Coffee Talk with Ros Phillips: Tips to Affiliate Industry Events

Coffee Talk Interview #8 – LinkConnector’s Director of Affiliate Relations, Ros Phillips, Provides Invaluable Insight, Advice for Affiliates Old and New

by James Martell on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

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Coffee Talk with Ros Phillips from LinkConnector.com

Hear all about LinkConnector as its Director of Affiliate Relations, Ros Phillips talks to James Martell and explains how one of the Net’s most successful affiliate marketing networks helps merchants and affiliates increase their online sales.

Ros tells James how LinkConnector can help affiliates – both new affiliates and established affiliates to find the best merchants, and then provides campaigns that fit their affiliate’s criteria and allow them to meet their goals.

Having been in the industry for nearly seven years, Ros has attended numerous industry conferences, which is where she met James. Among her personal favorites are the WebmasterWorld and Affiliate Summit events. In fact, she and James first met at PubCon in Las Vegas just last year.

For a new affiliate, Ros highly recommends attending <img src=”https://www.fusionquest.com/cgi-bin/main/hotlinks.cgi?aflt=amh&client=affsum” mce_src=”https://www.fusionquest.com/cgi-bin/main/hotlinks.cgi?aflt=amh&client=affsum” width=’1′ height=’1′ border=’0′>Affiliate Summit, which she says really “caters to the basics,” and for the Webmaster who needs design help, SEO assistance, or is interested in learning a few tips, tricks, and tools to chisel out their own online success, she recommends attending Webmaster World.

Recognizing that many people just breaking into the affiliate arena are doing so to make extra money and may not have the funds needed to travel to industry events, Ros advises making enough to cover your travel and accommodations costs and getting to an industry event as soon as possible. Attending, she tells James, will help people decide if they want to make affiliate marketing their part-time job or their full-time business.

As for what makes a good affiliate, Ros shares with James that over the course of years and through her dealings with numerous affiliates she has observed that the most successful ones do indeed share a few common traits, such as 1) a drive to achieve; 2) the ability to build a relationship with an affiliate manager; 3) willingness to learn; 4) the ability to treat their affiliate work as a business; 5) passion for their site’s content; and 6) a desire to have the best website on the Net.

Listen now to hear more about Ros’ advice for affiliates and to learn how LinkConnector can help you “grow” your business. And don’t forget to grab your own cup of steaming java for this one, for joining in on this Coffee Talk is going to provide you with expert insight, advice, and motivation!

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