We have decided to make a better effort to inform our affiliates and on occasion provide useful content that they can use to help grow their marketing efforts, website or blog. So lets get this started with 5 Tips to Become an Unsuccessful Affiliate. You read it right an unsuccessful affiliate… why would we do that… well read the article and I can almost guarantee that you are doing 1 of the 5 things. Or if for some reason you don’t want to be a successful affiliate this will help you get there. 
1. Procrastinate as Much as You Can
We put off so many things these days as we always have something vying for our attention. So if you want to be unsuccessful put it all off until tomorrow. Why not as there will always be tomorrow so why do it today? Make that post that could make you money wait till tomorrow (it doesn’t matter if it’s a hot offer and will be gone tomorrow then you can just not post about another offer). Should I make a Facebook page for my site? …Naaa… Facebook will be around tomorrow.
2. Just Post Every Offer on Your Site as a Banner.
Just get those offers posted as a banner, and then forget them as quickly as possible. It doesn’t matter that you have new visitors everyday, why would you want to inform them about great offers and make a lot of money each day when you can do nothing and might make a $1.00 in a month?
3. Read About Great Ways to Promote Offers but Never Do Them.
That’s right, read every blog post out there. Get all that great information then sit in your office chair reading more blogs about how to make more money or better engage with your audience. Just keep reading and clicking all day then before you know it all you will have done is read great posts and have done nothing else.
4. Never Change Anything.
You want to be unsuccessful, so don’t change a thing. Who cares if your site looks like it was made on Geocities… or every single image on your page is animated… people love things that never change… this will guarantee you to be unsuccessful!
5. Ignore Emails and Advice from your Affiliate Manager
Your affiliate manager knows the ins and outs of the affiliate business, plus they know what offers are converting like fire and which ones aren’t doing so well. Plus if you never communicate with your affiliate manager how are they going to know what you need to be successful? If your goal is to be unsuccessful, you should just ignore any and all advice that comes from your affiliate manager.
In all seriousness, I hope none of you ever do these 5 things listed above because they will cause you to be unsuccessful and we want you to succeed. We want you to provide your visitors with offers that are relevant and useful to them and make you money along the way. Do you have some really bad advice that no successful affiliate should follow? Submit a comment and let us know.
Posted September 29th, 2010 | Posted In
Contests Hello bloggers! For those of you who don’t know, Escalate Affiliate Network is the premier affiliate network focused on bloggers in the couponing, savvy, freebie, and frugal space. Our offers include brand names you know and trust and exclusive couponing offers. If you ask any of our 950+ affiliates, they’ll likely tell you we are one of the most friendly, hands on, fastest paying, highest payout networks they’ve ever worked with (I know because I get several emails like that every day; our affiliates are the best!!). Once you become an Escalate Network affiliate, you’ll start earning more from your blog and get paid quicker because we make it easy!
New Affiliate Bonus
If you aren’t already an Escalate Network affiliate, we’d like to offer you a special bonus! Every Business2Blogger member that becomes a new affiliate before October 8, 2010 will receive a $10 credit in their account. Apply today! ($10 credit will be applied within 48 hours of approval)
Business2Blogger Giveaway
In addition to the $10 credit for new affiliates, we’re giving away TWO $50 Amazon gift cards, just in time for the holidays! All you have to do is tell your fellow Business2Blogger friends that you signed up for the Escalate Affiliate Network by following us and including “@escalatenetwork” in a tweet, or “Like” us on Facebook and leave a comment on our wall. Leave a comment on this post when you’re done!
If you’re already an Escalate affiliate, let everyone know what you think about @escalatenetwork on Twitter or Facebook!
We’ll draw 1 random person that mentions us on Twitter, and 1 random person that leaves a comment on our Faceboook wall. Drawing will take place on Friday, October 8th. You don’t have to be an affiliate to win the gift card (but we’d sure like it if you signed up and became one of our awesome affiliates!)
Wow it has been two months since we made a blog post about the Escalate Network. I would appologize but honestly we have been so busy finding our affiliates top quality offers with great payouts, we are hoping yall will forgive us for not posting. Our network is here to help you (the affiliate) make money not to be another blog BUT we do want to use this blog to help communicate with our affiliates. With that said we are going to try to blog more often but if we don’t just know it is because we are so busy finding new offers or providing tips to our affiliates on how to make more money. We have some exciting news to announce in the next few weeks so stay tuned you won’t want to miss it! If you aren’t an affiliate already Click Here to signup. If you are an affiliate login and checkout the latest offers and payouts!
Meet Your Affiliate Manager & Learn How To Earn More From The Escalate Network!
Join us on Thursday, April 8th at 9:00PM EST (8PM CST / 7PM MST / 6PM PST) for an online webinar just for Escalate Media Network Affiliates! Meet your affiliate managers and have a chance to ask questions and learn how to get the most from our network.
We’ll demonstrate how to use the Escalate Network system to find new offers and show you in real time how to use Blogger and WordPress to display our offers on your web site. We’ll also discuss tips and tricks to earn more from your site and answer your questions in real time!
We hope you can join us for this free webinar to meet us and the other Escalate Network Affiliates! We look forward to your questions and will send you a reminder before the event via email.
We have officially started teh Escalate Media Affiliate Network Blog. Check back often for network and offer updates.
