Monthly Archives: June 2009

Win Prizes In The WhoIsAndrewWee.com Affiliate Challenge

Finding difficulty getting started as an affiliate marketer? WhoIsAndrewWee.com has partnered the Market Leverage affiliate network to host the first Affiliate Challenge, which will provide education to help you kickstart your campaigns and promises prizes for participants.

I’m happy to announce that after a period of discussion, Market Leverage is the proud sponsor of possibly the first affiliate competition specifically targeted at Singapore-based affiliates.

affiliate challenge

So if you’re new to the industry and want to get your foot in the door, do take action by participating in this contest.

Here’s the WhoIsAndrewWee.com Affiliate Challenge format:

  • The contest will be held over a period of 2 months (from 8 Jun – 7 Aug 2009)
  • You need to apply through this Market Leverage affiliate signup link to be eligible for the contest.
  • You need to be a new Market Leverage affiliate and based in Singapore to qualify for the contest. (future contests will be expanded to other geographical regions).
  • The contest will have 2 phases – one at the midway mark (8 Jun – 7 Jul), where prizes will be awarded to participants. And one for the contest duration (8 Jun – 7 Aug), another round of prizes will be awarded then. so you’ll have 2 sets of chances to win prizes.

One of the goals of this contest is to increase the number of active Singapore affiliate marketers, especially since Asia is a growing region.

There are 2 categories of prizes available:

  • Top Affiliates (determined by affiliate commissions generated)
  • Merit Prizes for affiliates who put in the most effort in promoting their campaigns (determined by the contest panel)

Here are the contest prizes:

Phase 1: Start to Mid-point (8 Jun – 7 Jul):

  • Top affiliate: $100 Market Leverage gift card
  • Merit prize: $75 Market Leverage gift card

Phase 2: Start to End (8 Jun – 7 Aug)

  • Top affiliate: HP Mini-Note or Asus EEE PC laptop
  • Merit prize: $150 Market Leverage gift card

Notes:

  • You need to be a new Market Leverage affiliate to qualify for the contest
  • Affiliates will need to provide official personal identification or business registration documents during their application and payments will be made out to the person or business entity used for the affiliate application
  • Only affiliates based in Singapore (or are from Singapore) are eligible for the contest
  • The judges decisions are final

There’ll be a series of contest updates and tips to promote your affiliate campaigns over the following weeks.

In the meantime, apply to be a Market Leverage affiliate now!

[To get your affiliate applications processed faster, you are welcome to drop me a note via the blog contact form, stating your name, email address used in the application, so they can be reviewed by the Market Leverage affiliate review team more promptly]

Friday Podcast: Affiliate Marketing Strategies With Dr Ngo

charles ngoCharles Ngo, better known as “Dr Ngo” (after the James Bond villain), flies low on the public radar, even though he’s a successful affiliate. I had an opportunity to invite him on the Friday Podcast to share some of his past experiences in building up to his current level of success, as well as techniques to grow an affiliate marketing business.

During the Friday Podcast, we talked about:

  • How Charles got his start in internet marketing
  • How to work around and deal with cashflow issues as you’re building your business
  • The importance of networking within the industry and key affiliate events to attend
  • His strategy in working with affiliate networks
  • How relationship building can build your business

Check out the Friday Podcast below:

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Can Affiliate Link Disclosure Go Too Far?

There’s a ruckus in the social marketing space with some analysts like Jeremiah Owyang talking about the repercussions (mostly negative) about embedding affiliate links in social media (Twitter for example), while internet marketers like Shawn Collins, Linda Buquet and Lisa Barone basically saying that going the additional step of labelling every affiliate link with a (aff) as being pretty silly/stupid. So what’re we supposed to take away from this? Can affiliate link disclosure go too far?

Brian Clark has also stepped in with the legal perspective on what’s kosher and what’s not, when it comes to “word of mouth marketing” AKA social media.

the scream

So taking a look at social media for a moment, the medium is very personality-based – we follow individuals (or maybe Britney Spears’ manager firing out tweets on her behalf), and hence there’s greater Continue reading