Jounce is a really cool new search engine for affiliate offers that is truly unlike any other out there! Let's say you're wanting to affiliate link an iPhone 3GS case but don't want to go search CJ.com (and the many other affiliate networks out there) for the right affiliate program with the right price and the right case.

With Jounce, you simply enter iPhone 3GS case, for example, and you'll be able to see all the offers, the payouts, and the best part, your affiliate link for the offer. It's a REALLY slick system. Rather than try to explain it... check this video:

Jounce

And then check out this video on how to use Jounce:

Free Account

Besides being a really awesome way to save time, Jounce is free. If you're serious about being an affiliate marketer, you need to have an account at jounce!

My Review

I think Jounce is the affiliate offer search engine done right. After launching at Affiliate Summit, the guys behind this site have really started to gain traction and are in talks with companies like Tracking202, HasOffers, and a few other big players.

In fact, you should check out their blog posts about the three days they had at affiliate summit. Pretty cool to see all the photos. Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.

The thing that really impressed me about this site is that not only do the searches pull relatively good results, the fact that you can get your affiliate link without having to go into the networks website was really nice!

So often while I blog or tweet, I forgo using an affiliate link simply because of the process of trying to find the product on the affiliate networks, get the affiliate link, etc.

Being the internet entrepreneur that I am, the main question I have is how these guys plan to monetize the site. Advertisements? Strategic alliances? Upgraded paid accounts? Who knows - but either way I think Jounce will be a big part of my personal toolbox now!

Go get your free account now!

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The other day I wrote a guest post on John Chow's blog about 3 steps to promoting a clickbank product with your blog.

Three tips that really help...

Go check the post out now!

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After launching my Facebook Ads Guide and being a successful product in the clickbank marketplace, I cannot tell you how many requests I have had for email list swaps, paid blog posts, and advertising requests.

But... because I think quality assurance is the most important job of someone who has an email list, my team and I always review every product that is being requested to be advertised. You and I both know that there are a LOT of garbage ebooks, systems, software, etc online these days. In fact, I reject a good 90-95% of the requests for JV list swaps, etc. I hate promoting crap that I don't believe in.

One of the products that I got a request to review was from Mike Auton. Mike has one of the top products in clickbank overall and one of the top in the emarketing section. Naturally, it peeked my interest and I wanted to see what Mike had to offer as far as value and content goes.

Hard Cash Hijack Review

The interesting thing about hard cash hijack is that it's not just an ebook. Although you'd never be able to tell because of the "blind" sales page that basically gives you very little information about that actual product.

Instead HCH is a "system" that includes software and a guide to using it. To my surprise it actually was really interesting and had some good information in this guide.

Sweet, another legit clickbank product besides my Facebook Ads Guide and Coaching Forum.

Without giving anything away (because I'm here to review the product... and not tell you the secrets behind it), the system and software works by helping affiliates to find "unlimited" traffic sources to advertise affiliate offers on at a much higher rate of profit than traditional methods such as PPC and SEO.

Because of that - it has all the great benefits of not running on a search engine or doing seo like no quality score, no website etc.

The other cool thing I like about this ebook / system is that the author, Mike, specifically suggests users to go after big markets. Just like I have said for the last couple years, if you're going to put the effort into trying to tackle 5+ mini markets that can make $100+ per day profit, why not just spend all that effort trying to tackle one bigger market that can make several thousand per day?

I asked Mike how long he has been using this method and software and he has been using it for the last 2+ years. Of course, the software has only gotten better over time and this method does still work (it won't go out of style so to speak).

All in all, I really think that this system has some great information and is one of the better clickbank products on the marketplace right now.

If you're struggling with affiliate marketing, I highly recommend you check it out! Not only does it teach you the complete basics, but it goes over some cool methods + software to help you.

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Back in January, we started on the Facebook Ads Guide project.

When we were done with writing all the content for the guide, we decided it would be easiest if we used ClickBank. That turned out to be a good solution as I feel we got many more affiliates than we would have if we were not on clickbank. Over 770+ affiliates are signed up to promote FBAdsGuide.

The main problem with Clickbank was figuring out a solution for the "Thank you" page. We needed a good solution other than a static "thank you" page to prevent the downloads from being easily shared with people who hadn't paid and we used Digital Product Delivery to do this.

After getting Local lead plan, I found that Chad was using a system called GetDPD. So, I decided to check it out.

GetDPD is a great system that integrates flawlessly with ClickBank for selling information product downloads.

Once the user completes payment on ClickBank's end and clicks through to the download page, DPD takes the variables sent from ClickBank, adds the user to your customer database, and if you opt to they "stamp" the purchaser's email address on every page of a PDF download in order to discourage hosting, sharing, or spreading the purchased guides.

Another great feature of using DPD is that they have great AWeber integration so that you all your buyers' email addresses are automatically imported to an AWeber email list for easy management and the ability to quickly mass email them.

Would I recommend DPD?

When we were getting setup, we ran in to a few hiccups, but their customer support was phenomenal. Seriously, some of the best customer support I have seen. (And, no, it wasn't because I bribed them with writing a post. I don't think they knew about my blog even...)

They quickly made permanent system changes to cater the process to have options for our needs.

Suggestions for the future

The main thing that I would love is if GetDPD decided to create an API of some sort so that I could develop custom download pages on my own server but that used their backend.

If this was possible, I would love the system even more than I already do.

DPD really made the product launch process a whole lot easier and if you're looking to do your own digital product, I highly recommend them!

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As an internet marketer, one thing I always like to look for is: the ability to make thousands per day, over and over and over again. In other words, I like to find largely scalable projects. If I'm going to put my time into something, it might as well be something that can make me a LOT for the same amount of time.

One of the niches that has this potential is by selling health and beauty related products... Health related products sell to just about every demographic: young, old, overweight, skinny, etc. The world is full of people looking for products to help make them feel more "perfect." And that's why they sell so well.

That's why, when Healthconverter.com started advertising a banner on my blog a week or so ago, they certainly caught my interest so I decided to research them a bit more.

Get Paid...

Beyond working directly with advertisers such as Hydroxaton, Hydrolyze, and even Extenze (haha) they also work with a lot of the smaller advertisers of the space. The best part however is that they require a PRE-PAY from all the advertisers they work with meaning you'll be paid no matter what. This is huge in my opinion.

Networks that were once doing over $100 million per year like Hydra lost a MASSIVE chunk of their business because they didn't require prepays from advertisers like this and many of them ended up not paying. Stories are popping up left and right of affiliates not being paid large chunks of money because the advertisers are not paying. And that's why I love the idea of the prepay model. You know you'll never be screwed out of getting paid because the advertiser did not pay the affiliate network.

You will be paid weekly after hitting just 1k per week, which is really awesome for cash flow.

Promoting Health And Beauty Offers

Zac Johnson just recently wrote an article about Health Converter as well and he lists some methods for promoting health and beauty offers. Worth checking out.

One Stop Shop For Health And Beauty

In addition to all of that, Health Converter is like a one stop shop for health and beauty related offers. They get offers from CX, Epic Direct, Neverblue, Copeac, Ads4Dough, etc meaning that you can get access to all the best offers right from one convenient place.

Most affiliates I know work in a few particular niches and really focus on them. They essentially become experts at that niche.

That's why I like the idea of niche networks like this and I think we'll start to see more of them pop up.

So, I recommend you check out Health Converter if you're looking for health related offers. There are too many benefits to list about why this would be beneficial to you if you're really trying to break into this niche. So, just go do it and get started.

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Tatto Media is one of those really impressive success stories that I have always admired. The founder, Lin, and a few others from Boston started up the company in 2005 and in 5 short years has become a top 20 online advertising company. Impressive for sure!

I love these type of success stories.

Well because of their huge success and reaching their fifth year anniversary, Tatto Media Affiliate Network has decided to hold an EPIC contest for affiliates. We're talking real prizes... like a LAMBO!

The way the contest works is simple. Earn money through Tatto's Affiliate network. The higher your earn the better the prize.

The prize levels are: $1500, $15,000, $35,000, $65,000 and $105,000. Earning $105,000 revenue wont get you the lambo guaranteed... but it gets you a ticket into a chance to win the lambo - probably the best odds that you'll ever have.

Level 1: Revenue Reach of $1,500
- Limited Edition Tatto Media 5 Year Anniversary T-Shirt

Level 2: Revenue Reach of $15,000
(one of the following)
- iLuv Stereo Speakers with iPhone + iPod Dock
- Bose In-Ear Headphones
- $100 iTunes gift card
- $100 Morton’s Steakhouse gift card
- $100 BestBuy gift card

Level 3: Revenue Reach of $35,000
(one of the following)
- iPod Touch
- iLuv Portable DVD Player with Apple® iPod® Dock
- Flip MinoHD Camcorder
- $250 GameStop gift card
- $250 Apple Store gift card

Level 4: Revenue Reach of $65,000
(one of the following)
- iPad
- Canon Powershot Digital Camera
- Logitech – Harmony 1100 Advanced Universal Remote with Color Touch Screen
- Samsung Blu-ray Home Theater System
- $500 JetBlue gift card

Level 5: Revenue Reach of $105,000
- Golden Ticket towards Lamborghini Gallardo Raffle

You can find more info about the other prize levels and about the contest in general and sign up at http://www.tattomedia.com/anniversary/

Most of the time, I see a contest, see some pretty good prizes and still don't do anything about it... but this time I'm actually going to try and you should too!

I'll be talking to my affiliate manager over at Tatto and seeing what hot offers they have and see what I can switch over. If I have even a 1 in 100 shot of winning a lambo... I am in!

The contest runs from the beginning of this month until the end of the year so be sure to get going as soon as possible to get your prizes!

If you don't have a Tatto Media Affiliate Network account, go get one now!

Thanks again Tatto for running this awesome contest!

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I have done a lot of interviews in the past. It's kinda neat to go back and read some of the interviews from early 2008, some even earlier, and see how I have changed over the years.

Here is a list from newest to oldest of interviews I have done in the past:

• Interviewed by Zac Johnson - This interview is a part of Zac's free blogging ebook called Six Figure Affiliate Blogging. In it is a great ebook about blogging as well as a TON of interviews from people in the industry. Just for the interviews alone it's worth checking... but the ebook is also great! The thing I like about this is Zac asked the same questions to a lot of the top internet marketers so you can compare answers and see how each are different. Cool stuff.
• Interviewed by Big Web Pages - A nice simple Q&A Interview.
• Interviewed by ShareResults - Another Q&A interview. I enjoyed the questions here a lot.
• Interviewed by Daily Blog Tips - This is a really cool interview where Daniel, the blogger from Daily Blog Tips, interviews me and 11 other popular internet marketers. He asks us all questions about work ethic. I heard recently that the average entrepreneur works 61.1 hours per week. This is good proof of that statistic.
• Interviewed by John Chow - Ok... this isn't as much an interview as it is a "profile" but I figured I'd include it.
• Interviewed by Wes of Tracking202 - By far, the most popular video interview I have ever done. To be honest, I've never watched this video... I always turn it off a minute or two into the interview so I couldn't tell you what I talk about.
• Interviewed by Retire At 21 Dot Com - Retire@21 is an awesome site jam packed with interviews from YOUNG successful internet people around the world. I love reading those kind of interviews!
• Interviewed by Keith Lock James - This is an older interview. It's neat to see how far I've come even since this interview. I actually disagree with some of the stuff I said in the interview now. Lol.
• Interviewed By DigitalThrone - This is one of my first interviews and it shows. How times have changed...

Fun stuff.

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