Networking Is Key to Growing Online!

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Posted on November 29, 2006 in Affiliate Information, Affiliate Tips  

All the time people wonder how I come up with new trends, and areas to venture into with online marketing. The key is Networking, Networking, Networking. If you aren’t networking you could be missing out big time.

First, start by making your presence known online. Post in forums with questions and answers. Many of connections I have made have come from people helping me solve a promotion or programming problem. But don’t just take give back supply answers to people’s questions. You would be surprised as you can sometimes learning something even from a newbie!

Get AIM, YIM, Google talk or at least some type of instant messaging system that other people use. I can’t count how many general chats have turned into idea sessions or end up being long term partnerships. Plus the instant messengers have groups and labels to sort thru the people that just want to suck the information from you or with the people that are really great online contacts.

Lastly, attend conferences! Many people just try to do things online via chat and forums, but a face to face meeting can mean the difference between your site making 100 dollars or 1000 dollars. Yes these conferences cost money to get to but they are more than worth it (plus you can write it off as a business expense). Make sure you have plenty of business cards, and get ready to shake lots of hands.

I will be attending Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas, Jan 21-23 2007. If you are planning to attend and want to meet up leave a comment and let me know.

A Meeting of the Web Minds that you can Learn from!

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Posted on November 1, 2006 in Affiliate Information, Elite Retreat  

Many of us in the CPA world have heard of Shoemoney (Jeremy Schoemaker) but now is your chance to sit face to face with him & many other internet “Guru’s” and get your questions answered. They are Calling it the Elite Retreat.

It is a great oppoprtunity to sit with many of the best in the internet business (Leaders: Jeremy Schoemaker, Lee Dodd, Dave Taylor, Aaron Wall ) and pick their brain and help them push you and your sites to the next level. I am even considering going but I have will have to check with the real boss (My wife) as the only thing holding me back from signing up is that it is right before Christmas.

Some may say this is expensive, but think the knowledge that will be gleamed from them and the contacts you will have when you walk away from the retreat. The contacts you will have are worth the entry fee alone.

But if you want to find out more infomation about the Elite Retreat and all the Speakers,details etc. Check out this post Elite Retreat December 18-19 San Antonio

Maxbounty takes a Stance on Myspace Promotion

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Posted on October 31, 2006 in Affiliate Networks, Affiliate Information  

I received this email from Maxbounty today.

 I am sending you this e-mail today to update you on MaxBounty’s position with respect to advertising on MySpace.

While we have been allowing affiliates to advertise MaxBounty campaigns through
their personal MySpace profiles with the provision that they were not phishing or
spamming other MySpace profiles, our recent efforts working with MySpace directly
has shown that too many people are breaking the rules. Coupled with the fact that
MySpace expressly forbids commercial activity of any type in their terms of service,
we have decided to change our position on MySpace advertising.

Effective immediately, MaxBounty’s affiliate terms and conditions will be updated to
prohibit advertising of any type through MySpace accounts. This includes, but is not
limited to, advertising via bulletins, comments, mail, profiles or any other area of
a MySpace account. Any affiliate caught violating these terms run the risk of having
their MaxBounty accounts terminated.

Looks like no more myspace promotion of Maxbounty offers, plain and simple. So if you did or use links you may want to remove them immediately.

Making Money as an Affiliate. Where do I start?

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Posted on October 27, 2006 in Affiliate Information, Affiliate Tips  

I get asked all the time on how I make money and how others can get started. I will give an overview of what needs to be done before you take the plunge into being an Affiliate and promoting offers.

First – Research Research Research

Research is the key and gaining knowledge of the Affiliate market. You are at the right place by reading Cpa-Affiliates.com Blog but there are many other places. Below is a few forums and blogs I read that can help you gain information.

• Earners Forums
• Digital Point Forums
• SitePointe Forums
• Wicked Fire Forums
• Capitalist Pigs Blog
• Shoemoney’s Blog
• The News and online news sources.

Second – Decide to do it.

I get asked all the time should I give this a try or is it worth it? Yes everything is worth a try get a plan together and just do it. Start small and get bigger. Do you want to look back on your life wondering what would have happened if you would have tried? I know I don’t! If you have existing sites use them, if not start a site. Learn some html or web programming. Start posting some of your questions as comments in this blog or in the forums I recommended.

Thirdly – Signup

Now you decided you are going to do it and you have a plan, start signing up. Get going with a diversification. I suggest trying at least one contextual, one CPA network, and one advertising network for the best success. My suggested signups are listed below:

Contextual:
Join Google Adsense

CPA:
Join MaxBounty
Join Azoogle

If you want to signup for more networks check out our Top 5 CPA Networks.

Advertising:
Join Google Adwords

Now you’re signed up get going and implement your plan. Once the pennies start rolling in your will be driven to make quarters, then dollars, then thousands. The biggest thing to remember is to learn from both successes and failures. If you only learn from your successes then you are missing some major knowledge gaining experiences.

Lastly give yourself time Rome wasn’t built over night and neither will your success. Remember that the internet is constantly changing and you need to change with it to truly be successful. I wish you the best of luck!

If you have any suggestions or feedback feel free to leave us a comment.

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