During the review, the Affiliate Classroom 2.0 team unveiled their plan to "Certify" affiliates to make it easier for affiliate managers to select affiliates for JV promotions. This caused me to take a step back, as many affiliates had been signing up for promotions without ever making a sale, and usually received the product for free. This practice would surely stop once a certification system was implemented.

After allowing the Affiliate Classroom 2.0 tour guide to take us around the site, I asked David Radeloff, the affiliate manager for Lurn.com a little more about the curriculum. He explained that Affiliate Classroom contains a combination of testing and real-world applications to more closely simulate the conditions affiliates would encounter. This would give affiliates the skill set necessary to make money before they even finished their training.

David explained that one of the challenges with training that allows people to make money during the course is that the affiliates tend to use their new knowledge without ever finishing the course. This led to Anik Singal suggesting that the goal of the curriculum be to certify affiliates! This way students can receive a class ranking based on the results of the testing and trials that they must perform in live situations. As students achieve milestones, they improve their position in the rankings. This mean persons who are not quite as motivated to finish will want to continue training until they achieve the Super Affiliate ranking.

So as David showed us more of the curriculum, and the areas related to the certification training, it became evident to me that even a super affiliate would be crazy not to take this course, since the end result is bragging rights (and a ranking that can get you higher commission structure) among your fellow marketers.

Not all affiliate marketers will be successful. Those of us who market full time find it easy to get into a rut. We use the same techniques over and over. But sometimes a particular technique is not as effective as another would be for a particular product. The Affiliate Classroom site is designed to help marketers identify what marketing techniques they should use in different situations.

Testing is another important module, because the results should become evident quickly when you are starting a campaign. You shouldn't be using one method exclusively, because as stated earlier, it may not work with one product. Having the base tracking methods in place is vital to make it easy to see which method is making you sales and change your focus away from the methods that do not work!

Affiliate marketers should also know the best traffic generation techniques; keyword research and competitive analysis is vital to knowing how to drive the best traffic for the product you are focusing on. The traffic modules will have live components to have affiliates driving traffic to specific keywords so that they can have a strong working knowledge of traffic. This is crucial for outsourcing your traffic generation, as you have to be able to train your team to do the right tasks. So paying attention here will save you a lot of money as you assemble a traffic generation team.

CPA and affiliate networks deal with legal issues. That is why Anik included over 62 legal and ethical courses to help prevent the bad press that can result from improper marketing techniques. Most product owners want nothing to do with people who spam, use improper advertising methods and make false claims about products.  The FDA can get involved if medical claims are involved, and the FTC has started the rumblings about potentially monitoring blogs for improper recommendation based advertising. Because of this, the Affiliate Classroom members area is filled with courses that can help you avoid entanglements with the governmental agencies without having to move out of the country.

Paying students will have access to supporting materials and software tools to make affiliate campaigns easy to set up with a few mouse clicks. Affiliates with these tools will definitely have an unfair advantage over those who have to find their own tools to work with. Even our Aggressive-Affiliates training includes some some software tools you need to purchase in order to get you going. With that much training and support available to students, I can understand why CPA and affiliate networks can't wait to get their hands on the first batch of graduates to come out of Affiliate Classroom 2.0 training.

Affiliates will also have a forum where they can build a resume of their affiliate successes for future reference by affiliate and CPA networks when reviewing their applications for higher commissions. These forums are where all of an affiliate's Websites, Niches and Promotional Method Expertise will be tracked, so that members can have a resume to use to negotiate commissions rates and to find lucrative joint venture (JV) partnerships. This forum alone can help a struggling affiliate get the help they need to increase their chances of getting accepted by the networks.

I have so far been very impressed with the completeness of Affiliate Classroom 2.0. But the prelaunch buzz has really taken off with Anik's idea to donate $1 to a children's education fund for every registration to access the free training that they are giving affiliates right now. This in itself shows how much Anik Singal and the entire Affiliate Classroom team care about education in general and children in particular.

I hope you will make an educated decision about this training for affiliate marketers. The facts are laid out for you and all you have to do is click on the link above and try the free training. If you like it, buy the complete course and say goodbye to trial and error marketing.

Some of the 5 Day Business Challenge Students decided to skip their product creation and went all out using the traffic blueprint for affiliate marketing domination. The twice a month marketing course begins on the second and fourth Monday of each month and lasts 5 days. The intensive curriculum puts beginning marketers through 2 days of intense traffic training before changing the focus to content and social media. The final portion of the class teaches product sales and affiliate marketing tactics.

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