Online tools that will help you to monitor brands free of charge

• Google Alerts
• Social Media Firehose (by Yahoo!)
• TweetBeep
• BuzzMonitor
• Collecta.com
• BackType
• Omgili
• boardreader
• Whos Talkin
• Social Mention
• BlogPulse

How to start as affiliate marketer

Working as software developer is difficult to look upon other areas of expertiese that can leverage of gaining income. For example how to start to be an affiliate marketer. The first thing is good to look arount for course or a book. Study and gain experince from doing something in that field. The book I picked up was "Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day" by Evgenii Prussakov. I have found that comment really good: "I always encourage affiliate program managers to follow the emperor’s example and start affiliate accounts with all major networks. Take your time to try them yourself in the capacity of PPC affiliate, mall affiliate, coupon affiliate, and so on. Try various affiliate tools provided by the networks and third parties. You will gain invaluable experience in the process. Do not quit those accounts. You’ll need them later for ongoing competitive intelligence."

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