HasOffers, a sister company of Tatto Media, is an affiliate network solution that gives you access to the same exact platform used by Tatto. Now you can white label the technology, customize and brand it however you want, and get all of the unique features of the system.

There are a lot of different barriers to entry for starting up an affiliate marketing network. You need good connections with potential advertisers, a unique business model that offers value to customers, and start up capital to hire employees and implement a platform. Up until now, networks had to either create their own platform (very expensive) or use the industry standard, DirectTrack (which still costs $10k). HasOffers has come along and shaken things up a bit. Not only is it good, it’s also free – which means the technology barrier to entry no longer exists. Anyone can set up an affiliate network in a matter of days.

How HasOffers Works

As I mentioned, HasOffers is a hosted solution that allows you to set up your own affiliate network, completely customized to your own brand. All you need to do to get started is fill out the registration form with your information, network name, and network id. The system by default gives you a URL off of a subdomain of hasoffers.com, but you can also get your own domain for your new site as well.

Once you get your account set up, it’s really just a matter of getting advertisers and affiliates on board – the hard part. HasOffers gives you all of the tools you need, but it’s up to you to effectively run your business and distinguish your site as a valuable affiliate network. A widely available platform like HasOffers will only bring on more competition so this becomes increasingly important.

Features

As for the admin panel of HasOffers, you can pretty much do everything you need to run your network. You can easily add advertisers and offers, manage affiliates and pay them, and get reports on all kinds of statistics.

HasOffers is constantly looking to improve and has recently added the following new features:

• New look and feel for the stat reports. Much more user friendly
• Advertisers have the ability to manage their own offers
• Option to allow offers to convert multiple times
• Customizable questions for affiliate sign-ups
• Lead caps can now be disabled

Take a look inside by using the demo account here: demo.hasoffers.com (login: demo@hasoffers.com, password: demo)

The only thing that seems to be missing is a way to supply affiliates with marketing materials such as banner ads and email templates. Hopefully this will be added soon.

Another limitation is the way in which you can customize the HasOffers platform. You can change any style, color, or logo, but the format and template remains the same. This is expected of a hosted solution but if you wanted to create something completely different, you won’t be able to through HasOffers.

Other than that, HasOffers is a very flexible solution that offers a ton of features for you to work with. Once you hit it big, you can always invest in a custom platform, but this is a good one to get started on and grow with.

Pricing

So how much does this all cost? Nothing. It’s free as long as you stay under 250,000 clicks per month (which is more than what most people need starting out). You can also upgrade to Pro ($99/month) or Enterprise ($799/month) which offer more clicks and better features. Below is a comparison chart.

Final Verdict

If you’re interested in running your own affiliate offer (e.g. selling an ebook through your own affiliate program) or going big and starting up a network, HasOffers is a great platform to use. Not only is it free to use, it offers features and flexibility that rival those of Direct Track ($10k). Shoemoney uses HasOffers to run his affiliate network, Shoemoney Offers, and has had a great experience with it.

Sign up for a free account with HasOffers and try it out.

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Similarly, jobs are not readily available to people who have little or no experience in a particular field, yet people can’t get experience without first getting a job. It’s a no win dilemma.

So how does this relate at all to Internet marketing? Well, I’m beginning to see this same trend happening with the search engines when it comes to SEO.

What do I mean? As the search engines (especially Google) get more advanced, they are working hard to improve the quality of their search results and return listings that are sure to be useful to the searcher. In other words, branded and well-known sites that already receive a lot of traffic are promoted to the top of Google search.

Top search engine rankings could potentially result in a large amount of exposure and traffic. But now it’s coming to a point where large amounts of exposure and traffic result in high search engine rankings. Do you see what I’m getting at here? Small sites with limited budgets depend on favorable SEO rankings to get traffic and exposure, but soon they won’t be able to get those rankings unless they already have the traffic and branding in place. The question will then be “which came first, the traffic or the search engine rankings?”

You can see this happening in Google already…

• Wikipedia and other big informational sites rank #1 for countless general queries
• Google recently gave a boost to big brands in its search results
• Google is making an effort to clean up its results – getting rid of thin affiliate pages, discounting obvious paid links, manually editing rankings, etc. There is bound to be some collateral damage – especially for small sites

With the web becoming more mature every day, more links and optimization are required to get ahead of the competition for keyword phrases across the board. Not only that, but it’s not even just about links anymore. As Google adds new capabilities and data points through its vast network of services, the search engine will look at a variety of additional signals of quality (e.g. traffic, user engagement, social factors) and use them to influence its rankings.

For example, Rae Hoffman aka Sugarrae used buzz marketing and pure traffic alone to get a viral site to rank in Google. Check it out, this proves that you don’t need SEO to rank in Google anymore. Seriously.

It’s much harder now to “fake” authority with a small site and work your way up Google’s search rankings. You can’t just start a new site and get links to move up in the rankings and build traffic. Those days are over. Soon enough you’ll need traffic and exposure, the very things that you’re looking to get, in order to rank at all.

If you’re a small publisher, how do you get that traffic without first being included in the rankings? Sure you can buy some traffic, engage in social media, and employ guerilla marketing techniques, but it will all be much more difficult and expensive 5 years down the line.

It’s not my intention to scare anyone, but this is exactly what I meant when I said that the window of opportunity for independent webmasters is quickly closing. Search is a HUGE part of the web, and the big players are now being solidified for long term placement.

Don’t miss the boat. There’s still time for you to build up your sites and use SEO tactics like on-page optimization and link building to greatly improve your search rankings. However, the key is to build your brand in the process and prove to everyone (including Google) that you have a site that deserves its high rankings. Once the shift occurs, you’ll have the audience and numbers to back you up.

Conclusion? In the near future, you’ll need traffic already in place to rank in the search engines, so you might as well utilize the search engines to build your traffic and exposure while you still can. For more specific strategies on how you can do this, download my free e-book, The Winning Way, and sign up for my membership site, Winners Circle, for exclusive Internet marketing case studies.

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In case you didn’t know, Winners Circle is a new kind of Internet marketing training program & community that uses case studies, interviews, and examples to show you how to create winning businesses in various niches.

This is a project that I’ve been working on for the past 6 months, and I believe 100% that it offers tremendous value to online entrepreneurs and marketers of all levels.

Why? Studying case studies and examples is the best way to learn what works and what doesn’t and this is what sets Winners Circle apart from the other programs out there. It’s not based on hype or “secrets” – just analysis of real sites that get serious traffic and make real money.

Want to see an example? Check out the preview of the first case study – LaptopComputers.org – David vs. Goliath SEO Matchup. Here I show you how a tiny site is beating out huge corporations like Toshiba and Wal-Mart in Google’s search rankings to profit big. You’ll discover exactly how they’re doing it – including the best link strategies they’re using and monetization methods. You’ll then be able to apply those learnings to your own sites.

You get a new case study just like this one every week – analyzing other successful sites in various niches using different business models. You also get exclusive interviews with some of the top Internet marketers and access to a members-only forum where you can connect with like-minded entrepreneurs. You won’t be able to find anything like this anywhere else, I promise.

In fact, I offer a 30-day money-back guarantee so there’s really no risk for you to try this out. If for any reason, you don’t like what you see or don’t think you can get anything out of it, simply send me an email and I’ll refund your money.

But you have to hurry because I’m offering 2 limited-time bonuses that are going fast…

1. The price of membership is normally $47/month – but if you’re one of the first 200 people to sign up, you can lock in at $27/month.
2. Be one of the first 50 people to sign up, and I’ll personally audit your site and provide you with 3 custom recommendations for significantly improving your traffic and monetization. I’ll even throw in 15 minutes of consultation if you need it.

In less than 24 hours, there are already close to 20 people signed up for the program. You definitely don’t want to miss out so be sure to join today!

Sign up for Winners Circle now. <—- a more complete description, testimonials, and video are here as well

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What makes RevResponse different from most other ad networks is that it’s not based on a CPC model (like Google Adsense) nor is it based on affiliate commissions since the offerings are free.

Essentially how it works is publishers place text links, widgets, and banners on their site to promote the free RevResponse business offers from relevant categories. Whenever a user downloads one of these resources, the publisher is paid a fixed fee, usually between $1.50 to $20 depending on the product. According to RevResponse, most of the offers pay out more than $2 and publishers are paid monthly via check or Paypal once they have reached the minimum payout of $50.

Below is an example of a Flash widget available to publishers.

I’ve seen a few sites use the RevResponse program with good success. There are even some high-profile advertisers on board with the network including Microsoft, Dell, Adobe, American Express, and Oracle. If you own a business or tech-related site, RevResponse offers a good way to not only give away free content that’s related to your topic, but also to make some money off of those leads.

Check out the RevResponse review from last year if you haven’t read it already.

In this post, I want to outline some of the improvements that RevResponse has made over the past year. They’re definitely on the right track and these enhancements will only make them more attractive to advertisers and publishers alike. Definitely worth trying out and testing if you have a business/tech site.

Here are some of the changes…

More Tools

The Offer Catalog allows you to browse over 1,000+ offers available for you to promote. There’s a wide variety to choose from and the tool clearly displays the summaries, links, and images that can be used for promotions.

RevResponse also makes it easy for you to create widgets, mailings, and referral links through the step-by-step tools available in the Ad Wizard (see screen shot below).

Finally, the Co-Branded Site Wizard enables you to create a custom RevResponse resource site that uses your own branding and design. It’s definitely a cool feature that can further increase downloads. Take a look at the one I made for Winning the Web (based on my old blog design) – http://winningtheweb.tradepub.com/

Referral Program

Another addition to RevResponse is the referral program. It’s surprising that they didn’t have this before, but it’s good to see that it’s finally been added. Anyone can sign up to participate and can promote using the special link code they’re given. Partners are paid 20% of all earnings their referrals generate in 6 months. While 20% does sound awesome, it’s dampened by the 6 month time limit. I think the payout would be much more attractive if it was a lower percentage with no time limit (i.e. life time commissions). After all, most partners probably don’t generate much during the first few months.

More Reports

Reporting features have also been improved on RevResponse. Partners can now view statistics based on time period, site, and offer. The more data the better so this is a welcome addition for sure.

Overall, RevResponse is a unique program that provides you with a new way to monetize your website traffic. The selection of offers is very diverse and since most of them are for free downloads, your visitors stand to gain as well. RevResponse is quickly growing (now with over 15,000 partners) and is a solid company to work with.

Try out RevReponse and see how it works for you. It could end up being your next big moneymaker.

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1. A friend and I bought a site in the personal finance niche. It has pretty good cash flow already so we’re hoping to build it up into a leading resource in the industry. It’s my first hand at a 5-figure site purchase so it’s very exciting stuff. I’ll provide more details on that experience in a future post.

2. I’m planning the launch of my upcoming membership site, Winners Circle. What exactly is Winners Circle? It’s basically a new kind of Internet marketing training program & community that uses case studies, interviews, and user interaction to show you how to create winning businesses in various niches.

What sets this program apart from other Internet marketing sites is that it uses specific examples to show you what works and what doesn’t. You really can’t find this type of information anywhere else.

If you liked my free e-book, The Winning Way -Ultimate Checklist of 500+ Proven Internet Marketing Strategies, you’re absolutely going to love Winners Circle. The information goes up to a whole new level, revealing little-known marketing strategies that the most successful sites on the Internet are using to get ahead and make money. And now you can get in on the Winners Circle too.

Winners Circle is launching on Monday, June 29th at 12pm ET. Mark it down on your calendars, folks – it’s going to be hot.

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No, not really. Ideally, you want to try out different networks so that you can maximize payouts and get a better sense of what works for your campaigns. The best way to accomplish this is to use a free tool like Offer Vault to compare thousands of offers and payouts from the top affiliate and CPA networks. Let’s go in depth into what Offer Vault offers…

What is Offer Vault?

Offer Vault is an affiliate marketing search engine that allows you to find and sort through over 13,000 affiliate and CPA offers from more than 40 networks. Simply enter in a specific search term and the system will return relevant offers including the following information: payout, category, network, and last updated date. You can even limit your search by including or excluding certain networks (but only 1 network at a time… why?).

Let’s look at an example of Offer Vault in action. Today, Apple launched the new iPhone 3GS – which is a perfect opportunity for me to put up some CPA offers on my iPhone blog. Performing a search for “iphone” in Offer Vault gives me 115 results, including a variety of different offers. Here’s a screen shot.

Not only is Offer Vault a good way of discovering new offers from a pool of the top networks, but it’s also useful for comparing payouts for the same offer across different networks. For example, below is a comparison of payouts on the Flycell ringtone offer.

Of course you shouldn’t necessarily pick a network or offer completely based on payout (which is flexible depending on volume anyway), but using Offer Vault is a good starting point.

Furthermore, you can even set up email alerts so that you receive reports of search terms you care about and are notified of new offers. That’s definitely very useful if you want to keep on top of your industry.

Affiliate Marketing Networks

Offer Vault currently includes the 46 affiliate networks shown below.

While many of the top networks are covered, some obvious ones are missing – like Advaliant, Azoogle Ads, and Pepperjam Network. It would be great to see the list expanded to cover more of the networks. After all, the tool’s usefulness is highly correlated with how comprehensive it is.

In case you were wondering, Offer Vault makes money by referring people to the listed affiliate networks. Since many of the networks have referral programs based on percentage of commissions, you can see that this can become lucrative very quickly. It’s a great idea that I think could benefit everyone – Offer Vault, affiliates, networks, and advertisers.

Final Verdict

If you’re an experienced affiliate marketer, or even a newbie, Offer Vault has a lot to offer. With so many networks competing for your business, having a tool to sort through everything proves to be very valuable. Easily find new offers related to your industry or compare payouts between different networks. Offer Vault is a great resource for affiliate marketers, and although I do think it can be improved, it’s still very useful now. Oh, and best of all, it’s free.

Sign up for a free account at Offer Vault now.

What do you think of Offer Vault? Do you use it often in your affiliate marketing campaigns? How can it be made better?

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This feature has created a huge aftermarket of countless Wordpress blog themes. There’s something out there for everyone. I use Brian Gardner’s StudioPress themes but another popular one is the Thesis Theme by Chris Pearson.

In order to capitalize on this growing market, Kevin Muldoon of Blogging Tips and PHP developer Sarah Gay have teamed up to launch Blog Themes Club, a membership site that “offers bloggers premium themes at an affordable price and gives fantastic support for members who do not have much knowledge of HTML, PHP or CSS.”

How does Blog Themes Club Work?

Blog Themes Club is basically a site selling premium Wordpress themes. You can either buy an individual theme (starting at $19) or you can subscribe as a member and get unlimited access to all of the themes on the site. Membership options include $29 for 3 months, $49 for 6 months, and $69 for 12 months – promotional prices that will increase after July 31. There are currently 4 themes available, shown below. One of them is the exact same theme Kevin Muldoon uses on his popular Blogging Tips site.

Win a free 1-month membership to Blog Themes Club

Like the themes that Blog Themes Club has to offer? Here’s your chance to get all of them for free. Kevin and Sarah have agreed to give away a 1-month membership to 3 lucky Winning the Web readers. All you need to do is leave a comment below with your thoughts on the themes. On Thursday, June 18th, I’ll select 3 winners for the free memberships. Good luck!

Update: Winners of the 1-month membership to Blog Themes Club are Roseli Bakar, Sean Ferguson, and Kahoong Lee. Congrats!

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The latest affiliate network to show up on my radar is Tatto Media, a quickly-growing ad network that claims to be the “leading behavioral advertising network focused on utilizing technology to produce immediate results.” The company was founded back in 2005 (now ranked in the top 40 by comScore of the top ad networks by reach), but has just recently launched an affiliate program to get in on the game. So what does Tatto Media have to offer in a crowded industry? There are 5 distinguishing features that set Tatto apart.

• Advanced reporting
• Self serve system
• Exclusive offers
• Weekly payments
• Superb support

Advanced Reporting – It’s fast and it’s live

Unlike some of the other networks that use the generic DirectTrack system for their offers, Tatto Media has its own proprietary tracking technology – which shows that they are serious about this business. The backend is extremely simple and easy to use and offers live performance statistics of your campaigns. This is huge considering that affiliate marketing can run very fast and every minute counts. Custom reports and charts can easily be pulled and you can even use the API to integrate with third party affiliate tracking services like Tracking202.

Self Serve System – Out of my way, please

Most of the other affiliate networks require that you talk with an affiliate manager in order to get your tracking pixels and cookies on the offer conversion page (e.g. needed to track conversions and sales in PPC campaigns). But not Tatto. Everything is available in the backend and you can instantly set up your own conversion tracking when you want it. The only thing not available at your fingertips is banner ad creative (only available through your affiliate manager), but apparently that will be added to the system next week.

Exclusive Offers

The offers listed on Tatto Media are 100% direct and span the following categories: dating, education, email submit, entertainment, finance, health, insurance, and mobile. There aren’t a huge number of offers available, but all of them are high quality with relatively large payouts. I think they took the approach of quality over quantity here. Overall, not a bad selection. Some of the top payout offers are shown below.

Weekly Payment – Get your money fast

Another benefit of using Tatto Media is that they offer weekly payments through check, Paypal, or wire. I think that’s the fastest payout schedule I’ve seen in the industry. You can never get that money fast enough, eh?

Superb Support

Finally, I have to compliment Tatto for their exceptional support. I spoke with the director of affiliate relations, Michael Catalado, and he was very helpful in helping me understand the system and getting me whatever I needed. Super affiliate Zac Johnson has also had a good experience with Tatto support.

Final Verdict

Tatto Media is a successful ad network that is leveraging it’s technology and experience to get started in the affiliate marketing space. From what I’ve seen so far, the system is easy to use and support is great – 2 of the top things that every affiliate should be looking for.

There are a ton of affiliate networks popping up left and right, but Tatto is one you should add to your list and at least give a try. Sign up as an affiliate for Tatto Media now.

What are you thoughts on Tatto Media?

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In ideal circumstances (unlimited time, money, and knowledge) you’d work on incorporating every Internet marketing strategy imaginable. Think of all the traffic you’d get. Unfortunately, this isn’t possible for any company, big or small. Much like selecting a topic for your business, Internet marketing is most effective when you go niche and focus in on a few things.

When I wrote The Winning Way, I covered a vast range of marketing tips. However, it wasn’t my intention to imply that you had to check off each of items in order to be successful online. What I did was present you with a lot of different options. It’s your job to look through them all and find the ones that work best for your site.

How do you find the best marketing strategies for your needs? That largely depends on 3 important factors – effectiveness, skills, and resources. I’ll cover each of them here and explain how it applies to you.

1. Effectiveness of the Method

As you might have guessed, not all marketing tactics are equal – especially across different niches or industries. For example, while social media might be a great channel for a technology review site, it would probably be less beneficial for a site selling industrial tools. Similarly, display advertising works well when used for branding purposes, but usually lags behind other channels like PPC when used for lead generation.

Understand your business goals and your target audience. Where do your potential customers go online? What do they respond to? Once you have that down, analyze each of the different marketing strategies and see if they are good fits for your business. After that, it’s just a matter of testing and going with what yields the best results.

2. Your Skills & Experience

If you’re an independent webmaster, you can’t just throw money at marketing like some the big companies do. A lot of times you’ll have to do all of the promotion yourself. Sure, the effectiveness of the strategies is still important here, but that will depend heavily on your skills and experience. Are you a good writer? Then start a blog and build authority in your chosen niche. Don’t have much technical knowledge? Then stay away from tinkering with your site’s code for SEO purposes.

Focus in on the marketing that you’re good at. You don’t need to be a jack of all trades to be successful. For everything else, you can either bring on a complementary partner or outsource the work.

3. Your Resources – Time & Money

Finally, the last criteria for selecting marketing strategies to focus in on is resources (time and money). Time and money are limited and you have to spend each of them wisely to achieve maximum results. For example, if you have a lot of time, but little money, it makes sense to engage in guerilla marketing (e.g. forum posting, blog commenting). However, these practices are a waste of time if you have a lot of money. You can outsource these tasks and spend your time more efficiently. Same goes for SEO and PPC. If you’re strapped for cash, SEO makes the most sense. If you’re rolling in the dough, PPC is the way to go.

What Internet marketing strategies are you focusing on today to build your business? Have you analyzed effectiveness, skills, and resources to utilize methods that will get you the most exposure in your particular situation?

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To combat this issue, the creators of StoreStacker launched a brand new service today called Blog Profitz. BlogProfitz utilizes the same concept as StoreStacker in that it aggregates products from a variety of affiliate programs (e.g. Amazon, eBay, Clickbank) to create an online store. However, there is one big difference – BlogProfitz uses a Wordpress blog as its backbone. Real content is mixed in with the automatic affiliate offers and the blog therefore has the potential to provide real value and make money.

How does BlogProfitz Work?

BlogProfitz is essentially a system that joins affiliate marketing with a Wordpress blog. You start off with a blog (up to 100 blogs in 1 account), either self hosted or on Wordpress.com, and tie in BlogProfitz to display thousands of affiliate products in separate posts organized in different categories.

The system automatically pulls in offers from the following stores and networks based on your set criteria.

For example, you can easily have BlogProfitz display products related to “surfing” from your selected list of sites. It’ll use available descriptions and images and even inject your affiliate links into the posts. The beauty of it is that everything is automated so you don’t really need to worry about it after you set everything up.

What about content?

The biggest selling point of BlogProfitz is that the system revolves around a Wordpress blog. This means that you can easily add content that users and search engines will like – and thus increase exposure for the affiliate offers.

BlogProfitz enables you to automatically pull in content from the following sources based on topic.

• Your own articles
• YouTube videos
• Content from RSS feeds
• Private label article from TheContentClub.org

Everything is fine except for one thing – content from RSS feeds. While RSS is a great tool to syndicate content, it’s also commonly used by spammers to steal content. You see these spam blogs everywhere on the net and it isn’t pretty. While the content from RSS feeds feature can be used effectively and ethically (importing posts from your own blogs), I’d be naive to think that people wouldn’t exploit it to steal and profit from other people’s content.

My suggestion? Add in a verification check for RSS to ensure that users only use feeds they’re authorized to. The last thing we need is more copycat blogs filled with affiliate offers.

Other than that, the ability to pull in syndicated content using the Wordpress platform makes BlogProfitz that much more powerful. You can see a sample blog using the system at proscriptinstall.com/category/online-shop.

Pricing

Unlike StoreStacker, BlogProfitz isn’t a self-hosted system. Instead it uses an independent members area to tie blogs with content and affiliate links. Pricing follows a membership model and is shown below.

• Trial – 1 blog for $19 per month
• Starter – 5 blogs for $49 per month
• Intermediate – 15 blogs for $99 per month
• Advanced – 50 blogs for $149 per month
• Master Blogger – 100 blogs for $249 per month

Final Verdict

If you’re looking to make money online using an automated system, Blog Profitz could be the right service for you – especially if you’re doing it on a mass scale. It’s extremely easy to set up and that’s really all you have to do, other than drive traffic of course. Wordpress is a very versatile platform and I think using it as an affiliate store mixed with content works well.

That being said, I’m not the biggest fan of automated systems like this. I generally find them to be short lived and would much rather build a solid long term online business. But that’s just me…

I wouldn’t recommend implementing BlogProfitz on an existing blog – that’s just asking for trouble with all of affiliate posts. Instead, experiment with Blog Profitz on a new blog. It takes a short while to set everything up, but the profits after that could come in on auto pilot.

Try BlogProfitz. Membership is capped to 1,000 users so get in early if you’re interested.

What are your thoughts on BlogProfitz? Good, bad? Would you use it to set up niche affiliate blogs?

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