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I’m writing again to thank CX Digital for hooking a brother up. As you know they have their rewards program for affiliates, where dollars earned are counted as points. I redeemed my points about a month ago, and everything finally came in (almost) so I took a pic with it all. I got a lot for my house, I’ll be moving in next week so it was the perfect time to get stuff. Here’s what they got me :

• Ducane Grill (not pictured)
• extra $750 gift certificate to Amazon.com
• Samsung 46″ LCD Flatscreen
• Wall mount for the TV
• Wireless Apple mouse and keyboard
• Flip video camera
• 12-piece cookware set
• 3 sets of Corelle dishes
• 2 sets of Oneida flatware
• Ginsu knife set
• 5 pairs of drum sticks
• 3 drum cymbal stands for my drum set

Once again, I highly recommend CX Digital Affiliate Network to anybody looking for a solid network with some of the highest payouts out there. Email me if you want me to recommend you an AM there and get you approved.

Thanks guys!

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Since every affiliate blogger and their mom is posting about the brand new PepperJam Network, I figure it’s my turn to jump on the bandwagon. I was just accepted a couple days ago, so I’ve had a chance to go through the interface a little.

PepperJam in general is a great company, I’ve met a lot of the workers there including Kris, and they’re all awesome. Now it’s time to explore around the PJ interface a little bit, so let’s go in…

Here we can see the very first screen you see when you log in. It doesn’t look that special since I haven’t done anything yet, but it looks like we can immediately see our earnings, EPCs, some charts, and the ability to generate instant reports.

Next let’s click the “Find Partners” menu link, where we’ll see what offers PJ has to offer. Navigating around everything, you’ll see it’s a lot more similar to Commission Junction than it is to a network like Azoogle. Offers have their own images, you have to be manually accepted into some programs, information pops up about an offer in it’s own small window, etc. So here we see a general overview of all the offers, and then we can break it down into searches or by category if we want.

Let’s click on an offer now. How about the first one, 101inks.com. We can see it gives some contact information on the offer, a short description, the commission, how long the cookie lasts, and even some suggested keywords. Pretty cool.

They also have a resource center with links to some affiliate tools, as well as a bunch of the top affiliate marketing blogs. Top affiliate marketing blogs minus UberAffiliate that is.

All in all, PepperJam Network looks like a pretty decent networking coming out. The payouts look competitive and the resources are cool. I’ll have to chat with my affiliate manager come Monday and discuss a little more about the network. If you haven’t yet, make sure to sign up to PepperJam Network!

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Azoogle flew me up to their new office last week on Wednesday, and it was a blast! I was the first publisher to see the new look. Their office had been under construction for a while and last time I visited, let me tell you it wasn’t a pretty sight. All the managers were crammed together like one big family working at a dinner table. The office now is pretty sick looking though, I was able to take some top secret pictures with my iPhone that aren’t supposed to be leaked. After we had a pretty long meeting, they took us out to dinner at an AMAZING steak house, and then we went to a really nice club afterwards. It was a great trip and the people at Azoogle are awesome.

I’d like to shout out to Audrey, my AM, for being the best manager Azoogle has. Mitch, Alex, and Joe for running a great company and brining me up there. And Ryan Sessler, for actually getting me into a club after standing outside freezing my ass off with no coat in mid-January for a half hour. Azoogle is a great company, if you haven’t already – sign up.

When you walk in, it looks like you’re walking into the CIA. Everything is white and really Area 51 looking :

And here’s a picture of the conference room (still not finished) with Audrey moving a chair or something :

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This is S1ick. While Paul is off kickin it with his people at AdTech, he told me I could guest post. I’m the random blog on his blogroll that never posts, but he’s convinced me to share some knowledge.

Class, today’s lesson will deal with Affiliate Managers. Your relationship with your Affiliate Manager can be the difference between a campaign being profitable, and tanking. A decent affiliate manager will recommend campaigns with high epcs doing well on the network. A great affiliate manager will do that, and offer you instant bumps in payouts. I do a significant amount of business with CPA Empire, which I highly recommend, and my Affiliate Manager, Doug, goes above and beyond. He’ll send me personalized emails with what he calls the street payout, the payout everyone else gets, and the payout he’s willing to give me BEFORE I run any traffic to the offer. Yeah, its pretty sweet. As an Affiliate Manager his job is to help me make money, and he’s really good at it. So, how do you get to this level?

Yes, I’m sure it has to do with volume, but it also has to do with treating your Affiliate Managers like a friend. On the business side, this means telling them what you’re running on other networks, and what they’re paying you for it. If you haven’t already figured it out, top payout is a fallacy. You can ALWAYS get more. Before even running an offer, pit your AMs against each other. Get on aim, and talk to them in real time. This way they know, what your getting offered, and why your not monetizing your traffic with them. Its not rude, or shady, its business. When you start doing volume, tell all of them then as well. I’m doing so many leads for so much a lead, and would move my traffic if you could do better. And when you move to another network for a higher payout, tell them then as well. Its that simple, and yet so many affiliates ignore this very important part of affiliate marketing.

On the personal side, get to know them. I’m not saying spend hours upon hours learning their life story from birth till now, but the occasional casual conversation will go a long way. When you put time into the relationship you have with your AMs, they will put time into you. Like sending those emails out, giving you access to hidden offers, and giving you the courtesy call when an offer is about to get pulled.

But keep your eye on the prize. Remember that at the end of the day, the network takes part of your hard earned commissions, so eventually your goal will be cut out the middleman, and go straight to the advertiser. In most cases this takes a lot of traffic, but other times, it doesn’t. It never hurts to ask, and as trite and cliché it may sound its so true. I also do a lot of business with Commission Junction, and after I cut them out of the equation on a few offers, my payout increased by as much as 30% which is huge. Know that big affiliates have this process down to an art. Case and point is our good friend Mr. Diorex. The next time you see him, you should ask him about how much he used to get for ringtone leads.

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