Affiliate Marketing Secrets

My company currently only has a very basic online retail website, and we would like to redevelop this to boost our online sales. We are a small-mid sized re-distributor for various manufacturers, and currently handle the vast majority of our orders via phone/fax.
We need a customizable Ecommerce platform that will allow us to create a very functional website with a lot of personalization for the users . We are in a unique niche, and our users require some non-standard features & ordering processes that we would need built into the site.
I am looking into various solutions. Ideally, we would like a system that offers CRM, accounting, inventory, POS integration, and other enterprise management tools.
I’ved looked into Oracle, but frankly, it all confuses the hell out of me. They offer so many products/solutions, i’m not sure if this is even what we need. Do they offer an ecommerce platform, or how would it be integrated into a website?
As a redistributor we only currently carry a small inventory of product. Generally we receive orders, put in an order to the manufacturer, receive the product, and then ship it almost immediately. However, as our online business grows, eventually we’ll expand our inventory to hold products we find are most desired through sales analysis/metrics.
Do you have any suggestions on good enterprise software for us? Have you had any bad experience? Is Oracle the way to go? Where can I find a good developer/IT guy that would aid in the implementation of this?

I’m a newbie to affiliate marketing & I’ve been studying this since a month. I’m trying to promote a dating website as an affiliate & I’ve signed up for a pay per lead program (i get paid if some one signs up for free) Now i dono how to promote this using free traffic! I’ve tried facebook groups but even though people join the group (they click the link) but they dont sign up for the website.So i thought of using squidoo but then they consider my article as spam & not letting it to publish. So now what should i do? should i go for blogging??? or free website (weebly)?? if blogging is the option how can i promote it? sholud i have to write articles about dating tips or review about websites? but these are the usual.. They dont seem to work now i guess.. Any other great new ideas guys??? I need your help. Anyhelp, ideas, suggestions etc are welcome. hope you can guide me.. thank you!

Can you describe what really makes you happy in just a few words or sentence?
cuddling up in my bed with 5 blankets and 20 pillows nd watching my favorite show makes me happy:)
what’s your happiness niche?
😀

I am just wondering, because I know there must be some sort of self-marketing trick to it. Some “not-so-good” artists have millions of page views, and some phenomenal artists have virtually none, so I know that it must be at least PARTIALLY unrelated to quality.
I am an artist who began submitting my work on the site about three months ago, and I have hardly any page views at all.
I am not asking that people LIKE my work, only that they have the opportunity to actually see it and give me some feedback.
If there are any secret tips that have eluded me, could someone please share?
thank you!

When I sell through Amazon affiliates, who pays for my 5% commission? Is it Amazon? Or is it the Seller?

I have worked at 4 Fortune 500 companies during my career. I’ve been with my current company for 3 years and I’ve been promoted twice. A year ago, I became a manager of 4 people. There are aspects of it that I enjoy, like people development. There are aspects of it that I don’t enjoy, like talking about the short comings of my employees during review times and how far I think that they can go with their careers at the company. Writing employee reviews was a draining experience for me. I also like constantly learning. I’m learning how to manage others right now and about corporate policies, but I have less time to learn about my specific discipline. I’m in a ‘hot’ niche of a ‘hot’ (IT) field right now. I wanted the experience of managing others and now I have had that experience (for one year). I’m debating on asking to move to an individual performer role again. While this seems acceptable in my company, I’m not sure how others at other companies would look at it on my resume. My ultimate goal is career marketability. I’m in my early 40’s. I’d like to be able to take what I know and go elsewhere, if circumstances required it, and find a job relatively easily. How might this hurt me, both at my current company and elsewhere in the future?