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Archive for May, 2007

May 30th, 2007

Make Money with NeverBlueAds Affiliate Network

Time for another great money making affiliate network review! Today I will focus on the financial benefits you could have by joining NeverBlueAds Network. To view past network reviews, you can refer to the "Network Reviews" section. Also keep in mind these are not paid reviews or testimonials, my reviews on these networks are from my personal experience only.

Overview:
NeverBlueAds has been a well known network for a few years now. At almost every marketing conference I eventually meet up with my good friend Jordan at the exhibits. Time and time again we would talk about how we should be making money together, but it wasn’t til last month that I actually started running a few of their offers and made some dough. Sure, I ran them in the past, but not enough to make them one of my more valued networks and revenue sources. From reports below you will see how I went from $0 in March to $1950 in April, then over $5300 this month (May)! Best part is, I was able to add this new revenue source without having to remove another advertiser or campaigns. Monetization is key!

Ease of Use:
I love the NeverBlueAds login area, it’s one of the fastest loading and most basic (yet effective) setups I have seen. Once logging in you are given a full layout featuring your currently earnings over the past few months, new offers to the network, network news and the top performing campaigns (sorted by search, web and email), as well as your affiliate manager contact info. The search feature at the top of the page allows you to search through all available campaigns, while being able to sort by category, promotion type and if the offer is incentivizable or not. Selecting your offers is just as easy. Simply select your desired offer, then choose from the various selection of ad copies/banners. You are then provided with your HTML code or text link.

Profitability:
One of the main reasons why I am so successful with NeverBlueAds is because they can offer some of the highest rates in the industry. With volume they can even increase your rates to show appreciation and help you out with better returns. When comparing NeverBlueAds to other networks, it was quite obvious they are paying out higher than others, and if you find differently, let them know and they will work with you. As mentioned earlier, take a look at the "Quick Stats" chart to the right. Once you login you are able to see this performance chart of how you’ve done over the past three months. This chart alone shows you the profitability of NeverBlueAds, I was able to go from $0 to $5000+ in only two months!

Quality of Ads:
High payout rates won’t matter much if you can’t back them up with quality offers. Take a look at MySpace.com or some of the other high traffic social networking sites, they are all serving high volume and quality ads. Through NeverBlueAds you can run these same offers. Whether you are looking for quick contest/trial offers, or high end purchase/lead offers, NeverBlueAds can supply you with both. I personally have done very well with their freebie type offers. With over 150+ offers on the network, it shouldn’t be hard for you to find an offer that will convert with your traffic.

Below is a screen capture of the campaign search setup. The "Network Earnings" feature is really great, this rating system lets you know how the offer is performing network wide for all affiliates running the offer. Pay outs are listed under either "Lead" or "Sale" based on what type of offer it is. You will also find that some offers are able to be incentivized. These are usually high paying, credit card required offers.


Here are just a few of the campaigns available focused on "Money".

Stats Tracking:
In addition to the great user interface at NeverBlueAds, you should also enjoy the stats area. You have the ability to sort by campaign, date, creative, web site or sub ids. With sub ids you can test different ad creatives and see how their performance compares. This feature is great if you are testing to separate mailing lists or want to run banners on rotation, then pull out the less performing ones. Below is a quick glance at what a report would look like if you wanted the general daily performance chart


Great stats are key to making big money with your site!

Why Do I Like This Network:
I’m really enjoying the past two months that I have been promoting NeverBlueAds. The addition of their offers to my sites have been performing extremely well and the stats provided through their site makes it so easy. In the beginning it took some testing to find what offers were performing best and what locations were best for clicks, but things are on auto-pilot right now and looking great. I look forward to new high paying and quality offers being added to the network so my site users won’t continually see the same offers.

Final Review:
After final review, I rate NeverBlueMedia with 5 out of 5 "Zac Stamps of Approval". I’ll admit, I was very skeptical when my good friend and rep Jordan first told me that sites were making big money from running offers that have been around forever and are already being advertised on a ton of sites. After much testing and monetization, I soon enough became another one of the those sites cashing in on these offers. It will be nice to meet up with Jordan again at Affiliate Summit East, but this time we can talk about all the money we made, instead of the usual "why aren’t we making money yet!". Sign up today and see what type of extra revenue your web site can start pulling in.

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May 30th, 2007

Affiliate Summit East Press Blog

Affiliate SummitWith May soon coming to a close, Affiliate Summit East is just around the corner and less than 40 days away! In addition to speaking at the event, I will now also serve as a member of the press! If you are unable to make the event be sure to stay updated at my blog, where I keep you up to date on my daily activities, networking parties, exhibit hall news/pics, which speakers and presentations were worth seeing and more! I understand travel can be a big inconvience, but I highly recommend that you make an effort to try and attend the event, especially if you are in the Florida area. Affiliate Summit East is July 8-10 at the Hotel Intercontinental in Miami, Florida.

You can still take advantage of my 10% off coupon for a Full Affiliate Summit pass, or the exhibitor pass. All you need to do is signup for the event at their site, then insert coupon code "MSPKFL" for 10% off a FULL PASS, or insert "MSPKEX" for 10% off an EXHIBIT HALL PASS.

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May 29th, 2007

Make Money with ValueClick Media

Every day for the next week or two I will be reviewing some of the top affiliate/ad networks online that I currently use and have been making money with. Today’s review is on the CPM network ValueClick Media. All ad network reviews will be featured in the new "Network Reviews" section. Also keep in mind these are not paid reviews or testimonials, my reviews on these networks are from my personal experience only.

Overview:
ValueClick Media, formerly known as FastClick, is one of my favorite and most successful ad networks. Since joining the network back in April 2003, I have always made nice money. Unlike most other CPA networks, ValueClick Media runs all their offers on a CPM basis, which you means are paid per impressions/ad views and not clicks or leads. To start running their advertisements, you simply add a small HTML code to your web site and ValueClick Media will provide a full rotation of all ads in their system. In addition to several banner sizes, you can also add interstitials, popunders, invue, half page ads and the most recently added in-stream video ads campaigns to your site.

Ease of Use:
ValueClick Media has an excellent admin area with makes it very easy to read campaign reports and also offer pull tabs to generate your html codes. Once you grab your desired ad campaign code and set them on your site, you are finished. ValueClick Media will handle all campaign ads and reporting. The only problem I have had with the site is the loading time for the main admin area to come up, after logging in. For the longest time now they have had this issue and sometimes it takes a minute or two before the main admin page actually loads. This is very annoying, but once you are in it’s faster.

Profitability:
For several years now ValueClick Media has always been one of my top performers, no matter what niche I have been focusing on. Many CPA networks will tell you that you will make more money running their CPA banners in place of ValueClick Media’s banners. In some cases this may be true if you have very high quality traffic, but after testing with a few networks and some of my sites, this is not always the case. I’m told some campaigns run through ValueClick media are run on a CPA basis on the backend, but you are seeing the campaign as a CPM. Basically the CPM network (ValueClick Media) is paid on a CPA, but they back out the campaign to affiliates on an CPM rate averaged from all the CPA earnings of leads generated. You can test between CPA and CPM campaigns, but you may also find that running ads through a CPM network is much less stressful than a CPA network. When running through a CPM network you won’t have to constantly change offers as new ones come in and older ones expired. Once you setup the ad placement html, all new and old campaigns will automatically shift in or out.


ValueClick Media continues to be one of my best performers month after month!

Quality of Ads:
Once you have started running banner campaigns or other ad formats on your site, you will likely see that most of the offers are the same offers found on many of the CPA networks. You will also find that there are a few higher quality campaigns that are not featured anywhere else. Lately I have been seeing a lot of ad placement for Microsoft’s Live.com campaign, which is shown below. I have not seen this campaign available on any CPA networks, but I am sure they are paying ValueClick Media a nice CPM since they are a large company and buying in high volume.


Microsoft has been running "Live Search" campaigns in almost all ad formats.

Stats Tracking:
It’s really important for me to be able to look at my earnings and traffic figures without getting frustrated or having to try and figure out how much a certain web site or ad campaign is performing. ValueClick Media is great in this area and you can break down stats by campaign, web site, advertiser, banner size and date. Right when you log in you are shown you hourly stats for the day, as well as a bar chart on your daily performance with the program. Simply refer to their ‘History’ tab to pull up any past records. I can go back all the way to April 2003 which is really great! I hate when networks don’t offer full stats access back to your starting date.


An excellent breakdown of hourly and daily performance.

Why Do I Like This Network:
Since joining ValueClick Media (back when they were FastClick) over 4 years ago, I still only have good things to say about the company. After earning high six figures with the company, payments have never been an issue and they are now testing/offering payment through direct deposit. I have not experienced any problems with their ad campaigns or network downtime. I am also always in contact with my account manager and their support has always been great.

Final Review:
After final review, I rate ValueClick Media with 5 out of 5 "Zac Seals of Approval". There aren’t many companies that I can say I have consistently made money with since joining, especially over a span of 4 years. ValueClick continues to be one of the largest advertiser marketing firms online and this program should consistently make money for all publishers for a long time. While other networks have high limitations on who they let in, over the past year ValueClick Media has been a lot more accepting of new sites into their network. Signup today and see what type of extra revenue your web site can start pulling in.

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May 26th, 2007

Affiliate Network Reviews

Starting Monday, I’m going to start reviewing all the networks I work with and make money from. I’m hoping this will bring some new revenue sources to a few of you. The new network reviews will be something like the one I wrote up for "Affiliate Fuel". I will also add a new category called "Network Reviews" so you can easily look them all up. Reply to this post with any networks that you would also like me to review.

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May 25th, 2007

Microsoft Affiliate Network

I applied to the new Microsoft Affiliate Network about a week ago and was just notified that I was accepted into their network! Looks like they only have one offer at the moment, and it’s for their freeWindows Live OneCare PC protection software and pays $1.50 per download. It also states that payments are sent out once $100 in commissions are accrued. This may take some time with only one offer live on the network, though I am sure they will add more soon. It’s excited to be part of the network, because I wanted to let everyone know what they have to offer and how they will perform. I will list the PC protection software on some sites now and keep you updated on it’s progress and any new offers added to the network.

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