AdSquare Network
AdSquare Network
These past few months have be full of change, for the better for me and my companies. First and foremost we decided to open our private, invite only affiliate network, AdSquare Network, onto a more public basis. I have been extremly busy with setting up new deals, and taking the change from a small, tight knit community of affiliates, to a lot more to manage (meaning we had to hire 10 new employees)!
Here is a brief description from our website:
AdSquare Media decided to make a change in the marketing world by opening up our affiliate network on a wide scale basis. This network has been private with a select group of affiliates until a few months ago, and now we are offering our exclusive campaigns to everyone to promote.
We are different than any other network out there in many ones, for both publishers and advertisers. If you are new to the affiliate marketing world, we won’t turn down your application, no matter what. In fact, we will encourage you to sign up and take advantage of our one on one training. AdSquare has custom payment plans for our publishers, meaning you can get paid weekly, no matter how much money you are making. We also have numerous reward programs that we offer to both our publishers and advertisers just for being a part of our network.
AdSquare has been in this game for over 10 years now. We have the experience in the publisher, advertiser and network world, and we have no problems passing on our knowledge to you. We send weekly educational emails to everyone in our network, and offer 24/7 one on one support. AdSquare has no problem passing on what campaigns are running profitable for us, and how we are running them as well. AdSquare run’s many of our own campaigns on the network, meaning you cannot get these offers anywhere else.
Want to learn more about our network and how we can help you make more money online? Feel free to contact us, we will be glad to talk to you and help you get started making money today.
We have a lot in store for 2010, and currently with 70% of our offers being exclusive, you no you will get only the best with us. Click here to check us out!
Please, if anyone has any questions, you know where to reach me. Catch me on AIM at “ad2jared”.
Jared
Live from IzeaFest 2009
I am taking notes on all the speakers and will make a general post once the conference is wrapped up.
I wanted to originally blog during each session however, to much information would be missed.
Keynote of 2009 however goes to Aaron Brazell, @technosailor
By the way, my new design for this blog should be ready within 2 weeks, so bear with the minimal design.
Have a different niche? Start your own CPA offer
So recently I have seen numerous posts around the net along the lines of “Which CPA Network has _____ Offer? None? Darn, I have some nice traffic for this niche!”
Well here is what you do:
1. Make landing page
2. Collect leads
3. Sell leads
4. ???
5. Profit!!
I am well aware that this cannot be done with EVERY NICHE imaginable, however, if you have a “college student” orientated website, why not make a student loan consolidation offer, create the LP, then sell the information.
You will however have to have terms and a privacy policy clearly stating that you will be selling the information that is being entered, do with it what you may.
Depending on how many leads you are generating, you may need a lead management system to track, check and manage all the information – however, when your just starting out a nice export to Excel never hurts.
I recommend checking out LeadPile for all your lead selling needs, they have a bunch of different categories that have people waiting to by your juicy leads. If you are feeling daring, or depend on your niche, you may want to NOT go through a “broker” like LeadPile, and go directly to the buyer. For example: you are running a legal niche site, why not collect some leads from people who are looking for a lawyer, and sell them to a lawyer in your town for a ton of more dough than what you would get through a broker. Just saying.
I want to post more on this topic in the coming weeks, because I think it is something many people aren’t doing but can be profiting from.
Blog Updates
Finally have some time to do some crazy posts again, but first i am updating the layouts, version, plugins etc.
So bear with me!
Typical landers = dead?!?
So I just looked back at some landing pages i designed and used to push last year and I found one that made me a killing before and launched it last week. 
Big Mistake. Haven’t lost this much money on a campaign in a while now (luckily my other ones remained very profitable which evened it out).
This made me realize that in the past months, I think we underwent a major change in the way landing pages are being designed… and HAVING to be designed. I feel as though your typicaly Internet user now, who last year you could sell a ciggarette butt too, is becoming more internet savvy when it comes to being “tricked” to sign up for an offer.
So what can you, the novice affiliate marketer do when you realize you too are becoming effected by this latest trend in the game, well it’s simple: ADAPT. Think about what lander that you think if you went to, you would actually convert on it. That is the only way.
I see so many people out there looking for the “greatest” graphic designer money can by, well let me be the first one to say: HA HA. Sucks to be you. A pretty site does not at all mean you are going to get that conversion. When someone is looking to whiten their teeth online are they going to care whether or not your site makes them feel all tingely inside? No! They are looking for the cold hard facts on why the product you are pushing is going to make their yellow teeth look normal for a change.
That is all folks, just give it some time. You heard it here first.
Long time.. very long time.. since I have posted. Why?
I have been extremly busy, mainly with starting up many new projects/websites/businesses and growing my client list in a positive fashion.
I haven’t said this yet, but i feel that businesses are starting to cut back on advertising a lot recently, why – simply because they are not seeing a positive return on their investment. So what have I done to combat this fear, yet still make money? Send them traffic.. THAT CONVERT’S.. then get paid. After you show them that you can in fact get them quality traffic, you can begin to request that payment up front. Sure you are putting yourself out on a limb a little bit here, and risking that money that you spend to advertise, but if you have any sense whatsoever of businesses.. you can easily sniff out which companies will and will not pay you for that traffic.
Of course if you send them crap traffic that doesn’t do anything for them, you won’t get paid, so keep that in mind! I want to start talking more about this subject more in the coming weeks, because I feel that it is a great way to make some extra cash, or even start up your own advertising company.
IzeaFest 2009 is coming up quickly, and I cannot wait! Still haven’t gotten your ticket yet, or do you want an extra one?
Check out this post: IzeaFest Free Ticket Contest 2 by There’s Something About Harry on how you can win yourself a free IzeaFest ticket! This IzeaFest is going to be HUGE.. and the best part is it’s in sunny Orlando at Seaworld… you can swim with the dolphins while learning how to make ton’s of cash online.
Slip on that tankini and catch a wave down to SeaWorld Orlando for this year’s IZEAFest! Join Shamu and his aquatic friends at the most exciting social media experience this side of Atlantis. We bet it’ll be more fun than a gaggle of mermaids. Check-out the Internet stars that are crusing-in to join us.
What can you expect from IZEAFest at SeaWorld? Dive into expert advice from the biggest fish in the blogosphere! Learn how to fill your treasure chest with more than just sand dollars! And hello…fun in the sun!
Here’s what you should pack: Flip-flops, sunscreen, a laptop, and…oh yeah…your fanciest coconut top.
Some of the top people that will be there, besides myself, Jared Tysak are: Ted Murphy, Aaron Brazell, Arleen Anderson, Brett Bumeter and Chris Brogan to name a few.
Combating Fraud: Advertisers, Publishers and Networks
As a more serious post, I just want to address my opinion on the recent major crackdown, and also rising, of fraud in this industry. And i can say, without a doubt in my mind, that it is not only coming from Publishers, but from advertisers AS WELL AS networks. 
So each section in this post is out to combat fraud AGAINST the wrongdoers, and there are plenty of them.
Publishers
The more obvious “fraudsters”, the affiliate marketers, or the publishers. Sometimes when i am talking to networks, they complain about the fraudulant affiliates that they are finding ALREADY IN THEIR NETWORK on a daily basis. This is humourous to me. How did they even get in your network in the first place? Did you not call them, review their IP, etc etc? Now, fraud affiliates are getting more clever- THEY ARE PAYING OTHER LEGIT AFFILIATE TO CALL NETWORKS AND GET THEM ACCOUNTS. Seems like there is no way to stop that, right? WRONG! Don’t allow affiliates to change address, email, payee info after approval (for a few months). This will show if the affiliate, the fraud one, paid someone else to sign up for them. You can compare the IP locations, and you will have your answer.. easy enough.
Advertisers
Up and coming fraudsters, and there’s nothing we can really do to stop it, besides not using advertisers who are known to fraud. By fraud for advertisers, I mean: not paying, not tracking, or an all around scammy offer- like a rebill without any terms. It is up to the NETWORKS to not allow these guys into the scene in the first place. The networks need to get their heads out of their asses and not worry about the quick buck they’ll make letting these scams into their company for publishers to promote- as with Hydra network, it’s easy to see what may happen (Recent affiliate claims he ran $25k through an advertiser and now is not getting paid). Don’t get me wrong, there are a bunch of great advertisers out there, but I want to make sure I am going to be paid by an advertiser if i run tens of thousands of dollars worth of traffic on them: and i sure hope my network will have my back too.
Networks
The most clever of the bunch, and also the least likely to be noticed. Some networks are obvious scams: not paying a cent, asking to see your keywords, landing pages, etc. They’ll “question” your traffic, and then give you the boot. Great – move on. What i think deems a network as more of a fraud than the obvious reasons i just listed are the following: excessive scrubbing and poor or no tracking. It is VITAL that you use a service such as Prosper202 when you are using PPC traffic, as it tracks conversions IN HOUSE – which you can compare to your network stats. If you see a difference in conversion rates, take the network up on it. See a constant one? REPORT IT TO OTHER AFFILIATES and switch your traffic. There is obviously a problem with the networks tracking, or they are taking advantage of their publishers. Also, if they question your traffic (and you are sending legit traffic like everyone should be) — ask to see proof of what the hell they are talking about. If they are not willing to show you (which they HAVE to), you know something is fishy.
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I have a lot more to say on this subject, including what normal affiliates can do to fight fraud in our industry, so you can be sure I will be making future posts on this topic.
Good luck bros.
What is your blog even about?
Last month, I believe, the Great Shoemoney did a post similar to this one. 
After reading it, I thought to myself, “Well darn, I just wasted 5 minutes of my life. What a stupid post”. Well as this blog is growing in popularity, I can completely see where he is coming from.
Many people ask me what this blog is about. Well, to be honest, its about ME. Hence my name in the title.
I am not going to teach you magic tricks to make you money online, however, I will be more than happy to share tips and tricks with you that I have learned along the way. And when i get news before it hits the “streets”, I will be glad to post that as well.
It was not my goal to “make money blogging”, to be honest, i wouldn’t even want to focus solely on blogging to make money online. HOWEVER, as humorous as this sounds, those funny banners on the side of this page rake me in $500.00/month; obviously not a lot, but humorous nonetheless. The ads have little to do with anything on the blog (except those fat marketers who need to lose weight, or ugly ones who need to find dates) but it just goes to show the power of perfect ad placement. Haha.
I do not recommend people to only focus on blogging to make money online, in fact, i discourage it. I know obviously numerous people make tons of money blogging everyday. BORING. Try something different. I could never imagine posting to this everyday, and i don’t think my readers would like it as well. There are numerous other ways out there to make money, i mean seriously, if you love writing that much, article writing can be a very lucrative option if you play your cards right. But just don’t waste your bandwidth blogging nonstop, it gets old and boring.
So yeah, this blog = about me. If you don’t like it, you can leave. However, i will be sure to only post my dinner pictures 1 time a month, maximum!!! That is all.
Solving the FAT and UGLY affiliate marketer crisis
That’s right, I just went there and broke the news to the entire Internet.. So if you are good looking and skinny, and want to be a super duper affiliate, you better reconsider if you lime your looks. I have been doing research in this subject for numerous weeks (probably months now) in order to come this conclusion, and two bloggers introducing a weight loss challenge put the icing on the cake (literally).
Now don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of good looking affiliates out there, but odds are that if you are an affiliate marketer, your fat and ugly, it’s nothing to lose sleep over. I know I am not the skinniest one in the bunch (I have been spending more money eating out in the past years) but wow there are some fatties out there. I guess the main reason behind this is because we are always so busy putting ads for teens to click on Facebook, that we just have no time to worry about how we actually look. I mean heck, in 10 years we can all afford to higher a personal trainer if we are lucky!!
So how do I stop being fat and ugly, Jared?
Thats simple, follow my three patented steps and you will be good to go…
Step 1: BUY ACAI and CLEAN YOUR COLON
I have heard from Oprah that this stuff actually works. I haven’t worked with these companies before, nor have I tried their products, but based on their websites they seem like the real deal. I talked to Sally M. in Nigeria and she said this stuff is the real deal. Cleaning your colon out will also help (supposedly) to get a higher conversion rate on Facebook Ads. Its the troof. These aren’t affiliate links, that would be dumb, so don’t worry. So step 1, buy acai, clean your colon out, simple as pie.
Step 2: WHITEN THOSE YELLOW TEETH
No one likes looking at yellow, ugly teeth. When I look at someone the first thing i see is those yellow things looking right back at me. Teeth whitening is becoming ever more popular in our society, so don’t be that only loser who STILL has yellow teeth. Cleaning out your colon gets you a better conversion rate on Facebook, well, you guessed it! Whitening your teeth gets you a MUCH higher conversion rate on MySpace. Best believe dat. You will be a prettier person if you whiten those teeth, so this is step 2!
Step 3 (most important!!!): THINK OF A DUMB CONTEST FOR YOUR BLOG
Now this is the make or break spot, try to think of a completely dumb, pointless, stupid and wasteful contest to put on your blog. While thinking of your dumb contest, since you are already fat, you will begin to sweat. This sweat = weight loss baby. The dumber your contest, the more you sweat, the more weight you lose. I have seen numerous people actually lose over 50 pounds thinking about a dumb contest to put on their blog, so I can certainly vouch for this step.
So good luck in becoming a better affiliate to look at. Next weeks training sesh is how to make money by posting links to Google. A lot of people need help with this.
Time is an Essence
When it comes to PPC traffic of course! Well, i guess when it comes to everything time is important as well, but not in the way it is with PPC traffic. 
Let me explain what I mean…
Are people on Easter Sunday going to be browsing the web to buy some stuff, or click on ads. PROBABLY not. Why waste money on days like this when you can just pause your ads. Betcha never thought about that. I am about one day in one a study I am doing on the best times to run PPC ads. I may actually delay the full study for a week, though. It is going to include a mixture of niches running 24/7 for 2 weeks, and we will find out which times of the day yeild the highest CTR’s.
Obviously tomorrow i am going to pause all my campaigns, some say its a waste of time and kind of pointless, but if you want you .05% CTR and 1% conversion rates, be my guest. Guarantee tomorrow you won’t be making much dough. Plus it gives me one less thing to worry about.
What does suck about Facebook is the DISABILITY to schedule what time your ads rum, like on AdWords. Lets be real, is someone really going to click on a ad on a Friday or Saturday night, probably drunk, and buy your product? No. Why waste those clicks? I guess it really doesn’t matter if you are only pushing a few hundred a day, but it sure does add up when you are talking in the thousands. I have saved a TON of money doing this, and i recommend it to you too.
So why would you actually pause your ads? Saves wasted clicks. Guarantee it if you monitor clicks (if you get any) on holidays like tomorrow, they probably will not convert as well as say clicks on weekday nights. I am sure there are other reasons besides that it is a holiday, and i hope to figure it out eventually. But yeah, try it out and see if you notice any difference, I am sure you will.
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