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In this solocast, John Wright, CEO and co-founder of StatsDrone, shares insights on what he sees happening in affiliate marketing and how much time people are spending learning and studying AI.

AI tools can do one of 2 things; Help small affiliates get started and compete in affiliate marketing or it will help the big affiliates get even bigger creating more power and dominance.

If you want to launch an affiliate focused podcast, you have all the good reasons to do it. But what are the excuses you want to avoid and the things that get in the way of you starting your podcast. This solocast and episode is inspired by a recent Gary Vaynerchuk podcast featuring Mike Posner where Mike said he felt he needed the professional production to get his off the ground. Hold up! No you don't, look at Gary Vee, he's proof you don't need production as that is exactly how he got started. His first YouTube videos were raw and the opposite of production. Record yourself, you got copies of your life on Instagram, TikTok, so why not record your professional work life? Maybe your podcast is a hobby that you want to just do and make some affiliate revenue off of it. Fabulous! Get started, don't use any excuse to not get started. Big shoutout to Tom Hunt of fame.so for all the amazing tips he's shared over the years.

I'm back from ASE 2023, that is Affiliate Summit East in New York City. This is my 2nd Affiliate Summit and this event surpassed all my expectations. There are some talented people passing through here and it was 2 days of rich conversations about the future of affiliate marketing. The hot topic both in terms of panels as well as in person discussions was AI. It is here and everyone believes this is a new revolution we are just entering into.

Affiliate marketing, major industry. If affiliate marketing is worth so many billions, why is one of the most important jobs being filled with people that have almost no qualifications? I'm talking about affiliate managers and affiliate management! Affiliate manager is definitely a respectable and needed career in the affiliate marketing industry. However there is a problem setting the industry back which is affiliate managers that lack training. There is a new wave of affiliate managers hitting the floor at the next conference you'll likely be attending. Many of them will have a feverish drive to grab your business card and leave you behind as if they've achieved part of their quota. In this solocast, I talk about where affiliate managers can get training and tips on how affiliate managers can do their jobs better.

One of the most common questions we get asked by customers before they signup is, how can they trust StatsDrone? Who are the people behind it? In this episode, I look to address all questions pertaining to trust. In this solocast, I explain why we care about protecting user data. Where can you review or see reviews about StatsDrone? https://ca.trustpilot.com/review/statsdrone.com https://www.capterra.ca/software/1024653/statsdrone

Why did we create StatsDrone? Listen to our story and journey as affiliate marketers and identifying pain points that were simply not getting solved. In this solocast, John explains what we wanted to achieve in building an app when a few already were on the marketplace.

I've been called the LinkedIn guy before and there are a lot of peers that are better at social media on LinkedIn. That said I'm going to give you my 3 best tips for getting more followers and engagement on LinkedIn. A quick hint, tip number one is stop posting links inside your posts. If you see people say 'link in comments' there is a reason why they do that. Oh and be sure to follow Justin Rowe

Mark Terris is the business development manager at AstroPay and is wanting to get more affiliates joining their affiliate program. Why? Simply put, affiliates can earn 2 commissions from a single player when they promote an ewallet like AstroPay. In this interview, Mark shares insights as to why users and players should care about ewallets like AstroPay.

In this solocast, John Wright, CEO & co-founder of StatsDrone, talks about the fact that there are not many CRM solutions available for affiliate marketers. The ones that are available cover some of the pain points like the StatsDrone stats app. What's in a good CRM for affiliates? -collecting affiliate stats -BI for stats analysis -note taking -deal manager (or deal CRM) -invoice manager & payment tracking

Ryan Knuppel started off as a writing freelancer and has now turned it into a full time content production business with KnupSolutions.com. He shares his best content tips for you to adopt in your content strategy.

Garrett Graff of ReachCreator.com. Today he helps with a case study for SEO strategies for a new site https://onlinebet.com.

Jacob Ganten is fresh out of university studying economics. He has a background in data analysis having had experience using R to analyze odds for table tennis. He is an off-page SEO specialist with Ribacka Media. You can reach Jacob on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-ganten-215853164/

In this solocast, John talks about one of his favourite topics: conversion rate optimization (CRO). He discusses how conversion optimization and A/B split testing tools are really a class of BI tools and he looks at how AI heat maps are making it easier to start applying these tools.

This is a solocast with John Wright whom is CEO and co-founder of StatsDrone and has 20 years of affiliate marketing experience. In this episode, he talks about how security needs to be looked at for both affiliates / publishers and affiliate programs and how fraud impacts us all. He talks about best practices and what affiliate programs can do to bring affiliate marketing into the future.

Want to know some of the best Business Intelligence tools available to affiliate marketers? In this episode I talk about a few things. 1. Capturing your data Using tools like Nifty Stats, Voonix and StatsDrone) Google Analytics (GA) / Google Search Console (GSC) Email newsletters (aka checking open and click through rates) 2. BI tools Voonix, StatsDrone to analyze campaign data CRO & heat maps GA / GSC Dataviz tools like Tableau and Power BI Summary Review your data: affiliate stats & GA / GSC. Top affiliates look at their financial affiliate data and their traffic data almost daily and you should too.

Craig Campbell is a Glasgow based SEO who's made a name for himself speaking at every big SEO and affiliate marketing conference and putting himself out on YouTube.

Today we chat with Simon Jones who runs investingreviews.co.uk. In this episode we play a game on how many times can we say bingo and how many times I can say 'this is not investing advice'. What is advice is from Simon about setting up affiliate sites and navigating some the rules and regulations in running a finance related website.