10 Things to do when you seem to hit a Wall in Affiliate Marketing

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Posted on February 8, 2007 in Affiliate Tips  

As Affiliate Marketers we are always trying to come up with new ideas and new ways to promote offers and websites, but what happens when your well runs dry? Below is a list of 10 things I do when I hit a wall or I am frustrated with the results I am getting.

1. Turn Off the PC.
2. Go For a Walk
3. Hang Out with the Wife
4. Veg out in front of the TV
5. Blast some people away on Xbox Live (Ghost Recon & Rainbow Six Las Vegas)
6. Play Boxing on the Wii
7. Go Browse around Fry’s Electronics store
8. Read the Newspaper (Yes I know it’s so 2000 but still serves a purpose)
9. Take a Nap
10. Read a Book

No I don’t always do all of those things but those are 10 of the things I will do when I hit a wall and just can’t seem to come up with anything or I am getting frustrated with my results. I will say every time after a break, I do go back to my PC and work, I will start over flowing with ideas or an idea will hit me while I am doing one of the 10 things. Noticed I listed watching TV and Reading the paper, I have gotten several ideas spurred on from those two sources as you will read or see something and a light bulb will go off.
I hope this may help you when you hit a wall or maybe you have a few you can suggest?

Super Bowl Ads

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Posted on February 4, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, CPA Affiliate Announcements  

Well i decided to write about the Super Bowl Ads mainly due to the fact that i think most of them were sorry. I usually look forward to the ads during the game but lately they have been a big dissapointment.  Their was only a few of them that i even remotely found funny or entertaining; the blockbuster one before the game started with the animals clicking and scrolling with a real mouse, chevy car wash (funny in a wierd way), and the career builder ones….  Why am i writing about this on my blog?  Because a internet marketers we need to appeal to people and convience them to either visit our site, buy our product or signup for something. So here are a few tips.

1. Get People to your site.  Get People interested in your product, site or signup to your site. (targetted traffic, no use in sending a 1000 visitors interested in skiing to a hot rod site.)

2. Engage People on your site by visuals or unique content

3. Provide informative and usefull information about the product or signup.

4. Give Testimonials if possible.

5. (acutally this should be higher on your priority) if there is a way to make your site go viral or get a lot of buzz (social bookmarking etc..), utilize that with a stunt, video or giveaway.

6. Give them easy access to buy, sign up or revisit your site.

7. Make sure the actual singup/buy page is working and is just as engaging as your presell (nothing like a killer presell with a horrible buy page)

8. Test, Tweak, Test, Tweak.

9. If you can’t get it to work after many tries and can’t seem to get advice or tips from other people try another area, or try harder….   Sometimes it is the 100th try i get it right sometimes it’s the second…… but even when it is the second try their is always room for improvement.

10. When you find something that works try to repeat it in another area with tweaking of course.

You have any tips you want to share or want to give feedback about the super bowl ads…. just leave a comment.

February the Month of Love and Money

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Posted on February 1, 2007 in Affiliate Tips  

Well of course everyone knows that February is the month of love due to Valentines Day, but it is also the month of money for many affiliate marketers. I know for me in January, I have been prepping for the start of February for targeted offers. What offers do you target for the month of February? Well honestly it is almost a no brainer but I will go into what offers I choose and why.

The first one is a dead giveaway….. Flower offers. Especially these days’ people are ordering more and more off the internet so why not get your cut? Many of the offers you can push people to will give them 5 or 10% off their order. Some of the flower companies have taken notice and even built alternative white label sites for you to promote to. Azoogle has a white label offer for FTD.

The second is giveaways. There are many simple email and zip offers that are “Valentines” giveaways. Some examples are Free Flowers, Free Tiffany’s Jewelry, and Victoria’s secret gift card.  These won’t make you as much per signup but you can get volume going.  From my initial test I have to say that Free Flowers offer will convert the best of the three from now until Feb 14th.

Lastly is the promotion of dating offers. With Valentines Day coming up people start looking for love and many are looking online.  Just about every CPA network out there has a dating offer. (While other networks have some different offers Azoogle’s Payout is hard to beat)  I have found the key with these offers is don’t go general, the best converting is targeting to groups. Find Networks that have offers that appeal to older people, Christians etc…  Then push to those audiences on adbrite or any of the top 3 Search Engines (MSN, Google, Yahoo).  I haven’t dealt much on 2nd or 3rd tier with dating, but I am sure you can make them work also.

As always test, test, test! If you have any suggestions or feedback feel free to leave us a comment.

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