Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A couple of hyper-caffeinated affiliate marketers (Mike Buechele) and (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing. From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

It’s been awhile.  We’ve been plotting ways to reboot our podcast to make it bigger, better, and even more fanatical than before.  While we’re still hammering out some concrete ideas (a little help from you, our listeners, might be nice!) we’ve decided to answer some questions.  This week, you’re getting a luxurious 39 minutes of free consulting as we discuss the difference between the various blogging platforms. In in this episode we discuss:

• Wordpress.org self-hosted blogs
• Wordpress.com hosted blogs
• Thesis theme for Wordpress
• WP Unlimited theme for Wordpress
• Blogger.com blogs
• Tumblr.com blogs
• Posterous.com blogs (which we’ve been corrected about – they apparently do not allow affiliate links)
• Quick call backs to the other systems out there, like Typepad, Movable Type, & even LiveJournal.

Want to catch up with us & ask questions for the next show? Find us on Twitter: @MikeBuechele & @TrishaLyn. Or leave us a comment!

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As usual, here’s my weekly compilation of cool stories I found around the net this week.

• Shawn Collins announced that Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary.tv will be the keynote for Affiliate Summit West 2009. He’s sure to bring the thunder!
• Epic Advertising was not an April Fool’s Joke; AzoogleAds has indeed re-branded themselves along with Bazaar Advertising (their SEM arm) under the Epic Advertising umbrella. All three websites are still up and only the Bazaar site mentions the affiliation with Epic on the homepage, so I’m still sort of confused.
• Google announced that they’re splitting up DoubleClick Performics into two factions: Search Marketing and Affiliate Marketing. Naturally, they’ll be selling off the search portion and keeping the affiliate portion.
• Monster.com is apparently deparate to steal people from Craigslist.org. Wow that’s sad. But, the new Craigslist blog is really shaping up, so check that out.
• For the bloggers out there… Problogger.net put out a really great (especially for me!) post yesterday telling you which stats are important and which you can chill on. Makes me feel MUCH better, so thanks Darren & guest blogger Mark Seall
• Finally, there was a surge the other day of my friends joining up and getting Wordpress.com blogs. Rob Kaas, a talented writer no matter what he thinks, reposted an old blog about, well, blogging. It’s a good read so check it out.

Good stuff this week… although this weekly wrap up makes me glad that I’m not a “news blog” since I’d be late to the party in reporting this stuff!

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