Shawn Collins who is one of the Co founders of Affiliate Summit has years of experience in affiliate marketing together with Missy Ward. Their insights and leadership channel a new way of sharing their experience since 2003. Its the well known Trade Show “Affiliate Summit“. Personally I always appreciate their true, kind and sincere attitude for affiliates, merchants, affiliate networks and agencies. They are always putting their heart and soul into what they are doing.  Today I am so glad to announce that Missy and Shawn have provided a 10% discount rate for the attendees of Affiliate Summit West 2010. Just using the special coupon code ASW10AFFMETER while registering, will help you out for increasing your understanding of affiliate marketing industry.

Unlike last year ASW 2009, there are two key-note speakers: Dr. Robert Cialdini who is the author of best seller books in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation and Brian Clark who is the author of CopyBlogger.com and owner of many successful internet ventures producing millions of dollars in sales.

If you look at the educational sessions running on during the Show, you will be amazed by their extent of coverage for affiliate marketing, Social Media, blogging and SEO issues.

Here is a quick list of the Sessions. Just check them out and you will get surprised to see that the topics addressed are really the ones that you are searching for the answers:
1.    A Primer On Search Engine Optimization
2.    Effective Social Media Techniques
3.    Increase Search Revenue While Protecting Your Brand
4.    Merchant Challenges in the Affiliate Space
5.    Monetizing Blogs for Affiliate Marketing and SEO
6.    MommyBloggers: Changing the Face of Affiliate Marketing?
7.    Using Pay-Per-Call to Grow Affiliate Programs
8.    Affiliate Program Case Studies: Strategies and Practices
9.    Start Monetizing Your Blog Today
10.    Video: Biggest Affiliate Marketing Opportunity Since Google
11.    20 Affiliate Program Management Mistakes To Avoid
12.    De-Duping: the Great Unknown in Affiliate Marketing
13.    Five Reasons Why SEO Efforts Fail
14.    Product Datafeeds: The Next Level
15.    Law Enforcement Risks for Advertisers, Affiliates, Networks
16.    Affiliate Marketing by the Numbers
17.    Self-Promotion Will Save The World
18.    Killer Facebook Advertising Tactics
19.    Running a Network: Business, Legal & Practical
20.    Affiliate Program Compliance: Working with the Networks
21.    SEO Site Review/Clinic
22.    Oprah, Flogs and FTC: Hot Topics 2010
23.    CPA Affiliate Marketing Opportunities in Europe
24.    Ask the Experts
25.    Site Clinic by the Women of SEO
26.    Scaling Article Marketing For Affiliate Marketers
27.    Coupon Problem Solving Clinic
28.    E-Commerce Site Deconstruction: Strategies for Affiliates
29.    How To Get Motivated For Success!
30.    Igniting Viral Campaigns by Creating Relevant Conversations
31.    Creating Lasting Publisher and Advertiser Relationships
32.    Using Thought Leadership to Generate Leads
33.    GeekCast.fm Live!

So what are you waiting for? Grab your discount code ASW10AFFMETER, register and claim your seat at Affiliate Summit!

Success!

Performance Marketing Trade Shows are always the most powerful venues for establishing social networks, having empowered relations with your customers, getting acquainted by industry veterans, learning more about your business and business practices. Plus catching up with new developments and feeling the vivid organism of Affiliate Marketing industry gives you more motivation than you can ever imagine.

For any affiliate marketer (beginner/intermediate or pro) Affiliate Summit is a must go event.  Let me go over briefly how you will get the most during and after the “Affiliate Summit“:

Outcome: You will meet countless affiliates, merchants, network members or agencies and develop your business further.

Tip1: Don’t be shy. Always turn every opportunity to your advantage for meeting up with new people. You can meet them while you are waiting at the Starbucks Coffee Queue, during and in between the sessions, at expo hall, meet market place, parties or walk ways. Don’t buy the common saying that “Being alone at Affiliate Summits sucks”. Instead I found it to my advantage to meet up with new people. I become more open to any conversation by being alone. If you consider my situation, I’ve only visited US once a year and I have no opportunity left but to talk, meet with new people and enjoy their friendship. This MOTTO always worked out very well and makes everything so much fun. If you like you can also join mentor program of Affiliate Summit!

Tip2: Introduce yourself and briefly explain what you are up to in terms of affiliate marketing business. Do not forget to exchange your business cards.

Tip3: Keep a small notebook with you to in order track down your acquaintances. Give reference to where you met, how you met and what you two talked about. If you don’t keep them as simple introductory notes, believe me when you get back to home, you can easily miss out an important acquaintance for the future of your business.

Tip4: Even you do not feel obliged to or thought that it’s not necessary, issue nice and simple business cards for yourself. You do not need to be designer; internet has penty of resources to get yourself a business card. Be sure to have lots of them.

Tip5: Establish links with some of the people even before you go to the Affiliate Summit. Many of the sponsors are waiting to meet with you at Expo Hall or Meet Market Place. Send them an e-mail and set up a suitable time to meet.

Tip6: Don’t expose yourself like a sales person or don’t be so pushy to build relations with new people. Be very polite and let the dialog between you and your acquaintances flows in its own natural course but be proactive whenever you feel its necessary.

Tip7: Exchange ideas and opinions with people and get a deeper insight and understanding about the industry. Join the conversations and sessions. Don’t hesitate to ask questions during the sessions or panels.

Check out what other affiliates are up to. This way you can analyze where the affiliate marketing trends are going and compare your position in affiliate marketing to get a wider picture of your business.

Tip8: When you get back to home, the most important thing is to ping an e-mails to the people that you have met during the Summit. This is a fresh start for keeping your relations alive and a good way to found a solemn relationship and friendship with your industry liaisons.

Tip9: Follow up any social gatherings, events or parties via Affiliate Summit web site or Abestweb Forum and do not hesitate make fun. Join Affiliate Summit’s social Website and get to know more people even before you arrive.

Tip10: Always wear comfortable shoes and clothing. I, by myself, always prefer to be on flats for avoiding aching feet and legs.

I hope that the above will help you to get the most out of Affiliate Summit!

By the way don’t forget to attend the Premier Affiliate Summit West taking place  January 17-19, 2010, in Las Vegas!

Success!!!!

For launching a succesful PPC campaign, an affiliate must plan a well established division and balance in between different merchants and different PPC Search Engines. Let me go over the simple logic of building a strong PPC campaign. I know that it will sound familiar to you but my intention is to focus on these points and attract your attention once more.

1.  First of all take a sample group of merchants. The categories of those merchants could be multiple. It all depends on how do you feel about them.

2. Prepare your keywords to promote them in different PPC search engines. Every PPC search engine has its own value, demography, traffic volume, etc. Performance and conversion concepts are relative values for PPC Search Engine.  It is going to be an adventure for you to find out which engines are doing better under which categories. After all, this is your own PPC Laboratory!

3. Find revenue generating merchants. Even more, on which PPC Search Engines they are doing well is another critical point.

4. Check out  which keywords are converting into sales for those merchants.

5. Produce derivatives of the best performing keywords and set up new campaigns for those keywords at their  best performing PPC Search Engines. Please always remember the “Split and Track Motto” for your keyword campaigns.

Just keep in mind that, if you do not clear on preparing plans for promoting merchants, you just get lost around millions of products and thousands of merchants. It does not matter how much simple anything seems, just think before going forward and plan just like the way I did by simplifying the whole process. When volume becomes an issue, masses of data and information distracts your attention.

I wish you all the success!

PPC affiliates are working in a laboratory called “traffic generation“. Traffic Generation is a complete testing environment for relentless affiliates. Having talked about PPC search Engines,  always brings out the three most popular names:” Google, Yahoo, and Bing” However, it is not fair to think that all internet traffic is being generated by these three!  There are lots of good content sites, newspapers, blogs, information hubs, alternative ppc search engines, content networks and ad networks which produce quality traffic for different categories or niches.

This blog post is not going to reveal you a secret or hidden traffic resource which has yet uncovered. Instead it will remind you the alternative traffic resources which you have already known but won’t be convinced enough to try any one of them. My aim is to wake you up and let you see what is behind the curtains.

Christmas is approaching and almost here. Let’s take it to our advantage and believe that it is going to be a good start with new sources of traffic for generating new income streams. Besides many of those new traffic resources provide you with coupons or bonuses to start with.

Always keep in mind that the challenge is finding the most converting traffic for your niche. It is going to be a real life treasure hunt. After having done several tests, you are going to find your “Golden Duck” and keep it with you as your treasure. This is a personal experience involving your contribution, efforts and patience.  Paying Google Adwords’ non converting traffic cannot be a wise decision if you are running on a tight budget.

Instead of paying too much money on one or two media, starting as of today,  what you are going to do is just investing your time, intelligence and intution to find your converting traffic source which is going to be a perfect match for your audience and product.  And you are going to be surprised to see that how sustainable and long lasting this traffic source will be. For example pet products can be best converting in PPC Search Engine A, while clothing is at its pick conversion on PPC Search Engine B.

In this laboratory of yours, just produce your own formula. Now it’s not the time to play around with the big masses symbolized by Google but to search for specific areas where your audience exists.

In a nutshell, multiple PPC Search Engine approach has to be integrated into your affiliate marketing  strategies  along with other parameters of conversion train:

1.    Converting Affiliate networks
2.    Converting Merchants/Offers/Campaigns/Products/Coupons
3.    Converting Keywords
4.    Converting PPC Search Engines
5.    Converting Content Networks

The folllowing is  a list of 40 PPC Search Engines or Content Networks that is waiting for you to grab your opportunity of “Golden Duck”

1. 7search.com
2. Adbrite.com
3. Adbuyer.com
4. Adknowledge
5. AdMarketPlace
6. AdOn Networks
7. Adside
8. Adtech
9. Adventive
10. Advertise.com
11. Affinity
12. Ask.com
13. Bidvertiser
14. Blinkads.com
15. Brainfox
16. ChaCha
17. Clickriver
18. Clicksor
19. easyAd USA Inc.
20. epilot.com
21. Finditquick
22. Findology
23. Fox Networks
24. GenieKnows
25. Kanoodle.com
26. Leapfish.com
27. Local.com
28. LocalPages
29. Looksmart
30. Lycos
31. Marchex.com
32. Mirago
33. Miva
34. Nbc search
35. Pulse 360
36. Redz
37. Search123
38. Searchfeed
39. Snap.com
40. Traffic Market Place

Affmeter wins another strong partner “RevenueWire” and integrated RevenueWire Platform into the software Affmeter Pro by the version 2.00.046.

Basically this partnership is aiming to increase the performance of RevenueWire affiliates. By enabling them to easily check out the matching Adwords PPC costs of any campaigns they are running for RevenueWire merchants. Affmeter Pro is also unveiling RevenueWire affiliates the top commission generating merchants along with poor performing ones.

RevenueWire Affiliates can be more effective in taking measures to strengthen their campaigns or stop the existing ones and can be more productive by saving their time and investing their energy and labor into other projects or new campaigns.

RevenueWire Affiliates can also make performance comparisons along with other affiliate networks by using Affmeter Pro.  Monitoring some of the merchants whose campaigns have been opened up recently gives the RevenueWire affiliate a privilege to control his/her performance before making losses if any.

RevenueWire is a Pay- Per-Sale Affiliate Network partnering with top converting digital products.  Affiliates can find themselves in a very friendly environment of support team who are dedicated themselves to support affiliates at every stage.  RevenueWire team is always ready to provide affiliates with tutorials, tips and tricks, SEO and PPC articles. Whether you are a beginner or a Pro does not matter, there is always something for you.

You can check out the Demo Video of Affmeter to see how you can easily check out your affiliate network commissions and match them with the corresponding Adwords PPC costs to analyze your net revenue.