Nerdy Affiliate Adventures In Affiliate Marketing Land

Meetup202 LA Recap and ASW 2010 Las Vegas

Posted by JasperP on January 13th, 2010

We just had our meetup last saturday and we had about 25+ people show up!  We did an icebreaker to make sure that everyone had a chance to meet someone new at the event.  It was an awesome turn out and we had good feedback from the event.

Link to Meetup202 LA Affiliate Marketing Group: http://affiliate.meetup.com/49/

Here are some pics from the Meetup:

Affiliate Summit West 2010 is just around the corner!  If you want to hook up at the event, there’s plenty of ways to get a hold of me:

AIM: JasperP81
Email: JasperP@nerdyaffiliate.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/JasperP
(Make sure to check out #wfasw and #asw10 hash tags on twitter)
BBM: 20FB20F2

I’ll be staying at the Rio this year, so I’ll be near the event.

There’s also a big Meetup202 in Las Vegas.  Check it out:

RSVP if you haven’t already, it might be booked already!

Meetup202 Las Vegas

My Experience on “The Price is Right”

Posted by JasperP on August 26th, 2009

I posted this on twitter, but for those that don’t follow me, I just thought I’d share my experience on “The Price is Right”.  This video aired about 3 years ago, right before Bob Barker retired. Me and some other friends waited about 8-10 hours from around 6am when they opened to around 4pm when they started filming.

The way it worked was that every single person  in the audience gets a 5-20 second interview to get on the show.  In order to get on the show, I used my marketing skills to get on the show.  Basically, I had to differentiate myself from the other members of the audience.

Here’s the secret: I told them that I worked as one of those robots sprayed in silver paint that worked at the beach.  They asked how much I made and I said, “It’s kind of embarassing, but on a good day I make about $40″.

I think they got a kick out of it and maybe felt sorry that I didn’t make that much money and put me on the show!

Anyway, here’s the video:

Networking Is The Key To Success!

Posted by JasperP on February 16th, 2009

A few days ago, Bryn posted a very important topic on his blog titled: “Networking Is The Most Important Thing In Affiliate Marketing.”  I really believe this is critical to your success and will keep you motivated to keep working on your business.  

Some people have asked me if I did consulting and were willing to pay me for it.   I told them “fuck that.. let’s just share tips and experiences!”  I don’t mind helping people out because I can also learn from them as well. 

Anyway, just wanted to post my top places to network with other affiliate marketers:

1.    
   Instant Messaging – I use this regularly and it’s easy to just get in contact with someone and discuss different topics of marketing.  Contact me at JasperP81 on AIM.
2. 
   Meetup202 - The meetup202 groups created by Wes and Steven of Prosper202 are GREAT for networking with other affiliate marketers.  I’ve met tons of people through my local Los Angeles meetup.  Check out if there are Meetup202 events in your area: meetup202.com.
3. 
   Affiliate Summit - Affiliate Summit West and Affiliate Summit East events are a MUST for affiliate marketers.  You get to connect with other marketers on a more personal level. Plus it’s great fun partying and just chillin’.  Mark your calendars: Affiliate Summit East is on Aug 9-11 @ New York City.  Check it out: affiliatesummit.com.
4. 
   Twitter - Twitter is another networking tool that can be used to get in contact with other marketers.  Dubbed as “mini-blogging”, you can reply back and forth with people about topics that they post or “tweet”.  Follow me at twitter.com/JasperP.
5. 
   Blogs - Subscribing to blogs are another way to get in contact with other marketers.  I personally use Google Reader to consolidate all the blogs that I follow.  I use this to keep an eye on the latest news in the Affiliate Marketing Industry.  Currently, I subscribe to about 100 blogs.  Check out Google Reader. It’s free! Then subscribe to this blog by clicking on my RSS link.
6. 
   Social Networking - Facebook and LinkedIn are popular spots to get in touch with other marketers.  I just started to expand my social network so hit me up on Facebook and LinkedIn.  
    
7. Forums - I used to be a bit more active on forums before, however, nowadays I’m not as active as I could be, but there are quite a few affiliate marketing forums out there such as WickedFire, Prosper202, PPC-Coach, Convert2Media, Cash Tactics, Xtreme Profits, etc.  If I’m on there, my username is usually “JasperP”. 

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

Top Blog Posts This Week From My Google Reader

Posted by JasperP on August 14th, 2008

Just thought I’d publish some interesting blog posts from my Google Reader that I’ve read in the past week.

Top Five Motivational Sales Speeches [NSFW]
http://www.afftoolbox.com/2008/08/10/top-five-motivational-sales-speeches/

5 Mistakes I’ve Learned from in PPC Affiliate Marketing
http://www.tylercruz.com/5-mistakes-ive-learned-from-in-ppc-affiliate-marketing/

Formula of a winning PPC ad
http://www.cdfnetworks.com/formula-of-a-winning-ppc-ad/

Ten Thousand Dollars
http://www.afftoolbox.com/2008/08/07/ten-thousand-dollars/

How I got started…
http://www.ppcfool.com/beginners/how-i-got-started/

Twitter Sets 2000 Follower Limitation
http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/08/12/twitter-sets-2000-follower-limitation/