I invite you this month to temporarily suspend the belief that you know everything about affiliate programs.

Join the Affiliate Mastermind we are putting together here at ActiveMarketplace. We know that the affiliate industry is so young, that we are all newbies....

• Welcome to the Affiliate Mastermind called ActiveMarketplace

• How to Immediately Impact Your Market Through Affiliate Programs and Email -- Case Study: The ActiveMarketPlace Breakthrough Called "Winning the Affiliate Game"

  The recent release of the first sales training system targeted towards the affiliates has spread like wildfire. The sister book to the Insider's Guide, this came after numerous requests for a complete Internet marketing system that helped affiliates learn how to sell more. The release of this affiliate program has been stunning. Let's show you how it's done.

• What You Must Know About Two Tier Programs: It's Not Network Marketing -- It Is A Mastermind
  If you only reward your affiliates for sales, you are missing the point. Sales forces have sales managers...just like two tier affiliate programs.

• Whose Affiliates Are They Anyway?
  Be sure that you control and own your affiliate network. Read the inside news on industry trends that could dramatically impact your efforts.

• The Dummies Guide to Affiliate Software
  A common sense guide to selecting affiliate software, service bureaus, and merging your budget with the reality of what you want to generate.

• Demystifying Affiliate Programs for Shopping Carts
  Most networks think only in terms of customers and sales, and have vague numbers. If you can determine how much your affiliates should be generating, then the long term value of an affiliate can become an important tool for tracking success.

• Refer-It Interview with Internet Travel Network

• Visit http://www.activemarketplace.com/win/ and take a sneak preview of the first affiliate sales training system. Created specifically to help your network sell more, this program will be offered to affiliates to help them succeed.

• Permission Marketing: The Best Kept Secret on the Internet is Unleashed
  Email is one of your best affiliate tools. Discover how companies are ignoring this powerful tool and putting it into the hands of teenagers because they simply do not understand the power of email marketing. If you are not building your email list, you will likely waste money and lose your customer base to a competitor who knows you have to remind your customers.