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Get Money + Get Paid with EWA Network

EWA Network is an affiliate network run by Ryan Eagle and Harrison Gevirtz. Since going live, the network has been mostly private and by invite only. EWA has mastered the art of running a network and helping their affiliates make money, so it’s time for them to open the flood gates and bring in new affiliates. I’ve been running offers with EWA for a while now and they are pretty serious on how they run conduct business, and from my experience with them, a lot of network can learn from their success.

Weekly Campaign Updates and Mini Guides
Even if I’m not running specific offers with EWA Network, but I see them talked about in their email updates or promotion guides, it’s always awesome to see the amount of information they are giving out. Unlike other networks that just say “We have this new offer. Run it, it’s making good money“, EWA will send out a network mailing telling you what to run, where to run it and what demographics to target. Your success is their success.

Want to see the rest? Join the EWA Network.

Payout Increases
One of the sayings over at EWA is “We Don’t Take Days Off”, that should be a requirement of all networks and internet businesses! It’s obvious by the amount of new offers and payout increases being made on the network that Ryan and Harrison live by these rules. While other networks say they have the highest payouts, most of them are in a mix of payouts and you actually have to tell them about a higher rate to get it… EWA usually has the highest rates without having to ask for an increase.

Twitter Updates & Support
You can also follow and get full support from the EWA team through Twitter. Follow @EWANetwork for network updates, or any of their team JaredEWANet VictorEWANet AndersonEWANet ChadEWANet. You can also follow the owners, Ryan and Harrison on Twitter. Of course you can always grab these guys by cell, AIM and Skype too.

To sum it up, EWA Network is serious business. They have the offers and knowledge to get you everything you need to succeed. Their affiliate guides are reason enough to join. Spread the word on their campaign payouts and they’ll cut you off in a second. For anyone pushing dating, rebills, gaming or foreign offers… up your game with EWA Network.

26 April, 2010 Posted by: Zac Johnson Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Network Reviews

B-Line Revenue Stacks of Cash Contest

Contest promotions have been a big thing lately for affiliate networks. Usually the prizes are equivalent to around 1% of your earnings. B-Line Revenue Network just went live with their network promotion and they want your business! In addition to paying a 5% cash/reward, they are also throwing in some hefty prizes. The promotion starts today and runs through September 30th. Usually networks caps off their contests to a 30 day period, since this contest has well over two months left, you have a much better chance of qualifying.

Here’s how to enter: 3 Ways to Win

1.) Simply join B-Line Revenue as an affiliate, and hit any of the tiers shown below.

2.) Tweet to win 1 of 6 $50 iTunes Gift Cards. (one winner every week)
Follow @BLineRevenue & Join B-LineRevenue for $UPER Affiliate Marketing & Win Big In Our Contest! RT 2 WIN! http://bit.ly/B7nis

3.) Bloggers: Post on your blog about the B-Line Revenue annual stacks of cash plus contest and link it back to this blog post. TWO iPod Nano’s will be given out at random over the course of the contest, one per month.

Worried You Can’t Earn $25,000 in 2 months?
B-Line Revenue has you covered! Even if you earn just $1,500 (less than $20 a day), you will still qualify for bonus prizes. Also, all prizes can be converted into cash. Check out the lower tier prizes below:
$1,500 = $100 ($50 stack of cash + $50 iTunes Gift Card)
$3,000 = $150 ($100 stack of cash + $50 iTunes Gift Card)
$5,000 = $250 ($150 stack of cash + $100 Gas Card)
$10,000 = $500 ($200 stack of cash + iPod Touch 16GB)

More about B-Line Revenue Network:
With over 100 affiliate offers on the network, BLR tries to accomodate to all affiliates, by providing offers that perform across all niches. Ranging from Biz Opps to Dating, or Mobile to Email Submits, you’ll be able to find an offer that suits your needs. All stats and tracking are in real time, as B-Line Revenue runs off the Hitpath network platform, which many networks seem to be using as of lately.

B-Line Revenue is looking for your feedback and your business. Feel free to leave and comments or questions and they will be sure to respond on this post.

Join B-Line Revenue

Contest Disclaimer: B-LineRevenue reserves the right to have final say on prizes and participation. Once a specified commission level is reached, you will receive that individual prize, one prize level per affiliate. Prizes are combinable (picking different prizes that are equivalent to your reward earnings) All prizes can be converted into cash, just let us know. For international publishers, in the event that we cannot find a way to get the specified prize to you, B-LineRevenue will compensate by sending a Paypal payment or bank wire payment for the value of the prize. Prizes will be sent out within 10 days after final numbers are confirmed. This contest also has no association with ZacJohnson.com

21 July, 2009 Posted by: Zac Johnson Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Contests, Network Reviews

Affiliate Venture Group’s Venture is to Make You Money

More internet marketers are coming together, forming their own companies and going forward with their plans on running their own affiliate network. The latest network looking to make a run at the biz, is Affiliate Venture Group. Located in Delaware and under a year old, you may not have seen Affiliate Venture Group advertised on many other sites, or even mentioned. AVG is ok with that, because they determined to only focus on quality affiliates by keeping the network more private and select in who they allow to promote their offers. Instead of spending time, money and efforts on flashy ad banners and having every affiliate under the sun sign up to their network, they want to bring in only the best and help you succeed with promoting their offers.

Offers on Affiliate Venture Group
Once you are accepted as an affiliate, you have full access to over 90 campaigns on network. Offer campaigns range in category, but are mainly targeted towards business, credit and health. AVG also has a few exclusive campaigns of their own, paying in the $42 range for “cash advance / loan” type offers and “trading/investing” program, which pays $395 per sale.

A Preview of Campaign Details, Payout and Creatives Available

To keep AVG in competition with other networks, you will also find offers that other networks run as well, such as “teeth whitening“, “resV” and many “biz opp” offers. Most of these offers are paying out in the $20-$30 range.

Education Offers: AVG has a decent amount of education offers too. If you had any experience in this field, you will know these offers pay out nicely. Many of these offers are paying out in the high $20 range. If you have any type of student/education mailing list, offers like Kaplan, Colorado Tech, Free College Info will do well for you.

AVG Network Platform
Networks are no longer limited to having to create their own custom platform, or simply relying on DirectTrack. AVG runs their network platform off HitPath, which offers an easy to navigate system, while offering full tracking capabilities. HitPath is the backbone for many networks, and runs off an easy to use interface, and provide quick and easy access for setting up API. One thing I’ve noticed with networks using HitPath (and a couple other platforms), is that you have to request an offer before going live with it. This can be annoying when trying to test offers, but keeps the networks and advertisers on their toes about traffic volume and quality running through the network. In most cases, offers are usually approved for promotion within a few hours… or just contact your affiliate manager, and you should be ready do go within minutes.

Above is a quick stats report pulled from the AVG / HitPath platform. As you can see, stats are easy enough to read, but the options are there for full tracking and breaking down stats.

Meet up with the Affiliate Venture Group Team
With so many networks in competition for your business now, it’s so important to have the personal contact. The AVG team is always doing what they can to be where the affiliate action is. From AdTech to LeadsCon to AffiliateSummit, someone from AVG will be in attendance. You can take a look at their events page to see where they will be next.

Affiliate Venture Group may be one of the newer networks, but they have a dedicated affiliate team that wants to work with you. Signup as an affiliate and see if there’s anything you can start making some money with.

09 July, 2009 Posted by: Zac Johnson Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Get Reviewed, Network Reviews

How to Start Your Own Affiliate Network

A decade ago it was quite a task to start your own affiliate network. First you needed a business model, probably a full staff and most importantly, your own network platform. Then DirectTrack became available, and everyone under the sun was creating their own network…. this time, all you needed was around $10,000! Now lets leap ahead to day. The latest in affiliate network platforms is now alive and well at hasoffers.com. Said to have “everything directtrack offers, and more“… and more importantly, it won’t cost you several thousands of dollars in the process.

Why you should start an affiliate network?
This post is really going to swing in importance for a lot of people… you are either looking to potentially have your own network, or not at all. A few reasons why you would want a network, is because you are currently running a few sites and offers of your own. Instead of brokering them out to affiliate networks, and having to pay a 30% increase on all leads, you could bring all of the offers in house and save money, while building up a valuable network and affiliate base. Another reason why you might want to start a network, is simply because you can do it better. It’s not just about having your own offers, but the ability to get the highest rates, treat your affiliates right and getting them to succeed. Not all networks are created equally… can you do better?

What does the HasOffers Affiliate Network Platform look like?
Honestly, the best way to see this network platform in action, is to see the major network that is using it to generate thousands of leads per month. I previously wrote up a review on Tatto Media, and how awesome everyone was at the company on getting me setup as an affiliate. This whole network is run off the HasOffers platform. Sign up as an affiliate to see full stats tracking, charts, demographics, creatives and everything else within the network. It really is a slick looking setup and the back end management options are amazing for easily running an affiliate network without having to a read through a ton of tutorials. For those interested in training and a run through on how to run the system, these options are also available.

What is going to cost to run my own network?
As mentioned earlier, with many other options, it will cost you an arm and leg to run your own network. HasOffers has an ad network platform that works for almost anyone. The most appealing version is the “Basic”, which is free… but the “Pro” version, at only $99 a month, is where you will look very professional. For anyone just starting out and thinking about starting their own network… but still hesitant, setup a free “basic” version and see how it goes. Once you are ready for the big time, move up to Pro (for your own domain name for the network, and url tracking) or Enterprise, which will cover you for some massive click volume. What’s the difference between the three options? Mainly the size of click traffic you are pushing through the network. will determine the right version and pricing for your network. A full detailed chart is shown below.

Latest Additions to HasOffers Network Platform!
In a continuing effort to make the Hasoffers platform one of the best around, just today they implemented even more improvements to the network, which include:

- New look and feel for the stat reports. Much more user friendly.
- Advertisers have the ability to manage their own offers now
- Option to allow offers to convert multiple times
- Customizable questions for affiliate sign-ups
- Lead caps can now be disabled

With the addition of these latest features, you can better manage any existing and new offers on the network. Everything about the hasoffers platform was built so it’s easily and fully customizable to your current web site and branding. You are not limited to using outside urls, or color schemes that just don’t fit. A full run down of all updates can be found on the news.hasoffers.com site.

HasOffers is Your Network Solution
With internet marketing changing every day and more people are deciding to create their own offers, Hasoffers is the right solution for many people. In the time that I have worked with Hasoffers/Tatto Media, they have been nothing but helpful and always looking for feedback and ways to improve their systems.

Take the time to look over their web site, and be sure to throughly think about if starting a network is right for you. Remember, you don’t need to compete with the big players to start your own network, start out with your own inhouse offers and expand from there. Setup a free account and be live within 10 minutes!

06 July, 2009 Posted by: Zac Johnson Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Network Reviews, Web Developement

Make Money with Tatto Media

Right when you see the name, you think or want to say “TATOO“, but it’s pronounced “Tat-Toe“. However, it’s not just the name that makes Tatto Media unique and stand out from other affiliate programs… but that it’s a network built from successful internet markets, it’s run off it’s own tracking system and it doesn’t have thousands of offers that usually just clutter things up. Let’s take a closer look at how you can start earning more with Tatto Media.

What is Tatto Media?
As mentioned, it’s an affiliate network… but it’s also a full ad serving company. Whether you have a web site with a lot of traffic and need a rotation of banner ads, or looking to advertise across Tatto’s network of thousands of partner publisher sites, there is an ad solution for you. The Tatto affiliate program just went live recently, but the company has been around for some time now. When you get to their web site, there’s really only three option; Advertisers, Publishers and Affiliates.

Why Tatto Media is Different than Other Networks?
In just the short amount of time that I’ve been working with Mike Cataldo (Head of Affiliate Relations) at Tatto, I’ve been very happy with the response and fast action. Right when I was accepted, I looked over their offers and mentioned a few that I could do volume on. Instantly Mike went ahead and gave me a better rate, then went even further and upped me even more the next day after talking with the advertiser directly. It’s things like this that make a BIG difference to affiliates… not rewards programs or having a gazillion offers.

Tatto Media Offers, Reporting & Payments
The mixture of offers running on Tatto are offers you’ve seen on other networks, with a few exclusive offers you don’t usually come across. The difference is, most of what is listed on the network are decent offer, with the low quality/converting offers removed. After doing a quick “public rate” comparison of Tattoo offers vs other networks, most were in the higher/mid-range area. These numbers are usually not of value, as you can always get a better rate with volume, and so far I’ve been happy with Tatto’s response at doing this.

Its always nice to work with a quality network that isn’t run off DirectTrack. Tatto has their own network setup, which has always been fast for me and loads charts and stats quickly too. The system is built with capabilities to pull reports in almost any sort of way, up to the minute stats reporting and daily/monthly charts when you login. API, Demographic data and sub-id tracking is also available.

If you are still getting checks once a month from your affiliate network, that’s a thing of the past. Many networks are recognizing the importance of paying affiliates faster and how they want to be paid. Tatto pays out weekly, and pays through check, paypal or wire transfer.

Give Tatto Media a Run
You can only say so much about an affiliate network… the concept behind an “affiliate network” is so vague and generic. You really need to signup, test the offers and talk to the people behind the scenes to see the difference and put things into motion.

Join Tatto Affiliate Network