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Affiliate Marketing News (Oct 29 to Nov 4)

More Businesses Using Web Marketing in the Bad Economy - Here’s something for the silver-lining department: Hard economic times will force more small businesses to become smarter marketers. They may even get Web sites. Check it out here.

Unlocking the potential of affiliate marketing - Spokesmen from Whitbread, Hilton and OMG are among the industry-leaders revealing the risks and rewards of affiliate marketing in this free online video. With marketing budgets under increasing pressure hear how your business could capitalise on the relative trackability and cost-efficiency of affiliate networks. Check it out here.

For Sale by Owner Wholesale Property Website Launches Affiliate Program - DiscountedProperties.com is a unique real estate listing service that caters to people looking for wholesale properties, homes for sale by owner, fixer-uppers and pre-foreclosures. DiscountedProperties.com has just launched an affiliate program where it will pay its “partners” a referral fee for any subscriptions resulting from their marketing efforts. Check it out here.

33 Reviews of the Best Affiliate Marketing Forums - A list of the top 33 affiliate marketing forums by Tim Scheer. Check it out here.

Affiliate Marketing Strategy - The Need Of Every Online Company - The online affiliate network has been well-integrated. But still there are online companies which are not able to achieve what they want. These online companies are in acute need of affiliate marketing strategy. To know more place your eyes on the following lines. Check it out here.

2nd Annual Casino Convention for Affiliates in Asia will be Held November 20-21 in Macau PR China - Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces the second Annual Macau Casino Affiliate Convention will be held on November 20-21, 2008 in Macau at the recently built Venetian Hotel & Casino. Check it out here.

Old School Affiliate Marketing BEFORE The Internet - If you’ve ever looked at ways to make money online, then you’ve probably heard of affiliate marketing. To boil it down; affiliate marketing is delivering internet users through SEO or paid advertising to a merchants website in order to gain a commission on a sale or some other action. Check it out here.

Affiliate Marketing Network Blog Scorecard - As of October, Linkshare has apparently seen the light and jumped into the blogging fray. Good onya Linkshare. Check it out here.

Old School Affiliate Marketing BEFORE The Internet - If you think that only the novices have problems with affiliate marketing, think again. You’d be surprised to learn that many experienced individuals are by no means immune from making the same mistakes and bad decisions that ruin their progress. Check it out here.

Top 10 List of the Best Affiliate Networks - This list of the 10 Best Affiliate Networks will give you a general rundown on these affiliate networks and how they operate. Check it out here.

How to Choose The Best Affiliate Network Marketing Products - Affiliate network marketing has proved to be very lucrative. This concept is especially very important if you are in network marketing. Unfortunately, most affiliate marketers are not making the money they should be making. Check it out here.

What’s the value of LinkedIn Groups?

I’ve been a member on LinkedIn for a long time. I’m one of the early adopter types. When the groups feature came out in July 2005 I was pretty excited. But 3 years later I still haven’t figured out what’s going on with it. I’m a member of 24 groups. I’ve applied to a lot more than that but for some reason I’m not in them. I don’t get that. Some random guy starts the “Social Media Marketing” group and then I need to beg him for approval. Why? Who’s he? If I’m in then how is that good for me.

LinkedIn is certainly proud of their groups - but does anybody else care. They announced that they had the Web’s Largest BlackBerry Community. So what? If I’m in that group how does it benefit me?

So far i have gained nothing from being in the groups on LinkedIn. Well, there are nice logos and it does spice up my profile up a bit. But I don’t gain anything material from the group. At least in Facebook the group owner unashamedly sends me group spam that I have to ignore. But not on LinkedIn, I’m a member of a club that does nothing.

Can somebody tell me any usefullness to this groups?