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In one of my last few posts I talked a bit about affiliate marketing, and tody was reminded how simple and powerful it can be. 

I got an email from www.cafepress.com a site that prints t-shirts, hats, jackets, underwear, mugs…pretty much anything with artwork you provide or choose from their database.  All you do is promote it and if someone makes a purchase you get a small percentage.  Here’s the email I got today:

Now wether or not you’re an Obama fan, the fact is it’s creative marketing.  Someone is thinking ahead and setting up revenue streams.   I immediately went to my GoDaddy accout to search URL’s I could maybe make a site for.  I could register a domain like www.ChangeWonOnline.com and www.HopeWonOnline.com – which are available by the way, but a bunch of Obama affiliate links and promote them around the inauguration that’s coming up and probably make some money. 

Here’s another idea I had that I did act on…now I won’t give you all the details, but I used eBay’s Classified ads to direct traffic out of eBay legally, to a landing page I created.  Then via links on that page, I send them back to eBay but with my affiliate cookie tagging along.  If they make a purchase I get a cut.  Does it work – absolutely.  In fact in December I made $187 and only spent $10 on the eBay classified format ad.  I even made a one day commission of $47!  Not bad for doing nothing.

This particular campaign had over 615 page views in the month of December and over 500 in November.  And remember – I’m not selling anything!  No packing, shipping or inventory – the power of the affiliate program!