Promotions | Affiliate Marketing Tips from Super Affiliate Zac Johnson

Direct Agents & Vista Print Dream Getaway

Seems like more and more affiliate networks are getting in the contest game and offering up some sweet prizes for affiliates to push their offers. In the latest contest news, Direct Agents is looking to giveaway a very nice Dream Vacation in their Vista Print contest.

While other networks offer up prizes for affiliates that can push the most volume overall, or increase their previous months commissions by a certain amount, Direct Agents is taking a different approach. This contest is focused entirely on “Vista Print” related offers… which means ANYONE can walk away as the winner in this contest.

Vista Print Offers Available
Once you are running on the network, you have the choice of three different Vista Print related offers to run. Vista Print Checks, Free Business Cards and Free Return Address Labels.

The incentive to running Vista Print offers, is that they are really quality stuff. I’ve personally ordered from Vista Print for years, as well as promote their affiliate program. It really is great when you can run a quality offer that you would also personally buy from.

Contest Details
This contest promotion runs from March 1st through April 15th. There will be three top prizes awarded. The affiliate who brings in the most Vista Print leads, will receive the grand prize dream vacation, while second place will win a nice MacBook Air or Sony Vaio, and third place receives a $500 American Express Gift Card.

Final Contest Tips
As mentioned earlier, with an offer specific contest, this one could really go towards anyone who focuses in on this offer and does some heavy promotion. Vista Print has been around for years and has a very familiar name. Since most of their offers are FREE, with just a small shipping cost, the conversion rate is higher than most cc required offers. Get creative and get fun, and you could be in your dream destination, paid for by Direct Agents!

10 March, 2009 Posted by: Zac Johnson Filed Under: Blogging, Contests, Make Money, Promotions

Do You have Twitter Power?

The growth and power of Twitter just keeps getting stronger. While many are sitting back and just simply enjoying what Twitter has to offer, others are finding ways to cash in, build cool apps or just networking and meeting up with new people. It’s no surprise that Twitter was a huge success and grew rapidly among web geeks and affiliate marketers, but it’s going mainstream now more than ever.

In Joel Comm’s latest book, “Twitter Power“, Joel has put together what some might call the “Bible for Twitter“. Whether you are new to Twitter and need a better understanding of what it’s all about, or if you are looking to accelerate your online business through Twitter, Joel Comm has it covered.

Twitter Power is available in hard copy and is made up of 232 pages, and retails for $24.95 (only $16.47 on Amazon). My favorite thing about the book, is that it’s not all text. Joel goes into detail on a lot of different topics, but almost always hase screenshots and image references to keep you interested. Whether you a web veteran or a Twitter newbie, it should be an easy and fun read.

Win a Free SIGNED Copy of Twitter Power!

I got my personalized signed copy, and you can too! For the next few weeks I’m giving away a signed copy of Joel’s new “Twitter Power”. Entering is easy, all you need is Twitter! Just head over to the “Follow Me on Twitter & Win Lots of Prizes!” contest post for full details.

Check out Twitter Power over at Amazon.

04 March, 2009 Posted by: Zac Johnson Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Contests, Pay Per Click, Promotions, Web Developement

My Blog Readers Have Earned Over $500,000!

Less than a year ago, I wrote a post on how my blog readers have generated over $100,000 in earnings for themselves through NeverBlue. Last week I was looking over my stats again, and saw that my referrals to NeverBlue, (through this blog), have now earned over half a million dollars for themselves! Not only is this very impressive and rewarding for myself and NeverBlue, but it also shows the continuing growth in affiliate marketing and the amount of people moving towards working for themselves online.

“Congratulations to Zac on reaching the $10k affiliate referral commission mark with Neverblue this month!! To date Zac has sent approximately 1400 affiliates to Neverblue and the number keeps increasing. It is awesome to see that Zac’s referral have made over $500,000 in revenue with us. We are excited to keep growing with the affiliates and help Super Affiliates like Zac reach the $1 MILLION milestone!”
Tina Chien
Business Development Manager

With the latest milestone of $500,000+ in earnings from my blog readers, this just solidifies my reasoning for starting a blog. With so many ebooks and sales programs out there, I created this blog with the intention to offer everything I could for free, and that is just paying off more and more every day. The emails and response I receive from readers is astounding. Living the life of an affiliate marketer is truly amazing, and I look forward to seeing more of you accomplish the dream of working for yourself and becoming financially independent!

Thank you to all of my readers.

01 December, 2008 Posted by: Zac Johnson Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Make Money, Marketing, Pay Per Click, Promotions, Web Developement

The “Ultimate Blogging Theme” that Makes Money

Carl “Kidblogger” Ocab recently sent me an email wanting me to take a look at his new “Ultimate Blogging Theme” for WordPress. He sent me over a limited license theme to try it out and see if I like. I love working on mini blog sites, and am always looking for the best new wordpress themes to work with. After looking everything over, I spent a couple hours working on a new blog and ended up really liking the usability and look of the site. I was actually so satisfied with the theme, I went ahead and purchased the unlimited $97 version, which also gives you access to more color schemes and options.

You can visit the Ultimate Blogging Theme web site here, or you can just read below for a quick over. I know everyone loves “long sales pages” , so I will just highlight a few of the top features available through the theme.

Limited vs. Unlimited Ultimate Blog Theme
- The limited version comes with three different colors schemes, and is only available for use on one domain. The unlimited version is an unlimited license and also has six different colors to choose from. If you purchase the unlimited version, you can also remove the copyright/”made by” tag on the bottom of your wordpress them.

Great Navigation and Ad Placement
The biggest problem I have when setting up a new blog or mini site, is having to mess with the header and side menus to try and get the ad placement I want. Carl spent a lot of time finding where the best placements are for advertisements, and how to get people to click through your blog and subscribe to your rss feed. Everything is customizable and that makes my job that much easier.

Upload & Ready to Go
- This is a very advanced them is ready to go, right out of the box. The only you need to do is upload the files, then activate a few plugins and start customizing your blog.

Walkthrough Videos & Tips
- When I first started playing around with the new theme, I was a bit confused on how to setup a couple areas of the blog. Fortunately, Carl already has that covered and he created a super easy walkthrough video that shows the whole install/customization process. In addition to the walkthrough process, as a license owner, you also have access to a 20 minute video featuring “hardcore tips and advice” from Carl.

Yes, I’m using the Ultimate Blogging Theme!
This isn’t a paid review from Carl, but as I mentioned… he did give me a free limited version to play around with. After seeing what it could do, I went ahead and purchased the full version for unlimited use and for more customization. I’ve already created a few new blogs with the theme and very happy with how they ended up looking. I will do a follow up post next week to show you how they came out.

SAVE $20! – ONLY SIX TWO DISCOUNTS LEFT!
Carl also provided me with ONLY SIX discount coupons for my blog readers. If you would like to purchase the Ultimate Blogging Theme, you can save an instant $20 off the $97 retail price. This coupon code only applies for the full unlimited license version. Use coupon code: ZACJOHNSON

- Click here for more on the Ultimate Blogging Theme

06 November, 2008 Posted by: Zac Johnson Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Summit, Blogging, Make Money, Marketing, Pay Per Click, Promotions, Web Developement, Zac's Life

Make More Money with NeverBlueAds & their Cellfish SMS Max Payouts

Years ago, the rush for promoting cell phone ring tones started. Millions of dollars were made, then over the past years the market died off for most promoters, as competition and new marketing terms/effects came into play… but it is still making a ton of money today. The most recent hot campaigns to come around, are the same concept, but targeted towards horoscopes, celebrity gossip and finding your true love… all on your cell phone! Of course we have all seen the banner ads all over myspace and many well known entertainment sites. Why do we continually see them all over? Easy… it’s because they work and are making so many people killer money!

I was talking with my good friend Tina the other day from NeverBlueAds, and she let me know that they just closed an amazing deal with CellFish Media, one of the best and largest cell phone offer providers around. NeverBlueAds is now the exclusive provider of Cellfish SMS offers. What does this mean for you? Higher payouts and better creative offered from NeverBlueAds.

Three Great Offers and Landing Pages to Choose From!

Here are their three main offers that are run exclusively through NeverBlue Ads.

3645 – ZodiacMatchGame.com – Payout: $9.00 / sale
Converts: Converts on a PIN submit.
Promotions Allowed: Downloadable Software, Paid Search, Email, Web
Preview Link

3736 – PerfectMatchGame.com – Payout: $9.00 / sale
Converts: Converts on a PIN submit.
Promotions Allowed: Downloadable Software, Paid Search, Web
Preview Link

3457 – LoveLifeAnswers.com – Payout: $9.00 / sale
Converts: Converts on a PIN submit.
Promotions Allowed: Downloadable Software, Paid Search, Email, Web
Preview Link

All offers are not incentivizable, and can only be targeted towards the US.

NeverBlueAds is currently paying $2-$3 dollars above the competition for other SMS offers, and if you can provide volume, let me know and I can negotiate an even higher commission rate for you.

Want even more stats on why you should be promoting the new CellFish offers from NeverBlueAds? Here are some of their internal stats on the offers:

- CellFish is the ONLY provider that carries T-Mobile as a carrier.
- Though most of the major ringtone providers have temporarily stopped accepting Sprint, Nextel as carriers due to the regulations in place, Cellfish isn’t really affected due to high level compliance in the industry.
- Most of the affiliates who have tested the offers are all Social Media and contextual network related.

If you’re already promoting these offers and making a killing… sorry If not… then you should be.