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Hey guys,
I got back from Vegas late last night and have a lot to tell. First off, Vegas is truly an unbelievable city; after walking through casino after casino I’ve come to learn a new type of energy, Casino Energy. While walking through the casino’s to get to where I needed to go I could never help but notice the excitement and energy that people have when betting away their hard earned dollars. This wasn’t my first trip to Vegas but this was the first trip where I became aware of “casino energy.” When I’m 21 I will stay to playing in the poker rooms or something; The house SHOULDN’T win my hard earned dollars (I’d rather just buy there stock: Las Vegas Sands Corp. or Mgm Mirage hehe).

From show tickets to bringing high rollers into Vegas I believe that affiliate programs should be created. Most hotels in Vegas do have affiliate programs (Mainly all of the strip hotels since they are all owned by the same company) but their programs SUCK! Last Ecomxpo i contacted the guy who was in charge of the MGM-Mirage affiliate program (which is the affiliate program for: Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, Excalibur, Mgm Grande, Mirage, Monte Carlo, and I know I’m forgetting a few) and he told me I couldn’t promote for him because he “already had a good search publisher.” It’d be cool if we got .5% of what our reservations spend in the casino (one person fucks up their credit and you make 5k)!

Imagine the possibilities with offers like Vegas Concert/Show Tickets, Limo Rides, Helicopter Tours, Strip Clubs etc, All having affiliate programs. The possibilities would be endless, One thing you could do is make a concert ticket page that’s also offering a hotel room, limo ride to and from the show and even a ‘dance’ after the show. Would be a great way to cross promote offers and target SO many things without being irrelevant (you could target vacations, vegas, concerts, gamblings, casinos, and tons of other things).

Well I got to go now BUT hopefully some Las Vegas execs read my blog and pimp up the affiliate programs in Vegas
-Harrison

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Hey guys,
I have been e-mailed the question of ‘what to promote’ numerous times and I have had this unique idea for promoting Affiliate program affiliate programs through PPC but in a more honest opinion type of matter which I want to do and am probably an idiot for giving away, when you get rich just e-mail me and I’ll give you my paypal

I briefly thought about an idea similar to the one I’m giving to you guys like 6 months ago when I referred a lot of people to Millnic Media and made low $x,xxx off that 6% commission. I wanted to start promoting Millnic on the affiliate blogs by buying advertising but decided not to when I noticed they already were on the spots that I had hoped to approach, so I never did anything with until recently.

Just a few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me for a signup link to Incentaclick and I gave it to him happily. I than forgot about it until last week where i had earned over $2,000.00 from just one friend, I have now signed up one more person and am continuing to get more people signed up under me for as many networks as i can decide.

So This Is What You Can Do To Make Money
Make a landing page that has like 3-4 affiliate networks logos on the page with a rating you give them (Give an honest opinion, don’t rate the one that pays 5% out a 10/10 and the one that pays 2% a 3/10 the 2% one will probably make you more money). Write honest reviews for each of the networks, if you haven’t done much with that specific network just go look at their main website and see if you can figure out what to write from that. Once you do this collect a bunch of affiliate marketing relevant keywords; some that I would gather would be Affiliate Network Names (They can be the ones on your landing page or competing networks, both work), Big Blog names like shoemoney and johnchow etc, and last but not least use content network on some of those blogs (have not tested this but it is something I plan to test when I get to promoting networks through ppc)

Let me remind you as I don’t think I explained myself correctly. I have not promoted any affiliate networks affiliate programs through the methods I have suggested yet but I will be working on it when I am not swamped to the brim. I noticed that this is a niche with money to be made and I figured I’d blow it and let you guys make tons off of it instead.

Heres Where I Benefit From This, Here are MY affiliate links from a few networks you should sign up if you haven’t: Incentaclick - Ask For Debrani Copeac - Ask For Danielle Neverblueads - Ask For Victoria Azoogleads
RocketProfit Millnicmedia Pepperjam Network XY7 and HydraMedia

Tell me what you guys think of my idea,
-Harrison

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A problem that many new search/affiliate marketers have is the way they test their campaigns. I hope this post helps you get a grasp of how I like to test out offers. My testing methods always change a little bit depending on the campaign and you will learn that as you become more experienced search marketer your methods of testing will change and adapt to the markets at that time.

When I decide I want to ‘test’ a campaign before blasting the campaign it usually means that I feel the campaign has room for tremendous growth but holds a slightly higher risk than other campaigns or is an offer that I feel will perform different than other offers of its kind (this can make my research trends data 100% worthless sometimes).

Basically this is a quick overview and step by step on how you can really test a campaign and not come to the conclusion that a campaigns a 100% failure if you lose money your first day, Don’t give up guys, Please!

1. Budget: I like to test my campaigns by spending like 10% of my goal spend. Although 10% sounds like a low number it can be a pretty nice number when your spending mad money on ppc ;). If your starting out small i recommend you either make your budget 50% of your goal or by putting your goal as the daily budget and lowering your bids in order to decrease volume or get some cheaper clicks. When I just started messing around with AdWords I had an experience where I started testing with my goal as my budget but made my bids about 30% lower than what they should be. To my surprise i spent my whole daily budget the next day and saw a decent consistent ROI after that, that was kind of a fluke and probably doesn’t happen all the time but you might find yourself on a luck streak and start making more than you could imagine on your FIRST STAGES of a campaign!

2. Ads - My friend Jeff says that I am a little over the top when it comes to writing multiple ad variations. I disagree with him because in this business to many ads shouldn’t really be a problem. The whole point of testing is to find out what works and what doesn’t, once you test a campaign you can delete the ads which you didn’t make any money on and keep using the ads which worked. When you start a campaign I suggest you write up like 3-4 different ads. I love to do 10-20 ads for a new campaign and than narrow down the ads that I’ll actually use when going full power on a campaign.

3. Quality Score - Generally it’s a good thing to get your quality score’s all to the “OK” and “GOOD” score before you start going full power on a campaign. Although sometimes I say fuck it and just bid higher; one issue that I get e-mailed about quite a bit is issues with the quality score therefore new affiliates should really take it seriously and be concerned with original content, relevancy, etc. As you learn how to Affiliate market you will adapt to the quality score and form your own little strategies on dealing with quality score.

4. Last But Not Least, When To Stop etc - Determining weather a campaign is a good one (+) or a (-) on your income sheets is pretty important when testing a campaign as its pretty much the whole purpose. Before you start testing be sure to come up with a goal on how many leads per day and how much profit to earn, regardless of if you hit your goal or not having a ‘goal’ set in stone can make it a lot easier to determine if a campaign is working for you. HINT: If you have a campaign and its making .01% profit it’s still profitable, why pause it? Some people think that affiliate marketing is only worth it if you make 2x your money when doing it on a little scale and i disagree because most people doing search engine marketing hope to make A LOT OF MONEY and not do it on a small scale for a long time, you’ll get their soon.. i promise

Since I just re-read this post and I think it’s missing something feel free to contact me via email @ GevirtzMedia@gmail.com and I’ll gladly answer any questions you have about scaling a campaign

Goodnight Guys (2 40 am)
-Harrison

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Hey everybody,
it’s been a while since i’ve updates this and i wanted to thank you guys for not unsubscribing from my feed. The reason why i don’t post a lot is because i’m currently overloaded with tasks and projects that are really important. I have winter-vacation from today (december 11th) all the way to January 8th which is really going to let me take a few weeks and focus on my Business.

Lately ive been promoting those new crush campaigns, i’ve been trying to do some ringtones again but its not good, and am doing a little dating. I’m also launching some good Holiday campaigns. Something i am going to be promoting in january is a lot of tax offers. I usually dont follow the trends of events/calender but i figure taxes is a niche that most EVERYONE online has to do (in the usa at least).

I’m really pissed i haven’t got this blog going so i’m going to do this: if you email me your blog topics i’ll post something for ya
GevirtzMedia@gmail.com ’s my email…

Later guys,
Harrison

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Being a small network i work with flycell directly and received an E-mail from my friend/affiliate manager Daphne from flycell letting me know about the new mma marketing policies that are going into affect 10/1/07 these policies pretty much fuck us and i don’t understand the reasoning of the new rules going into affect…

Read for yourself??
(I believe that this is the only changed rule): As of October 1, 2007, affiliates will not be permitted to host a “choose your carrier page.” All advertising must point to a page hosted by the Advertiser by October 1, 2007.

If you want me to send you a copy of the WHOLE new rule list email me at gevirtzmedia@gmail.com

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So Today (Monday) i recieved an e-mail from somebody who really wanted me to go in depth about what i do online and to really give the ‘new edge’ affiliate marketer the basic tips to really optimize campaigns, sites and earn the bragging rights to say “i earn money online.”

First off; wanted to let everyone know why i have been busy/not blogging as often. First of all i am in the process of launching an affiliate program. Right now its just personal friends as my affiliates and we are doing great; i am hoping to release the network to you guys at the end of my week. E-mail me if interested gevirtz media @ gmail . com
The other big project ive been working on is Uploadkey.com a project that ive been working on september. I am now officially able to give out a link as my developers are ready to start testing. I will post more in depth later this week.

Now; before i go in depth i want to give this little ‘explanation of what i do’ in ‘english’ this is what i usually tell people who ask me who arent computer geeks like me. “I generate leads for companies by generating traffic through a program called Google adwords which consists of the little ’sponsored links’ on the right page of google search” than they usually ask me how i make money with that and i say “when someone clicks on it i make money when the user signs up for the service or buys whatever i am promoting; than i am paid for a lead.” thats my non nerd explanation heres the good version now guys.

Now i am mainly promoting offers that i have on my network; some dating, some ring tones and now starting to do search on my Uploadkey.com project. When i do search campaigns i usually try to keep the concentration of keywords, ad groups, and ad’s small vs. the way i started (collecting as much as possible). Sure it lowers the click volume but i really like only paying for refined traffic. Why spend an extra 500.00 a day on less relevant lower converting clicks? It really helps

Campaign optimization is usually a hipe so i cant give very advanced suggestions and methods to keyword optimization but i will just give a few ‘ideas’ to optimize your campaign. 1st: Dynamic Keyword insertion (the {keyword:backup word} feature) can be a great addon to your ads if you somehow integrate it into your landing page ( purchase {keyword} now or something? ) This usually ads a great deal of trust to the user because they feel that you the vendor (your landing page) really know what they want. Another idea is to keep your bids low even if the google traffic estimator says your ad spot will be 4-6 and it will cost you $2-$3 per day; I have seen the google estimator say my ad spot would be 4-6 and i would get 1-2 clicks for $2-4 per day at .75 per click/following which i would bid $.25 per click and get spots 1-3 and get 500 clicks a day on one or two keywords (This is not always true!!). Last but not least; On your landing page i recommend making sure your landing page is seo friendly. It really helps with googles lame quality score!

Quality websites; I have seen people make money by investing/paying to have small sites coded for Under a thousand dollars and love to encourage small start up projects but currently i am in the process of a long haul site: Uploadkey.com (the name might change by the way) so i am not the type of guy to give advice on new small sites except for the 1 thing i do when i start a site. TIP: Whenever i make a new site i usually goto text-link-ads and spend about $50.00 on links just to send the new domain name/site a little trust.

Getting into an internet busy can be a profitable but very hard endeavor to jump into especially if you have little/no internet knowledge. But it is very doable. For vague tips and ideas i really can only encourage to not be hesitant to ask internet experts (webmasters, programmers, me, and other people that might not seem willing but are usually more than willing to give a “noob” some tips and help you become the next rich net mofo… lol

Tomorrow im going to be doing a combo which will consist of information on my new network+some ideas i have which i need to throw around with you guys to see if it could be profitable. (promotional ideas).

It’s good to be back guys,
later
p.s. is anybody going to the cpaempirebreakaway?

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