It's Monday, and as we all begin our work week, exchanging our time for dollars, I thought I would continue the dialogue on all things Affiliate Marketing.
Monday Status update.
So I have been accepted at Commission Junction www.commissionjunction.com
Tried to create my first ad campaign, but I just faxed my W9 today, so I assume that my payment account will not be live until tomorrow.
My first campaign is with eDiets.com, and the new blog is located at:
http://dietingandweightlossblog.blogspot.com/
My current strategy is to create a blog for a need, such as weight loss or dieting. Write some rich content that is really relevant to this market for the search engines to crawl and index. Have the blog indexed by Google, by using the Google Webmaster tools.
Write more rich content, and place one or two ads on the page. Wait and write more content, maybe add some video or some audio to the page. Wait, and Wait, and Wait.
Create traffic to my site by commenting on other blogs and leaving my link in the comments. Visit a few diet and weight loss sites and leave comments there. Start linking to the sites or ask for a link from my site to be placed on their site.
Duplicate the above scenario 25 more times, for 25 blog pages, with relevant content and a few ads.
I will report my success on this strategy as time passes.
Respectfully, Nicholas
A start-up company chronicles the processes used to make a decent living online through various marketing techniques.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Friday Fun - Status of my Affiliate Marketing Progress
It's Friday, as Craig Ferguson says on his Late Late tv show, "It's a great day for America!".
So far this week I have joined the following Ad Networks or Ad companies.
PepperJam Network, Market Leverage, Kontera, ContentLink, ClickBank, EntreCard with SezWHo comments area ratings interface, FreeSiteSignup with John Chow.com, and looking into RocketProfit that Shoemoney recommends.
PepperJam Network seems like a great company. They have a ton of offers, and some of the comissions are huge. I will post some of my results from PepperJam.
I joined Market Leverage on the advice of Jonathan Volk at Volk Marketing, a Super Affiliate. Market Leverage has recently appeared on the network scene, and is making great strides towards success. I will blog about my experiences with Market Leverage as we go forward.
So far the Affiliate Manager I am working with has responded quickly to my questions! This is a good sign for future customer service already.
Kontera is a pretty cool deal. They serve both Advertisers and Publishers, and you can sign up as either or both. The approval process was painless, and I will blog about my results with Kontera as they are achieved.
I learned about ContentLink.com, from John Chow at JohnChow.com.
Contentlink is pretty cool and unobtrusive. They populate your blog text in selected words changing the word to a double-underlined, blue colored word.
When you hover over these blue words you discover a relvant, pop-up information button clearly labeled "Advertisement" on the top, and permitting a click on the More Info button will take you to that site.
ClickBank is a well known company, so I will only say that I need to do some research with how to best begin using their services. More to come on ClickBank.....
Entrecard creates a lot of buzz because you can earn 'credits' that you can spend on advertising or in the 'Shop'. I already have received over 100 EntreCard credits by commenting and linking-back to blog sites that have the EntreCard Widget running. They provide a database of EntreCard members to search to gain more credits. Interesting paradigm at work here.
More to come on EntreCard.....By the way, the SezWho comments section rating partnership was announced. Basically you can see a rating of your comments on sites that install the SezWho comments tool.
FreeSiteSignup.com - I signed up based on John Chow's recommendation due to the fact that other than this blog, I did not have a website for my Affiliate Marketing business, Chase Marketing. Sign up was easy, paid the yearly hosting fee to Midphase.com, and the next day my website was set-up. I received some video training on how to set up my cPanel and configure my website.
I now have a web page pre-built with offers and some free stuff to encourage visitors to browse and buy! Of course, I have access to sub-domains on the web host, so I am looking forward to creating additional 'Folders' to run these other sub-domains from. More on my web site build-out as time advances....
My hope is to eventually have at least 25 seperate 'niche' web sites with rich content and all of the other things Google likes. I will be experimenting with direct-links to see if this will provide some revenue.
This internet marketing game is complex, but I hope to be able to report that it is also possible to make a decent living while helping others achieve success.
Once we have enough income to live on, we want to pursue philanthropic giving, including benefiting schools, orphans, and sponsoring some children's education and household needs in India and Africa.
So far this week I have joined the following Ad Networks or Ad companies.
PepperJam Network, Market Leverage, Kontera, ContentLink, ClickBank, EntreCard with SezWHo comments area ratings interface, FreeSiteSignup with John Chow.com, and looking into RocketProfit that Shoemoney recommends.
PepperJam Network seems like a great company. They have a ton of offers, and some of the comissions are huge. I will post some of my results from PepperJam.
I joined Market Leverage on the advice of Jonathan Volk at Volk Marketing, a Super Affiliate. Market Leverage has recently appeared on the network scene, and is making great strides towards success. I will blog about my experiences with Market Leverage as we go forward.
So far the Affiliate Manager I am working with has responded quickly to my questions! This is a good sign for future customer service already.
Kontera is a pretty cool deal. They serve both Advertisers and Publishers, and you can sign up as either or both. The approval process was painless, and I will blog about my results with Kontera as they are achieved.
I learned about ContentLink.com, from John Chow at JohnChow.com.
Contentlink is pretty cool and unobtrusive. They populate your blog text in selected words changing the word to a double-underlined, blue colored word.
When you hover over these blue words you discover a relvant, pop-up information button clearly labeled "Advertisement" on the top, and permitting a click on the More Info button will take you to that site.
ClickBank is a well known company, so I will only say that I need to do some research with how to best begin using their services. More to come on ClickBank.....
Entrecard creates a lot of buzz because you can earn 'credits' that you can spend on advertising or in the 'Shop'. I already have received over 100 EntreCard credits by commenting and linking-back to blog sites that have the EntreCard Widget running. They provide a database of EntreCard members to search to gain more credits. Interesting paradigm at work here.
More to come on EntreCard.....By the way, the SezWho comments section rating partnership was announced. Basically you can see a rating of your comments on sites that install the SezWho comments tool.
FreeSiteSignup.com - I signed up based on John Chow's recommendation due to the fact that other than this blog, I did not have a website for my Affiliate Marketing business, Chase Marketing. Sign up was easy, paid the yearly hosting fee to Midphase.com, and the next day my website was set-up. I received some video training on how to set up my cPanel and configure my website.
I now have a web page pre-built with offers and some free stuff to encourage visitors to browse and buy! Of course, I have access to sub-domains on the web host, so I am looking forward to creating additional 'Folders' to run these other sub-domains from. More on my web site build-out as time advances....
My hope is to eventually have at least 25 seperate 'niche' web sites with rich content and all of the other things Google likes. I will be experimenting with direct-links to see if this will provide some revenue.
This internet marketing game is complex, but I hope to be able to report that it is also possible to make a decent living while helping others achieve success.
Once we have enough income to live on, we want to pursue philanthropic giving, including benefiting schools, orphans, and sponsoring some children's education and household needs in India and Africa.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Content Link
I have joined Content Link today. www.contentlink.com.
The small blue-colored text with underlines you see within my blog post's are relevant links based upon the words I have used in my blog.
When you hover over these words they pop up relevant information in the form of advertisements, which if you then click on the link within, it will take you to that site based on your desire to navigate there.
It's a very non-intrusive way to provide some additional relevant search capability, within my blog text. I wanted to test this facility for the next 30 days to see if you believe it is a good feature for my blog or not.
Please do comment back and let me know if it's a thumbs-up or thumbs-down? I will tally the results from all who comment regarding the above, and we'll see if this should be continued or not...
The small blue-colored text with underlines you see within my blog post's are relevant links based upon the words I have used in my blog.
When you hover over these words they pop up relevant information in the form of advertisements, which if you then click on the link within, it will take you to that site based on your desire to navigate there.
It's a very non-intrusive way to provide some additional relevant search capability, within my blog text. I wanted to test this facility for the next 30 days to see if you believe it is a good feature for my blog or not.
Please do comment back and let me know if it's a thumbs-up or thumbs-down? I will tally the results from all who comment regarding the above, and we'll see if this should be continued or not...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Zac Johnsons Post about work habits!
Check out this post from Zac Johnson:
http://zacjohnson.com/stay-motivated-and-get-out-of-that-slump
In it he details how to stay motivated in running your online business, and treating yourself as he did to a brand new Mac in order to provide incentive to working!
Excellent post Zac, you have my attention!
http://zacjohnson.com/stay-motivated-and-get-out-of-that-slump
In it he details how to stay motivated in running your online business, and treating yourself as he did to a brand new Mac in order to provide incentive to working!
Excellent post Zac, you have my attention!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
ZakShow.com a cool website!
So I was trolling the web looking for Entrecard credits, heh heh, and came across this site.
http://www.zakshow.com/2008/04/04/get-50-entrecard-credits-instantly/
Zak has created an amazing site with all kinds of interesting content, including the Top 5 Myspace morons post which had me in stitches.
Check out his site for some really deep content, and a lot of interesting posts!
Thank you Zak for the Entrecard credits too!
http://www.zakshow.com/2008/04/04/get-50-entrecard-credits-instantly/
Zak has created an amazing site with all kinds of interesting content, including the Top 5 Myspace morons post which had me in stitches.
Check out his site for some really deep content, and a lot of interesting posts!
Thank you Zak for the Entrecard credits too!
"Entrecard flips the switch for Blog Comments! Fantastic!"
I have joined SezWho, http://entrecard.com/blog/?p=444%20.
They are currently running a contest to award 5,000 credits to anyone who follows the rules on the Entrecard blog site listed above.
This is a comments-based service that applies Entrecard credits by commenting on other blogs about SezWho. I still do not understand how I use credits, but I imagine with enough I can host ads, or purchase goods?
I still need to read the EntreCard User Guide to suss all of this out.
I will let you know about my progress... It sounds interesting and will certainly get the conversation going!
They are currently running a contest to award 5,000 credits to anyone who follows the rules on the Entrecard blog site listed above.
This is a comments-based service that applies Entrecard credits by commenting on other blogs about SezWho. I still do not understand how I use credits, but I imagine with enough I can host ads, or purchase goods?
I still need to read the EntreCard User Guide to suss all of this out.
I will let you know about my progress... It sounds interesting and will certainly get the conversation going!
Affiliate Progress
So I have joined the PepperJam Network on the recommendations of one of it's most successful Super Affiliates, Jonathan Volk. If you are an Affiliate Marketer, and want to join the PepperJam Network, just click on the animated PepperJam button on the upper right side, and you are usually approved within twenty-four hours.
I received the approval today, so now the process begins to research the ads offered on the PepperJam Network (there are hundreds of them...) and set them up to run. Not sure how the whole revenue stream works, but I assume it is PayPal as a default.
It will be interesting to also set up a free website offered by one of the Ad Networks that John Chow (www.johnchow.com) uses, called ShoppingAds (http://shoppingads.com).
They offer to set up your website for free, provide a custom web page design, and begin making money immediately! I am signing up today, and my progress will be reported here.
One other project I have been participating in is; The Black Ink Project by Jeremy Palmer of www.QuitYourDayJob.com. Jeremy has created numerous lessons delivered in the form of live WebEx presentations, and you can download all of the Black Ink videos and support files, including wireframe examples and excel-based spreadsheets to aid in setting up your campaigns, in various formats for WIN and MAC at his website, (www.blackink.com) and Quit You Day Job site has a link as well.
He has started BlackInk2, and if you register at his site, you can download even more in depth training on how to start-up, and run a successful online business, having guest consultants on everything from setting up your company, selecting your niche, designing your web pages, and optimizing your site, with a special software application for tracking your campaigns. Jeremy is an awesome guy, not asking for any renumeration at all!
All in all I am excited about making money online, and hope to report success in the very near future.
I received the approval today, so now the process begins to research the ads offered on the PepperJam Network (there are hundreds of them...) and set them up to run. Not sure how the whole revenue stream works, but I assume it is PayPal as a default.
It will be interesting to also set up a free website offered by one of the Ad Networks that John Chow (www.johnchow.com) uses, called ShoppingAds (http://shoppingads.com).
They offer to set up your website for free, provide a custom web page design, and begin making money immediately! I am signing up today, and my progress will be reported here.
One other project I have been participating in is; The Black Ink Project by Jeremy Palmer of www.QuitYourDayJob.com. Jeremy has created numerous lessons delivered in the form of live WebEx presentations, and you can download all of the Black Ink videos and support files, including wireframe examples and excel-based spreadsheets to aid in setting up your campaigns, in various formats for WIN and MAC at his website, (www.blackink.com) and Quit You Day Job site has a link as well.
He has started BlackInk2, and if you register at his site, you can download even more in depth training on how to start-up, and run a successful online business, having guest consultants on everything from setting up your company, selecting your niche, designing your web pages, and optimizing your site, with a special software application for tracking your campaigns. Jeremy is an awesome guy, not asking for any renumeration at all!
All in all I am excited about making money online, and hope to report success in the very near future.
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