If you are interested in getting into the affiliate game, I have contended for the last year or so that the best, and quickest way to do this is by blogging. Why? There are a few reasons.

• Blogs are easy to set up and maintain
• You don’t need a lot of technical skill or programming ability to blog
• When formatted correctly, blogs get great rankings in Google - it’s a function of the fact that they are content heavy and of the link taxonomy
• It works for me. I am a total hack of an HTML coder and I made nearly $1000 promoting Affiliate Summit alone on this blog.

The fine folks at AffiliateClassroom.com and Rosalind Gardner have teamed up to bring you The Blog Classroom to show you how you can quickly and easily set up a profitable blog and get traffic in a hurry.

The Blog Classroom is in pre-launch and they would love you to come check out their system before it launches officially in a couple of weeks. They have some great videos in place from Anik and Rosalind that will get you off to a great start, from launching your blog, to getting your first visitors within an hour of set up.

Anik is promising some great deliverables over the 2 weeks of the pre-launch.

• at least 8 free video lessons
• 2 Teleseminars
• interviews with top bloggers

And this is all during the free pre-launch phase. The resources for the paying folks should be substantial.

If you are looking for that kick start to get into the affiliate business, I recommend that you head over and sign up for their free Pre-Launch Blog Classroom Course today. You can’t beat the price.

God Bless,

Wade

Here’s part 2 of my chat with Joel Comm from Affiliate Summit West 2008. In this section, Joel and I chat about a new venture he’s involved in TextCastLive.

TextCastLive is a service/tool that allows marketers (merchant or affiliate) to build double opt-in marketing lists of mobile phone numbers, then market to them using text mesages. Joel maintains that email marketing is dead or dying and that open rates on email are abysmal. We all check our text messages when they come in and well designed marketing campaigns can generate great results.

If you are looking for a new way to connect with your customers  and prospects, give TextCastLive a try, especially if your audience is X or Y generation and hyper connected to their mobile phone.