Signing up for the right newsletters as a affiliate is crucial to success. Knowing and understanding whats happening in the affiliate business is important. Signing up for newsletters or even rss feeds can help save lots of time.

Be careful not to sign up with someone known as a spammer. Nothing worse than getting bombarded by email saying buy this or buy that. Just remember when you sign up for a newsletter your freely asking for information. Make sure the website your soliciting for the newsletter has a opt out and states they won’t sell or give away your info and email address.

One of the most important news letters, for ePN affiliates atleast is The eBay Developers News Letter. The developers news letter has the most important information.

This month the news letter talked about opening their doors and inviting developers to the campus in  San Jose CA, the latest release of ProStores. and category changes.

Category changes are the thorn in the affiliate marketers paw if they are not planned for. eBay changes category numbers on constant basis. Sometimes more complex that others, but if you have a true Niche Store using BANS to drill down into subcategories your auctions could disappear with the flip of a switch. Check out this link for the eBay Developers News Letter. You will be the first to know about category changes on eBay.