Affiliate Marketing Rolodex: All the Best Resources in One Place

 

After spending $1,000's learning Affiliate Marketing, I realized that not one single website out there had nothing but simple, short, honest reviews of only the best Affiliate resources, organized by category. This would have saved me a TON of time & money, but it just didn't exist...

 

So, I decided to break down all of my favorite Affiliate Marketing courses, software, tools, memberships, networks and strategies, all so you don't have to spend $10,000+ trying to figure it all out like most successful affiliates do.

 

Affiliate Marketing can be very rewarding if done properly. But, if you're not careful, you'll find yourself struggling to pay off the credit card you use to buy new courses with! I hope having all of these concise reviews in one place helps you make the best decisions for your Affiliate Marketing business! Enjoy...

 

 

affiliate marketing training

 

This is where the majority of affiliates lose the most money, including myself. Even though I've been doing this for over 2 years now, and I make enough to support myself without getting a full-time job with my Engineering degree (I'm 22 years old), I still find myself buying most of the new products that come out. It's almost like an addiction, but it's a terrible one, especially when you're just starting out. Buying every product under the Sun is only going to keep you from achieving your goals, so don't do it! If you want some guidance on which training resources would be best for you and your specific situation, check out the Affiliate Marketing Training section.

 

affiliate networks

 

If you're just getting started as an Affiliate marketer, you might know about a few networks that you can promote products from. Well, there are hundreds of great networks and private programs to promote that can be extremely lucrative, so it's tough to decide what to focus on. However, there are a select few that the vast majority of affiliates seem to agree are awesome, so I decided to compile them all in one place...and explain why. If you want to start finding the best products to promote, feel free to check out the Affiliate Networks page now.

 

affiliate marketing tools

 

Everyday, there are a bunch of awesome web-based and desktop software programs that come out to help Affiliate marketers, but it's really tough to keep up with them all. The worst part is, if you do your best to know about all the newest tools, you'll be wasting so much time distracting yourself, that the tools will have become useless! If you want to avoid trying to find things like keyword research tools, automated social bookmarking sites, backlink checkers, split-testing software, iPhone apps and more, check out the Affiliate Marketing Tools section now.


affiliate marketing services

 

This is something many affiliates have a problem with: finding the best services to pay for every month that are worthwhile investments. I'm talking about things like web hosting, email marketing management software, content outsourcing sites and project management services. These are the bread & butter for affiliates, like paying rent and utilities for old-school businesses. If you want to know the best services available on the market for Affiliate Marketers, check out the Affiliate Marketing Services page.

 

affiliate marketing strategies

 

This one is crucial. Picking the best tools, learning material and services from this killer list of only the most useful products out there is great, but only if you know which ones to pick! I have done my best with each review to tell you how to get the most bang for your buck, but only you can decide what strategy you're using. Too many affiliates are exposed to so many conflicting strategies every day that it's easy to get confused and overwhelmed. Believe me: the last thing you want to do when you're building a business is try a million different things and fail at all of them! If you want to succeed online, check out the Affiliate Marketing Strategies section to pick the best strategy for your strengths, weaknesses and resources.

#1 Affiliate Marketing Training product: Wealthy Affiliate. Of all the $1,000's worth of ebooks and courses I've bought to learn Affiliate Marketing, this membership site has been the best investment by far! Not only does it come with dozens of well-organized, bite-sized lessons on anything you could imagine for affiliates, it has a world-class forum with over 30,000 members and counting! Everyone is helpful, and willing to be open with their strategies. Plus, members can submit PDF's, tutorials and videos to the "WA Share Zone" which is nice for learning about cool new services and techniques.

 

On top of all that, it comes with a web-based website builder, research tools (keywords, ClickBank products, competition spy tool for Adwords, etc.), keyword lists for specific niches, an article rewriter program, a simple web hosting package, an affiliate link cloaker tool and even an outsourcing marketplace for making money by helping members or paying members to do stuff you don't like doing! Overall, it is by far the coolest Affiliate Marketing membership site out there...

 

#1 Affiliate Network: Commission Junction. CJ is the best affiliate network overall, because they offer the best selection of legitimate offers to promote. The network has a much higher barrier to entry for merchants than most networks, making the programs much higher quality. I still enjoy promoting digital products through ClickBank, but I've found that my conversion rates (and the value I'm adding) is much higher with physical products and well-known services on CJ.

 

#1 Affiliate Marketing Tool: Market Samurai. By far the most helpful tool I use, Market Samurai is the be all end all when it comes to research. It not only helps me find the keywords that will help me add the most value for my visitors, it helps break them down into manageable clusters to focus on for maximum profits. It comes with tools that make competitive analysis, content ideas, content publishing and performance tracking infinitely easier and faster. Note: This was actually a really close call, even though Market Samurai is so awesome, because of ClickTale (the most incredible optimization tool I've ever seen).

 

#1 Affiliate Marketing Service: Host Gator. Though I recently purchased a dedicated server for my larger websites, I still love the ease and flexibility that comes with the inexpensive hosting packages that Host Gator offers. Over time, I've learned that WordPress is a fabulous tool for creating and managing big, authoritative websites, and Host Gator's cPanel (Fantastico) makes installing and working with WordPress (and many other services) a snap.

 

Check out the detailed pages above to learn more about the courses, tools, services & strategies that will help the most.