NY Meetup On Saturday February 28, 2009

Posted by Ad Hustler | Posted in Ad Hustler, Big Pimpin', Doing Business, Meetin' Mad Peeps, Online Pep Rally | Posted on 27-02-2009

This Saturday I will be attending the NYC Meetup202 event lead by Emily Thomson.  If you are in the NYC area this Saturday night, please make plans to attend.  Meetup202 events are a great opportunity to network with fellow affiliate/internet marketers, make great connections and have a great time.  This event will take place:

The Irish Rogue
356 W 46th St.
East of 9th – Upstairs
NY, NY 10036

February 28, 2009 6:00 PM

Here is a link to the Meetup Group.

I hope to see some of you there.

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Instant Messaging Gone Wrong

Posted by Ad Hustler | Posted in Off Topic | Posted on 25-02-2009

If you instant message I’m sure youve popped the wrong message in the wrong box and sent it to the wrong person:

[6:50 PM] TheAdHustler: did you do the wash?
[6:50 PM] TheAdHustler: haha
[6:50 PM] TheAdHustler: not for you…
[6:51 PM] AFFILIATE MANAGER: hahah
[6:52 PM] TheAdHustler: unless you wanna wash my underwear
[6:52 PM] TheAdHustler: lol
[6:52 PM] AFFILIATE MANAGER: no thanks
[6:52 PM] TheAdHustler: hahaha

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You Can’t Hustle A Hustler – Testing Method

Posted by Ad Hustler | Posted in Ad Networks, Affiliate Marketing | Posted on 24-02-2009

If you’ve ever been an affiliate I can guarantee you’ve said to yourself  “SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS OFFER!”  It usually comes after trying a whole bunch of different ways to promote an offer that you were convinced were going to work but didn’t.  So what’s wrong with the offer?  Is it tracking?  Is it being scrubbed or shaved?  Is there something less sinister going on?

It’s a hard question to answer.  The first step an affiliate usually takes is to contact their dumbass affiliate manager and ask them “What’s wrong with this offer?”  More likely then not the affiliate manager will say something to the effect of “Looks ok across the board.”  Gee that was a lot of help!  It puts the burden back on you and makes you feel like a retard because if everyone else is converting the offer, why can’t I?

Now, I’m not saying your not a retard, because you very well may be.  All I know is that I’m not.  This lead me to a little strategy for proving to myself, that it’s not me, it’s the offer, and having some evidence to back it up.

If you’re in this prediciment you are already throwing away money because your running traffic (paid presumably) to an offer that isn’t converting.  If you are ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED it should be, heres what you do: RIP THE LEAD GEN PAGE AND COLLECT THE LEADS YOURSELF!

If you have any knowledge of creating a landing page, this is dead simple.

1) Take a screenshot of the advertisers landing page.
2) pop a form on it that looks like the advertisers original form.
3) Turn your traffic on and collect any leads that come through.
4) Compare conversions against the stats you have collected on the affiliate network.

This provides you with unbiased information about how the offer is performing.  If you had a 1% conversion rate on the affiliate network, and a 15% conversion rate when you collected the leads yourself, you know something is wrong with the offer.  You can do a few things with this information.  You can provide it to the affiliate network so they have some information to back up your claims that the offer is fishy.  The affiliate network, may or may not care.  It depends on who youre dealing with.  If you can’t get an amicable resolution or answer as to why the difference in conversion rates you can collect the information yourself and monetize it privately (Of course without infringing on the original advertisers copyrights).

Stop wondering why your offer isn’t converting, and start adding this method to your testing aresnal.

(Disclaimer: This Works On Lead Generation Offers Only, Not Sales Based, Although With A Lot More Work It Could Be Used For Sales Based As Well)

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Yep Revenue Review – HOT Mobile Affiliate Network

Posted by Ad Hustler | Posted in Ad Networks, Affiliate Marketing | Posted on 18-02-2009

Quite some time ago I wrote a post asking for some Unique Affiliate Networks that I could spotlight.  It dawned on me that my favorite affiliate network in the industry is pretty darn unique.  That affiliate network is Yep Revenue.

Yep Revenue is a network concentrated on mobile offers.  Some offers include IQ Quizzes, Crush Offers, International Mobile Offers and much more.  If you are looking for anything mobile related, these guys have it, or have the connections to get it.  I initially discovered these guys on Wickedfire.  I was hesitant at first to sign up because I’ve never heard of them.  I spoke to Elias aka “The Big L” and he disarmed me by saying “Listen Bro, Sign Up Today & I’ll Pay You Tommorow.”  I signed up, drove some traffic in and he seriously paid me the next day.  I was blown away and thats where my trust of YepRevenue.com began.

A propitiatory in house tracking system is another asset that sets Yep Revenue apart from a lot of other affiliate networks in the space.  As we all know, most networks are running on an out of the box tracking system such as DirectTrack.  Yep put a lot of time and effort into developing an in house tracking system.  Tracking is in real time and the interface is extremely clean.  They also added a lot of cool features recently, including the ability to place your own pixel, some unique reports and an EPC rank indicator.  Yep also has a large amount of unique offers as well as daily & weekly payments which is hard to beat.

The thing that has impressed me most about this network since the first day I worked with them is their honesty.  If there is a problem with an offer, they tell you right away.  If there is an outage, they credit you.  If THEY think something is funny with the offer, they investigate before you can ever even bring it up to them.  These guys are seriously on top of their game.

Yep Revenue gets the Ad Hustler stamp of approval.  I am more then happy to associate my name with this company.

Are you currently working with Yep Revenue?  If so please post YOUR experiences in the comments.  If your not signed up yet…what are you waiting for? (Ask for Jamie as your affiliate manager…he’s on top of his game!)

Please Note:  This is NOT a PAID post.  If you sign up through my links, I do get a referral commission however all statements are my own opinions and thoughts.

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Build Your Bankroll With Craigslist And The Ebay Partner Network

Posted by Ad Hustler | Posted in Affiliate Marketing | Posted on 12-02-2009

Paid search and buying traffic are not the only ways to make money online.  A lot of people that are new to affiliate marketing are often scared off by the thought of spending thousands of dollars per day to make thousands of dollars per day.  There are a ton of ways to make some decent money using affiliate marketing and free traffic sources on the net.  Here is a guide to using craigslist to drive traffic to the Ebay Partner Network and build yourself up some money to reinvest into affiliate marketing.

Please Note 2 Things:

1) I have not used this method in a long long time…If I say something that is wrong by todays standards please correct me in the comments
2) I am not claiming to be the originator of this method.  I started doing it after reading a bunch of different methods.  I put them all together and came up with something that worked.

The premise to this method of affiliate marketing is quite simple.  You need people to click your ebay affiliate links.  That click sets a cookie which may result in a sale.  The more people you can get to click, the more income potential you stand to earn.  Here’s what we are doing.  We are “helping” eBay sellers, sell their items.  That’s right.  We are driving traffic into eBay listings that already exist.  Heres how it works:

1 ) Get a domain name setup on a web server.

2 ) Get an Ebay Partner Network Account.  Obviously don’t tell them how you plan to promote eBay.  Just give them a link to a blog or something.

3 ) Pick a popular Craigslist City.  I’ll use Los Angeles for example.  Check out the For Sale section and see whats hot.  You can also figure out hot items by using your brain.  At one point Nintendo Wii’s were really hot and you couldn’t buy them in the store.  There were plenty on eBay so it was a perfect niche.  Other niches ive used that worked well include Ugg Boots, Hannah Montana memorabilia & sports tickets (just to give you some ideas).  Go ahead and pick the first thing you want to promote.  For demonstration purposes I will use “Metallica Concert Tickets.”

4 ) Go on eBay and use the advanced search function.  You want to search for Metallica Tickets in the Los Angeles Area.  Search for fixed price listings only.  Find the cheapest tickets you can.

5 ) Use the eBay tools to create an affiliate link for this particular item.

6 ) Back to your web server.  Set up a structure something like this: domain.com/mylinks – In the mylinks folder put in an html file (name it something like metallica.html) with a simple meta refresh to your affiliate URL at eBay.  If you want to get really crazy and make sure you don’t get caught you can double meta refresh.  Your affiliate URL is now www.domain.com/mylinks/metallica.html

7 ) Create a Craigslist listing (if I have to explain to you how to do this your too dumb for this industry).  Make an interesting title.  DO NOT PUT A PRICE.  You can use something like “Metallica Tickets For 2/28/09 – Great Seats & Cheap.”  For the content of your post you want to just grab the description that the eBay seller already put in their listing minus any personal information about that seller.

The most important part of your listing is now added.  After the description put a line something like this: “Please view my sales page for additional information and pricing.”  Link that with your www.domain.com/mylinks/metallica.html affiliate link.

8 ) Post The Listing.

9 ) Rinse and repeat with other cities and niches.

Your “Please view my sales page for additional information and pricing.” will get a ton of clicks if you choose the right products to help sell.  You can even look at your site logs to see which html files are getting the most clicks and then you know which niches are hot.  This method can be twisted and turned in a million directions each MAKING YOU MONEY!  I used to do this when Commission Junction ran the eBay Affiliate Program and easily pulled in a couple hundred dollars a day with only a few postings.  This post was meant to get your creative juices flowing and demonstrate a simple way to make money online with minimal expense.

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