April 2010 - Page 2 of 4 - Affiliate Marketing with Missy Ward, Affiliate Summit Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Affiliate Summit Yankees Ticket Sweepstakes

by Missy Ward

Shawn Collins and I are giving away two tickets to a home game for the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in Section 134W, Row 27WC.

The Yankees are playing the Detroit Tigers on the evening of August 17, 2010 – the final day of Affiliate Summit East 2010. The pair of tickets can be for this game or one of the others listed below.

June 2 – Baltimore Orioles
June 16 – Philadelphia Phillies
July 2 – Toronto Blue Jays
August 9 – Boston Red Sox

More details at http://apps.facebook.com/sweepstakeshq/contests/33595.

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Affiliate Summit News

Affiliate Summit’s Cocktails for a Cure Photos

by Missy Ward

Affiliate Summit hosted Cocktails for a Cure at the House of Shields Saloon during ad:tech in San Francisco on April 20, 2010.

We’ve posted pictures from the “pink carpet” of attendees at the event.

Rocky Barbanica, Missy Ward and Robert Scoble at Affiliate Summit's Cocktails for a Cure

Drinks were served by a series of guest bartenders.

Tips in the amount of $1,027 to the guest bartenders are going to the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.

For more information about the cause, please visit AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com. To make a donation under Missy's fundraising account, please visit IWalkForBoobies.com.

The pictures from Affiliate Summit’s Cocktails for a Cure are also up on Facebook. Additional photos can be found on Missy's Flickr Stream.

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For The Heck of It

AffStat 2010: Affiliate Marketing Statistic Report Now Available

by Missy Ward

The 2010 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report is now available for free at http://affstat.com/. The report can be viewed online or downloaded.

Over eleven-hundred and fifty affiliates were surveyed on their methods, preferences, and strategies for the 2010 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report.

The report features dozens of charts of data, based on the responses from the participating affiliates on affiliate marketing, social media, search marketing, domains, email, and more.

Also included, an uncensored view into the opinions of affiliates on a variety of other subjects.

Affiliates were asked to share any complaints, ideas, suggestions or opinions they have regarding affiliate marketing.

Plus, there are resources for affiliate marketers: a glossary to explain industry terms, as well as lists of suggested message boards and blogs you should know about.

Feel free to use material from the report in blog posts, presentations, etc. Just reference that the information came from the 2010 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report.

Below are the questions covered in the 2009 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report.

Do you maintain an opt-in e-mail list for your site(s)?
Do you promote your affiliate links in PPC search engines?
Finish this sentence: I have been an affiliate since…
When signing up for an affiliate program, do you read the affiliate agreement?
Do you prefer network or independent affiliate programs?
How many affiliate programs do you actively promote?
How many return days for cookies would you consider to be fair?
Do commission payment policies (how often a program pays) affect your decision to promote an affiliate offer?
Have you successfully requested an increase in commission from an affiliate manager?
How many domains do you own?
Do you own any domains dedicated to a particular affiliate program?
How do you most often find out about an affiliate program and then join?
How often would you like to hear from your affiliate managers?
What is your preferred method for finding out information from an affiliate manager?
How much information should an affiliate manager make available to you?
How would you prefer to be contacted by affiliate managers on an individual basis?
What is your preferred method of commission payment?
What is your preferred payment threshold?
What industry/merchant types do you prefer to promote?
What is the minimum EPC (earnings per 1 click) for you to promote an affiliate program?
What is the highest reversal rate you would accept?
What is the most important factor in choosing a merchant?
What are your preferred link types?
Do you cloak links (CGI, .htaccess, meta redirect, etc.)?
What is your average gross monthly income with affiliate programs?
Are you currently using any URL Shortening Services in your marketing efforts?
If you answered YES to the question above, which URL Shortening Services are you actively using?
Does your affiliate marketing plan currently incorporate marketing on social networking sites?
If you answered YES to the above questions, which social networking sites are you currently using in your affiliate marketing efforts?
Are you currently integrating video in your affiliate marketing plan?
Are you currently using any WordPress plugins or widgets designed for affiliate marketing efforts?
If you answered YES to the above question, which affiliate marketing related plugins and widgets are you currently using?
If you are currently using WordPress to build out affiliate sites, what is your preferred WordPress theme?

Get your free copy of the Affiliate Summit AffStat Report at http://affstat.com/.

2010 Affiliate Summit AffStat Report

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FeedFront Magazine Articles

Of Golf and Affiliate Marketing

by Matt_McWilliams

Charlie “Tremendous” Jones said, “You are the same today as you’ll be in five years, except for two things, the people you meet and the books you read.”

For affiliates, perhaps it could be worded, “You are the same today as you’ll be in five years, except for the people you follow on Twitter, the posts you read in forums, and the blogs you peruse.”

I grew up playing golf and one of the lessons I learned as a kid was from the late instructor, Harvey Penick.

“Don’t go to dinner with bad putters.”

What? How does that apply to business or marketing or well… anything outside of golf?

What Penick was saying was that if you want to be a great putter, hang out with great putters. Penick was suggesting that to learn more about putting and developing the right mindset for success, you must associate with great putters. Go to dinner with them. Practice with them. Pick their brains and observe their attitudes, preparation, and routine.

The same goes for learning or improving at anything. If you want to learn how to develop a great marriage, hang out with people who have been happily married for 10+ years, not your two college buddies who recently got divorced. If you want to get into better physical shape, hang out with people who are active and eat healthy, and stop meeting your pals for greasy burgers and fries for lunch.

If you want to be successful in affiliate marketing, stop hanging out with affiliates who whine all the time about the industry, their merchants, or their performance. Quit reading posts from people who discourage you. Quit associating with friends who tell you that you need to get a “real job.”

Instead, find people who have a positive attitude about affiliate marketing and support you in your efforts. Find people who have been doing this for a while, had their ups and downs, failures and successes, and associate with those people. Find members at a forum like ABestWeb who are positive and helpful and read their posts.

In your personal life, make sure that your friends and family support you. They should understand that you are working; not playing on the computer all day, and that you are committed to being successful. If they remain unsupportive or critical, they have one of two choices: get on board or get out of the way. That means you may have to end some friendships or avoid certain people until their attitude improves.

You must make the choice to fill your mind with knowledge from people who make you feel better, inspire you, and teach you how to improve. It will have a huge impact on your current and future success.

Matt McWilliams of Legacy Learning Systems (www.learnandmaster.com/affiliates )is the 2010 Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Award Winner for Affiliate Manager of the Year.

Download the entire FeedFront issue 10 here – http://www.scribd.com/doc/29057000/FeedFront-Magazine-Issue-10

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