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Slice, Inc collaborates with some of the most innovative designers on the planet. They take everyday objects – scissors, safety knives, letter openers, ceramic knives, Safety Cutters – and rethink them. How can a safety cutter or a pair of scissors be better? What can we do to reinvent a Box Cutter so it is easier to use? How can we reconfigure beauty tools to make them into works of art?

The result is a collection of award-winning, innovative cutting tools for your home, office, and school that will help you slice in style and inspire you to create great works of art yourself.

Learn about the company, the products and how to promote them via their affiliate program on Shareasale.com

To Join the affiliate program, go to http://teamloxly.com/slicejoin

Billy Kay had an idea, for all the background go to the Country for a Cause webpage.

For those of you that are new or don’t know, Billy is an affiliate, a merchant, a musician, always speaks his mind, and when he takes on a project it generally works out In this case Billy the musician decided to do something for a woman’s shelter in Las Vegas. Here is the press release about that project. The album is for sale on both iTunes and Amazon, so you can support the cause and make some $$$s for yourself or take a bit of that extra and donate it to Shade Tree or your own favorite charity.

Please feel free to pass this press release around, let’s make this a best seller
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MommyBloggers: Changing the Face of Affiliate Marketing? panel from Affiliate Summit West 2010, which took place January 17-19, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV. An interesting note to this panel is that I posted a request for speakers in HARO to find the bloggers, except for Kim, who I already knew.

Another thing, for merchants that may be listening, too many merchants are carte blanche turning down “Mommy Bloggers” and bloggers in general. This is a powerful group of people that probably can hit your target markets.

Speakers:

- Deborah Carney, CEO, Team Loxly (Moderator)
- Wendy Limauge, Blogger, Sweeties Swag
- Carrie Rocha, President, Pocket Your Dollars
- Kim Rowley, President, Key Internet Marketing, Inc.
- Heather Sokol, Proprietor, Inexpensively

MommyBloggers are involved in many types of monetization strategies for their blogs, affiliate marketing being one, however they aren’t necessarily doing it in the “traditional” ways.

More details on Affiliate Summit at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/

Many thanks to Affiliate Summit for posting the replays of sessions from past summits. Many of these are still very relevant, like this one.

If you are unable to see the video below, please go direct to YouTube and watch it there.

Have you checked out our newest merchants? Some really great merchants that have a variety of products that are great for family oriented sites, plus some great B2B options!

Slice, Inc, features a collection of design-oriented, award-winning, cutting tools for your home, office, and school.

Good design is the foundation of our company. we want to build superior products that people love to use. fortunately, our world renown designers feel the same way.

Yves Behar
Michael Graves
Scot Herbst
Alfredo Muccino
Karim Rashid

* 12% Commissions * Cookie Duration: 60 days
http://teamloxly.com/slicejoin

Party Beans offers completely customized candy gifts for any occasion for purchase. Whether one has a birthday party for a son or simply wants to send a small “Get Well” gift to an ailing aunt, we provide convenient and easy online solution.

One can pick from numbers of candy containers, add icons, upload own photos, add text, pick candy types as well as candy flavors. All our products ship next business day if ordered by 4pm PT. All products shipped with Jelly Belly are Kosher (OU) certified by Orthodox Union.

Our candy is always fresh, we print photo quality vibrant colors and stand behind our service 100%. We bring over 12 years of promotional gifting experience and our mission is to offer coolest customized candy gifts for the very best price on the web.

* 20% commission * Cookie Duration: 90 days
http://teamloxly.com/partybeansjoin

Whether you are a business of one or fortune 500 company, Promotopia was created with one main objective — to take away the hassle and delays when ordering promotional products. In fact, we made creating your next promo so simple that you won’t believe YOU can CUSTOM-CREATE such an amazing logo’ed products in LESS THAN 5 MINUTES. With hundreds of products to choose from, small to no minimums and next day* shipment, you now have a solution to promote your business. Whether you are in a bind and need last minute giveaway for a conference that starts in three days or you want to give a token of appreciation to 5-man team that just finished a project, at promotopia we have you covered. 

Since we work directly with the product vendors, your orders have no processing delays, product prices have no middle men and we relentlessly strive to get you the most aggressive deal from the product vendors there is. 

* 15% Commission * Cookie Duration: 90 days
http://teamloxly.com/promotopiajoin

As you may know there is not many products when it comes to ugly ceilings that are affordable, beautiful and easy to use. That is why we focus on this issue, keeping consumer in mind and bringing value with our line of our decorative products for ceilings. Our products are new to the market and are gaining popularity with each and every easy installation.

* 10% commission   * Cookie Duration: Unlimited
http://teamloxly.com/dctjoin

I thought it would be a good idea to post our merchants that are not subject to Sales Tax so that affiliates know they are safe to join these program:

Viator- their tours are not taxed
Raven Tools – They are a service, not subject to sales tax
WyzAnt- they are a tutor matching service and the affiliate program is leads based so there is no sales tax involved.
Knowem – User Name registration plus other services that are not required to collect sales tax
Expand2Web Small Business WordPress Theme – Not subject to sales tax
PartyBeans – based in CA, also most products considered food so not taxable in other states.
Decorative Ceiling Tiles – will charge sales tax if thresholds are met
Loxly Gallery – will charge sales tax if thresholds are met

Here is also a link to a podcast on our forum at the Affiliate Summit Affiliate Marketing Forum where you can discuss the tax issues and pretty much anything related to affiliate marketing.

Let us know if you have any questions on any of our clients!

As we have announced before, Team Loxly is focusing on educating affiliates, bloggers and merchants. We would like to invite you to come and be our guest at the following sites, you can submit more than one topic, or more than one site. We have guests that have discussed topics that cover all three audiences.

We have three ABCs series of podcasts where we give advice and pointers on how to achieve success as an affiliate, monetize your blog or run the perfect merchant program. Part of the success of our podcasts are listening to the people that listen to the podcasts and hear what they want to learn about or when they propose a topic that they want to share their expertise on. We encourage people to introduce us to guests we should have on our shows, and also offer to be guests and speak on a topic or ask us questions about a topic. Our podcasts are all discussion style and not necessarily interview style. We often will have a panel of up to 4 people that will discuss a topic.

We also like to keep the podcasts short and one specific topic so that our listeners have one main takeaway from our shows and are not bombarded with information that they can’t absorb. We also like our guests because we feel that the affiliate industry is in constant growth and there is no one “voice” that can keep up with all the changes. We may create some ebooks from our podcast topics and create some formal training (we are developing that on Merchant ABCs first) but we are not interested at this time in producing print books that are almost out of date by the time they are published.

Here are the links:
Be our guest on Merchant ABCs podcast: Tell merchants what you want them to know to make their programs stellar
Be our guest on Affiliate ABCs podcast: Ask us questions, tell affiliates about your timesaving tips, what things work for you
Be our guest on Blogging ABCs podcast: Ask us how to monetize your blogs, offer your style and writing tips, software and plugins you use

And on Merchant ABCs we have a very special page where you can share the things that Merchants, Affiliates, and Networks do that annoys you or makes you happy. Come share your pet peeves and your props about all aspects of the affiliate industry. Here are some of the responses we have gotten so far. There are some very similar peeves/props that have us already thinking about future podcasts and looking for guests to cover those topics.

Finally, other places to find many affiliate voices discussing industry issues Affiliate Summit Affiliate Forum and FeedFront Affiliate Industry Magazine.