$4,995 Prize In The Affiliate Version Of The Fast and the Furious

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One of the little-known events at the Affiliate Summit in Vegas next week is that there’ll be a competition with a first prize worth $4,995 being given out. I am pretty surprised that as of the last update, there’s only 4 (yes, FOUR) participants in the running for this prize.

If a 20% (1 in 5) chance of winning a $5,000 prize (and an opportunity to contribute to a worthwhile cause) doesn’t excite you, I’m not sure what will…

Enter the Great Affiliate Road Rally, where you get to race against other Affiliate Summit West attendees for a chance to win a booth at the Affiliate Summit East tradeshow/seminar Aug 10-12 in Boston, MA.

Yes, the prize is transferable, and I’ve got word from Affiliate Summit co-founder Shawn Collins that a second and a third prize might be added too.

It’s a “bring your own car” (BYOC) competition, so you can pick up a remote controlled car at Target, Wal Mart or order it from an online retailers like Amazon or a RC specialist.

The event will be held indoors, so only electric cars will be allowed and it’ll be conducted in the same room as the keynote address (seating capacity of about 1,000…!), so you can expect a pretty big room.

To separate this from being a pure drag race, Shawn says he will fiendishly set up obstacles along the race route, so it’s not just a matter of getting a F1 car or a Nissan Skyline and hitting the throttle as hard as you can.

I’ve noticed that Affiliate Summit founders Missy Ward and Shawn Collins have gone all out to raise funds for a selected charity at every event and this Affiliate Summit is no different.

The beneficiary is the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation. Great Affiliate Road Rally participants can make a minimum donation of $100 at the Affiliate Summit link to Starlight to secure your entry.

I have my pit team already putting one of my cars through its paces…

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Pit mechanics Bianca Wee putting the car through its final paces

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Friday Podcast: A Wide Open Market For Software Affiliates – Revenuewire’s Geordie Carswell

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revenuewire geordie carswellPromoting software as an affiliate marketer can be very lucrative, as Revenuewire CEO Geordie Carswell (right) explained during our Friday Podcast discussion.

With some affiliates racking up between 800 and 1,000 sales a day and with payouts of about $25 per license, that adds up to about close to a cool $1 million in gross commissions each month.

And the good news is that the software market still has a lot of room for growth.

During our discussion, Geordie went into detail about:

  • How to evaluate software products to promote
  • Create an effective marketing campaign that will maximize your profits
  • Promoting digital products using PPC (pay per click traffic) vs SEO (search engine optimization)
  • PPC tactics that the affiliate big dogs use that you may not be aware of yet
  • Comparing the Google Search network vs the Content network

Geordie is one of the most savvy PPC marketers I have come across and it was great to get the PPC tips from him and a wealth of information about getting started as a software promoting affiliate.

Check out the Friday podcast below:

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Note: Revenuewire will hold it’s official launch at Affiliate Summit West in Vegas next week. Geordie and Revenuewire team members will be at the booth in the tradeshow hall.

Also check out:

–> Revenuewire

–> The Revenuewire PPC Blog

Just Launched Website Monetization Service Via Product Placement

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tino bunticI got an email from Tino Buntic (right), founder of the 2000 Bloggers project which went pretty viral last year that he’s just launched PlaceMyProduct.com.

PlaceMyProduct is a product placement service where advertisers will bid auction-style to buy adspace on your website.

Canada-based Tino has assembled a team to help with the project and it launched on January 28th, 2008.

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Dealing With Internet Marketing “Failure”

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I’ve discovered that one of the biggest obstacles and causes of procrastination, especially when it comes to new and experienced internet marketers starting a new project is fear.

What type of fear?

Besides your every day “I don’t know how to do the technical aspect” (solution: go hire a programmer), or “I don’t have money” (solution: find a partner who will put in the funding, while you put in the sweat equity, or do a cash advance/take a payday loan) , the biggest fear is the fear of failure.

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I think this goes beyond internet marketing and into the realm of entrepreneurship.

As a business owner, you need to realize that you are responsible for your businesses success or failure.

If you continue to see the cup as “half empty” rather than “half full”, or better yet, as a glass that will be filled with water soon, your mindset will influence how confident you are, and the actions you take.

If you want to look at a picture of confidence, go read my buddy Amit Mehta’s SuperAffiliateMindset blog.

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Social Networks Part 3: How To Maximize Your Facebook Application’s Profit Potential

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In the final part of our interview, Jason Bailey (AKA Chickenhole) and I discussed how to maximize your application’s profit potential by incorporating some tips during the development, marketing and monetization phases.

We talked about the criteria a successful FB App MUST incorporate to ensure that it takes on a life of its own through viral distribution.  We also talked about how you get started, especially if you don’t have any programming skills.

If you are already developing a Facebook Application, you will want to know about the free application hosting with programming functions. This is especially critical because successful Facebook applications could have 500,000 or more daily active users a day.

To access this massive 45-minute recording, you should add the $uperRewards application.

After you have added it, you can submit your application to join the $uperRewards Developers group.

The developers group will also contain tips on application design and game mechanics and ideas for incorporating the $uperRewards application into your application and increase your monetization.

Current Facebook Application owners who have added $uperRewards have reported up to a 20 times increase in profit since adding the application.

As we are manually reviewing each application, it may take up to 48 hours to approve your application.

Here are the links:

–> $uperRewards Application

–> $uperRewards Developers Group

Friday Podcast: Social Networks Part 2 – Facebook Marketing – Tips And Strategies

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In this next installment of the Friday Podcast, Jason Bailey AKA Chickenhole discusses marketing strategies on the Facebook social network.

Among our discussion topics:

  • How to get your marketing efforts started on Facebook
  • How to effectively use Facebook Social Ads
  • Facebook Social Ads marketing and pricing strategies
  • Using Facebook’s ‘Walled Garden’ architecture to your advantage
  • The future of Facebook and search engines

That’s just the tip of the iceberg, to find out more, listen to the podcast below.

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***The best part has to be to monster 45-minute final segment of the interview which I’ll be releasing on Monday.

Stay tuned.