Affiliate Time Management

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Posted on May 18, 2009 in Affiliate Tips

Everyone can use help in time management Especially affiliate marketers. I find myself being distracted by all kinds of things, TV, phone calls, IM messages, facebook, youtube, affiliate companies etc.. Here are some tips i use to help me hone in and really focus on those days i want to truely knock something out.

1. Close or put as away on all IM clients.

2. Unplug my phone (i have voicemail they can leave a message)

3. Don’t check email except every 4 hours that day. (and only reply to something if it is truely urgent)

4. Don’t browse the web. this includes facebook, youtube etc..

5. Don’t get sucked into looking thru the new offer in affiliate networks unless this is part of your task (finding new niche or offer to target) as i find i can spend 30 to hour easy checking out offers etc..

6. Don’t have the TV on.

7. Do have your task ready to go. If you need to do more research before you hit the ground running do that first in the research hunt its easy to get distracted or off on a tangent.

8. Do have plenty of drinks/snacks on hand.

9. Do have an action plan of what your goal is and how long it should take. (Creating ad groups, keywords, ads, landing page/site design, site content)

10. Do have fun doing it. Nothing worse than working on something you hate. which is why i love affiliate marketing go after what you have a passion for and make money at it.

you have a tip? leave a comment.

The Most informative video on Adwords with Insight into Adwords Quality Score & Bids.

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Posted on March 13, 2009 in Google Adwords

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Flourishing or Floundering in todays economy

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Posted on March 10, 2009 in Affiliate Tips

Just like every bit of the economy Affiliate marketing isn’t immune. I have seen some offers be pulled because merchants don’t have the funds or they are changing them up to make them more cost effective (IE longer forms less payout). While some are going under. This isn’t affiliate networks but many of the merchants that push their offers thru the networks. But honestly i think this is a good thing. I think it will automatically help weed out some of the bad apples or non converting offers… Does that mean every offer will be good moving forward… of course not it just means the prunning is occuring due to the economy and those offers/merchants that outlast it will rise up even stronger. But this doesn’t apply for just merchants i have heard of a few affiliates that were raking it in but are no struggling because they were banking on one offer or one niche… my advice is don’t give up… in hard times push thru make it work… while affiliate marketing can be hard at times when you get it right it can be repplied to many verticals not just one. So here is to making good money even in a bad economy.

Are you a Surfer or Foundation Layer?

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Posted on January 15, 2009 in Affiliate Tips

Some of you may read the title and be like what the world is he talking about today… Well today i am posing the question are you are Surfer or a Foundation Layer? Gues i should define these more so in affiliate terms:

Surfer: Some one that rides the overall current and waves. Stays on top of whats hot and tries to grab the big waves, but at times crashes and burns. But more so flows with the general direction of current things.

Foundation Layer: Builds things out for more of long term gains. Not just looking for the quick buck and not easily distracted. Usually builds out fuller sites with more unique content, puts more time into building out linking, seo etc.. not in it for short.

So what are you? Are you hoping on the latest diet offer, remember the days that you rode the ringtone wave, still trying to squeeze the last drop out of the dating wave? Or are you building long term usefull tools, usefull sites, usefull communities, usefull resources and not having to worry is google going to ban my ad because you are doing something sneaky…

Personnally i am more so a foundation layer but on occasion i pull out my surf board to ride the wive .

I am on Twitter

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Posted on January 12, 2009 in CPA Affiliate Announcements

Well with the new year and all i figure i better get my act together and finally get on twitter. so if you want follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/CPAAffiliates I will post some tips on there occasionally. stay tuned i will have a post later this week.

Time to get things Crankin again

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Posted on January 9, 2009 in CPA Affiliate Announcements

Man it has been to long since i posted on here. I got side track with Real Life… well wouldn’t call it side tracked more so enjoying the starting of our family and our baby girl being born. but in turn i saw affiliate stuff take a dive but now things are bouncing back and will be better then ever. Plus i am going to be making more time to blog and maybe even share a few hot tips. Plus i will be talking about some of the changes in affiliate industry, and even try to get some inside scoops from the networks. Here is to a wonderfull 2008 but to an even better 2009!

Give Away Magazines and Get Paid!

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Posted on August 29, 2008 in Affiliate Networks, Revresponse

One of the best affiliate offer that are out there are ones that are truely free. Revresponse does this and it has worked great for me for years. So the next CPA Network up on the Interview list is the Revresponse.

1.How many offers does your network have?
900+ offers (magazines, white papers, downloads, podcasts, etc) and we’re adding more every day.

2. What is the Average Payout of all your offers?
There is no “average” we pay a minimum of $1.50 per qualified subscription and up to $20. This varies per offer.

3. What is your highest Paying offer and how much?
We don’t disclose the payouts for each offer. We prefer that our partners match the offers with their audience based on the topic not the payout. We don’t want them to chase the highest paying lead if they won’t be able to attain it. The highest payout available is around $20.

4. How much a month does your average affiliate earn?
We don’t disclose this data. Our partners range from those that have very small audiences to those that are recognized top destination sites generating millions of impressions on a daily basis. Because of this disparity, it’s not fair to quote an average payout without understanding the context and size of a specific publisher.

5. Do you have a rewards program (If Yes What Rewards do affiliates receive?)?
We have different contests each month where we reward our partners for various efforts. This month we rewarded each partner who blogged about RevResponse with $50. Other months we have revenue generation contests where we reward them for beating their previous earnings, etc.

6. Do you offer second tier/referral commission (If Yes what payout or percent and for how long?)?
Yes! Our referral program compensates publishers on every new publisher they can get to join RevResponse. They are paid 20% of the referral partner’s earnings for the first 6 months of their partnership.

7. What are your payment terms?
We pay on a Net 45 schedule after a partner reaches a minimum earning of $50. All partners have the choice to be paid via check or via PayPal Mass Pay. If you haven’t heard, we’re the only network paying via PayPal Mass Pay…Mass Pay allows us to eat the costs typically incurred by the publishers.

8. Do you offer Special terms for big earners?
Yes. We monitor every publisher closely and gladly reach out to reward publishers for their strong earning potential/activity.

9. What does it take to get weekly payments (if you offer it)?
We don’t offer weekly payments at this time.

10. What makes your CPA network stand out from the rest?
We pay partners to give away valuable resources for free. Partners don’t have to sell anything or buy anything to make money from us.

11. To be in the Top 10 Affiliates of your network how much Revenue would you have to bring in a month?
Again, we don’t publicly share any partner specific numbers.

12. What was your hottest offer across your network for 2007?
It constantly changes. Free courses, ebooks, and software always do well. With that being said, we’re adding new offers every day so it’s hard to forecast what will perform best in 2008

13. What will be hot in your network for 2008?
See above.

14. What conferences do you usually have a booth at?
RevResponse just started a few months ago but you can plan on seeing us at all of the normal industry events this fall.

15. Give one reason why EVERY Affiliate out there should join and be a part of your network?
Because we pay publishers to give their audience free business resources related to their profession.

So if you aren’t signed up with Revresponse and giving away magazines and getting paid for it you are missing out.

Easy Affiliate Marketing Days are over

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Posted on July 23, 2008 in Affiliate Tips, PPC

Just as the post states easy affiliate marketing days are over. Now that doesn’t mean you won’t make money or that you can’t make GREAT money. It more so just means the days of starting up a campaign and going from zero to the penthouse is much harder. The system was easier to game and manipulate. Yes you still can manipulate the system and can get by with things, but to combat this google is updating their Quality Score more oftern. I read many posts about the latest Google slap. I remained untouched due to it but that is only more so all my sites have moved to more legit sites and not the one page wonders that could make a killing of the past.

As an Affiliate Marketer you need to:

1. Rake in the money while you can. If you have a hot offer milk it while you can. Can you do the same with a similar offer? Then do it!

2. Change and evolve… What worked last year doesn’t work… well at times things that worked 3 months ago don’t work.

3. Have a game plan and a end goal. Don’t just pile the money in and blow it on things that will depreciate. I mean we all want to do nothing at some point in our lives.

4. Test Tweak Test Tweak… A/B test, ad test, copy test, site test…. the testing never stops.

With that said there is still a TON of money to be made in affiliate marketing but it takes more work.

ClickBooth Network Interview

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Posted on July 9, 2008 in Affiliate Networks, Clickbooth

The next CPA Network up on the Interview list is the Clickbooth.

1. How many offers does your network have?
Clickbooth has over 4,000 offers, including over 450 true exclusives. We are Agency of Record for the industries top campaigns and our advertising representatives work closely with our advertisers to optimize campaigns on a daily basis, creating the best converting offers available.

2. What is the Average Payout of all your offers?
Clickbooth offers the highest payouts across the industry with no hassles. Our payouts range from $2 for an email submit to $200 for a sale offer.

3. What is your highest Paying offer and how much?
Since Clickbooth does have the highest payouts in the industry, we focus on eCPM’s to ensure that you are always running the campaigns that will make you the most money.

4. How much a month does your average affiliate earn?
With over 20,000 active affiliates on our network, we have a wide range in earning potential. Our affiliates earnings range from $100 per month all the way up to $2million per month.

5. Do you have a rewards program (If Yes What Rewards do affiliates receive?)?
Clickbooth does have a rewards program. We offer our affiliates American Express giftcards based on their monthly earnings. Clickbooth was the first network to allow affiliates to rollover their rewards from month to month. We also offer double rewards points for our exclusive publishers.

6. Do you offer second tier/referral commission (If Yes what payout or percent and for how long?)?
Clickbooth does have an affiliate referral program. We offer our affiliates $10 for every new affiliate they refer along with 2% of the new affiliates commision for life. Why do we ‘only’ offer 2% for referring other publishers? The answer is simple. We offer the guaranteed highest payouts, and, unlike a lot of other networks, we actually stand by this guarantee. In order to maintain the highest payouts, we cannot offer more than 2% because we take extremely slim margins on these campaigns. In fact, we are only breaking even on many campaigns. Nevertheless, this model has proven effective for many major corporations (Think Sam W.) and has been extremely effective for us as well over the years at Clickbooth. Plus your actually doing your friend a favor by referring them to our program, a program they will actually use and isn’t that what it’s all about looking out for friends.

7. What are your payment terms?
Our standard payment terms are net 15, though we do offer faster terms for our top affiliates.

8. Do you offer Special terms for big earners?
For our top earners Clickbooth does offer biweekly payements, as well as the option to be wired payments or receive ACH/direct deposit.

9. What does it take to get weekly payments (if you offer it)?
Clickbooth offers biweekly payments for affiliates earning a minimum of $5,000 per week and weekly payments for affiliates earning a minimum of $10,000 per week.

10. What makes your CPA network stand out from the rest?
• Expert Affiliate Managers- Clickbooth’s affiliate managers each specialize in a specific traffic type so they are industry experts
• Exclusive and AOR advertisers- Direct campaigns you can’t get anywhere else, when you get an offer from Clickbooth you are going direct
• Top Quality = Top Payouts- Ability to leverage our publisher’s superior quality for the highest advertiser payouts
• In-House Design Team- In house designers allow us to offer unique creatives in any size
• Highest eCPMs- Make our affiliates the most money, and gives them the upperhand to outbid other publishers trying to compete in the same niche etc
• No caps- no worries
• Objective system– Affiliate specialists that only push proven offers that will make you money

11. To be in the Top 10 Affiliates of your network how much Revenue would you have to bring in a month?
Our top affiliates are making over $2 million per month.

12. What was your hottest offer across your network for 2007?
Thanks to our relationships with our advertisers, Clickbooth has the hottest offers available across every vertical. This offers all of our affiliates the opportunity to be running the hottest offers in the industry, no matter what vertical they are interested in.

13. What will be hot in your network for 2008?
Clickbooth has already had a groundbreaking year in terms of advertiser growth and has several more industry leading campaigns in the pipeline. We average about 200 new offers going live a month!

14. What conferences do you usually have a booth at?
Just within the last year Clickbooth has exhibited at/plan to exhibit at:
• adTech- San Fransisco and New York
• Affiliate Summit- East and West
• OMMA- New York and Hollywood
• DMA Days- New York
• Pub Con
• Email Authentification Summit
• And we are always adding more

15. Give one reason why EVERY Affiliate out there should join and be a part of your network?
As you can see from question 10, Clickbooth was founded with the best interests of both our advertisers and affiliates in mind. We value our relationships with our advertisers and affiliates and built our network to serve our partners better than anyone else in the industry can. Clickbooth leads the pack in industry innovation and versatility and knows that our continued focus on these is the key to our future growth. And last but not least, we are a relationship based company. We truly value the relationships we have built up over the years with so many great people and companies across the globe.

If you aren’t using Clickbooth you should definitely check them out!

Reel in the action at Affiliate Summit East Contest

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Posted on June 16, 2008 in Affiliate Summit

Unfortunately I won’t be attending Affilaite Summit East this year in Boston as it is getting to close to my wifes due date. But my loss is your gain. The great people at Advaliant are allowing me to give away my spot on their Pre-show fishing excursion with other affiliates.

Here’s the Bait

Advaliant made arrangements for a custom coach to pick you up from the Boston Seaport Hotel in Boston at 11:15 AM on Saturday and deliver you to the Docks on Plum Island. From there we’ll board the 78 Foot Captains Lady for a 4-hour fishing trip. Beer, food, bait, and fishing rods will be at the ready. Bring your camera if you want to catch a snapshot of a few whales… (we aren’t just talking about the affiliate kind). When we return we’ll share some stories over dinner in Newburyport www.newburyportchamber.org one of New England’s most talked about coastal seaport villages. After dinner, you can explore the historic downtown Newburyport scene, hoist a beer at one the many local watering holes or just take a stroll on the boardwalk. At 10 PM the custom coach will be waiting to carry you back to the Boston Seaport Hotel.

The Details

When: Saturday, August 9th
Time: 11:15 at the Seaport Hotel
Return Time: 10PM

So how do you win the spot on the fishing trip? First you must already be an affiliate with Advaliant or Signup with Advaliant . Every $50 in affiliate earnings you make From June 17 – July 16 thru Advaliant will give you 1 entry (Example: For Every 2 leads you send to there Ultra Green Tea offer and you get 1 entry!). So the more you earn the more entries you get. The Drawing will be held on July 17th and the winner will be contacted via email.

But it doesn’t stop there, leave a comment on this post talking about Affiliate Summit & why you will or will not attend, and you will be entered in a drawing for $50 (via paypal) and some Advaliant Swag. (Only one entry per person for the cash and swag)

So what are you waiting for Signup for Advaliant, drive some leads, and leave a comment on this post.

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