Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I use FlexOffers.com. they have some good affiliate programs including one from Discover Bank which pays $1 per click. Not bad.

I am building a website for my employer, and I am looking to design it much like the existing freelance websites on the web. It need to be able to have the same functionality as those websites, with customers being able to bid on services of our affiliate companies and our company taking a percentage of the profit. Does anyone know what kind of payment software freelancer.com or it’s clone websites use?

So here’s the deal…I ordered a book via Alibris.com, never got it. Called their customer Support, they do not call back (by the way, the back door number to actually get a person is (510)594-4500 press zero and just talk to Allison!) left messages, they never returned call or email. Found out that I bought the book from the bookdepository,com which is really located in the UK not California! Had to call them directly they were kind enough to actually help me! So this is more of a statement than anything, if you need a book, call the bookdepository at 011-44-014-5230-7905 and advoid Alibris! Their Customer Service Sucks, and they ripped me off big time! But bookdepository refunded me the amount they got paid…and provided proof what what they recieved! Alibris sucks! Oh yeah, and they are affiliated with Borders Books according to their message? Checked into that, not really-kind of a lie! Borders claims that if you choose to purchase a used book, they refer the individual to Alibris website, so I’m now starting to wonder if Border’s is in the scam business as well? Anyone who has ever had to use Alibris I invite you to share your opinion.

My dad has a decent collection of short stories he has written over several decades that I want to combine in kind of an anthology of his work. I was planning on going on like Blurb.com or Lulu to self publish it, and maybe even have it listed on Amazon for fun. On Lulu they sell ISBN. Or I thought about actually sending it to a publisher to get published. But since his stories are very niche, I don’t know if there’s publishers that will pick up his stories.
Anyway, my question is… Years ago he may have had some of these stories published in magazines. He never got paid, but it was like Deer hunter magazines that he sent to. They liked his story so they published it. No money was exchanged. I’m wondering if the magazine would have the rights to these stories or can he still do what he wants with his stuff?
All of his work is printed off from the printer or in the forms of old emails. It be fun to see it edited, formatted, and all together in a collection so that’s what I’m doing for him right now. I’m just wondering how far I can attempt to go with his stories.
And yes he knows I’m doing this. I got a stack of papers I have to retype because the digital copy of many of these stories are lost and only thing that’s left is what he copies with copy machine.

Can my domain name contain another companys trademarked name? For example, if I were to purchase a domain name like, www.buyusednikesneakers.com and sold used nike sneakers on there would it be legal? It’s the same idea as ebay just with a more specified niche and specified domain name.

I’ve just started a new website and it’s in its early days but I’ve read up on PPC and affiliate marketing but I was wondering whether people know of any other methods of generating income for a website? My site is www.sellersuk.com. Thanks again