Well I finally logged into my rss reader to check and see what the top affiliate bloggers had to say, when I saw Shoemoney’s Contest. To give the brief overview, Jeremy Schoemaker and Azoogle Ads are teaming up to hook one lucky reader up with the following:
I was browsing some books on marketing at Barnes & Noble today when I noticed one titled “Search Engine Advertising: Buying Your Way to the Top”. I picked it up and was surprised to see a $200 voucher program for Microsoft AdCenter (Bing). Now I don’t know anyone that wouldn’t be interested in getting $200 of advertising for $34.99 (price of the book) so I decided to share it with everyone.
If you haven’t heard, Tracking202 was acquired today by a company named Boosky. Tracking202 was started a couple years ago and has grown tremendously into one of the premiere tracking companies around. If fact, they even started their own network in the past few months. Basically, the company grew to such a point that they couldn’t handle the growth on their own. Steven and Wes are planning on staying around to help keep Tracking202 the company it is today. If you have never been to their site it is definitely worth checking out. http://www.tracking202.com
First I want to make a disclaimer that I am not a member of PPC Bully.com. That being said, I just downloaded their free toolbar today and I am really impressed. This toolbar is an invaluable tool to research new campaigns and affiliate offers. The PPC Bully toolbar gives options to search for new affiliate offers and products, do keyword research, check trends, demographic info, view google ads, and find articles on the topic you are researching. Naturally, they do have a few limits with the toolbar since it is free. They limit some of their keyword research with the intention that you will subscribe to their tool. If you are looking to get started in PPC, I would definitely recommend trying out the free tool bar. http://ppcbully.com/toolbar/
One of my new favorite networks is MaxBounty. I have only been with them for a couple months, but they have been great. Any questions I have are answered quickly and I have never had any issues with tracking. In the last 30 days they updated the MaxBounty interface. Offers are extremely easy to find and payouts are top notch. MaxBounty is currently running the contest below.
I’ve been meaning to write about Convert2Media for a while. I have only been advertising with them for couple months now, but they are hands down my favorite affiliate network. If you do any research on them, you will probably find out that they only have a handful of employees. Don’t let this concern you. They are more proactive on helping their affiliates succeed than any other network I am a part of. The margins they are keeping are really small which means that they have much higher payouts than a lot of other networks. I switched an offer from another network to Convert2Media in December because there was a $5 payout difference for the same promotion. That is ridiculous! The owner of Convert2Media, Ruck, started out as an affiliate like you and me. He had a blog CashTactics.net that I stumbled across about a year ago that really got me started in affiliate marketing. Now he continues to blog several times a week on the Convert2Media blog giving examples and ideas on how to promote certain offers. They also have a great forum with some very knowledgeable people that gives some great “best practice” information. How many affiliate networks do that? Bottom line – check them out, you may not realize what you are missing. Convert2Media.com
Ok, I wanted to give enough time for my ad to run and let me see the full results. Here is what happened. I paid $21 for an ad in a cheap classified paper for testing. I managed to successfully turn this $21 into $7. 
What I learned here is that:
I’ve been talking to some people that are doing some “outside the box” advertising and it really has me thinking. What would some offline advertising do for my sales? I decided to give it a try on a small scale. I know there are people usingsimilar advertising to generate large amounts of revenue, but since I have only used online ads thimay need a little tweaking. I’ll be sure to let everyone know the results.
I have been playing around with a few new methods of gerating targeted traffic over the past couple of weeks. One of the best places I have found is Yahoo Answers. I don′t know how many of you have ever been on Answers, but there are a lot of people out there searching for different answers. The great thing is that we have the answers. They made be trying to figure out how to build a website. Give them some quality information along with your affiliate link. You would be surprised with the conversion. Just don’t SPAM everything. That will just turn people off and your account will get banned. For the last two weeks this has generated me over $30 per day with as little as 15 minutes work a day.
I’m sorry it took me so long to make a new post, this past week has been extremely busy for me. I have been working on a game plan for my next couple promotions. In the mean time, I have had some really good success with a couple campaigns from HydraNetwork. They have a huge selection of email/zip submits that convert extremely well. Most of my campaigns have been direct links to the offers that have offered an almost 70% return which I think is great.
