Online Retail Sales Grew to $143.2 billion in 2005

Mill Hall, PA - January 19, 2006 - "The Affiliate Marketer continues to struggle when trying to compete with the advertising budget of the Super Affiliate " says Mike Considine owner of Home Base Service Company and Affiliate Co-op Marketing.

Spending on online advertising, excluding search, increased 11.5 percent during the first nine months of 2005, according to a report released by TNS Marketing Intelligence. $6.1 billion was spent on Internet display ads over the first three quarters of 2005. This is up from $5.4 billion for the same period last year. Serious online marketers are looking closely at their advertising budgets.

Mike Considine says:"One of the biggest mistakes a new Affiliate makes is thinking that all they need to do is join a program place some free classified adds or spend a few bucks on Google AdWord and the money starts rolling in. The truth is you need a marketing plan which includes a serious advertising budget."

One way to stretch your budget might be to join a Co-op, but normal Co-ops only provide discount volume prices on things like leads with little or no help on how to turn them into customers.

Mike says "Co-ops have been around forever, but we take this marketing strategy in a completely new direction. No one that we know of is using the power of the Co-op like we do at Affiliate Co-op Marketing"

On behalf of our members our projects are budgeted to spend thousands of dollars a month on things like...
-Website Development
-Keyword Research
-Traffic Generation
-E-mail Marketing
-Search Engine Optimization
-Marketing Software
-Marketing Training
-Website Content
-Content and Product Researchers



About Mike Considine:
Mike Considine has been building marketing websites and integrated marketing systems for companies for over nine years. He has helped thousands of individual marketers promote their programs, products and services.

About Affiliate Co-op Marketing: www.commercemart.com/co-op/
Affiliate Co-op Marketing provides a completely hands off marketing strategy for the average Jane & Joe to participate in various company managed marketing projects and share the profits.

Contact:
Michael Considine
Direct line: (570) 748-7740
http://www.commercemart.com/co-op/

This release was published on openPR.