I haven't had as much time to blog lately for lots of reasons, an important one being that I have been putting a lot of hours into my Internet marketing efforts.

There are still holes in my knowledge, and I'm going to get those holes filled by participating in an upcoming article marketing club.  Not sure if I get in this next one, or one after that.

One thing I figured out is that my coop idea was a good one, but I can accomplish the same thing without having something as formal as a coop in place.  There's this really nifty tool called a rotator that allows you to have one website that rotates through a number of other websites that you choose.  So let's say I'm affiliated with three different flower shops and I want to promote them all.  I can add each of my urls to the rotator and then use the rotator link in all my campaigns.  Let's say one of the flower shops went out of business and I have the link all over the Internet.  No problem, just take out that url from the rotator and every place where I've posted the rotator link is updated.

The particular application I have in mind for a rotator is to use it to rotate different people's affiliate urls in my own advertising efforts.  Now why would I want to rotate other people's affiliate links rather than just my own?  There could be many reasons.  Maybe I have a killer promotional website and the individual offers to create some backlinks to it in exchange for views on her affiliate link.  Maybe I want to offer advertising to people through a coop of some sort.  Has anyone else noticed the proliferation of advertising coops all over the Internet?  Maybe I want to invite people to guest blog on my site and the incentive is they get their link put into my rotator for a set amount of time.

I'm actually thinking of using rotators as a way to help subscribers to my email list (I finally have one through ListWire that's costing me nothing).  Lots of people are desperate to make money online, and lots of people are preying on that desperation by hawking this or that utterly worthless ClickBank product.  Even the good products don't guarantee anything.  People looking to make money online need two things:  the training to do so, which WA is great at providing, and a taste of making some actual money on the Internet.  I'm playing around with ways that I can offer that to people who visit my site, subscribe to my list, join WA through my link.

I haven't figured out all the details, but I'm working on it.  I know I will be capitalizing on the advertising phenomenon known as permission marketing and the marriage of permission marketing with network marketing.  Along with that I will be taking advantage of the fact that it's so much easier to "sell" something if the consumer isn't the one paying the bill.  Imagine getting paid for recruiting people into your downline where a third party is paying their registration fee.  That's what's going on with the permission/network marketing combo.

For examples of innovative companies that have a permission/network marketing business model, check out Varolo and GeoString.  If you know of any others, drop me a line with your affiliate link :-)

I've written a few essays on permission/network marketing in my web site Free Internet Income and in a couple Squidoo lenses.  Feel free to stop by and read more about it:

http://freeinternetincome.myproductreviewsnow.com/permission.html

http://www.squidoo.com/varolo-review

http://www.squidoo.com/geo_string