The affiliate marketing Tag

Are you building a biz or just trying to make money?

Are you building a business or just trying to make money?  It is a question I ask a lot of times when talking to guys starting out in internet marketing.  The normal answer is both but that is not true for most of the affiliate marketers out there.  If you are trying to build a [...]

Facebook Ads Summit – Info Dump 2

Continuing from Facebook Ads Summit – Info Dump 1.  Before they took us on a tour of the Facebook headquarters we got the most animated speaker of the day.  He is an ex- affiliate marketer who is the Manager of Internet Marketing for Facebook Ads.  So when you see the ads for the Facebook Ads [...]

Confessions of an Affiliate Marketing Addict

I always wondered when I would burn out.  After eight plus years, I finally found out.  It happened to me in the middle of a call with an advertiser at approximately 4pm EST on Oct. 23rd 2009.  While I was closing the advertiser on that call, I was also on AIM with 7 or 8 [...]

Facebook Ads Summit – Info Dump 1

Getting my feet back under me from the trip to the left coast last week for the first ever Facebook Ads Summit.  Fell a little ill but now ready to get back into attack mode.  So let’s get to the info.  Let me warn all the hard core knobs that we signed NDAs which I [...]

Have I found the Perfect Affiliate Network?

I have looked that’s for sure and after 9 years  in this industry I have come to the realization that there isn’t one affiliate network that can fill every affiliate marketers needs.  What might be near perfect for you will most likely fall short for one reason or another for the next guy.  What I’ve [...]

Facebook Ads – Top 5 Best Practices

Here’s another “top 10″ list (except it’s only 5) from the brain trust at Facebook. Wondering why your ads aren’t getting approved, or your CTR sucks? Common sense son:
1. Be Relevant
One way to do this is by targeting users who have interests listed in their profile
that are related to your business. Make sure you are [...]

What You Think I Market For? To Push a F*#&ing Rav4?

Rant\      warning: this might offend my political connects:
Mr./Mrs. Do Gooder.  I appreciate that you want to create a blog in a niche that you are very, very interested in.  And hey, you might throw up some Google “boxes” to make some money off of it.  You just want to express your passion and [...]

Facebook Ads – Suggested Bids, Impressions, + Your Money

If you are a Facebook ads player then you are probably a little frustrated right now, right?  You are not alone.  We have been getting questions the last few weeks about what we think is going on and so I finally decided to post so I don’t have to repeat it again.
We have seen the [...]

PART 6 Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

Do You Have What it Takes?
There’s nothing quite like that first commission you make. Then, the day you reach a new high for daily revenue. There will be other days, other high points that you reach. That is part of the excitement of being an affiliate marketer online. The sky really is the limit. The [...]

PART 5 Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

Setting Up Your First PPC SEM Campaign
Okay, now you have an account and some of the basic info. Let’s take you through setting up your first campaign. It can be overwhelming at first (especially when Google redesigns the entire user interface – which happened in 2009!), but as you work with it, you will become [...]