Affiliate Contests
One of the most popular ways to launch a product is to get affiliates to
promote the product. One of the best ways to motivate affiliates is to have a contest with tempting prizes.
We have seen high level affiliate contests of StomperNet and Mass Control where the big players are involved.
I like the affiliate contest of Jimmy D Brown for the simplicity, effectiveness, thoughtful gesture for the beginner
affiliates and demonstrating the ability make money online while helping others to develop and grow.
You can read the posts about this contest on the Make Money FAQ blog.
Jimmy Brown and his affiliate manager Nicole Dean have a very good plan for all levels of affiliates to participate in the competition.
What is the competition?
The "Happy Birthday Jimmy & Nicole" Affiliate Contest
February 1 to 15, 2008
Prizes:
"For the Big Guys and Gals" Prize - 20 sales - Membernaire.com. (Value $324.)
"Lucky Draw" Prize - 5 sales - SixFigureFormula.com (Value $497)
"We Love Active Affiliates" Prize- 3 sales during the contest period Feb 1-15 -
--> 1st month of Membernaire.com free
--> 1st month of ListandTraffic.com free
The "Just for Trying" Prize - 100% participants win - everyone wins - "Super Affiliate Strategies"
The Just For Trying Prize
This is what those who are just beginning to get into affiliate marketing should aim for.
All of you will win the course if you complete any 9 out of the 16 steps given.
More than the prize, by just going through these 16 steps you will learn how to promote affiliate products. And after you win the
course you will learn the "Super Affiliate Strategies".
I have received emails from some of you who have problems in completing these steps. This page is to help such people.
First let us understand what the 16 steps are and what you are required to do. Then we can learn how to do each one of them.
Remember learning this will help you promote other affiliate products too. It is not just for this contest you are learning these
skills.
16 Steps of Affiliate Promotion
1. Put our Button or Banner on your Site
2. Add an email signature with your affiliate link to the bottom of all emails you send out for 5 days
minimum.
3. Put Your Affiliate link in your signature while posting on your favorite Internet Marketing forums for at least 3 days
(where allowed).
4. Buy an Ezine Ad.
5. Blog about Marketing Comics.
6. Add some of our reprint articles to your website or blog.
7. Write a review.
8. Recommend us to your newsletter list.
9. Brand any of our reports with your affiliate link and promote it.
10. Stumble Upon Us (or Digg or Reddit).
11. Error Page
12. Thank You Page
13. Add us to your Autoresponder
14. Create a Squidoo Lens and Link to Us
15. Advertise However You Like
16. Advertise Offline
Ok that is the summary of all the 16 steps. You have to choose 9 out of these
16 steps.
Which are the steps you can choose, if you do not have your own blog or site? (By the way, I think, this is the right time to
start your own blog :))
After you complete this you have to send an email to Jimmy Brown's affiliate manager Nicole Dean and tell her how you have promoted his
products, that is, what are the steps you completed.
Nicole says. "Every affiliate who completes 9 of the items above will win "Super Affiliate Strategies" -- just send me an email at nicole@infoprofitshare.com and let me know which 9 items you did.
I'll send your prize immediately!"
First Things First
You have to first sign up with ClickBank.
Use a good username while signing up. This username will be used for all the ClickBank products you want to promote. You just sign up once and
use that id for the thousands of products in the ClickBank market place.
My ClickBank Id is: getbonus.
Jimmy Brown's product is:
SMALL Reports Fortune:
http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=YOURCLICKBANKID&pid=5
In the place of YOURCLICKBANKTD I will enter my id. So my affiliate link is:
http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=getbonus&pid=5
I can hyperlink the name of the product with this link -
SMALL Reports Fortune
I will check my link by clicking on it and testing whether it goes to the particular sales letter.
At the end of the link you can see a number. That is Jimmy Brown's product number. For small reports fortune the no is 5. For another of his
product the number is 10.
So I change all the links with my ClickBank id.
Remember YOU have to replace all the links with YOUR ClickBank Id. Otherwise you won't get any commission.
Here are the other links -
SALES ARMY Secrets:
http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=getbonus&pid=10
SALES ARMY Secrets
LIST PROFIT System:
http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=getbonus&pid=6
LIST PROFIT System
Subject Line Secrets:
http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=getbonus&pid=2
Subject Line Secrets
Email Strategies Explained:
http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=getbonus&pid=1
Email Strategies Explained
Remember you have to sign up with ClickBank, get your id and replace that in the links, e.g.
http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=YOURCLICKBANKID&pid=5
Do not send my link to others. You will not get paid.
No Blog! How Do I Participate?
Suppose you don't have a blog ... go for steps...
2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 - this is one less than 9 - may be you could start a hub page
I do not think you will have any problems in copying the sentences at http://www.infoprofitshare.com/contest.html and putting it in the place of your
email signature or forum signature. If you do have problems let me know.
Here is a sample forum for you to consider:
http://www.conqueryourniche.com/forum/vasantha
Squidoo Lens is very easy to create. Just go here Squidoo.com and click a few buttons and your lens will be ready.
See my sample lens: Learn Online Earn Online (when you are checking you could also give me a star :))
Similarly Hub Pages are easy to create.
See my sample hub page: Cook A Romatic Meal For Your Girl Friend
Offline advertising is easy - just post a notice about the product on a browsing center notice board with your affliate link.
There are many other classified ads you can use to promote products.
I Have a Blog! But I Don't Know How
Those of you who have a blog have more options. You can do all that the previous group without a blog can do. In addition you can consider any
of the following steps...
1, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12
One of the major problems that many of you face in this is...
How to add a banner to the blog
In many affiliate programs, they give you the banner link and you can just use the code they give you.
If the banner link is not given, you have to copy the banner, upload it and then use it.
How do you copy the banner image?
Place your cursor on the image, right mouse click, select "save image as" and choose your desktop to copy.
You can save the image by giving it a name, example, traffic_banner.jpg
This will be on your desktop or wherever you save it. From here you can upload it in WordPress or blogger blog.
How do you upload the image?
1. WordPress Blog
If you are using WordPress blog, just below the place where you type your posts you have the upload section.
Do you see file and browse?
Click on browse, choose the image from your desktop and click upload. The image will be added to your post.
Remember to change the file name to your affiliate link.
The link will be like this:
<a href="http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=getbonus&pid=10"
title="traffic_banner.jpg"><img src="http://askrangoo.com/faq/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/traffic_banner.jpg"
alt="traffic_banner.jpg" /></a>
Next to <a href=" - you will paste your link.
Wordpress automatically gives you the image link.
The banner will look like this:
See this banner on my Make Money FAQ blog.
2. Blogger Blog
With a blogger blog, the process will take a little longer.
You have to first copy the image to your computer desktop, upload it as a photo, copy the image location and add your affiliate link to your
banner.
Follow these steps:
1. Go to http://www.blogger.com and go to the dashboard of your blog.
Click Layout - Add Page Elements - Picture - Add to Blog
You can choose the image from your desktop by clicking on BROWSE.
2. Go to your blog. You will see the banner added to your blog as a photo. Keep your mouse on the banner, right mouse click and select
"copy image location".
3. Open a notepad and copy this syntax.
<strong><a target=_blank href="ENTERAFFILIATELINK"><img border="0" src="ENTERIMAGEURL"></a></strong>
Copy your affiliate link and paste it in the place - ENTERAFFILIATELINK
Copy your image link (which you got by selecting "copy image url") and paste it in the place ENTERIMAGEURL.
Now you have the banner with your affiliate link.
It will look like this (remember your ClickBank id will be different)
<b><a href="http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=getbonus&pid=10"><img
border="0" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/
_IpiFBLUQ5Xw/R6aD_J_lRJI/AAAAAAAAANw/
cBvQNyr7X-I/S226/affiliate_marketing.jpg"/></a></b>
4. Go to your blogger dashboard - Click Layout - Click "Page Elements" - Choose "HTML/JAVA Script" and click "Add to Blog".
When that opens, copy the banner link with your affiliate link. That is copy the link you created in step 3.
<b><a href="http://infoprofitshare.com/go.php?offer=getbonus&pid=10"><img
border="0" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_IpiFBLUQ5Xw/R6aD
_J_lRJI/AAAAAAAAANw/cBvQNyr7X-I/S226/
affiliate_marketing.jpg"/></a></b>
Save that page element and view the blog.
After you insert the banner, click on it to check that it goes to the sales letter.
Check how the banner looks on my Podcasting Blog.
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