We’ve been conducting a little experiment over the past month or so. We wanted to see how/if tipping ScratchBack users with a direct link to an affiliate site would drive conversions and sales for a product. So here’s what we did.
Over the past month, we’ve tipped close to $200 across a few hundred ScratchBack widgets [...]

I’m literally getting on a plane to the BlogWorldExpo in Las Vegas in a few hours, but I wanted to talk about ScratchBack’s plans for an affiliate/referral program.
We have a pretty solid background in Affiliate marketing here in the halls of ScratchBack. So it’s just a natural thing to put an affiliate program in place [...]

Shawn Collins of the Affiliate Tip blog is promoting his ScratchBack TopSpots pretty smart. Here’s how he did it.
1. He made a page on his blog talking about the widget. There’s even a video on the page where he explains how it works and he asks for your tip.
Shawn’s Affiliate Marketing blog now has an [...]

It’s early in the beta launch, but I thought I’d give you an indication of the types of links that people are listing from their tips. To do so, I’ve taken a look at the TopSpot widget that is running on the ScratchBack home page and website. Here’s how it breaks down. You’ll see the [...]

Looks like word is spreading from our soft launch of the beta. Shawn Collins from the Affiliate Tip blog posts up a nice blog review and video of ScratchBack in action.

It’s basically an online tip jar where friends and fans of a blog or site can make a donation, and in addition to good [...]

A smart friend of mine brought up a good point to me today. If you’re an affiliate, you could purchase TopSpots on someone’s site or blog and use your affiliate link and drive sales. Heck, you could even use it to recruit affiliates into your program.
For example, if you bought a TopSpot on on Shawn’s [...]