Tips, Tricks, Making Money Online This Week

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Posted on August 13, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, Working Online  

This week I am going to play a little catch up on my blog and post some Tips, Tricks and talk about making money online. Last week I didn’t post much as i was out fishing with my dad catching a limit of speckled trout :).  I have some posts in the works and will be posting a new one every day this week. I will discuss merchants, CPA Networks, Advertising Networks, Tips on making money online, and try to share a few tricks that work!

Expansion and Diversification is an Affiliate Marketers Best Friend

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Posted on August 2, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, Working Online  

Ok I know it has been a while since I posted. I apologize, I have been enjoying life too much…. Wait a second I don’t apologize, but I will be posting more. I wanted to give a little insight in this post and talk about Expansion and diversification in Affiliate Marketing.
First, if all you have had success out the gate congrats, but for most this doesn’t happen. BUT even people I know that have had good success out the gate (revenues of 100K a month), I know some that are back working their 9 to 5 or looking for 9 to 5 to pay the bills.  Why… basically they didn’t have any expansion or diversification plan… they banked one or two hot offers and they slowly died off. To really make it in this business you need to expand… try new offers outside your comfort zone.  Try diversification with other affiliate networks… whatever you do don’t just sit there and live the fat cat life for a few months only to find yourself working for the man again because you didn’t plan.  An old saying that I love is “If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail!” But I feel that if you plan to succeed you will succeed if you truly put forth the effort and don’t expect something for nothing.  A great example is Shoemoney…. He made and still makes money from ringtones, but the huge payout days have passed… but he had forethought and in turn created Auction Ads. Which was recently bought, for how much I don’t know, but I figure between 1 and 5 million. Of course he still runs affiliate campaigns and builds sites and he doesn’t want his online empire to die so he continues to look for the next big thing.  I encourage you to do the same not just what you are promoting today… but what are you working on today, that will still make you money a year from now ( 2 years, 5 years, etc..). If you don’t have anything that falls into that category you are just waiting for a bust or plan on killing yourself everyday to keep afloat.
1. Plan for Today
2. Plan for the Future.
3. In the Plans Diversify (Campaigns, companies and revenue streams)
4. Enjoy life!  (It’s no fun having a load of cash and not enjoying it)

Affiliate Summit East 07 – Networking, CPA Networks, Kris Jones, Shoemoney

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Posted on July 14, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, Working Online, Affiliate Summit  

I am back finally from Affiliate Summit East 07 in Miami. It was a blast! This time I didn’t take any pictures…. Yes I know I should have but I didn’t so sorry no photos.  Compared to This Year’s Vegas conference Miami was much better.  It seemed as though anyone and everyone was there.

Of course I talked with various CPA networks I currently use and had some interesting conversations with some networks that I will be giving a try. I gave away the T-shirts that I brought with me, I was surprised how many people stopped me to say hey or ask for a T-shirt.

I went to the Jamster Party (Thanks Shoemoney) which was actually kind of lame (we arrived 30 minutes late but were the first ones there) but I did get an opportunity to talk with a great affiliate guy (Dave) that runs Coupon Code. We had some good conversation about what he is doing in the affiliate world and what I am doing. It was interesting to discuss what has changed and where the affiliate and mobile space is headed.

The only session I attended besides the keynote speaker was the monetizing communities with Lee Dodd and Jeremy Schoemaker (Shoemoney) doing a Question & Answer session. It was a good listen, as they talked about how to start a forum from nothing, monetizing existing forums better, subscription/premium membership and using a current site to start up a forum.

Probably my highlight of the conference besides meeting all the new people was sitting down in private and chatting with Kris Jones (Pepperjam), Jeremy Schoemaker (Shoemoney), and Lee Dodd (Sprint Users). We talked about Elite Retreat but also talked about online marketing, affiliate marketing, and growing businesses online. 

There are many other great people I met during the conference (Chris, Ken, Forest, Kathy, Nathan, Paul, Jaun…)  and will be in touch with in the future. I must urge anyone in the affiliate / online world to attend an Affiliate Summit if you haven’t already!

Q&A Natural Search Engine Rank, Adwords and Landing Pages

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Posted on July 5, 2007 in Affiliate Tips, Google Adwords, PPC  

Today I decided to do a little Q&A due to an email i received from Edwin.

1)I rank number 1 on Natural Search Engine Rank for my niche, but should i still use AdWords?

If you have natural search engine rank for any terms that get searches daily props to you. Especially in a high volume market. Should you use adwords?  YES!!!!  On all my natural ranking sites that i make money off of and i am not capturing the whole audience I use adwords.

a. You can capture more of your audience, as i doubt you are getting 100% of the traffic that is searching.

b.  Make a custom ad towards the search engine visitors, and you can change it often to see what works.

c. Due to you ranking #1 most likely (not guaranteed) you will get good Quality Score which will mean cheap bids.

2)Do colors really make a difference in sales?

 I am assuming you meant on landing and sales pages. Yes they can make a difference. Anything from color to placement to the signup or sale process can make a drastic difference in the amount of sales or leads. The best way is to test different colors or layouts with your main sales or landing page and keep which one converts the best. In the short term you may lose a little but in the long term you will gain more profits.

If you have a question you would like me to answer use the contact form or leave a comment. Sometimes I answer via my blog and others in private. Hope everyone had a happy fourth of July!

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