We strongly believe that affiliate programs are a wonderful way for merchants to increase sales and for bloggers to earn an income.  We also know that there are bad actors in the affiliate world. FraudLogix could be the affiliate fraud solution merchants have been seeking.

We know that FraudLogix has new patent-pending technology far more elaborate that the solutions that have been available to date and look forward to learning more about it. As you may know, we are very involved in the Executive Gift Shoppe gift affiliate program and invite you to join us.

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Photo Credit BravoBride and Kristine Paulson Wedding Photography

There is great news for Wedding Planners and Wedding related businesses – and with the current economic conditions we can all really use some! Demographically, a large number of U.S. women will be reaching the age range when most get married for the first time. Same sex weddings are also increasing because gay marriage is being legalized in more locations.

Read all about this predicted Wedding Boom and check out the graphs and other visuals including wedding statistics from The Wedding Report – an excellent source of extensive wedding market research. If you are a wedding planner or vendor, be sure to download the Bridal News Networks wedding trends reports because they contain valuable insights into where engaged couples are cutting back and where they are increasing spending.

CLASSY, UNUSUAL GIFT IDEA for the Wedding Couple: Stone Candles

This is especially important for wedding planners, wedding photographers and videographers as that is one area where couples getting married like to cut back – and one that can result in wedding photo horror stories about losing the images from a wedding! Knowing that this is a concern, you can be proactive about addressing this on your Web sites.

If you have a wedding related business or are an affiliate for one, now is the perfect time to ramp up your efforts in Affiliate and  Social Media Marketing.  Our favorite wedding community OneWed declared January 4, 2010 Matrimony Monday. January is the start of the peak wedding planning season with wedding related sales highest in the second and third quarters.

With the economy, many who will be getting married will seek out ways to save money. While some will plan off peak winter weddings, we hope many will find BravoBride. They specialize in new and pre-owned designer wedding dresses, wedding decorations, wedding favors and more.

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We hope you’ll consider shopping at Executive Gift Shoppe for your Groomsmen Gifts and check out their really adorable ringbearer gifts too.

Do you have a wedding related Web site or blog? We would love to work with you. Check out the information about our Gift Affiliate Program. Don’t miss how easy Bridaluxe wedding affiliate program makes it to add an entire wedding store to your blog.

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If you find gift buying challenging, get some great ideas from our top selling holiday gift ideas countdown. We pulled a spreadsheet of the top selling products from November 1st through December 24th last year, sorted them by popularity, and are featuring each of the top 99 holiday best sellers.

You can see them all in our blog in the Top Selling Holiday Products category sequentially from 99 down to 1 or hone in on all the most popular of each type in the individual gift categories:

• Business Card Holders
• Flasks and Flask Funnels
• Money Clips
• Money Clip Wallets
• Travel Related Gifts
• Wallets
• Zippo

We also invite you to use the Gifts by Recipients feature to find additional unique holiday gift ideas. Executive Gift Shoppe even has some specific Christmas gifts.

If you use the keyword search function on the Executive Gift Shoppe site you can narrow your search to a specific price range. This can really speed up finding the perfect gift within any holiday budget.

So many people are seeking gift ideas this time of year that we invite bloggers to consider assisting their readers to find the perfect gifts too.  We invite you to join the Executive Gift Shoppe gift affiliate program and read about how popular Executive Gift Shoppe is.  We will even assist you in learning affiliate marketing and make the blog posts here easy to reblog.

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Today we start our countdown of the 99 top selling gifts from last holiday season.  We selected these gifts by pulling a spreadsheet of the highest sales volume products between November 1 and December 24, 2008. We will feature each of these gifts in it’s own blog post using Zemanta so our affiliates can use the reblog button to copy each post.

Be sure to edit the affiliate code so you get credit for sales you generate.

Note that some posts may have multiple affiliate links including ShareASale links and Yahoo Store tracking links. They are clearly visible when you point at them. Contact us if you would like your own Yahoo Store Tracking link to use in place or ours OR you can use the ShareASale link wherever you edit an affiliate link.

Even if you have no idea where to even start we want to assist you to make money. Read about our gift affiliate program and get started today. If you need personal assistance figuring out how to reblog posts, use WordPress or add images to your posts just contact us for free help.

With the holidays fast approaching now is the perfect time to ramp up your affiliate sales for all things gift related. Almost everyone will be interested in some kind of gift for someone over the holidays so no matter what niches you are involved in there will be gifts you could suggest. If you can’t think of any just ask us and we can offer you suggestions from among our gifts and beyond.

We hope you will consider joining our gift affiliate programs paying a generous 12% through ShareASale or 20% through our Yahoo! Store Tracking links. Our feed is available at PopShops, DataFeedFile and DataFeedr.  If you are in a wedding related niche you can even get an instant Wedding Store from Bridaluxe by simply adding a line of code to your existing site.

Whether you make a comfortable living through affiliate programs or you have never made a single dime we want to make it simple for you and assist you in increasing your income.  Starting today we are doing a countdown of our top selling gifts between November 1 and December 24, 2008 starting with number 99 and posting several a day until we get to the number 1 most popular gift of 2008.

Not only are these same gifts likely to be most popular this year, thanks to the magic of the Zemanta reblog feature you can easily copy all or part of any of the posts from this series, change or add to them any way you wish, and have instant content for your own blog. We have suggested to Zemanta that they add a function that automatically changes the affiliate links for you; however, for now do be sure to edit the affiliate link so you get credit for any sales you generate.

There are three major challenges to making money with affiliate products:

1. Deciding what products to promote from merchants that can convert your visitors to buyers
2. Creating content around those products
3. Getting traffic to your content

Our Internet Strategist GrowMap reviewed our store and explained why our gift affiliate program converts. We are providing product related content you can use. And lastly @GrowMap will send your site traffic! She is active online almost every day, has 10,362+ followers at Twitter and is active at StumbleUpon, FriendFeed, Facebook and Delicious and expanding to Reddit and elsewhere.

Lots of traffic is important because “average” conversion rates are only 1-2% at best. That means you need 50-100 visitors to generate each sale. For more details read Success is a Numbers Game. The more visitors you get – and GrowMap CAN send you visitors – the more new readers, subscribers and potential sales you will have.

No matter what you need to know about growing your business online GrowMap is ready to assist you with free professional advice. She recently compiled links to the Best of GrowMap to make it easy for you to find the research that will most benefit you. Ask any questions you have and she will answer you there. She will also work with our affiliates individually at absolutely no cost to you. Leave a comment here, use our contact form or at GrowMap or send her an @GrowMap message at Twitter.

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We would like to welcome our current affiliates and anyone interested in more information about becoming an affiliate to our new blog. This is the first post in a section specifically created to assist our affiliates in increasing their sales. While many join affiliate programs, only a small percentage really understand how to effectively promote them to create a consistent income. We would like to share what we have learned over the years and introduce you to some exceptional tools to make getting results faster and easier.

We offer two affiliate programs and two exceptional ways to use our product feed:

• In-house Executive Gift Shoppe Affiliate program paying 20% for those who add links manually
• ShareASale Affiliate program paying 12% for easier links and access to our product feed
• Our Datafeedr feed is the easiest way to add any product to a WordPress site – Starting at $27/mo
• Executive Gift Shoppe PopShops Feed – PopShops offers an easy way to quickly create affiliate stores in any type of Web site – free for first four sites

In many ways, being successful in affiliate sales is a numbers game. The more products you offer the more likely you are to make consistent sales. Feeds are the best solution and these two tools make it feasible for just about anyone to benefit from having a large selection of products that you personally select especially for your niche audience.

We will be sharing proven strategies, tips and how-tos and explaining how Datafeedr and PopShops work in future posts so you may wish to subscribe to our RSS feed or subscribe to our email updates so you won’t miss anything.  We also invite you to follow us at Twitter for quick tips or to ask questions any time. In a hurry now? These three links can be found at the top right corner of every page here for easy access.

Are you really serious about being successful online?  Read GrowMap to Map Your Path to Grow Your Business and follow GrowMap at Twitter for even more tips. You are invited to ask for personal assistance with strategies and to have traffic driven to your business absolutely free.

If you’re ready to get started right away there is just barely enough time to offer your existing visitors the perfect Fathers Day gift. Father’s Day is Sunday June 20, 2009.