This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Small business owners may have more of a need than most to be able to access their chosen suite of productivity tools from more than one computer or platform. As a business or startup owner you may have occasion to bring your work home with you, or require frequent...

In an ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require having your own website, dealing with customers, refunds, and product development. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business. Assuming you are already into an affiliate program, what would be the next thing you would want to do? Double, or even triple, your commissions? Here are some powerful tips on how to boost your affiliate program commissions: 1. Know...

An excellent way to pick out the best affiliate program to promote for your own pay per click campaign is to see what other advertisers are promoting. As an example, let’s look at the movie downloads market for an example of how to do this. First we think about the obvious keywords that people might type into search engines to find movies online. A good starting list of keywords would be; ‘movie downloads’, download movie’...

Google’s Chief Economist, Hal Varian, explains the AdWords Ad Auction and how your max CPC bid and quality score determine how much you pay for a click on...

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