Welcome to the AFP Affiliate Salon, a place to learn about affiliate marketing while you drink a cup of coffee. Our podcasts focus on topics for both affiliates and merchants/managers, from newbies to veterans. Our goal is to provide educational information to assist the community in growing profitable businesses and to better understand our Industry. We leave the spin at the door of all our podcasts.
If you have a topic you would like AFP to cover in a podcast or you would like to be a guest, drop us a line and let us know.
We podcast through BlogTalkRadio. Be sure to visit the Affiliate Salon host page for up to the minute information on our podcasts.
The Advertising Mindset: Friend or Foe for Your Affiliate Program
Date: February 19, 2007
Andy Rodriguez, from Andy Rodriguez Consulting, will be sitting down to talk with us about how affiliate marketing is a unique channel for a company's online marketing strategy. What impact can viewing and managing your affiliate marketing channel with an "advertising" mindset have on your program? You may be surprised!
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Keeping It Clean: Achieving High ROAS Through Affiliate Channel Integrity
Date: February 7, 2007
Angel Djambazov. Onlineshoes.com Affiliate Manager, talks candidly about growing the OLS program after removing adware partners, the impact on the ROAS of the affiliate channel and other marketing channels, educating corporate management and impact on revenue.
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Site Upgrade
We are about three-quarters of the way through a complete backend site upgrade and site redesign. For a few reasons, we are making these changes in alive environment. Yeah...we know that's not the way it's supposed to be done, but what the heck things happens sometimes.
If you see some strangeness, no worries it will most likely go away before long. On the bright side, you get to see our production in real-time along with all of our "oops that's not what we meant to do".

