Nerdy Affiliate Adventures In Affiliate Marketing Land

How To Find Out About CPA Offer Payouts

Posted by JasperP on November 11th, 2008

Usually when I hear of an offer, I’ll check the affiliate networks I’m associated with to see what the payouts are.  Sometimes, however, the offers aren’t available in my networks.  After that I check out two sites: Offer Vault and AffSpy.

Offer Vault and Affspy are two sites that track various offers in the different affiliate networks.  I personally like Offer Vault better because of the fact that all the payouts and everything are laid out in front of you.  In AffSpy, you have to click through the offer to see which networks are promoting it.  I guess it’s a matter of preference but that’s the big difference to me.

I did a search on “dating” and here’s what it came up with:

Looking for a specific offer “Omaha Steaks”: 

You can see that the data is different. Offer Vault shows MaxBounty while AffSpy doesn’t have MaxBounty.  The data may not be consistent between both networks, but It’s good to have both, so sign up now! It’s free!

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Funny Marketing Joke…

Posted by JasperP on October 29th, 2008

This is probably old, but I thought it was pretty funny.  I haven’t heard too many marketing jokes, but this one was a good one.  I heard this on the Clickbooth Interview with PPC-Coach Will Haimeril at 

http://blog.clickbooth.com/2008/09/harald-andersons-exciting-new-webinar/

A buddy of mine transcribed the joke for you guys: 

This story involves a young man whose name is Matthew who goes into a confessional hopper to ask for forgiveness for his sins. 

He steps into the box, kneels down and whispers, “Father, forgive me for I have sinned. I’ve been with a loose woman from your parish and spent all last night indulging in sins of the flesh.”

The priest says, “Is that you Matthew?” 

He responds, “Yes Father, it is I.”

After a short pause, the priest says, “Go on my son, tell me more.”

“Well Father, you know we were dancing, drinking wine, and next thing I know, we spent 6 hours indulging pleasures of the flesh.”, says Matthew

“Well I see my son, tell me more. Who was the woman you were with?”, said the priest

“Sorry Father I cannot tell you that, for I cannot sully her reputation.”

“Was it Eileen O’Shaunessy?”, asks the priest. “No father it was not.”

“Was it Brenda Mahoney?”, asks the priest. “No father, it was not.”

“Was it Jill O’Flannery?” asks the priest. “No Father, it was not.”

The priest very patiently paused and breathed a heavy sigh. 

“Alright my son, I admire your integrity and you are a child of god, but you must atone for your sins. Say five Our Fathers, four hail marries and all is forgiven.”

Matthew thanked the priest and quietly returned to his pew to atone for his sins. As he pulled out his rosemary beads, his friend slid next to him and asked, “What’d you get?”

Matthew said, “Five Our Fathers, four hail marries and THREE REALLY GREAT LEADS.”

Now go make some money! lol

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Twitter Bots.. They’re alive!!

Posted by JasperP on October 17th, 2008

I’m a big fan of using twitter because it can be used as a chat client or just plain mini-blogging.  It’s also fun to network with people and to see what others are doing.  For awhile, Marco Ponce would tweet about nothing but his cool jacuzzi.  He would tweet about it every night! lol

Anyway, this post isn’t about jacuzzis, but about twitter bots.  What is a twitter bot, you ask?  It’s basically an automated program that takes information from a direct message and does something with it.  For example, for you Google Calendar fans out there, there is a Google Calendar twitter bot that will post an event to your Google Calendar.  For example:

d gCal Write a post about twitter bots tonight 7pm

d gCal Make sure to buy some more soy milk and protein powder tomorrow

Another one is a Weather Twitter Bot.  You just direct message this bot and it returns with the forecast:

d forecast 90210

d forecast Los Angeles, CA

Cool huh?? Anyway, here’s a couple lists of some other twitter bots that I’ve found:

10 Most Useful Twitter Bots List

10 Bots to Help You Get the Most From Twitter

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Traffic University Exposed and Media Buying

Posted by JasperP on September 30th, 2008

I recently watched the Traffic University Exposed seminar and it was exciting to be able to talk to Carlos and Lupe live!  It was exciting to be able to pick their brain on their techniques on Internet Marketing.  It was also a bit entertaining too! - (Carlos is one freaky cat.. lol).  They have big hearts and it was a pleasure just chatting with them.

If you’ve never heard of Traffic Tactics, the basic idea is that they use media buying to generate tons of traffic online.  According to them, banner advertising is NOT dead.  In fact, media buying is done by big name companies all the time (You’ve probably seen the NetFlix banner all over the place).

They focus more on banner advertising rather than the usual PPC marketing that we see from other Internet Marketers.  The cool thing about banner advertising is that you can virtually get an unlimited amount of traffic directly from web sites or through ad networks like Casale Media, Tribal Fusion, etc.

Now, I almost was able to ask a question on the phone, but they had to cut it short because the seminar was getting pretty lengthy.  I wanted to ask them about my own experience with buying media.  About a month or two ago, I experimented with AdBrite, which is a self-serve ad network.  You can buy media at a CPC or CPM basis which is pretty cool.  I noticed they mentioned it in the “Media Buying Secrets” guide (which is free when you sign up for their free newsletter) and I decided to try it out.  I basically wanted to find out what I was doing wrong. I think I have a better idea with it now, so I guess I’ll give it a try again later on.

Listening to the seminar tonight, I realized that I think I was optimizing for the wrong criteria.  I was optimizing for which ads had a higher CTR when I should’ve been optimizing for higher CONVERSION RATES.  If a particular ad converts better, but has a lower CTR, that would be the winner right?

Another interesting point they made tonight is the emphasis of SPLIT-TESTING.  They split test so much that they even split-test PEOPLE.  Sounds odd, but one of the questions that was asked tonight was about where to find a good designer.  Lupe says to split-test designers and see which one does a better job.

Come to think of it, imagine if the working world was like that… each company hires 2 people for the same position and will keep the better one - hmmm, I wonder if they do that already.

Anyway, I just wanted to share my thoughts about them.  If you want to learn more about media buying and banner advertising, sign up for their free newsletter and you can get access to their free guide and hours of free video seminars.

Check it out now!

http://www.traffictactics.com
http://www.traffictacticsblog.com

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Interesting Posts From My Google Reader

Posted by JasperP on August 31st, 2008

Just thought I’d post some interesting posts I found from my Google Reader.  I follow quite a number of blogs and found some of these posts to be very interesting.  I hope you find them helpful!

• Writing explosive ad copy is an important skill to have as a marketer.  Your ad copy needs to entice people to click and to buy whatever you’re promoting.  TrafficTacticsBlog.com has a nice list of 77 “silver bullets” to enhance your copy.

• In addition to the 77 “silver bullets” above, here are more examples from PPCFool.com of great copywriting.  The idea is to impose “shock” to induce action from your visitors.  By using shocking keywords, you can startle your visitors to increase CTR.

• And here are more “magical” keywords from the TrafficTactics.com team

• How does the 20/80 rule apply to PPC Marketing? Basically, from launch to optimization, you should be left with a handful of keywords to optimize your campaigns on.  Derek at ClickConsultants.com explains how the 80/20 rule applies to keywords in your PPC marketing campaigns.

• You should always consider the structure of your PPC campaigns in order to maximize your ROI and conversions.  Joe from PPCHero.com talks about how a poor PPC structure will make your campaign suffer.

• Here is something that I haven’t had too much experience with.. which is Facebook ads.  It’s pretty hot to get into right now, although, it’s getting much more saturated as more and more blogs talk about it.  Anyway, Zac Johnson talks about split testing different pictures in your ad copy. It’s interesting to see how each picture can make big differences!

So that’s it! Now go out there and make some money!

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