Lightning Q&A Round 5
More questionssss…
SomeGuy asks…
1. What is a SuperAffiliate? How do you define it? When do you know that you are one?
2. What Networks do you use? Do you go only for Leads? Sales? Do you do ClickBank?
1) There’s no set number really, a Super Affiliate is just someone making a lot of money through affiliate marketing. To some a super affiliate could be an affiliate making $10,000 per month, to others a super affiliate is someone making over $100,000 per month. An Uber Affiliate on the other hand…
2) The networks I use can be found in my affiliate marketing guide. I usually do just lead gen, and no I don’t promote CB products.
Nick asks…
What computer setup do you run?
Looking at buying a new PC, looking for some insight as to what you think the minimum specs should be.
I have a MacPro with 30″ display, as well as a 15″ MacBook Pro.
Matt Bingel asks…
Are you as concerned as I am with the new Yahoo pricing?
Do you mean the Yahoo/Microsoft thing, or them dropping their minimum bid prices?
Sitedesigner asks…
Is it better to have a blog where you blog about the market as your full name or as another name? Along with that, is one’s name a good thing to brand?
It’s hard and can go both ways I guess, the most important thing is content. Some of the most popular blogs :
TechCrunch.com
Shoemoney.com
UberAffiliate.com (lol)
ProBlogger.net
But then you have guys like JohnChow.com with a huge blog.
Kris10 asks…
When you initially put out money to start your own affiliate site, did you worry about losing your money? or were you sure that you would be successful and were confident in putting your money on the line? In other words, do you think affiliates have to be natural risk takers?
Of course we do. No risk, no reward eh? I was nervous at first yeah, but my first campaign was actually profitable. Things really started to blow up when I became really aggressive with my testing and really just letting go and taking big risks. So I took a couple really big risks and was rewarded extremely well for them.
ronin asks…
Who in this industry impressed you the most in the last 3 months?
That’s a pretty good question. I’d probably have to say Jonathan Volk. His blog is one of the few that gives some really useful tips for affiliates here and there, and apart from that success he’s really growing in affiliate marketing; which is where the real money is at. I remember a couple months ago when he had like 100 RSS subscribers, and now he’s up to 600+, I better watch my back…
Too Much Vodka asks…
#1: How do you scale your offers?
#2: Where do you think you will be in 2 yearS?
#3: Where do you think will the affiliate business be in 2 years?
1) How To Scale A Campaign. C’mon man it’s even under my “Popular Posts” thing lol.
2) Same place I am, making money.
3) Bigger and better than it is now. More expansion into the video and mobile space.
TG asks…
1. How tall are you?
2. Why don’t you write a step by step guide of the process that you follow from the research stage until making a campaign profitable, along with the tools (i.e: software) that you use and how you use them? No need to share confidential details……..just enough to help newbies start earning decent income so they can reinvest it back. Pretend we are your dentist dad, and write the steps as if you were to explain affiliate marketing to your dad until he gets it profitable. (by the way has he sold his dental practice yet?)
1) 6’0
2) I’ve been wanting to do something like that for you guys, just need to find the time. Yeah he sold his practice last week and he’s currently “decompressing” lol that’s what he calls it at least.
Toyota Corolla asks…
-Whats your cut off on a Campaign like clicks to leads ratio before its gone?
-What do you do with your profits?
1) If I lose a few thousand dollars testing a bunch of different things on a campaign and it still isn’t turning a profit, I’ll cut it.
2) Bank them.
John W asks…
You had a guest post on shoemoney when facebook ads first came out. Are you still using them and have you had any luck with them?
Answered this one already, I’m not really using them anymore.
how did you dad and aff.marketing go? i know you were telling us you were teaching him..
Do you always use your landing page or do you use direct linking to offers also?
When is the last time you had a good old fashioned paradigm shift?
Is it just me? Or does your blog change almost every other day?
correction:
Or does your blog *title* change almost every other day?
WHo is nickycakes? And why is he on a rampage?
Why dont you give all these commenters asking questions a backlink in your posts? Everyone else does it.
Are you ashamed that you dropped out of college? What do you say when other people ask you what you do for a living?
Have you thought that no matter how much money you will be able to make online, people will always look at you condescendingly just because you are a college drop out?
I have dropped out of college and i am making a good living online, but i start to regret it and i consider going back to college, not for the money or a job, but just for the diploma and public acknowledgment.
Have you ever been in a similar situation?
that has to be on the mindset of someone…if you want you go if not why bother after all why 95% go to school is just to make the money so thats it!
for your next round of q’s if you do one…
i remember you saying you used amex SPG at one point – how much spending did it take to get to the platinum SPG tier? Gold is $30k, but they don’t publish the amount for platinum. just curious.
How do you find your niches?
Do you start by browsing through your affiliate programs looking for good offers and then create the page/site/campaign or do you look for trends/needs/opportunities and then look for affiliate program offers? It depends?
Im a college grad. Trust me it’s not the best.
People go to college to learn how to make money. If you can figure it out on your own why do you need a piece of paper and people’s aknowledgement to make you feel better. I Know you want answers from the ubberaffiliate but I just had to put my 2 cents in on that one.
There were some nice questions there that led to answers with a lot of info.