Make Money with PepperJam Network

What very well may be the “Network of Networks“, has finally gone live today. PepperJam Network is now live, and has been in the works for over two years. I have taken a look at their new network, pulled it apart and broken it down for you. Let me tell you now, anyone who gets to take part in their network is extremely fortunate and should start making some serious money. The quality of campaigns and performance tracking on this network is unmatched. Get ready… it’s time to make some mad money!

Overview:
PepperJam is an industry leading full-service internet marketing agency recognized by Inc. Magazine for two consecutive years as one of the fastest growing privately-held businesses in the United States. The company is founded by Kristopher Jones, whom I was fortunate enough to meet last year at Affiliate Summit. Not only did I talk personally with Kris, but I attended his pay per click session and he definitely knows what he’s doing. After all, he is one of the world’s best marketers! The experience and reputation that PepperJam has, is now all bundled up into their new PepperJam Network. Let’s take a further look into what this exciting new network has to offer.

Ease of Use:
Upon logging into the PepperJam Network, you are given everything you need, all on the same page. A “Reports Overview” which shows your account performance and earnings, including you EPC (earnings per click) averages for the past 7 days, 1 month and 3 months. An “Account Quickview”, which shows detailed campaign earnings for yesterday and a running total for the month. To the right, you will have some very nice charts on your earnings performance by creative, then the chart on the bottom right shows your earnings performance over a selected date range.

Profitability:
Though the PepperJam Network just went live, I know I will be making a lot of money with the network in no time. PepperJam itself strives to be the best in marketing and is backing their network up with high quality offers you can’t find anywhere else. In addition to some amazing brand names we all use and love, PepperJam Network is supplying you with one of the greatest affiliate network support teams I’v seen. With an amazing support team and campaigns that are sure to rock, you can’t go wrong.

Quality of Ads:
I’ve been to the PepperJam company site in the past. I always wanted to personally work with them because they represent advertising for some of the coolests and well known companies in the world. When I heard PepperJam Network was going live, I could only hope I would see these same offers available to their affiliates. Sure enough, when I first logged in, I quickly clicked on “Get Campaigns”… and to my delight, I saw some killer ad campaigns. Just take a look at some of the names below that you can start promoting. You can join every other network out there, but PepperJam Network will continually have an exclusive campaigns list you won’t find anywhere else.

Golden Marketing Tip: This is a brand new network, with brand new exclusive campaigns…. that means you now have the edge at ppc Marketing and getting these campaigns running before other affiliates find and promote them. Along with excellent brand names to promote, you can be assured that you will earn a hefty commission on every lead and transaction.

The Majority of Offers on PepperJam Network… You Won’t Find Anywhere Else!

When selecting a new campaign to run, you will see each offer has their own dedicated “Manager“, which includes a phone number and the web site url. An amazing feature provided by PepperJam Network is the ability to talk to an offer manager over live chat! See that little blue chat icon next to the manager’s name for the 123CopyDVDGold offer… when it’s blue, it means they are available for chat. How cool is that?! No more waiting around for email responses. PepperJam Network is doing everything they can to make you as happy and successful with their network as possible.

Quality Offers with Live Managers on Chat… Simply Amazing!

Stats Tracking:
In addition to some really fancy looking charts, PepperJam Network really does go the extra mile in providing you with really useful stats and the linking tools you need to maximize your ROI. When selecting your campaigns, you will have a vast selection of text and banner creatives to choose from. When you are going through the list of campaigns, you can click on the “More Details” (shown in the screenshot above), and it will open a new section below the offer, listing it’s creatives and EPC. This is a great feature, as you won’t have to keep flipping back and forth in between pages to see how campaigns are performing across network. When creating your campaign urls, you also have the option to setup SIDs, for tracking individual campaign performance. Another option available, is to override the destination url for campaigns, which may also prove useful on testing your new campaigns.

Here is a Performance Report on Campaigns Running through the Month

Stats Tracking: PepperJamADS
Unique to the PepperJam Network, pepperjamADS is an affiliate marketing widget that you can use to serve customized contextual ads from one or multiple Pepperjam Network advertisers at the same time. The ad units come in various shapes and sizes. You can mix and mash ads from any of your merchant partners. For instance, you can create a fashion widget by selecting various ads from multiple fashion merchants. Likewise, you can create a specific widget with ads from any one merchant. Think of it as a CPA version of Google Adsense, which you control. Take a look at the screenshot below, along with all of the customization features available.

Creative Your Own Contextual Ad Banners in Seconds

Resource Center & PepperJam Chat:
PepperJam wants their affiliates to be as knowledgeable as anyone else in the company, so they went ahead and made an affiliate Resource Center. Through the resource center, you can read up on some of the greatest marketing blogs and resources that you may not have already known about. They also feature a list of “Super Affiliate Resources“, which can give you the edge over your competition.

Another excellent feature of the network, is PepperJam Chat, which features the contact information for everyone at the company, along with all of the campaign managers. This is really an amazing feature because if you have a campaign specific question, you can go right to the source. Once again, you can use this as a master list to see which managers are currently available for live chat as well.

Why Do I Like This Network:
Just off my first run through of the network, I was really impressed with everything I saw. I’m just starting to setup my new campaigns and I’m excited to see where this is headed. PepperJam is ranked an Inc. 500 Company (2007 RANKING - 550.2% Growth, 2006 RANKING - 460.4% Growth), and now that they have an affiliate network, they are only going to be more successful. The idea of opening their network of high quality advertisers is simply amazing. I personally know founder Kris Jones, and that personal relationship has always made the difference for me in business. Knowing that he is running the network, I have no doubts about where this network and my potential earnings are headed!

Final Review:
After final review, I rate PepperJamNetwork with 5 out of 5 “Zac Stamps of Approval“, only because I can’t go any higher! Through this network review, I have pointed out a ton of amazing features and their effort towards providing amazing support is definitely visible. With the network just going live, I have no doubt things will only get better as they have more feedback coming in from new affiliates. I will get my campaigns up and running and provide you with detailed stats on what campaigns are working, along with my first earnings check! I recommend joining the network immediately before your competition puts these campaigns to the test!

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Make Money with RocketProfit Affiliate Network

I thought it was only fitting to start the new year with a new network review. This time I will introduce you to RocketProfit. In addition to continually seeing this company at marketing events and exhibit halls, I also noticed that the company is run by Traffix, Inc. a company I’ve worked with many times over the past several years, and actually visited their offices years ago. Knowing that RocketProfit is backed by a strong and publicly traded company like Traffix, makes me comfortable about their stability and that problems with payments should never arise.

Overview:
As mentioned, Traffix has been around for a very long time now and RocketProfit has established itself as one of the big players in the affiliate network game. With the backing and experience from Traffix, RocketProfit has secured some excellent campaigns, along with very competitive payouts. I personally haven’t been using RocketProfit that much as of lately, but will make sure to do a heavy dose of testing with offers on their network to provide you with better stats and what their best performing offers are.

Ease of Use:
Right when you log into the RocketProfit admin area you are sent right to their “News Flash” page, which features all of the exciting news on new campaigns and payout changes. This main page is updated every few days, so you can expect to see new creative and offer changes quite often. In addition to the “New Flash” content, you can also navigate through the whole system to grab new offers, check commissions and read up on the latest changes on the network. Another great feature of RocketProfit is, when you login you are shown all of your affiliate manager’s contact info. Being able to contact my affiliate manager on AIM makes all the difference to me!

Profitability:
RocketProfit has the ability to become one of your major source of revenue, if not your first. The reason being is they can offer competitive rates, along with campaigns that are well known and actually perform. As I go through the next few data points of RocketProfit, I will cover their campaign payout rate, exclusive campaigns, campaign stats tracking and their rewards program. With all of these offers available within the same network, I feel many others, along with myself can profit heavily from this ad network.

Quality of Ads:
With well over 150+ offers running on the network and payouts ranging from .50 per lead to $110 per paid trial, there’s not doubt that you will find a profitable offer for your web site or ppc campaigns. Once you access your “My Offers” page, you will have the ability to search all offers on the network by category, type, payout (highest/lowest), media type and / or by country.

High End Offers on RocketProfit are Paying $40-$100 per Signup

A problem I see across many of the affiliate networks is that most of them have the same offers. I wanted to do an “exclusive” search on RocketProfit and see what they actually had to offer that I can’t find on any of the other networks. I was happy to see they have over 35+ exclusive campaigns, many of them being in-house offers which are run under Traffix. A few of these campaigns are very well known sites, such as GroupLotto, Publisher’s Clearing House, PrizeAmerica and many more.

A Large Selection of Exclusive Campaigns is Key to a Success Ad Network

Stats Tracking:
Once you have your campaigns running, tracking them will be a breeze with the RocketProfit stats area. Below is a quick screenshot of how you can setup your own sub-id campaigns. Using sub-ids you can track individual performance for pay per click marketing, email campaigns, or simply how different ad spots on your site perform.

When you have your general campaigns or sub-id campaigns running, you can check your stats in their reporting area. You can pull reports by all campaigns running or by individual subids campaign. In addition to campaign type, you can select a date range you would like to pull reports on, as well as change the report format. The stats area also provides a link to your RocketRewards.

RocketRewards:
I’m really glad to see that RocketProfit is offering an incentives program. I know that a few other networks were doing something like this, but most of them have phased it out now. You’d be surprised how much a little $50 gift card can make a difference in getting someone to actually profit a few more offers to hit a certain quota. The RocketRewards is pretty much a gift card for 5% of the amount you earned with a month. If you earned $5,000 in a month’s time, you would receive a $25 gift card. Gift cards are available for high end locations such as Barnes and Noble, Home Depot, Gap, Banana Republic, Olive Garden, California Pizza Kitchen, PF Chang’s and The Cheesecake Factory.

Affiliate Toolbox:
In addition to everything else on the network, RocketProfit has also provided you with an affiliate resource area when you can find tons of cool tools, data and reports on E-mail Marketing Tools, Search Engine Marketing Tools, Webmaster Tools and Internet Marketing Resources & Tools. For a free resource they do have a decent amount of good tools and blog resources for you to read up on. I’m sure there’s at least one item in here that you haven’t come across yet.

Why Do I Like This Network:
After going through a full review of their network and all of RocketProfit’s offers, I feel I can make some good money with them as they offer quality campaigns that have competitive payouts. As with all networks, if you can provide volume, you can work with the network to receive better payouts. With the addition of the RocketRewards and Affiliate Toolbox, affiliates can learn how to better promote their campaigns, while earning a little bonus at the end of each month… and I like that in a network.

Final Review:
For my final review, I rate RocketProfit with 5 out of 5 “Zac Stamps of Approval“. I have yet to use the network to it’s fullest and will make sure to place their ads across my network asap, so I can report back to you on their performance and tracking. Seeing that RocketProfit is backed by Traffix, Inc, I have no doubt that the network will be a new revenue source for many affiliate for several years to come. If you aren’t already an affiliate with RocketProfit, I recommend you do so now. In addition to joining the network, once again, I’ll offer a free MoneyReign tshirt to any referred affiliates who earn their first $50 through the network. Simply use the contact page and send me your address and RocketProfit affiliate id.

Join Rocket Profit and Increase Your Revenue!

If you haven’t already, apply for RocketProfit through this blog and you’re application should be approved without a problem and very quickly. To entice the offer even more, send me your affiliate id and I’ll send you a free t-shirt when you earn your first $50 with RocketProfit. (This has nothing to do with RocketProfit, nor a paid promotion by them. I simply want to help others make more money!)

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Make Money with AdReporting

It’s been a while since I my last Network Review, and I want to keep you updated with some new areas to make money online. Today I will tell you about the AdReporting Network. The funny thing is, I haven’t used AdReporting for quite a while now, but I still get their email updates on new offers added to the network (which triggered me to write this review). Right off the bat, I really like AdReporting just for the fact that they haven’t deleted my account for inactivity purposes. I make money with a lot of networks and sometimes I don’t have any activity for months. (I was originally going to do a review on HyrdaMedia… but it looks like they deleted my account!) Bad for them… Lucky for AdReporting!

Overview:
I first started running AdReporting back in April of 2002. Around this time I was well into my sweepstakes / freebie type sites and there was a lot of great offers to choose from, which matched my traffic demographics and newsletters. I was also in close talks with Kevin Needham who started (and still runs) AdReporting.

Ease of Use:
The simplicity of the network is awesome. Right when I went to the site, I wasn’t sure if I remembered my password or not, so I went to the “forgot password” page and all my infor was sent right into my email. As for loading times, everything is very fast. Since the site is nearly all text format, and has a low intensity graphic design, browsing through the site is extremely easy and doesn’t take any time to get use to it.

Profitability:
I logged into my account for the first time in a while and wanted to see what type of earnings I used to make with these guys and it looks like I had made $32,573.57 since starting my account with them. For a good majority of 2002 I was earning around $4k to $5k a month off their offers. I’ll post a check stub if I can find a copy laying around.

I was hoping to make a list of some great offers on the network that I made all this money off of, but unfortunately they have since expired or been removed from the network. However, here are the top three performers while I was running offers on the network. I was able to target my traffic for free phone cards and that offer really paid off! The Foreclosure World and Norton SystemWorks also did extremely well.

Stats Tracking:
Viewing your stats is extremely simple and loads very fast. AdReporting keeps all of your tracking stats and doesn’t delete them as time goes on. I was able to check my reporting all the way back to 2002. When selecting offers, you are also shown the network average earnings per click over a 3 or 7 day span. Within your AdReporting account, you also have the option of earning additional revenue by referring other affiliates. There are also some neat tools and banner rotation scripts you can setup to get an idea on what type of offers will convert best with your traffic. Lastly, there is also a small section on how to start pushing offers through ppc advertising and offers a few resource sites as well.

Quality of Ads:
Right now there are 84 offers on the network. Since AdReporting is a smaller network, you may come across several offers that you won’t be able to find on the larger networks. There is a wide variety in offers available, ranging from pay per sale, to low end freebie offers. Some high end offers include Laser Beam Software (paying $30 CPA), eBay Auction Throttle (paying $20 CPA) and Blue hosting (paying $80 CPA). If you can provide volume, I’m sure Kevin will hook you up with even better rates! (tell him Zac sent ya! :))

Why Do I Like This Network:
Back when I was running offers with AdReporting, I was in contact with Kevin a lot. Since I was pushing some heavy volume on the network it was important for me to have a personal contact there and be appreciated. Payments were always on time and there were many offers on AdReporting that could not be found on the other networks.

Final Review:
As mentioned earlier, it’s been a while since I last logged into AdReporting, but after looking over their system again and seeing how quickly I was able to generate over $32,000+ in commissions with them, I may try and start pushing their offers again. Even though I have not used the network in quite some time I would have to rate AdReporting with 3 out of 5 “Zac Stamps of Approval“. A new change to the network I wasn’t too thrilled about, was their removal of affiliate referrals to the network. With so many networks around now, why wouldn’t you help your own network by allowing other two promote it on an earnings percentage basis. Still, looking back five years and seeing $32,573.57 earnings within the span of less than a year on a new network (with no PPC advertising), I think that’s pretty cool! I recommend you signup to the network and see if there are any offers that match your audience!

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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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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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