As a special follow up treat, if you can’t seem to watch the videos in your browser for whatever reason you can download a zip file of the CJ-Squidoo Training. (it’s about 35 MB so it takes a bit)

As a quick re-cap, here are all the lessons we’ve learned in the past few days:

An Introduction to Commission Junction

Applying for Programs on Commission Junction

Adding affiliate products to your Squidoo Lens

Using Commission Junction’s reporting tools for maximum benefit

Remember, this training is really only a blueprint illustrating one way you can use an affiliate program on Squidoo. Most of the concepts translate pretty easily across all the major networks as well, the reporting and application process is usually quite similar.

I hope you all enjoyed it and stay tuned for some more fun posts this week!

I’m a huge believer in analytics and collecting as much actionable data as possible from my web properties. CJ lets you do that in a way that is very powerful once you learn how to use it.

Commission Junction Reporting Tutorials:

Performance Reporting with Commission Junction

Transaction Reporting with Commission Junction

If you are catching this series for the first time, make sure and check out the earlier videos so you’ll have an idea what I’m talking about here :

Introduction to CJ and Squidoo

Applying for an Affiliate Program on Commission Junction

Adding Commission Junction Links to Squidoo Lenses

Tomorrow, I’ll wrap up the series with a few special downloads for you guys so stay tuned!

The video covers how to insert products, descriptions, and images into your lenses in an SEO-friendly manner.

The video tutorial can be found here:

Adding Commission Junction Products to Squidoo lenses - CJ training Part 3

Also make sure and check out the first two posts in the series:

An Introduction to using CJ and Squidoo

Applying for Affiliate Programs on Commission Junction

you must be accepted as an affiliate by a company before you can begin earning money from them. The second installment walks you through applying for an affiliate program and provides some helpful tips for getting your application approved quickly.

Here’s the video:

How to Apply to Affiliate Programs on Commission Junction -CJ training part 2

And in case you are just joining us, the first post in the series can be found here:

Using CJ and Squidoo to make $1,000 a month

In a nutshell, they tell you how to build a kick butt affiliate lens using a third party affiliate program like Commission Junction. It’s close to 2 hours long all together and covers everything from how to apply to programs (and get into ones most people can’t) all the way to tracking sales down to the lens.

This is pretty much the blueprint I used to go from $10 or so a month on Squidoo to breaking $1,000 a month.

I Reached that level a while ago and have started using some other strategies since then in addition to these but I think you guys and gals will really find this series helpful.

Disclaimer: I recorded this video in 2008 so some of the screenshots are a bit outdated. The concepts are still perfectly valid though.

I’ll release the entire series over the next few days, here’s the first one, let me know what you guys think!

Commission Junction Training Video Overview -  Video 1