Nickycakes is/was a Wickedfire regular who has the distinction of calling himself a “reformed blackhat”.
Although he’s been a full time marketer for about a year, he’s riled up and rallied a number of experienced PPC marketers on his cakes chat IRC channel.
Inviting him to the Friday Podcast, we talked about:
How he made the moved from near full time video game player to PPC affiliate marketer.
Tips on building up your PPC knowledge and skills
How to get ideas for creating effective landing pages
Three perpetually “hot” niches
What you need to do to succeed in affiliate marketing
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I first met PPC affiliate John Hasson at ShareASale’s “Party Under The Stars” party at Affiliate Summit West earlier this year. We were eating a heartattack-inducing tiramisu/ice-cream concoction and talking about our businesses.
John spoke at the “Meet The Experts” session chairing a table on PPC affiliate marketing. At the recent Affiliate Summit East in Boston, John presented a session on PPC marketing.
During the course of our discussion, I was pretty amazed at how John’s brought his programming skills to automate and employ leverage in PPC campaigns.
We also talked about:
How John got started as a programmer early on and his first experience at generating $600 a day through PPC arbitrage
How he made his transition into affiliate marketing
Note: John was travelling as part of a project he’s working on and the line dropped a number of times and the connection wasn’t the best. Listen in for some great tips though.
In the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to 3 top PPC (pay-per-click) affiliate marketers. More than that, I’ve had the opportunity to gain insight into how they operate their businesses as well as set up and fine tune their PPC campaigns.
Although I shouldn’t have been that surprised, still it’s quite amazing how different their approaches are from each other. Which goes to show that there are multiple avenues to achieve your goals with PPC and affiliate marketing.
Note: I’ll be painting in broad strokes here, so expect some generalizations.
(left-to-right) Jeremy Palmer, Amit Mehta, John Hasson
Jeremy Palmer is a name that comes up often, especially if you’re a Commission Junction (CJ) affiliate or if you attend the Affiliate Summit. I’ve found that Jeremy and I use a similar approach in looking at offline research avenues, including books, magazines and reports to research niches, and develop deep, content rich sites.
Given his experience as a web developer, I guess it’s not surprising that he tends to build sites from the ground up. Also, having presented and watched his Black Ink project unfold, I’ve seen how Jeremy uses a systematic approach to building his campaigns.
I met CJ Caccam over the Facebook social networks a couple of months ago where we’re active on a number of the FB applications.
I met Mike Peters in person at Affiliate Summit West last year, having talked to him a number of times before that.
Nickycakes is/was a Wickedfire regular who has the distinction of calling himself a “reformed blackhat”.
I first met PPC affiliate John Hasson at ShareASale’s “Party Under The Stars” party at Affiliate Summit West earlier this year. We were eating a heartattack-inducing tiramisu/ice-cream concoction and talking about our businesses.