Earn Big Cash! Win a Free iPod Touch & Flip Mino Video Camera and More

Once again, MarketLeverage is holding a mega promotion for the network and giving away more sweet prizes. I’m not big on blog post contests or promotions, but I actually make good coin with MarketLeverage, so I’m alright with spreading the word on them. There are a couple other promotions going on out there, but I want to make this one a little bit sweeter and have some extras. There will be random prizes, prizes based on earnings and just for blogging about this contest, you could walk away with a new Flip Video Camera MINO!

Awesome Prizes! Super Easy Contest! Mad Money to be Made!

PRIZES UP FOR GRABS:
- iPod Nano
- USB Drive Pen (3 Winners)
- $200 ML American Express Rewards card
- Flip Video Camera *The NEW MINO
- BONUS: iPod Touch

Why you should Enter the Contest & Join MarketLeverage:
There are TWO BIG reasons why you should enter this contest. The FIRST one being is that people are lazy! Many of you are going to read this post and think about entering, or just ignore it… so that makes it very easy for you to win the prizes should you actually enter. SECOND reason, MarketLeverage has some great offers and I was pushing $1,000+ a day with them through last month and this month. I even provided you with a landing page that you can use to promote their offers!

I’ve Made Good Money with MarketLeverage. You Can Too!

BONUS: Free MoneyReign Shirt
MarketLeverage has their set of prizes, but I’ll additionally throw in a Free MoneyReign Shirt and “I Make Money Online” bumper stickers to anyone who joins through this site. Just use the contact page, send me your postal address and your MarketLeverage CD# account number. (Limited to US residents only)

HERE’S HOW TO WIN:

1.) Join Market Leverage through this blog.
- Prize: iPod Nano (Referred affiliate with highest June earnings.)
- Prize: $200 American Express Gift Card (random winner)
- Prize: Free Shirt & Sticker (to all new referred ML affiliates)
(Winners selected on June 30th)

2.) Blog & Link to this post on your Blog
- Prize: Flip Video Camera MINO (random drawing)
- Prize: USB Drive Pen (random drawing)
   (Winners selected on June 30th)

3.) Leave a Comment on this Promotion or Market Leverage
- Prize: USB Drive Pen (TWO random winners)
   (Winners selected on June 30th)

4.) BONUS PRIZE: iPod Touch
- To any affiliate that joins through this blog post, if you earn the most commissions in July with MarketLeverage, you will win a Free iPod Touch. (only applicable to referred affiliates through this blog)
   (Winners selected on July 31th, based on earnings)

Join MarketLeverage & Get Your Entry in Today!

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Advaliant Ultra Green Tea Lean Affiliate Contest

Up and coming affiliate network Advaliant, is holding a promotion this month to award top affiliates on their promotion with a very successful offer called Ultra Green Tea Lean. Original Advaliant was going to award the top SEVEN affiliates, based upon their leads sent for the month… I received an email yesterday letting me know that they are increasing their cash prizes award to 15 more affiliates… making it a total of 22 affiliate prizes. Here’s how the affiliate cash prizes are broken down.

In addition to hefty commissions, 22 affiliates will receive cash awards!

The prizes amounts will be awarded based on overall volume for the month on the Ultra Green Tea Lean offer. I’m doing fairly well with the offer, but I’m not pushing enough volume to rank in the FIVE award amounts, so I figured I would share this promotion with everyone else as well.

A quick test campaign shows this offer has a lot of potential!

Based off my current stats and ad groups, the offer is earning around .50 - .80 per click, which is pretty good. I didn’t do much at all with this campaign, as I just threw a couple ad groups together to see some initial stats and how it converts. With a high paying commission of $26 per lead, there is definitely room to test and improve on these numbers.

Advaliant Ultra Green Tea Lean Offer:
So what exactly is the Green Tea offer everyone is promoting? Well, first off, the campaign pays a $26 commission on every lead. A lead is anyone sent to your landing page and requests a free 30 day trial (cc required). The landing page is setup nicely and there are a bunch of different creatives for you to test and play with.

An Excellent Landing Page = Great Converting Offer

I’ve been an affiliate with Advaliant for several months now and met with them at Affiliate Summit West. If you aren’t already an affiliate with Advaliant, I recommend you join now and start promoting this offer. Even if you can’t push heavy volume, you can still make some good money with this offer. And for those of you heavy volume pushers, the month is still early!

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MIVA Pay Per Click Marketing

I’ve worked with Miva for many years now on the affiliate site, but after seeing a bunch of promotions and banners for their pay per click marketing, I figured I’d give it a shot. In addition to having an affiliate program, they also offer $25 in Free Bonus Credit to anyone that advertises through their network. Since I just became an advertiser on Miva, I don’t have that much information to back up the quality of their traffic, but setting up an ad campaign is very fast and simple. If you are not currently advertising through MIVA, I will outline the simple process of setting up a new campaign.

1.) Creating an Account
Setting up a new advertising account is very simple. All you need is to enter your contact information, then you are on your way to setting up the campaign. As a new advertiser, you will go through the whole process of setting up your ad campaign, before having to submit your credit card / payment information. This is a plus, because if you don’t like the way their system or setup looks after creating your ad, you won’t be forced to submit a cc or deposit and can just leave the process.

2.) Setting up Your Ad Campaign
Keeping with the process of simplicity, the first step is to add your web site / campaign information. In the example below I filled out the campaign information as if I was running a campaign to promote this blog.

3.) Selecting Your keywords
After completing your campaign web site information, you are asked to setup your keywords. You can select and import your own keywords, or you can use the “Suggestion Tool”. For this example, I used the MIVA Suggestion Tool for the keyword “affiliate marketing”. A list will then be shown with suggested keywords. You can then “Add” your desired keywords, or select “Add All”.

4.) Keyword Bid Amounts
Now that you have your selected keywords, you will need to setup bid amounts. You are requested to put in your “maximum auto bid”, which I set at .15 per click. A chart will then show all of your selected keywords and where your ad campaign placement will be shown, based on your maximum click amount. You will also be giving the cost per click for each keyword, your rank and the placement of your ad and/or competitor ads for spots 1 through 5.

5.) Review Your Ad & Payment
The last step of the process is to review your ad setup and place payment. To go live with your account, you will need to submit a payment. Payment options available are Credit Card, Check, Money Order or Wire Transfer. (I recommend using an American Express Business Card as they provide great business benefits.) Below payment information, you will see a final review on your ad campaign and you maximum bid and average rank.

6.) Your Account is Now Live
After filling out your payment information and reviewing your campaign, your account will now be live. Now that you have an active account, you can log into the system where you can track and view all statistics of your campaign.

I am in the process of setting up multiple ad campaigns and will have a follow up post in the next week or two on the performance of traffic from MIVA. I know there are sometimes issues with the smaller search engines and quality is lacking, so I am looking forward to seeing the results from MIVA, especially since their ppc rates are a lot lower than Google, Yahoo and MSN. Minimum bids on the network are .10 per click. If you are new to MIVA and setting up a campaign, I would start with low bid amounts and watch your traffic closely. If you are currently advertising with MIVA Pay Per Click, feel free to leave any feedback on your experience.

Try MIVA’s targeted, cost effective Pay-Per-Click advertising solutions. ($25 FREE CREDIT)

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Affiliate Network Rewards Programs

With so many affiliate networks out there, they all have to work really hard to get your business. To show their appreciation, a lot of network have their own rewards programs. Let’s take a look at a few programs and how they are rewarding their Top Affiliates.

Market Leverage REWARDS PROGRAM
In addition to a whole new site design, a new rewards program was recently added to Market Leverage. The network now boasts that they have “The Highest Paying Cash Rewards Program in the Industry“. With the Market Leverage rewards program, you would receive an American Express Cash Gift Card worth 1% of the amount you earned in that monthly reporting period. The minimum commission to each an American Express gift card is $1,000, which is much lower than many other networks.
Minimum Commission to Receive Reward: $1,000
Commission to Reward Ratio: 1%

- Join Market Leverage Affiliate Network

CX Digital Media REWARDS PROGRAM
Taking their rewards program to another level, CX Media Digital has a pyramid format and rewards in actual prizes and gift cards. To reach the first level of rewards point, you will first need to earn $15,000 in commission with the network. Rewards available on level 1 are in the range of $100.Once you’ve earned over $300,000 with the network, you can receive rewards such as a Panasonic TH-50PX60U 50″ Plasma HDTV valued at $2799.99.
Minimum Commission to Receive Reward: $15,000
Commission to Reward Ratio: Less than 1%

- Join CX Digital Affiliate Network

Rocket Profit REWARDS PROGRAM
Every month you earn over $5,000 with Rocket Profit, you can receive at least a $25 gift card, or all the way up to a $500 gift card. Rocket Profit offers a wide selection of gift card to choose from, whether it be Barnes and Noble, Home Depot or clothes from the Gap.
Minimum Commission to Receive Reward: $5,000
Commission to Reward Ratio: Less than 1%

- Join RocketProfit Affiliate Network

Copeac REWARDS PROGRAM
Increase you monthly earnings with Copeac by earning a gift card each month based on your performance. With a rather high minimum, an affiliate must generate $25,000 to earn a $50 gift card. If you are pushing some nice volume through the company and surpass $100,000 in commissions, you’ll walk away with an additional $500 gift card.
Minimum Commission to Receive Reward: $5,000
Commission to Reward Ratio: Less than 1%

- Join Copeac Affiliate Network

AFFILIATE NETWORKS REWARDS BREAK DOWN

From the chart shown above you can see a break down of each affiliate network rewards program based on the minimum commission you must make to receive a Level 1 reward and the Level 1 reward amount. The last % Ratio column is a break down of how much each rewards program actually “rewards” you, based on your earnings. For example, for every $100 you earn in commissions with Market Leverages, you would receive $1 in rewards value, or 1%. Taking that same example and applying it to COPEAC network, you would earn .20 for every $100 in commissions earned (.20%), towards a reward.

Which affiliate program rewards program works best for you, and have you received any rewards lately?

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Hidden Gems of Niche Marketing… What are people searching for?

Looking for a new niche market, or tired of your current ad campaigns? Spice your marketing up by aiming what people are searching for. Below are just a few resources you can use to target and search out new niche markets and hot products.

What are people buying on eBay?
One of the best and most in-depth resources for accurate and up to date “hot search” for products is through eBay’s Express Top Search. Not only does eBay break down their top 10 categories, then provide the 10+ more top searches for each, but they also provide network wide search queries. To top off eBay’s Express Top Searches, at the bottom they also list the Top Bestselling Movie Artists, Music Artists, Authors and Top Products.

Lycos Top 50
One of my longtime favorites is the Lycos Top 50. In addition to breaking down the Top 50 search terms, they also list categories and write ups on what’s hot and why. Ever wonder what was hot last year at this time or even further back? Use the Lycos 50 “Archives” and you can see what was HOT all the way back to 1999! Other great features of the Lycos 50 are their blog and Movers & Shakers lists.

These are just two of many resources you can use to find what people are searching for around the web. Get creative and see if you can incorporate some hot topics into your marketing campaign… you may just find a way to double or triple your existing revenue!

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