Confessions Of A Super Duper AffiliateAffiliate marketing information, help, reviews, and tips.

Ok so I can’t even count the hours I’ve worked on this, but I’m officially announcing the relaunch of UberCamp 2.0. I’ve made a TON of changes and added tons of content, and the best way to hear about everything is by checking it out yourself. I’ll quickly talk about the changes here for a little quick reference :

1) Changed the design, the one I had before was crappy and I had designed it.

2) Added a Affiliate Marketing Tutorials for newbies. This is probably the biggest change. I had originally been working with someone BIG in this industry on making this whole huge newbie university to teach affiliate marketing basics from A to Z. I spent 8 hours a day for a couple of months writing content for this and making it as good as I possibly good, and we had a really good business/revenue model and it would have been worth paying. Well I just decided that you can help newbies buy charging them, but you can help them even more by just giving them the information for free. So yeah, I just decided to release everything for free and hopefully you guys get something out of it.

3) Changed admission into the forums. Before you had to apply and wait to be approved, but now you have to just pass the UberCamp Quiz and you’ll be granted access to sign up and get let in. The quiz just covers basics and all the information and answers can be found in the tutorials. I just want people to have a basic understand of affiliate marketing and have tested out a couple things themselves before they come in. I’ll be monitoring posts like a hawk and anything supernewb will be deleted. You can take the quiz once every 7 days, so if you fail just study up and try again in a week.

4) Changed the forums to vBulletin! They were bit primitive before but now they have all the features and are styled much better. Converting everything and the paid section was kind of a bitch, but well worth it for you guys.

NOTE TO CURRENT MEMBERS : I couldn’t transfer your forum passwords over because I don’t know them. You simply have to reset your password and an email will be sent to the email you signed up with originally. If you have any problems with this, just let me know.

5) Added a bunch of affiliate marketing tools. To read about them just visit the tools page.

Anyways I don’t want to make this post too long so just get to the site and start reading up on all the changes.

Hope everyone likes it!

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Ricardo asks…

What do you think about those AM that say that crappy/cheap looking landing pages convert better than professional looking?

Depending on the niche and page, yeah sometimes that’s the case. Brutally simple and somewhat crappy looking landing pages can convert. They look extremely outdated but that’s what some people are used to that only use a computer when they need something. They also most likely load very fast.

Dan asks…

Will you post a detailed case study of one of your huge campaigns that died out? Thanks.

Probably not, because there’s always potential to get back into it in the future if things go right. The only case studies I’ll do are the live ones done in UberCamp.

Patrick asks…

How did you manage to get into affiliate summit east when it is clearly 21+ only and everyone knows you are only 19?

No comment.

John asks…

Do affiliate marketers get a lot of puzzy?

Hellz ya.

ian asks…

I have mainly used affiliate programs which pay a percentage of the sale. I get the impression a lot of the top affiliate marketers make most of their money from cost per action programs. Can you please advise what percentage of your total income comes from cost per action as opposed to cost per sale. Thank you.

100% of it comes from CPA, I don’t really like sale stuff.

Newbie asks…

When you first start your campaign, you mentioned you want to bid “high” to get the good CTR and collect good stats as soon as possible, but how do you determine what is the high bid for that particular niche you are targeting?

I usually just go balls out when I very first start and bid like $10 just to see what my average CPC will look like (in most cases it ends up around $3-4). Then I’ll cut it to $5 the next day and re-evaluate, then cut down to $2-3, and then collect data.

Lorozzo asks…

You ever had sex with your girl friend ??

wtf kind of creep are you.

Robert asks…

What would you do if your campaign was doing great, then one day, the CTR stayed roughly the same, but the conversion rates dropped by 5% or more? You try switching networks with the same offer, you find out that other affiliates are not having a severe drop in conversion rates, you even try changing out your landing page, and ad copy. Your average position is the same, but the dam campaign is converting like crap. What would you suggest?

Does it have to do with a seasonal change? A change in the news related to the offer/niche you’re promoting? A new flood of affiliate bidding around you and checking out more ads? It’s hard to determine the problem with no information. But I’d keep testing different landing pages, direct linking maybe, and trying to get a higher payout to make up for the loss you’re taking.

Jonathan Radande asks…

How does it feel to be a home owner?

Man the work never ends haha. It feels pretty cool though, there’s ALWAYS something to do, something to fix, something to buy, etc. Having my own place to work and relax is super nice though, I have a lot more time to work…or slack.

Heman asks…

Did you lose your blog content writer?

Yea he actually lost focus on the blog a little and started working more and making more money and building his businesses. Poor guy I’ll try and get him back.

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I made a post earlier asking your opinion on whether or not I should make UberCamp public.

I was in the middle of switching servers and my DNS updated after the post and reloaded yesterdays information, so the post was lost.

No biggie, I’ve decided to NOT make it public and there will be a small (but different) initiation step. Still feel free to post your thoughts on how members should be let in/accepted.

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Made a post saying to ask me questions, so if you have one get to it and I’ll answer it here.

Ahmed Kassem asks…

Are you having an up trend or a down trend with your revenue over the last 3 months?

It’s definitely been dipping around here and there. Niches do great, then they die and force me to work on something new that will replace the revenue I just lost. Overall though, everything has remained fairly constant. Revenue is down overall just because of the season though, so I’m not too worried and it should be getting very good soon.

Eric asks…

Do you like chocolate?

Yea dood chocolate is pretty good, although if I had to pick between that and vanilla, I’d pick vanilla.

Verb asks…

Can you talk a bit about PartnerWithPaul.com? What kind of affiliate training is it and how much involvement do you have in the program?

Haha everybody thinks that site is me because it has my name in it and has an Azoogle screenshot. If you notice, the guy “hides his identity”, and I’m pretty sure if I went to that length to keep my identity hidden, I wouldn’t call it Partner with PAUL. His house also looks nothing like mine.

I have heard of that guy though and he used to do some pretty big numbers I guess with Azoogle. Funny part? He just incentivizes an Azoogle work at home offer and says to start making money, sign up for this program or something. So the revenue screenshot from Azoogle in the video is most likely from the scammy bizopp stuff he’s selling. Haha pretty funny but hey he’s bankin.

Keith asks…

Do you try and tailor your landing pages to resemble the merchants landing page?

If I had to give a general trend with my landing page style, yeah it would be blending with the offer page. Simply increases conversions and you can modify it to get a really good CTR too.

Dood asks…

Did CX Digital create your landing pages and KW lists for you?

No, I wouldn’t trust anybody to do that but myself.

Think Like An SOB asks…

1. what niche are you targetting?
2. what is your landing page url?
3. what are you keywords?

1. Fat ones.
2. Yourmom.com.
3. [Think Like An SOB's Mom]

IamJustinM asks…

Has anybody told you you look like Michael Phelps?

Yeah, I can’t swim to safe my life though. I try and lose energy after about 20 seconds then just start to sink.

Justin Dupre asks…

Does CX Digital really make your landing pages and keyword lists so you don’t have to?

Where are people getting this from? lol

Maurizio asks…

Hi there, and thanks 4 the opportunity.

I’ve been long time lurking, first time posting (Congrats 4 blog QUALITY anyway!)

I’m good in SEO, and I”m already doing well with Adsense & my own seo consulting biz.
Should I invest time in learning the Affiliate Marketing basics? And Why?
P.s. English is not my motherlanguage, my online assets and experience are targeted mainly to italian people.

I’d like very much to hear your take.

It’s up to you man. You know there’s money in affiliate marketing, and if you’re already doing well in SEO then you can either just expand what you’ve got going and make more money, or just start something new for the fun of it. Affiliate marketing definitely isn’t easy though, so I’d wait until you have realllly good cash flow and can set aside $5k or so to give affiliate marketing a whirl.

Dallin Harris asks…

What blogs, newspapers and magazines do you read regularly? Would you recommend them to someone just getting started in affiliate marketing?

Haha going to sound stupid but none really. I’m so out of the loop when it comes to news and new stuff, I kind of got immersed in my own world and have just been expanding that and networking with other people. As far as blogs for educational value, I don’t read any really…I find just working is a better use of my time. Newspapers and magazines, none of that really either besides Golf Digest when I’m on the pooper.

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I just got back from ASE08 a couple days ago, so I’ll just kind of blog about what happened and my experience.

First off I’d just like to say that the setup of Affiliate Summit is retarded. Don’t let in a MASSIVE portion of this industry because a couple advertisers want to serve booze at their booth? At least give me a wrist band or something so I can’t drink. I guess Shawn doesn’t care because they “sold out” anyways, although if he had any brains he would just rent out a bigger place, let everybody in, and make a shitload more. Oh well, “tightening up” on security was a fail anyways because I knew a bunch of “kids” under 21 that got in. I won’t comment on whether or not I got in ;).

Anywho, I spent most of my time hanging around the summit, going to lunches, dinners, and parties. Not actually going to any of the summit provided to be pretty useful, as I got to sleep in and relax a lot more. 99.95% of the speeches don’t include any actual good information that affiliates need to know or don’t know already, so I made better use of my time at lunch meetings and chilling on my laptop/working.

I got to meet up and go out with some UberCamp peeps and that was definitely a good time. I was peer pressured to buy a MacBook Air at some mall…it’s pretty sick though.

Boston is actually a very nice town, I enjoyed being there a lot. Miami was a better spot just because of the beach and it being different from most cities, but I would definitely visit Boston again.

As far as work and networking goes, things went great. I had a lot of great dinners, people are so much more willing to talk about what they’re doing in real life as opposed to over the internet, including myself. Anybody that I hung out with that asked me what niches I’m running, I pretty much told them.

Very solid week though, next time around Affiliate Summit West I’m going to make a private recon in the same city for those who either can’t get into affiliate summit, or don’t want to be bored out of their mind, and just give presentations of my own. That would be pretty cool.

Anyways, definitely stick around this blog for the next week…been working my ass off countless hours on something I think you’re all going to like.

Until then…peace.

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