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 ConverҊMedia 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:

1. My ad sucks, or
2. My offer sucks, or
3. No one reads that classified paper, or
4. A combination of the above

The next step in this process is going to be a larger scale classified.  I’m going to do a lot more research  on the local area and generate a more tailored offer.   The only way to get ahead on this ios through testing.  I’ll keep everyone posted.

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.

On another note, I saw a very interesting landing page this week.  Someone set up a page complaining that his girlfriend had been cheating on him.  He added a couple pictures, then offered several nude pictures if you brought X number of people to his site.  Alternately, he gave you a quicker option.  Enter your email in the box below (which happened to be an iframed affiliate offer).  Very sneaky.  Since most people won’t want to wait to see the photos, this is going to be the obvious choice.  A word of caution, be careful using this method because it may get your leads scrubbed since it is an incentivized offer.

Always make sure that you are trying to think outside the box when you are setting up offers.  There is no specific way you need to set up your landing pages, but make sure that you are tracking your clicks to make sure they are converting.

Like the title says, I was fired yesterday.  Due to the eonomic situation, my company was downsizing and I happened to be one of the unfortunate individuals looking for a job.  All is not lost, however.  This gives me an awesome opportunity to practice all the information that has bee provided in my blog.  I have suspended the feeds from the other great blogs that I have been syndicating and will be writing my own posts from now on.

Over the last few months I have been dabbling in affiliate marketing and have gone from making a couple dolars a month to over $1,200 in July.  Now is the time to step it up though!  For those of you who hae never heard of affiliate marketing, just subscribe to my blog and you will be started on your way to making money online.  Feel free to comment on my posts, especially if you disagree with some of my ideas.  I know there are many successful people out there who know a lot more than me, and I welcome their criticism.

Lastly, I just updated the site layout and may be tweaking it slightly over the next few days until I get it exactly the way I would like.  Also, I have some ad slots available if anyone is interested.  Just send me a quick message.

Buck