Don’t Get Lonely Out Here – Join A Best Web

If you’re like me, you’ve jumped into this thing called affiliate marketing with both feet. You spend hours on the computer and look up and the day is gone! Well, that’s no way to live, even on this major learning curve we affiliate marketing newbies are on. The whole point of affiliate marketing is that one day you’ll get some freedom to live life the way you want to – on your terms. If you think there’s no time for freedom now, then it’s time for a wake-up call. And you can get that and more over at A Best Web, the online forum and mega resource for affiliate marketers. I did.

Feeling more than a little intimidated by the sheer number of members – 57,400 strong, I signed up today to be part of this affiliate marketing community. Yes I felt like a newbie, but I got out there anyway. When you sign up, make sure not to just blow past the rules. Yeah, you know what I’m talking about – the form comes up, you click OK and don’t read what it says. Well here’s some of what you’ll miss if you do that at A Best Web:

• You can’t reveal your name or website in your posts.
• No recruiting anyone for something you’re selling – BIG no-no!
• You earn the right to display a signature or send private message other members after you make 250 posts.
• And break the rules and you’ll be banned and banished.

So it’s a commitment to join this forum. But my sense is that if you participate, read and post, you’ll get back tenfold for your efforts. Ask questions, get to know not only affiliates like us but the affiliate managers who are members. Learn everything you can on how to make money and how to get a life in affiliate marketing. The information is all there for the taking over at A Best Web. After you register, look me up and give a shout to a fellow affiliate marketing newbie. I’m “Midlifetrip”.

Now turn off your computer and take a break!

Thirty Day Challenge – What Every Affiliate Newbie Needs

If you want to learn affiliate marketing or any kind of Internet marketing for that matter, there’s an amazing resource out there for you right now! It’s veteran Internet marketer Ed Dales’s little darling – the Thirty Day Challenge. It’s a comprehensive 30 day video training program on the basics of marketing on the web.

Offered only once a year, this great program (we’re taking it) started on August 1st. Now you may be thinking that you’re too late to join in. Not. You can pick up where the program is now and play catch-up as you go along to the end of the month. Or start watching the “30DC” videos on YouTube and go along at your pace.

Whatever you do, jump on this opportunity. Ed and team have done a phenomenal job assembling lessons, tools, resources and even motivational tips that every newbie affiliate marketer can benefit from.  Oh – and I forgot to mention that you can subscribe to the videos and transcripts on iTunes. For you iPhone lovers like me – 30DC is available for you phone too!

Take Your Seat in Affiliate Classroom 2.0

We’re extreme affiliate “newbies” (and sisters) who’ve been on a bit of a quest to learn more about affiliate marketing. Why? Well, like most people these days, we’ve heard that there’s gold in them there websites and quite frankly – we want some of it. Our journey to find just the right affiliate marketing training led us to newly revised Affiliate Classroom 2.0. (Newbie Nugget: the links in this post are our own affiliate link, just so you know.)

What It Is

From what we hear, the mega-improved Affiliate Classroom 2.0 is a program that teaches you how to become a high earning affiliate marketer. Unlike other programs though, that are book or video lesson based, Affiliate Classroom 2.0 is a website community devoted to all things affiliate.

Which means that once you sign up, you get access to Affiliate Classroom 2.0, coursework on how to become a successful affiliate marketer along with tools, support, the forum and an amazing learning environment where you’re guaranteed to find answers to your specific affiliate marketing related questions.

Affiliate Classroom 2.0 launched with a whopping 62 courses and plans to add more great courses every month! There are actually almost 250 courses outlined for the students who will learn in an interactive environment at their own pace. If you’re starting off part-time as an affiliate marketer, you’ll be able to access Affiliate Classroom 24/7 as your schedule and lifestyle permits. This is a perfect solution for newbies who wants to work independently and progress at their own warp speed.

Something truly unique to Affiliate Classroom 2.0 is that this training option actually allows you to become “certified” – a new opportunity that paves the way for bigger affiliate commissions and even “super affiliate” status down the road. At the end of the day, you have to decide what kind of training works best with your learning style. Our goal is give you some of the options we’ve found with the hopes that something will be a good fit for you.