your sometimes acerbic videos mocking the tech industry. Tell us how you came up with the idea to do these.

Loren: I come from a comic background so it just seemed natural to me. Plus let’s be honest, there is quite a bit to mock. The whole thing happened very organically.

Missy: How about the Audience Conference. Tell me a little more about why you are starting that conference series and what it’s all about.

Loren: It’s a mixture of my friends from various industries. Tech, bloggers, the arts, affiliate marketers. We all have something in common and that is to be able to reach and engage an audience. So, I figured lets all get together have some fun and see if we can learn what we all have in common and how we can take things from each discipline.

Missy: What has been the highlight and lowlight of your career thus far?

Loren: Highlights would include the friends I’ve made; lowlights would be people judging me based on a character I play in videos.

Missy: What are some of your personal goals?

Loren: I’d like to get off the Web one day, but I don’t see that happening soon. So, I guess I’ll just keep making the best videos I can to help clients or entertain viewers.

Missy: What do you believe is the largest hurdle that social media faces?

Loren: People truly being honest with each other. True transparency comes at a price that many don’t want to pay.

Missy: Any advice for people that want to get started using video in their marketing efforts?

Loren: Just try and be as natural as possible, and don’t underestimate sound. The most important thing is to just be yourself.

Missy: Complete this sentence: Social Media was _________ two years ago, but now it is all ________.

Loren: Social Media was innocent two years ago, but now it is all business.

Missy: What is your favorite Web site today and why?

Loren: I like techmeme.com. It’s quick, current, and gives me the info I need.

Missy: If your life can be summed up in a song, what would it be?

Loren: “Misguided Angel” by Cowboy Junkies. It’s about a nice guy who’s misunderstood. I can relate to that.

Missy Ward is the Co-Editor-In-Chief of FeedFront Magazine and Co-Founder of Affiliate Summit and GeekCast.fm. She also blogs on MissyWard.com.

Download the entire FeedFront issue 8 here – http://www.scribd.com/doc/20220412/FeedFront-Magazine-Issue-8
FeedFront issue 8 articles can be found here as well: http://feedfront.com/archives/article00date/2009/10

I was recently reading a post that my business partner, Shawn Collins had up on his blog, AffiliateTip.com, entitled “Cynical Marketing.”

In the post, Shawn talks about how there are some marketers out there that simply don’t get the fact that not everything they do has to revolve around making money. They forget that sometimes, it’s more important to just give back.

The content of his post was dead on and the timing in which I read it, couldn’t be more ironic.

You see, earlier that day, I was approached by a marketer who read a post on my blog, MissyWard.com, that discussed me coming out of affiliate management retirement to help support breast cancer research and treatment – a cause that is very close to my heart.

This marketer had the chutzpah to ask me “what my angle was and why on earth would I bust my a** to grow someone else’s company when there was absolutely nothing at stake for me”.

Rather than chastising him for his ludicrous implications, I simply told him how I felt.

Giving is in my DNA and since affiliate marketing is what I do best, it seemed like a natural fit.

He followed up with a “you’re nuts.”

You know what, Mr. Cynical Marketer? Maybe I am.

But I keep very good company.

Aside from the folks that Shawn mentioned in his post that give back to the online marketing community without ever asking for a thing back (Haiko de Poel, Jr. of ABestWeb.com, Scott Jangro of Jangro.com, Jim Kukral of JimKukral.com, Melanie Seery of NYAffiliateVoice.com and Kellie Stevens of AffiliateFairPlay.com), I can think of dozens of marketers, including Shawn, who neglected to name himself) who do the same.

Chris Brogan who takes the time to answer every single questions he’s asked on Twitter; Brian Clark who provides amazing free content on CopyBlogger.com everyday; Brian Littleton of ShareASale who takes the time to educate his merchants and affiliate marketers to both make the affiliate marketing industry better and push it forward.

Also, all of the folks that walked 60 miles with me to raise money for breast cancer research on behalf of AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com ; Jeremy Schoemaker who provides dozens of case studies and tips to marketers to grow their businesses — the list goes on and on.

Now, it’s not to say that I’m averse to making money. I think I do a pretty good job at it. So do all of the people that I’ve mentioned above.

Maybe I’m just an idealist, but I believe that when one does well, there is an inherent responsibility to give back to the industries that have helped us get to where we are today and to help the less fortunate.

So, to all of the other idealists out there that give so much, with no strings attached – I salute you. Please keep doing what you’re doing. You ARE making a difference.

Luke 12:48 “From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.

Missy Ward is a Co-founder of Affiliate Summit and Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine. She also manages the ThesisAffiliates.com program in which all of her management fees are donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Download the entire FeedFront issue 5 here – http://feedfront.com/feedfront-issue5.pdf
FeedFront issue 5 articles can be found here as well: http://feedfront.com/archives/article00category/issue-5

Back in the late nineties, it was not unusual to attend an affiliate marketing event (or any online marketing event for that matter) and see very few women in the room.

Fast-forward ten years later and you’ll find that the opposite is true. Affiliate marketing is overflowing with women who are leaders in their fields or bright, up-and-coming innovators.

The following are self-submitted brief bios and wisdom from the women who make up this great talent pool of affiliate marketers.

The women of affiliate marketing were asked to share one tip they would give to a new affiliate getting into the industry and where they see the industry one year from today.

Let’s hear it for the ladies!

To see which ladies participated and what they contributed, please see visit the whole FeedFront margazine link below:

Download the entire FeedFront issue 4 here – http://feedfront.com/feedfront-issue4.pdf
FeedFront issue 4 articles can be found here as well: http://feedfront.com/archives/category/issue-4/

Tim Storm, the owner, founder and Chief Mucky Muck of FatWallet.com, an online community and shopping resource, is no doubt, a cornerstone of the affiliate marketing industry.

Known for his technical savvy, his strong emphasis on his employee’s welfare, his hands-on approach with his site visitors and yes, his relentless quest for the perfect golf swing, Storm epitomizes all that is good in affiliate marketing – ethics, innovation and commitment.

Back in 2002, Storm made headlines when he squared off against retail giant Wal-Mart. After one of the FatWallet.com forum members posted product pricing information scheduled to appear in the retailer’s Black Friday advertisements, Wal-Mart sought the identity of the member, invoking sections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Storm refused to provide the personal information of the forum member, and solidified his reputation as an advocate for the rights of consumers to gather and share information.

Since FatWallet’s launch in 1999, Storm has been featured in numerous media outlets, such as the New York Times, MSNBC, Fast Company, National Public Radio, and more. His vision and leadership is the driving force behind FatWallet’s outstanding growth.

In 2006, Storm’s contribution to the affiliate marketing industry was recognized as he became the second affiliate marketer to receive the Affiliate Marketing Legend award during the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards Gala.

FeedFront’s Co-Editor-in-Chief, Missy Ward recently talked with the inspirational Storm about his business, and his views on life and affiliate marketing.

Missy: So, talk to me about your childhood. What was young Tim’s life like growing up?

Tim: When I was finishing 5th grade, my parents told me that they had signed me up for summer school. I had no idea what I did wrong. I thought I was getting decent grades.

Then they told me it was for a computer class. My next question was “What is a computer?”

Over that summer I became connected to something that will likely be with me for the rest of my life. I taught myself basic algebra as I learned to write computer programs to entertain myself and my friends. Programming was always more fun than the actual games that I wrote.

A few years later, when I was in my early teens, I wrote a bulletin board program and took over my sister’s phone line when she moved out to college. It was my first online community, before I could drive, on a 300 baud modem and a Commodore 64.

Missy: And as I understand it, you still live close to where you grew up. Correct?

Tim: Yes, I live in a small rural community. I literally have cows in my neighborhood. It is close to where I grew up, and close to family. It takes me about 12 minutes to get in to the office in the morning, even though Google Maps says it should take 21.

Missy: So tell me about your first Web site and how you got started on the Internet.

Tim: While my online interactions started back in the 300 baud Compuserve days, I don’t think I did my first official Web site until the mid-90’s, when I was designing loudspeakers as a profession. I was working for a consumer electronics company (Mitek Corp) at the time, and built out their entire Web site in my “spare” time, and ended up taking over all the Internet projects across their brands.

Missy: How did you make the leap into affiliate marketing?

Tim: My first connection to affiliate marketing was through the Amazon Associates program, where I had added some links to some reference books to back up the content that I had been creating in a technical support area for the audio brands I was working on.

Missy: How did you come up with the idea for FatWallet.com? What were some of the first affiliate programs that you joined?

Tim: One day I was going to place an order at an online retailer that had previously sent me an email coupon. I didn’t have access to my email at the time, so I did an AltaVista search for coupons, and came across sites that weren’t current or didn’t look professional.

And that’s when FatWallet.com was born. It seemed like it was a manageable project to do in my spare time, so I simply started in. I joined a bunch of programs on the same day – the early ones were Buy.com, Amazon.com, BN.com.

The site was really just a hobby at that point. I was simply hoping to get my $100 back that I spent on the domain name and Web hosting.

Amusingly enough, I recouped my $100 investment back in my first month in business.

Missy: When did you realize that you couldn’t run the whole site by yourself? What were some of the challenges that you faced when it came to juggling creativity and business?

Tim: Before I started working on FatWallet full time in September of 2000, my wife had been helping out while I was earning a steady paycheck at my “real job”. We started bringing on employees in 2001 to help keep the site up to date.

I learned early on that it was easy for me to gloss over some important details. I also began recognizing my strengths and I wanted to spend more time on those. It was then that I hired people that were better than me at the things that I would rather not do, or wasn’t good at.

Missy: When did you realize that FatWallet had “arrived” and what is the secret to its success?

Tim: While I do see FatWallet as successful, I still believe that we have yet to “arrive”. There is so much opportunity out there, so much room to grow, so many people that we haven’t been able to serve yet.

We recently had our 1 Millionth visitor join our site. That would have been inconceivable in the early days.
Whenever I go to a sporting event at a large venue, I visualize all the people in the stadium with a laptop sitting in front of them, and then recognize how many stadiums full of these people we serve on any given day. It is quite humbling.

There are no secrets to our success. FatWallet’s purpose is to serve the consumer community. We have shown ourselves time and time again to make decisions that are aligned with our core customer.

Our core values of Integrity, Commitment, Change, Respect, Balance and Passion will keep us on course toward our 10 year goal of 10 million engaged citizens.

Missy: Shifting gears here. How would you characterize the current state of affiliate marketing?

Tim: I see affiliate marketing as “maturing”. There is so much opportunity here, but unfortunately, there are also opportunists looking to make a quick buck . Luckily, I can usually sniff them out quite quickly.

It is important to me, and FatWallet that we focus on long term mutually beneficial relationships.

Missy: In your opinion, what are some of the biggest hurdles facing affiliate marketers right now?

Tim: Affiliate marketing is challenged by the view of it being a “second class citizen” in many corporations, despite being the most measurable and highest ROI methods of customer acquisition and retention.

Because it is still relatively new, it often isn’t understood by some folks in the “C suite” and dictations are made without understanding the implications.

Missy: So how does a company go about doing affiliate marketing “right”?

Tim: The key to doing affiliate marketing “right” is to understand the value of a customer, finding affiliates that understand what customer you are looking for, communicating that clearly, and compensating the affiliate for accomplishing the goal you have set out to do.

Missy: What is the biggest piece of advice you would give an affiliate just starting out?

Tim: Don’t get wrapped up in the “turmoil” of the day. Look for your opportunity to serve a customer, find the right business case and start it. If it doesn’t work the way you want, don’t waste a lot of energy complaining about it. Find the fit that works… the answer is out there!

Missy: What do you see as the 3 trends affiliate marketers should have on their radar in the next few months?

Tim: Mobile, offline integration, technology.

Missy: What is your vision of affiliate marketing 5 years from now?

Tim: I see increased transparency, and reduced feedback time. Companies will need to have deeper integration of their affiliate marketing program with their core business processes.

Missy: Let’s break it down personal here. What are some of your other passions other than affiliate marketing?

Tim: I’ve had a long term love/hate relationship with golf. I love the challenge of taking on something you can never truly master. I stopped playing for a couple years due to a thumb injury.

A few years ago, I started playing again and became an investor in the golf course right behind the office.
I see my passion for business in general, not just affiliate marketing. I am certainly a student of the game – something that can never be mastered. One of the most rewarding elements for me is that I know that I’ve helped create great jobs for great people.

Missy: OK – now really personal. Tell me something about you unrelated to the internet, that people would be surprised to know.

Tim: I don’t consider myself a thrill-seeker, but so far this year I have taken part in a zero gravity flight, a mock air combat mission, and plan to try bobsledding in December as part of a group I belong to called Maverick Business Adventures (www.maverickbusinessadventures.com).

Missy: Check you out Mr. Daredevil! Now give me the skinny. What do you really want to do in the future, outside of FatWallet.com?

Tim: Wow, I have no idea when that time will come. It isn’t on any timeline that I am aware of!

I don’t think I could be satisfied if I wasn’t constantly learning and helping people live better lives. I have found that creating jobs is one of the most satisfying results of starting FatWallet.

Download the entire FeedFront issue 4 here – http://feedfront.com/feedfront-issue4.pdf
FeedFront issue 4 articles can be found here as well: http://feedfront.com/archives/category/issue-4/

I am a huge fan of automation.  Anything that ultimately saves time and money, offers flexibility, and works properly when you use it, is a friend of mine. 

That being said, I’d like to introduce you to a few of my friends. 

Bounce

Bounce is a link management system that automates the monetization of links throughout your forum, blog, social network, or content site by converting direct to merchant links to commissionable affiliate links on the fly.  Bounce is easily installed via plug-in or JavaScript code.  Once links are passing through the system, users can also view URL’s of merchants that they currently aren’t monetizing.   More information on Bounce can be found at Bounce.cc.

ForMeToCoupon

ForMeToCoupon offers an automated affiliate coupon feed which consolidates deals from merchants across all major affiliate networks in the U.S. in a standard format.  The feed is easy to integrate and is very flexible.  Customization is available and U.K. and Canada affiliate networks are coming soon.  More information can be found at ForMeToCoupon.com.

GoldenCAN

GoldenCAN data feed integration enables affiliates to add millions of products, thousands of coupons, recent price drop products, and search on the affiliate website with only one line of HTML code. Affiliates can create stores with single or multiple merchants across networks without knowing any programming or database language.  The data feed is maintained and hosted by GoldenCAN and serves the affiliate site in real time which ensures that product availability and pricing is always accurate.  More information can be found at GoldenCAN.com. 

PopShops

PopShops is the largest searchable collection of affiliate products in the world; featuring over 44 million commissionable products that span eight networks including Commission Junction, Google Affiliate Network, LinkShare, and ShareASale.  Their dynamic toolset is known for being so easy that “a 3-year old could use it”.  Their solution for the data feed headache won the ABestWeb award for Best Affiliate Tool of 2007.   More information can be found at PopShops.com

Hopefully, these tools will become some of your good friends as well.   Send me an email to let me know how you like them at missyward@feedfront.com.

Missy Ward is the Co-Founder of Affiliate Summit, the premier conference for the Affiliate Marketing Industry and Co-Editor-in-Chief of FeedFront Magazine.  She is also an active affiliate.

Download issue 2 of FeedFront at http://feedfront.com/feedfront-issue2.pdf.
Articles from issue 2 of FeedFront will also be posted at http://feedfront.com/archives/category/issue-2/.