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This week an old friend of mine asked me the following question: "We talked years ago about starting a retail business online and dropshipping. I'm now in a place I want to get started making money online as an affiliate. Where do you suggest I get started?

Our first in a weekly series offering news, insight and promotions for all the JEBCommerce managed affiliate programs. Learn about our promotions for LuggagePoint, Doba.com, 6pm and more.

10 Reasons to Hire An Outsourced Affiliate Program Management Company

JEBCommerce has been working closely with the Zappos team on their affiliate program for some time now. With both excitement and pride, JEBCommerce would like to announce that, in conjuntion with Ned Farra and his team, we are now managing the 6pm.com affiliate program!

Whether you are a local restaurant, like in the video below, or you run a niche retail site, knowing how you fit in with your competitors can be the difference between throwing money down a pit and reaping the rewards of a successful business.

Are you adding value to your customers and to your merchant patners? This is a short video shot from my favorite office, Calypsos' Coffee in Coeur d'Alene Idaho. They offer business owners a great room to either host a meeting or to work from at any time of the day. The room provies a quite place that is comfortable and has all the necessities to work day to day. It's a great place and the room is an unexpected value add that keeps us coming back and sets them apart from their competition.

The information you put in your affiliate account is represented in your application to each program.  As I laid out in the previous posts in this series, you need to apply to each affiliate program in order to promote them.  But before I show you how to evaluate which affiliate programs to work with, we […]

The main thing isn't so much the networks, and maybe that is what I'm trying to get across to you. The main thing will be the partnerships you form with merchants and selecting the right ones to work with. One of the most important things to do right when you are looking for these successful partnerships is your affiliate account. Without the right information in your account, merchants won't be able to effectively evaluate your application. That is what I'll cover in my next episode.

Affiliates - there are a lot of great and respectable coupon sites that I have not only been fortunate and blessed to work with, but to also call close friends. For those of you that fall into that category, you are doing all the right things. For others who don't think it's that big of a deal, let me stress that this is a big issue for merchants. It is casting a shadow on our industry and I encourage you to reach out to these merchants and truly partner with them. When you look out for them, they really begin to look out for you.

I was sure they said Jamie Birch, but alas, Scott won the award. It was well deserved and now it seems that I may have slipped into the "Susan Lucci" role of Pinnacle Award nominees. Two nominations and two, well, nominations. I searched forever for that video as I promised many I would try to tie in Susan Lucci not winning into this blog post.