Media Buys Coach Review – Media Buying Training Program
For all of you who have been reading about Media Buying on my blog over the past month and have been interested in learning more about how Media Buying works and how you can start off in it for yourself, today is your lucky day. Media Buys Coach is now live!
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Affiliate Marketing Income Report for February 2010!
Well, it’s almost my favorite time of the month when I get to do my income report for my affiliate marketing earnings. I did run into a few issues in February that held me back a lot from increasing to where I should of been. I did hit an increase from last month but still not what I should of hit.
Also, I am running into some major issues with one network I was dealing with who seems to of kicked out all of there affiliates and has decided to let the big boys handle there offers. The problem is, they have not paid me for three months worth of leads at this point which totals over 2k of my earnings. If I do not see any money from them this month, I will post about them and there offers on this site to alert you to who they are and why you should not trust them. Until then, I will keep my figures crossed.
I also spent a lot of time building Feed Flare Media last month as well which consumed at least two weeks of time. Thats two weeks I did not work on my affiliate sites or look at growing my earnings on that level. I am going to be getting back to the norm this month forsure.
Affiliate Marketing Income Report for February 2010
Regular Earnings (SEO Sites)
- Neverblue Ads – $466.57
- Media Trust – $1779.74
- Max Bounty – $15.09
- Hydra – $316.68
- Premium E-Cig – $47.07
- Opes Media – $1323.72
- CX Digital – $1140.04
- Mundo Media – $342.01
- Azoogle Ads – $166.78
Affiliate Marketing Regular Earnings Total = $5597.70
Recurring Affiliate Commissions
- Inlinks – $50.02
- PPC Coach – $115.00
- Unique Article Wizard – $115.00
Recurring Affiliate Income Total =$280.02
Monthly Sub Total = $ 5877.72
Expenses For Regular Earnings in February
- Dedicated Server – $154.00
- Unique Article Wizard – $70.00
Total Expenses = $224.00
Total Net Income For January 2010 = $5653.72
Stay tuned for more excited developments in the up coming months. There was some very good conversations I had while building my network that may yeild me exactly what I have been looking for.
Feed Flare Media Is Live – What Offers Do You Want To See?
Well, it has taken a few weeks to get done but I can finally say with extreme pride that Feed Flare Media is now live! There are a few things still to get done like a actual home page for the network. I had a graphic guy working on it, he got as far as making a new logo and then poof! He was gone! If you know of a good graphics guy, let me know!
Currently right now there are around 40 or so offers live inside the network and yes, they are mostly health product related offers. Not junky ones though, offers that are going to be sticking around a while that are all FTC Compliant and allow duo flog landing pages. Feed Flare Media even has 8 health offers that are compliant to run on Google Adwords! It was very nice to see that kind of quality in the network right off the hop.
Join Feed Flare Media?
Here are just a few key features built into Feed Flare Media that I think are super features for all affiliates to have in a network they are running offers with, and these features are exactly what I was looking for and wanted from networks I was working with in the past! Enjoy Them!
First is that Feed Flare Media has it’s own built in ad manager. You can load the ad manager up with your banners and affiliate links, then set it live on which ever ad network your buying traffic from and let the ad manager track everything for you, right from inside your affiliate center. Great feature for all you media buyers out there!
Feed Flare Media also uses impression based cookies. What are impression based cookies? Well, instead of your visitors having to click on one of your links in order for you to get credit for a lead, all that has to happen with Feed Flare Media’s links is for your page to load. This way ( and this happens all the time) if your visitor decides to type in the product name and by pass your affiliate links to get the product you are still getting credit for the lead. Just an extra way for you to improve your ROI at the end of the day (and mine too)!
Place your own pixels! No more hounding your affiliate managers to place pixels for you, you can do it right from inside the offer page it’s self, where you grab your affiliate links from.
10% profit sharing on affiliate referrals you send to Feed Flare Media FOR LIFE, plus have full detailed reports of all affiliate sign ups under your affiliate link and what they have earned.
No Pre Set conversion rates. If you are super good at affiliate marketing and you can drive quality traffic and get leads, you get paid for all your leads. If there is any need to remove a lead, (sometimes pixels fire twice on the same ip address) you will be provided with a full report. Everything about Feed Flare Media is on the up and up – 100% transparent! That’s how I affiliate market and that’s how I run thing in my network.
There is a bunch more features packed into Feed Flare Media and a bunch more set to go live very shortly too.
What Offers Would You Like To See?
Not to many networks ask there affiliates, what they would like to see for offers so I figured I would ask you guys. There is no point in me filling up Feed Flare Media with a bunch of offers no one is going to run just to say I have thousands of offers. That is a pile of work for me and a pile of junk you would have to sift through to find what your looking for. Leave a comment after this post with your idea’s for offers.
With that all said, I hope to see you there and if not, I will for sure keep you updated and how things are going and I will still post my own private affiliate earnings reports on a monthly basis as well. Not the networks!
Search Massive – Media Buying Tools That Make You Money
When it comes to doing media buys through ad networks, it has always been very hard to tell where exactly your traffic is coming from. Until now! Search Massive was created for free I might add, to help anyone doing media buys to weed out the bad traffic sources and get to where the profits are before you start paying for traffic!
Here is how it works in a nut shell!
When you go to certain ad networks and you want to do a media buy, they will often tell you they have hundreds if not thousands of sites they have ad space on. But what you don’t know is, what those sites are and how good the traffic is going to be. So, when you do your buy you could end up getting traffic from somewhere that is not completely relevant to the niche you are marketing and wasting a pile of money at the start of a campaign when your testing things out. Why not rule out the bad traffic sites before you start your buy?
With Search Massive, you can find out exactly what sites a network buys traffic from so if there turns out to be a site you don’t want your ads on, you can tell the ad network to not run your ads on that site. You can also find new sites to do direct buys with. Really, there is a bunch of information you can gather before you launch a campaign, here is a list of features the Search Massive tool does!
- Ad Server
- Affiliate Marketing (CPA)
- Behavioral and Re-targeting Ads
- Content
- Contextual Ads
- Display Ads
- Social Media Ads
- Video / Rich Media Ads
- Video Server
- Web Analytics
As a web professional, this information can help you in many different ways:
- Find Web Publishers
- Find Customers
- Select Partners
- Research Sales Prospects
- Research Markets
- Research Vendors
Keep this in mind! Search Massive is a free tool for anyone to use, for what ever reason you want. What is needed from you when you use this tool for free is input on what can make the tool better or what you might like the tool to do in the future. I think that is fair, don’t you!
Now, head on over to Search Massive today and start increasing your ROI’s
January 2010 Affiliate Marketing Income Report
With the 1st month of 2010 over with (wow that went fast) here is my first income report for the year. Looking back at what I did a year ago this month in affiliate marketing it is nice to see there is a difference in the volume and what I earned. Last January when I was first taking off I made for the month &2600.00 and grew from there. Lets take a look at January 2010 shall we.
Affiliate Marketing Income Report for January 2010
Regular Earnings (SEO Sites)
- Neverblue Ads – $2276.95
- Media Trust – $790.47
- Max Bounty – $332.50
- Wotogepa – $105.56
- Hydra – $119.19
- Premium E-Cig – 272.26
- Opes Media – $879.34
- CX Digital – 66.91
- Profit Kings Media – 22.21
(Soon, they will all be earning reports from Feed Flare Media)
Affiliate Marketing Regular Earnings Total = $4865.45
Recurring Affiliate Commissions
- Inlinks – $50.02
- PPC Coach – $115.00
- Unique Article Wizard – $115.00
Recurring Affiliate Income Total =$280.02
Monthly Sub Total = $ 5145,47
Expenses For Regular Earnings in January
- Dedicated Server – $154.00
- Unique Article Wizard – $70.00
Total Expenses = $224.00
Total Net Income For January 2010 = $4921.47
Now, I am up from last month earnings by almost 2k which is nice to see. Funny thing is, I was still basically dead up until the second week of January due to the holiday’s. So my income report is really based around 3 weeks of earnings. I did not do to much new stuff last month either, as I was trying to figure out my plan for 2010 – Feed Flare Media was the plan I came up with. I will give you an update on that later this week.
One thing I wanted to point out that I did do last month was cut some of my expenses. I dropped Media Buys Coach and PPC Coach plus a few submitter programs I was using for link building to my seo sites. I want to make one thing clear here too. I didn’t drop the coaching programs for any other reason then I was not using them and I wanted to free up some cash. Running a network costs money and not using 250.00 dollars of coaching programs just didn’t fit the bill. Both, Media Buys Coach and PPC Coach are both great mentoring programs and when I am set up (A little less on my plate) I will re-join them.
Feed Flare Media – A Concept Is Born
Well, looks like I am going to be an affiliate network owner after all! After many hours of deliberation and weighing out the pros and cons of being an owner of a affiliate network. I decided today after my final platform review was done that it is time to move forward with my business plans and start the design process of the website and network.
Don’t get to excited yet – it’s going to be a few months down the road before everything is set to go live for affiliates to join my network. I want everything just perfect before launch and I also want to make sure I have a pile of good offers for everyone to chose from as well with the best payouts I can give.
Here are a few bedrock principles that Feed Flare Media is going to be built around. I am going to be keeping some of the information secret 
, for now!
Service and education are going to be two things I am going to focus a lot on. Those are two very key area’s that most networks are extremely lacking in. Well, 95% of the networks anyways. Giving affiliates the right tools to do there jobs is key to everyone’s success – right???
Extreme affiliate screening will also be done prior to anyone every getting approved for an account. I use to get so mad when an offer I had converting on a network would get pulled from that network because some dumb ass affiliate does nothing but produce fraudulent leads. I am going to weed you out before you join my network so you don’t end up killing someone’s campaign, or costing us all a bunch of money. I am going to be investing tons of hours and money getting this network off the ground, to heck if someone is going to ruin it!
The same is going to apply to advertisers as well. I want stable, long term advertisers as part of my network so affiliates can all trust that they can build a solid business that is going to last as long as possible.
I personally believe that anyone and everyone should enjoy all aspects of there work. Not just what they make from working. So I am going to take all the frustrations I have had and put them into building a network that people can be proud to be a part of. There is stress and always will be stress when you work for yourself, don’t get me wrong, but what ever I can do to remove some of that stress – I will.
The platform I have chosen to use for my network also has absolutely no tools built into it for me (or anyone else who uses this same platform – and there is 3200 other companies who do) to steel leads from affiliates, like with what happens to Direct Track network affiliates. The platform creators built there system to be trust worthy, honest and dead on accurate – and after a 90 minuet demo today – I can honestly say – it is and it’s packed with features I wish all networks would have.
So with all that being said, it’s time for me to finalize how this new network of mine is going to look – I am so excited!!!
