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How to Think Outside of the Box

by UberAffiliate on January 24, 2011 in Affiliate Tips with 16 Comments

You’re thinking about starting up some new affiliate campaigns, so you run your scrapers to see what’s other affiliates out there are doing right now. You see a couple campaigns that you think are easy to replicate, and if other affiliates are running them they must be profitable…right? Easy enough, you hit up your AM for a pay bump, create an almost identical landing page, create almost identical ads, and run that puppy.

While this seems like a fool-proof method for making money online, you’ll quickly find out that your campaigns aren’t profitable, and that you’re losing money on them. I would say the majority of the times it happens for one (or more) of the following reasons :

  • The affiliate you chose to copy has been running the offer for a while and has a special payout that enables him/her to smoke the competition (this is what happened when at least 50 affiliates used to rip my dating pages).
  • The affiliate is cloaking their landing page from you, so the page you’re taken to isn’t really the landing page they’re running.
  • The affiliate isn’t even making money with their page/offer.
  • The affiliate has optimized his ad targeting, something you wouldn’t be able to see.
  • They were the first one to the party and the first one to think outside the box.

While there is money to be made simply copying other people, the most money is made from coming up with your own ideas. It’s just natural that a new style of page or way of selling something can convert better than the norm, simply because it’s something fresh that people aren’t used to seeing.

Instead of talking about concepts and theories, once again I’m going to construct this post with an example of thinking outside of the box that I used about 6 months ago. The point isn’t to teach you everything there is to know about thinking outside of the box, it’s to show you an example of it that will hopefully get your creative juices flowing, perhaps enabling you to think outside of the box a bit more with your campaigns.

Note: the example I’m going to use didn’t really work out for me, that’s why I’m sharing it. I’m sure you’ve heard it before, but one thing to always remember is that most of your campaigns will fail…especially when you’re thinking outside of the box. For every 5 ideas that don’t work at all, there will be 1 that does work; making everything worth it.

Where the Idea Spawned

A while back, a lot of affiliate started using a new “outside of the box” method for selling grants. They would collect a persons Name and E-Mail on the first page, bomb them affiliate offers through Aweber, and then after they collected the data would take them to more landing pages pushing grant affiliate offers. I’m not about to out any pages right now, but you’ll be able to see what I mean anyway.

I thought it was an interesting way of marketing affiliate offers and also getting ads approved. Where any flog or farticle page would be rejected from most ad networks, this was something that looked new and different, and also more legit. Then I started thinking if the idea could be applied to something other than government grants…

Searching around, I realized that education offers were something along similar lines to grant stuff (since a lot of edu offers offer education grants), and then started thinking about how I could pitch it. I ended up with this page :

College students are for the most part cheap, so I set up a site that told them they could be saving thousands of dollars, and also access to free entertainment. As you can see I stressed the word Free a lot, and on the right they could enter some basic info to get the free guide. This page on it’s own converted decently, I think I got around 100 email submits before I called the campaign off. One they entered their name and e-mail, I took them to this page :

The page is simple enough and looks almost exactly like the grant second page did. If this campaign were successful, I probably would have redesigned the page and split tested a few different variations so it was more unique. This is something I designed and threw up in 2 days.

This page is extremely simple and leaves them with only 1 option…to download the free cash guide. Since that’s what they wanted anyway, shouldn’t really lose anybody on this page. When they click the button, a download link would pop up and then the page in the background would redirect to an edu offer.

So what did the PDF look like that was sent to them? It was a college cash e-book that was super basic, here are a couple screens:

It’s just a PDF loaded with affiliate offers. Surprised? It wasn’t 100% affiliate offers because I wanted to instill as much trust as possible and make the college student feel like they were reading good advice, so I threw in the tip about Grooveshark, Hulu, etc. While it may seem like a shiesty way of doing things, it’s all legit. None of the offers require a credit card (except for the tiny credit report link I threw in there), and they’re all things that students can use to help save some dough.

If the students had just picked 1 of the links to follow through with and convert, the campaign could have been very profitable. If they filled out multiple offers? Could have been very very profitable. I had their e-mail too and subscribed them to a list where I sent out mostly edu e-mails.

Why Didn’t This Work?

To be honest, it probably could still work. Sometimes I’m overly impatient with things and if they don’t work immediately, I don’t spend time optimizing (especially if I have another project going on). Like I said I ran about 100 email subs and only got a couple edu offer leads from it. Some questions I think about :

  • Maybe the PDF seemed too phony?
  • Maybe I should have just pushed all the offers on the next page, instead of e-mailing it to them in a PDF?
  • Maybe I used too many offers and should have focused on 1 or 2?
  • Maybe I wasn’t taking full advantage of the mailing list?
  • Maybe I should have sent the PDF, but done something other than just redirect them to an edu offer after they downloaded?

There are many reasons it could have failed, and many things that could possibly make it successful. If I see ads for similar sites up in a few days, I’ll know what I could have done differently ;). Feel free to manipulate the idea and test it out if you want, just be warned that it didn’t work out for me initially.

So there’s an example of a way to think outside the box a bit, and push affiliate offers in a different manner than most would. This particular attempt failed, but I’ve done very similar things and have been successful.

Are you thinking outside of the box? Or are you just spamming more of the norm? Both have their advantages, but if directly copying other people isn’t working out for you, you might want to start thinking outside of the box more.

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Split Testing Landing Pages : The What

by UberAffiliate on January 16, 2011 in Landing Pages with 30 Comments

This will be the first installment of a mini-series of articles on split testing your landing pages. I’ll kind of throw these posts in over time around other posts, so don’t expect them all in a row.

Ok, so we all know how optimization is key, blah blah blah. You’ve heard it a million times before…A/B split testing landing pages is critical for success and optimizing profitability. Rather than babble philosophically about the Why, the practical and useful information is the What. So What exactly should you be split testing? A lot of the things I’ll go over may be obvious to some, but maybe this post will provoke some creative thinking in other areas you can split test on your own pages.

Topics are always easier to explain when examples are provided, so I’m going to use one of my old landing pages to explain split testing. I’m going to use one of my many dating landing pages that targeted “chat room” type keywords (this used to be a huge niche before all advertisers decided the quality was dreadful).

Click here to see the page.

And quickly before the haters come in,

Back to the show, here’s a smaller screenshot of the page with the areas I’m going to talk about :

Note: you can already see that this page is slightly different than the one in the link. This I just grabbed from the source PSD and shows the original button that was green instead of purple. The purple button won the split test battle.

Note #2: This landing page isn’t perfect by any means, I designed it myself and it never really got out of the “prelim” stages because I ended up just running a Mate1 host&post instead.

Whoa, for being a pretty simple and straightforward landing page, you can see pretty much everything on the page is split testable. Proper optimization goes a bit deeper than just A/B testing the color of a button. Now I’m going to break down each part, and how it can be split tested.

#1 – The Header

So you can see we went with a header that’s going to blend with the Zoosk affiliate offer. They use that same blue, and you can see I pulled their logo to increase the relevance and connection between the landing page and the actual offer. On the right hand side is what we want to split test here, that header text. This very well may be the first thing users read when they hit the page (heat maps would show), so we want it to be extremely relevant to the ad they just clicked. You can also see I was geo-targeting the headline so it would read whatever state they’re in. Here are a few different variations I would split test :

1. 5,934 Singles Chatting in New York (control)
2. Nothing (leave the area blank)
3. 5,934 New York Profiles to Browse
4. 5,934 Singles Chatting Now
5. 5,934 Singes in Chat Rooms
6. continue to chat rooms >> (make clickable link)

You can pretty much come up with a million and one variations and ways to word it, which is the beauty of optimization. No matter how profitable or amazing your page is, there’s always a way to squeeze just a little bit more out of it.

 

#2 – Main Headline

If the header headline isn’t the first thing a visitor will read, the page headline probably is what they looked at instead. So just like with #1, we want this to be relevant to the ad they clicked. Here are some variations of this :

Those are just a few examples. The actual text isn’t the only thing you should be testing – colors are huge and can drastically affect the performance of your page.

 

#3 – The Button

The big button very may well be the most important part of this landing page. Therefore, it’s something you want to pay extra attention to when split testing. When split testing a large call to action button, keep in mind the many variations you can make to it :

  • text
  • font
  • color
  • styling (gradient, drop shadow, glow, etc)
  • arrow
  • animation
  • hover-over

Here are a few examples using the button on the Zoosk page :

For the examples I just kind of did a bunch of random sampling. When you’re actually going to split test all of these elements, for the most part you should do them individually, and in order of prominence. For these buttons, I’d split test in this order :

1) Color
2) Text
3) Arrow
4) Font
5) Styling

 

#4 – Text Section

With simple landing pages like these it’s generally wise to at least have some content there for people to read. A lot of the visitors are just going to disregard this section and just click the big button when they see it, but not everyone will do this. Rather than spend an hour creating a bunch of different examples, I’ll just type some different possible variations out.

1) Remove the section. Maybe it will convert better with just a button and image? You never know until you test it.

2) Change the bullet points. You can change the order, change the bullet image, or highlight different points.

3) Replace it with a “New Members” section. Find a couple snazzy mug shots, give them a name and short bio, geo-target the location, and have a small “Chat Now” button to the right of each member.

4) Replace it with a “Current Stats” text box. List things like the number of photos uploaded, number of videos, number of chatrooms, number of active chatters, etc.

 

#5 – The Small Button

Variations for this button will be pretty similar to the large button, so no use in going too far in-depth about it. When you’re split testing and change the big button from say green to purple, don’t always change the little button color with the big button. A green big button and red little button may have a higher CTR than a green big button and green little button. Multi-variate testing is key.

 

#6 – Photo Button

Couple elements we can split test here: the color, text, and font. Some possible text alternates :

  • Chat Now!
  • View Profile!
  • Send Message!
  • Free Chatting!
  • FREE!

Something like the font is an element that probably is pretty useless to split test in this scenario. Chances are the font type really isn’t going to make any difference on the overall CTR of the page, but once again you never know until you test and confirm that. When setting up your first multi-variate experiment though, only test the most important elements (the main headline, call to action, picture, and content).

 

#7 – Picture

The picture is a pretty big element on the page. I’d actually say this is the first thing your visitor is going to see, so split testing it is extremely important. This is a dating offer we’re talking about here, so guys are going to want to see someone sexy. You can see that the actual example webpage and screen shot have different pictures, those were a couple that I tested.

The actual picture isn’t the only thing we can split test here either, we can test different photo frames as well. Here’s a couple examples :

 

#8 – Photo Text

The frame and picture aren’t the only things we can test here, you can test different texts out like :

  • Add Friend!
  • Send Message >>
  • Chat Now >>
  • Chat this user >>

Again, this is a smaller detail, but it might be something that catches their attention.

 

#9 – Facebook Connect

Footers are always nice to kind of close a page off and complete it. In addition to having a regular lead-gen page, Zoosk also has a Facebook install that pays out. So I took the footer space and figured I’d use it for that on the chance that a person may see Facebook as an option they want to explore.

As far as split testing this section goes, maybe you could build out that area more or draw more attention to it. It’s not something I split tested though just because it’s really the least important part of the page.

 

Extra Notes & Things to Talk About

The examples above are all just for that specific and simple landing page. While most simple landing pages have very common elements (big button, image, content area, header), there may me more or less things to test on your page. This post was meant to get the creative juices flowing in your brain and maybe help you realize that split testing goes beyond just changing a few colors around. Here are some other things that you may want to split test on your own pages :

  • The background. In our example we wanted to blend with the offer, so there wasn’t much we could do with the background. In many other instances, the background is something that can and should be manipulated. Try different flat colors, gradients, patterns, and dynamic images to see which color theme converts best.
  • The domain and logo. This is something that may make a difference to your visitors. A site may perform better with a .org domain instead of .com, because the certain audience you’re targeting may be expecting something really credible, like an organization.
  • Page arrangement. Should the content be on the left side and button be on the right side? Or should the content be on the left side and button on the right side? All things to think about and test.
  • Complexity. This is something we briefly talked about earlier. Build your page exactly how you want it and save it. Then, at the bottom add in a horizontal divider and underneath that add more content. Pop in a graph, another image, and another content paragraph. Your visitors may want more to read on your landing page before moving on. On the flipside, sometimes brutal simplicity is what works. Test it.

Again, a lot of these things are obvious and this is not the end-all guide for split testing. But, you may find that taking a little bit of a deeper look into your own pages can yield some surprising results. We may test out all 9 elements on the Zoosk page and find out one thing that made a big difference in CTR was the Photo Text (#8). The photo button, photo frame, heading text, and content box may make no difference. But it was worth testing everything out to find that one small element made a big difference. I’m not talking out of my ass here either, you’d be surprised at how much just wording a line of text here or there can make a difference. A 1% increase in CTR over hundreds of thousands of impressions can make a big difference in your long-term profit.

The next article in this mini-series will focus on The How. We know a bunch of things to split test, but how do we best do it?

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If I Were Starting Affiliate Marketing in 2011

by UberAffiliate on January 6, 2011 in Affiliate Tips with 21 Comments

Theme note: Just messing around with some different simple themes from WooThemes, not even really sure if I like this one. I’ll mess around with it a bit more over the next few days. If blog traffic picks up again I’ll just have another custom one built.

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It’s 2011 and maybe you decided that this is the year you try to learn how to make money online. Maybe it’s 2011 and you’ve been doing SEO for the past couple years and want to make the move to paid marketing this year. In any case, I’m going to approach this article from the standpoint of anybody just getting started this year.

As mentioned before, I’ve been working on a physical product for over a year now (it’s a slow process)…gotta make money somehow though. A couple months ago I got back into affiliate marketing a bit and am still testing new offers and working on optimization, so it’s almost like I’m starting new in 2011 as well. So hopefully I have a bit of a fresh perspective on things.

Completely New to Affiliate Marketing?

If you’re a brand spankin’ newbie, you’ll want to head over to the affiliate marketing guide I’ve put together. It could actually use an update (something I’ll do this week), but for the most part the articles are all still valuable information and good insight for someone just getting their foot in the door.

Affiliate Networks of 2011

The first thing that popped up in my mind when getting back into affiliate marketing was, “Ok, where should I get my offers from?” I’ll mention a few networks here, and why I’m looking at them :

Ads4Dough – Ads4Dough is a popular network among a lot of successful affiliates, a lot of it due to the relationship with the owner, Jason (smaxor), who I also happen to be good friends with. It’s not the prettiest interface of all time, but that really means nothing. They’ve got offers in every vertical, and are a good source for edu and dating.

Neverblue – Neverblue used to be one of my old favorites because back when everyone had DT, they had their own custom tracking software that worked great. I also became pretty good friends with a few of the people there and they’re all really cool. Solid interface, solid tracking, solid support, NB is definitely somewhere you want to sign up.

Epic Advertising – Formerly Azoogle, I used to have my first “big” days in affiliate marketing with Epic Ads. While I personally haven’t run much traffic to them lately, I’ve had a few people tell me of some high volume offers that affiliates are running through Epic. Don’t quote me on this, but I think they’re strong in rebill offers (last I heard). I think they also have some good insurance offers.

EWA Private Network – Ah, the Eagle boys. While not everybody is a personal fan of Ryan Eagle’s persona, nobody seems to have a problem with the way he does business. EWA gets tagged as a “broker network” by a lot of people, but the fact still remains that they have a lot of happy affiliates. They take small margins and pay out weekly, and really do want you making money. If you’re looking for a network run by younger guys with perhaps a more current insight into the industry (more like you), check out EWA.t

Firelead – I’m throwing this one in here out from left field. Firelead isn’t the biggest affiliate network out there, and I haven’t ever personally run offers with them. But I’m good friends with the owner Mike, and he’s a great guy. You’ll get more of a personal treatment (something very good for beginners), and these are guys you can trust. Maybe I’ll look into running some offers through them and report back on how it goes. I spoke with him earlier today and his network is private (referrals only), so if your app gets denied and you’re not a fraudster let me know.

There are a bunch more affiliate networks out there that I’m close with and would recommend, but the networks above are definitely enough to get you started with finding a few offers. Once you’ve got a couple offers that are running, shop around other networks to compare conversion rates and negotiate payouts.

Affiliate Offers of 2011

What offers are going to be the hot offers of 2011? I’ve talked with a bunch of affiliate managers and friends about what verticals are performing right now, and started to do some testing in these verticals myself. Here’s what’s going on…
 
Dating

Online dating is something that continues to grow more and more, and continues to become more of a “normal” thing for people to do. If you asked 100 people 5 years ago what the most consistent affiliate offer was going to be over the next 10-20 years, I’d bet that over 80% of them would say dating.

In addition to dating being a growing trend across the world, winter time is the best time to run dating offers. Back when I used to run some volume in dating (~3k leads/day), my quality in March-September wasn’t good at all. I’d get cut from a bunch of offers and payouts dropped. But once fall/winter came, that same “bad” traffic was great quality for dating offers.

So as long as things are relatively consistent with how they were years ago in dating, we’re at the tail end of the good time of the year. Still plenty of time to get in there, competition is pretty fierce with it though. A couple months ago I ran a private label through Neverblue, so check them out if you’re interested in that.
 
Groupon Style Offers

If you’ve been on the internet the past year (…), you’ve seen a Groupon ad somewhere. Whether it be on a weather site, a porn site, or a how to give your dog a bath site…Groupon is dominating Planet Internet. If you’ve been keeping up with the times you’ll also note the $6 billion Google offer that Groupon respectfully turned down. Now personally…that’s a hell of a lot of money to turn down. But the company is HUGE, and only growing.

Everybody isn’t just sitting back and watching Groupon take over the coupon space though. There are basically Groupon clones out there with affiliate programs, and there are a lot of affiliates running them now.

It’s something to look into, a couple things I’d keep in mind :

-keep your CPC low, payouts generally aren’t that great on these offers (typically $3-5)
-experiment with direct linking and using a landing page, but if you’re using a landing page be prepared to be told that your quality isn’t good
-don’t forget to geotarget by city, these affiliate offers are all only for a select few cities
 
Education

Edu offers are something I mentioned a while back, and is another pretty consistent niche over the years. The offers have always been around in some way, shape, or form.

For me personally, edu offers have come in and out of phase. A few years back I ran the offers with a lot of success (I once got an unnamed network into a little legal fiasco because they just got this offer from a school and I sent like $30k worth of leads in 2 days with a few other affiliates that did the same…they did NOT want that much volume to start haha). I ran them a bit last year, and it was off and on. Started of doing well, had to pause, and when I turned back on it magically didn’t convert anymore.

Is this niche long-term? Some people think so, but I have some reasons to believe otherwise. The thing about these online schools is that they receive almost all of their revenue through government loans. And with Republicans taking Washington back, I’ve also heard speculation that one of the first government funding programs they want to cut are these online school programs. If schools lose their money, they’ll go out of business or in the very least not be able to afford to pay $25 for a form submit.
 
Rebills

I’m not going to talk much about rebills, because there’s not much to talk about. They’re not nearly as big as they were a year ago, but they still exist and I still see “Mom Teaches her 12 Month Old Baby to Make $2,443/day Online!” ads on weather.com.

My take on it? If you’ve got consistent sources of traffic that won’t slap or delete your Flog ads, go for it.
 
Penny Auctions

I remember like 3 years ago I stumbled upon a site called PennyCave.com. My friend had Facebooked me and said “You should check this site out, you can get TVs and stuff for a few bucks and it’s legit”. I visited the site and like a sucker, bought some bids to play around with. I got tired of having to constantly place bids with 1 second left and just left the site. A couple weeks later I was chattin with Volk-swagen and said to him “Check this site out, the idea is awesome. It’d probably be really profitable to make one and run traffic to it…”

Well, fast forward a few years and now there are 100+ penny auction sites out there. Some have shady rebilling set up, some have legit bid packages that are cost per sale, and I think all of them use bidding bots to jack up action.

You can find penny auction offers at most networks, with payouts varying. The more shady offers pay out $60-70+, while the legit offers like QuiBids and BidCactus pay out $30ish. I did a bit of testing myself with these offers and didn’t really have any success. It showed some potential (and there are affiliates running it successfully), but I’m not sure how long these offers will last and it just wasn’t really for me.
 
Tax Season

For whatever reason I never really ran seasonal offers, but I might give them a go with tax season coming up. People need their taxes done, and the traffic can get pretty high volume as the next few months progress. For the most part what I’ve seen in the past is people just making a simple landing page or direct linking.
 
Old Trusties

There are a bunch of old/consistent/long-term niches that are still around. Things like mobile, credit reports, insurance, etc. If you asked any affiliate manager for a “Top 10″ report every month for a year, there’s a very good chance that one of these types of offers would be on the report.

For these types of offers it’s usually more of a slow build up. Typically search and content traffic which volume starts out pretty slow until you can optimize and scale. A lot of the other offers are offers you can blast traffic to from the start and see what happens. Which you can do with these offers too, they just typically require a bit more optimization than something like dating.
 
Talk to Your Affiliate Manager

The verticals I mentioned are just a few of many. All it takes it shooting an IM/email to your affiliate manager saying “Hey, what are some of the top offers affiliates are running with you now?” to get some more options.

Just beware that affiliate managers can sometimes inflate EPCs and make an offer seem like it’s a bit better than it really is. They want your traffic because that’s how they make money. That’s why it’s good to try to have a good relationship with as many networks as you can, you’ll get more honestly and transparency that way.
 
Offers: Where and How to Run

Now you’ve got a few offers in mind from a couple choice affiliate networks. Now you have to decide on traffic, and how you’re going to run the offer.
 
Search Engines

Google and Yahoo/Bing are still reliable sources to run traffic, both through search and content. In order to limit your spending in the beginning (as search traffic can be pricey), almost try to optimize your campaign before you get a general feel for the offer. Make sure your keywords are as related to your ads as possible, and that both of those are related to the landing page (same keywords, etc).

Google content network has always been a little “hidden gem” of mine for traffic. When a lot of people start off, they either just do search, or they mistakenly run both search and content on the same campaign and wonder why things are screwy with their CTR. If you know how to run G content properly, you can get a lot of traffic for 1/5 the cost of search clicks.

Word of warning: Google is extremely sensitive about going against their policies. One of my Google accounts was just perma banned a few weeks ago for cloaking. I made ads and sent them to QuiBids (legit with Google), and once they approved them I just redirected to another auction offer to test. I tested it for a day, paused it, never ran it again, and a week later I get the e-mail saying my account is terminated. Play nice children.
 
Social Networks

I kind of scaled back on my search traffic and upped my social traffic recently. If you’re good at it, clicks can come cheaper than search traffic. The offers run on social networks are obviously a bit different, and more catered to the younger crowd. Dating, app installs, edu, things like that. Mobile is big with the younger crowd but Facebook won’t approve those ads, go through Myspace for them.
 
Ad Networks

Most of the rebill stuff I see being run are run on ad networks like Pulse 360 and Adsonar. These ad networks have really high volume so if you can find something profitable to run, you can really ramp it up. The downside is that usually the traffic is pretty low quality, so don’t expect a real high conversion rate.

As with almost everything, it’s all about testing.
 
PPV

PPV is something I can’t talk much about, but is something affiliates have been using more and more to make money. There are a few articles in the affiliate marketing guide on PPV so I’d suggest to check those out.
 
How to Run

Any real major changes to landing pages in 2011? Nothing really from what I’ve noticed so far. First you should decide whether or not you’re going to direct link or use a landing page. I don’t know if I just suck at direct linking or what the deal is, but I’ve had better success using a landing page for 99% of the campaigns I’ve run.

As far as types of landing pages go, like I said haven’t noticed anything new and revolutionary like the Flog was. It’s hard to talk about what type of landing page to use without making an entire post about it. It’s pretty dependent on the offer you’re running and the type of traffic you’re running.
 
Anything I’ve Missed

I probably forgot to talk about something I wanted to talk about, but when it came time to get back into affiliate marketing again this year, these are the things I thought of.

One more old bit of advice that’s worth mentioning again: don’t take my word for it. Go out into the ad world yourself and see what people are running, that’s the best way to do research. You don’t need any special paid tools or programming skill, your competition posts their websites publicly for you to see.

Hopefully there’s some value in this post, more value than I’ve been providing lately at least. I’ll try to keep up with blogging more and also update you guys with how my campaigns are going. Let’s make some dough.

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New Year…New Uber?

by UberAffiliate on January 1, 2011 in Random with 12 Comments

2010 was a pretty slow year of blogging for me…extremely slow actually. I posted only 10 times in the year 2010, pathetic for a blogger.

As discussed in my few posts before, the main reason was the leap I decided to take in work on launching my own physical product (not just for online sales, but retail as well). The one certain thing I can tell you thus far is…it’s not easy. Point is, I started getting back into affiliate marketing again around November to get cash flow coming in again so I didn’t run out of money trying to launch the real product. I’ve run a few profitable campaigns and am working on scaling them now, so now I’ve got something to talk about again.

My motivation for blogging about affiliate marketing is starting to creep back, and once you see the theme on this site change, you should know to start paying attention again. I’ve got a few decent article ideas in my mind already, so I’m going to work on those this week and if I have at least 5-10 articles ready to rock, we’ll make the theme change and get back to frequent blogging.

Less talk, more content coming in. Goodday (not to be confused with Godaddy).

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All I’m Saying Is…

by UberAffiliate on August 4, 2010 in Affiliate Tips with 69 Comments

This is another virtually pointless post, yes. I’ve promised posts and more frequent posting and just haven’t lived up to it.

I’m just making this post to say: I still have plans on blogging more in the future. I’ve learned A LOT of information that I can definitely share. Right now I’m just too busy to really think about anything else but my main projects. A project 5 months into the making is going to launch in the near future (for real this time) so it’s like cramming for finals week in my head right now.

Once things cool down I’ll be able to relax and get to blogging more. Priorities folks…gotta win the bread.

This post will be totally useless without some usable piece of affiliate marketing information so here it goes: something I’ve been experimenting with in a few small affiliate side projects is collecting email address information and THEN shooting them to the affiliate offer (“You’re getting a free [blah blah], just enter your name and e-mail address to continue!”). It seems there are quite a few people out there doing this. E-mail them with some “Welcome” packet of affiliate offers, sub them to your list and just mail out more affiliate offers. Plus make commissions off whatever offer you send them to after you capture the name/email. There’s almost always higher payouts for email only offers too. Something to think about and test.

Sorry for being lame.

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