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The second Affiliate Bootcamp was a little rough going because of technical problems with the new VOIP conference facility, but everyone huddled together and a work-around was soon presented.
Good thing because the second class has a lot of visual aids to help you to understand the concepts and tools presented.
The big lesson to be learned in the second class is something I learned years ago … the hard way. It’s imperative to your business success that you work in an organized manner. Keeping records of your URLs, usernames and passwords is not a trivial task.
One of the tools James Martell endorses and uses is Affiliate Organizer. Affiliate Organizer’s affiliate program is only open to customers who have purchased Affiliate Organizer.
According to James…
Getting and staying organized can be a daunting task, however I could see that it was important if I wanted to succeed with affiliate programs, …so I had to figure out a way. I did, and then dedicated the first chapter of my training manual to the subject and titled it: “How To Get And Stay Organized”.
It’s that important.
That sums up my sharing a little about the second Affiliate Marketer’s Bootcamp class.
In case you missed my first post on Affiliate Bootcamp ….
http://affiliate-blogger.com/2006/11/22/content-for-affiliate-websites/
What I love about Darren Rowse, ProBlogger, is the down to earth advice he gives to other bloggers looking to monetize their blogs to earn an income doing waht they love … blogging.
Darren’s posted a nice advice series on How To Drive Traffice to Your Affiliate Programs that’s well worth the read, if for no other reason than pure review to make sure you’re doing the basics.
You also might want to go back and review the post I, Affiliate Bogger, posted for you about creating content to further help you prepare your affiliate websites and blogs for monetization Content for Affiliate Websites.
You can read Darren’s next blog post contining this series by looking at his next post on Search Engine Optimization in the overall series of 31 Days to Building a Better Blog.
SimpleTuition Debuts Affiliate Program For Organizations Looking To Share Student Loan Comparison Research
Tuesday November 14, 10:27 am ET
Innovative Referral Program Allows Donations to Educational Charitable Organizations
BOSTON, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ — SimpleTuition, Inc. (http://www.simpletuition.com), a company dedicated to helping students and parents make sense of education financing choices, today announced the launch of its new Affiliate Partner Program. Available today at http://www.simpletuition.com/friend, the program is open to high school guidance officers, personal financial planners and advisors, as well as professional and student organizations and others that wish to offer objective third-party student loan comparison and research.
As a SimpleTuition Affiliate Partner, organizations that refer parents and students to the SimpleTuition web site for advice will earn a reward for each new visitor that uses the SimpleTuition solution to compare student loans and then clicks through to a lender’s loan application site. For non-profit partners and public schools, SimpleTuition is planning to offer the option of donating the referral reward to an educational charity, thereby avoiding any conflicts of interest. A first for referral programs, SimpleTuition is working with leading educational charities, who all share a common vision of helping students and their families attend college, to make this a reality.
“Every year hundreds of thousands of students and parents receive advice and conflicting recommendations from friends, family, co-workers and other advisors about how to best research and manage student loan finances,” said Kevin Walker, co-founder and CEO of SimpleTuition. “Since launching SimpleTuition, numerous parents have been telling us how desperate they are for a resource that offers a clear and easy way to understand their student loan options. When they hear of SimpleTuition, they want to tell all their friends. With that in mind, we created the partner program.”
According to the recent College Board report, caps for federal student loans are not keeping up with inflation, yet tuition costs keep rising, up 35% from five years ago. With the cost of college at an all-time high — projected to reach $220 billion this year, $86 billion of which will be financed by students or their parents — families nationwide now require multiple loans each year to pay for college. Many are desperate for a clear, concise and easy-to-use resource to help find the best student loan options.
Currently, nearly twenty organizations have already joined the SimpleTuition Affiliate Program. Designed for all types of educational support organizations, partners can choose from three options:
The amount of information on student loans is overwhelming with many different types of loans from various lenders; each with different options, including fees, repayment plans, total loan amount, consolidation options, credit strength scores and FAFSA eligibility in some cases. SimpleTuition allows users to compare multiple financing options from a variety of lenders that can be sorted by monthly payment, total cost of the loan, number of payments, fees and APR. SimpleTuition is not a lender.
About SimpleTuition, Inc.
Founded in 2005, SimpleTuition is dedicated to helping students and parents make sense of education financing choices. Recently featured in FastCompany.com’s top 12 innovative websites for Web 2.0, SimpleTuition is the only company to offer an independent and objective solution for researching and comparing parent, private, GradPLUS and federal loans. SimpleTuition is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and is funded by Atlas Venture and IDG Ventures Boston. For more information visit http://www.SimpleTuition.com.
Happy Thanksgiving to All
Joining solid affiliate programs is a good start. But the affiliate program is usually only going to give you banner ads and text ads … most don’t provide the content part.
Here’s my advice, do a search on “free rewrite articles.” Pick an article repository, go there, search on your keywords … not sure what they are for you, but an example would be “music” … be as specific in the keywords as you can. Music might be too general.
Grab yourself some articles. You must publish articles with the author’s signature at the bottom. Give credit for the content where credit is due.
Now, keep yourself out of trouble with Google. You have to write some content too. You need to have about 20-40% of the content on the page be unique. On every page!
So, if I were you I’d write a few paragraphs about the article’s topic, maybe getting a little focused on the keywords you’re going for on that page. Definately use your keywords as the anchor text for the affiliate program’s links.
Meaning, if you’re talking about electric guitars on a page and have an article on electric guitars, then in the part you write, link the words “electric guitars” to the affiliate program’s link to their electric guitars. See?
You can’t touch the content of the author’s article. It’s a matter of honor on that reguard. It’s your way of valuing that author giving you free content.
Basically, you’re writing an intro to the article and you need to make a clear distinction between what you’re writing and what the other guy wrote. This should resolve your content issues for now.
It’s a lot of work, but that’s how it’s done. Dig in!
Currently, I don’t offer any one-on-one tutoring at Affiliate Guild … yet! If you guys think that’s something I should do sooner rather than later, then let me know. I would have to charge a fee, but I also could keep it reasonable. Affiliate Guild has a complete school already in place, so it’s not that hard to do.
You might have read my posts about the Affiliate Marketers Bootcamp. Taking this course is really helping me to be more aware of what the newer affiliate’s needs are. It’s all information I already know, but it’s always good to hear it again. I’ll be blogging and posting about things I think could benefit others. Maybe some of that will help you as well?!