Monthly Archives: January 2007

16 Hours Left: Viva Las Vegas and the Affiliate Summit!

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It’s about 16 hours before I head off on my long flight to Affiliate Summit West.

I’ve been talking to the WickedFire folks and we’re psyched about meeting up.

I’ve planned out my itinery and will likely be spending more time networking and attending sessions, compared to drinking and clubbing.

viva las vegas

There are a number of networking parties including one hosted by oneNetworkDirect and Wynn Las Vegas at Wynns’ TRYST nightclub which features a private lagoon. If there’s one phobia I have, it’s dancing in public.

We’ll see how this pans out.

Besides visiting the exhibit halls, I’m planning to Continue reading →

Getting Your Million Dollar Contacts At Affiliate Summit West

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Until I’d read Jay Conrad Levinson’s (founder of Guerilla Marketing) tips to the Guerilla approach to getting value out of trade shows, I’d realized that like the majority of trade show attendees I didn’t have a strategy in place.

Here’s some tips which will help you up your trade show game:

Why go to a trade show or convention like Affiliate Summit West?

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Most would go to:

  • Find out what’s new
  • See and find out about their competitiors (whether fellow affiliate marketers or affiliate managers) and compare prices
  • Collect literature from the various exhibitors, evalute their content
  • Massive time leverage: events provide the opportunity to collect a vast amount of information in a short time
  • Meet contacts
  • Get media exposure
  • Casual business networking

If you’d like to bump up your networking game however, you’d also Continue reading →

WickedFire Affiliate Marketing Forum Kicks It Up Several Gears With Exclusive Resource Areas

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WickedFire founder Jon F just announced the beta launch of the affiliate marketing forums’ resource areas earlier today.

WickedFire is virtual home to several experienced affiliate marketers (as evidenced by threads like “Post Your Stats“, including a purported $16 million buyout offer for the 8 month old forum.

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As of today, the forum is rated at PR4, Alexa 1,879
Jon, famous (or depending on your point of view, infamous) for posting $80,000 screenshots of his earnings on SitePoint, had announced on his blog that he’d be stepping down from affiliate marketing earlier this month. (The End Of An Era – Jon Resigns From Affiliate Marketing As An Affiliate)

WickedFire looks set to eventually to become a community portal and information resource site for affiliate marketers.

It looks set to leverage on the Continue reading →

The Trust Meme

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2007 looks like it’s shaping up to have a whole lot more memes.

Some will obviously be interesting, fun and insightful. The bulk, unfortunately, will have…lots of room for improvement on being interesting, fun and insightful.

The more interesting (and slightly voyeuristic ones like the ‘5 Things About Me’) ones will tend to generate more social traffic, and attract longer term longevity and reader stickiness, especially if you come across as personable and likeable.

Sticky content is one of the foundations of sustainable and credible social traffic generation.

Yes, memes may seem to contain Continue reading →

How to Build $1,000 a Month Niche Minisites

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If you’ve been planning to build highly profitable niche websites, or looking for ways to squeeze additional profit from your already successful ones, you might’ve seen Matt Coddington (AKA Feroz) posts in WickedFire’s “How to Start a Niche Minisite” thread.

His posts have already received just about 1,200 diggs.

Although purist bloggers with “altruistic intentions” might label it a ‘spammy digg’, it certainly will be very useful and instructional for niche minisite builders.
Matt goes through the process of keyword research, content development, monetization techniques and takes questions on his system.

He goes through start-to-finish for Continue reading →

Post-Affiliate Summit West: Coffee in California Anyone?

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After I finish up at Affiliate Summit West, I’ll be heading off to California where I’ll spend another 3 days in the LA area before heading back to Singapore.

I’m figuring out the best way to check if anyone would like to meet for coffee and chat a little, since my trips to the US tend to be few and far between these days.

If you’re close to the Alhambra area and you’d like to meet up, leave a comment below or use the contact me tab above.