Conference Buddies

Blog World Expo 2008
Affiliate Marketing Secrets for Bloggers

Conference Speakers:
Mike Allen: Shopping-Bargain.com
ShawnCollins: AffiliateSummit.com
Tim Jones: TheRealTimJones.com

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According Mike Allen, integrate your paid Ads in a creative way.

Some examples (Most Ads integrated as part of the blog):
StealtheStyle.com
Shoeaholicsanonymous.com 
WorkInMyPajamas.com 

Affiliate Resource: Popshops.com = word press plug-in (4M products, 1400 merchants)

Think and plan for the long-term

 - your blog is you so build your brand carefully (your blog is your brand)
 - become an expert in your field
 - Share your space and write on other blogs

Affiliate Marketing is a great start but don’t stop there
Be careful advertising can tarnish your image
Think like a business and set goals
Craft a business plan and follow it 
Look for other retail and media opportunities

Examples:

VanityKippah.com
Selling Kippah based on the politicians (went from as an affiliate to become a merchant)

Cooking with Ellen.com
Being a brand on her own right, and getting a follwing.   Doesn’t look like Ads.   Become affiliate, become a big biz, then become a merchant with other affiliates signing up to your program.

Economics of Affiliates (by revenue share):

Electronics = 1%
Beauty Products = 20+%
Average 5 to 8% range

Affiliate Ads has a lot of potential and growing for bloggers to monetize their work

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Shawn Collins offers the following video tips:

YouTube (add link in title, in the video)
Use TubeMobil
ie. Affiliatetip.com/pr = redirected to amazon link
Where the URL on your shirt
Embed video on website, and put affiliate link in body content.

RSS subscribers via email  (aweber.com)

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Tim Jones offers the following Social Media tips:

Use Digg, StublUpon, Reditt, Facebook, Sphinn

Use Twitter!

Try the all!  Then pick the ones that best fit you

Plugins:
Ad Server:  Max Banner Ads 1.2.5      MaxBlogPress.com     
Put Ads anywhere on the page

MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate 1.5 (Ads automatically ad links even for contributors)

WordPressAffiliate Pro

Be the expert, the find residual type of Income like educational tools monthly subscription.

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Other Tips:

www.affiliatetip.com/affiliate-newbies/

Use Yahoo Answers:
Answer Questions, then when appropriate point to your blog

Affiliate Networks:

CJ
Shareasale
LinkShare
Performix

Contextual Ads:
Kontera.com
Hubpages.com

Misc Tools:

ClickBank.com
DISQUS = Community
OpenAds.com
PeelAwayAds.com (corner peel)