Are you looking for a great performing affiliate program in the children’s home fitness and exercise niche? KidsHomeFitness (aka Karate Kids Home Fitness) has just launched their affiliate program on the Commission Junction affiliate network. KidsHomeFitness was designed and developed by Robert Tallack, a world-class martial-arts champion, to address the need for good, fun, consistent exercise in the family home for kids. Their affiliate program caters to the kids, parenting, family, home, children, and exercise niches very well. If you are interested in becoming a publisher/affiliate for the KidsHomeFitness affiliate program you can apply through your CJ.com account, or new affiliates to CJ can apply here: https://signup.cj.com/member/brandedPublisherSignUp.do?air_refmerchantid=2904314.

TopSeos.com, an independent Digital Agency review website, has ranked Experience Advertising the #1 ranked affiliate marketing company for the 5th month in a row. Experience Advertising, focuses on managing and growing affiliate programs for both large and small Advertisers primarily on the Commission Junction affiliate network, as well as Shareasale and the Google affiliate network. They are an OPM, or outsourced program managers, for dozens of Advertisers on the CJ.com network. Experience Advertising manages cost-per-sale and cost-per-lead campaigns on behalf of their clients, focusing on one-on-one affiliate management to gain the most affiliate participation possible. They specialize in recruiting affiliates into their affiliate programs through proven affiliate recruitment methods such as: cross-recruiting, site contacting, and email-based invites sent through the affiliate network. If you are looking for the best performing affiliate program management company, then you should definitely check out Experience Advertising, you can view a list of their current affiliate programs under management here.

The upcoming affiliate marketing and social media conference, Performance Marketing Expo, has added another proven super-affiliate to the attendee list with PricePickle.com. PricePickle is a really nice coupon portal where visitors can access all the latest deals from online merchants and retailers. Performance Marketing Expo now has the following super-affiliates confirmed to attend:
- CouponMom.com
- MarketAmerica.com
- eCoupons.com
- AlexsCoupons.com
- TrialPay
- Parent Media Group

These are some of the biggest affiliates on the major affiliate networks like Commission Junction, Shareasale, and Linkshare. All the exhibitors and sponsors will get to meet and network with these proven super-affiliates and many others. More super-affiliates will be added to the show, so stay tuned!

BistroMD, a leader in the diet meal deliver program space, has officially launched on the Impact Radius affiliate platform. BistroMD specializes in physician-designed gourmet diet meal plans and have one of the top performing affiliate programs in the space. ImpactRadius is a fantastic new affiliate marketing platform that is taking the Internet marketing world by storm. You can signup for the BistroMD affiliate program on Impact Radius here. Thanks for taking a look and we hope you affiliate with BistroMD on Impact Radius!

Hey everyone! Are you looking to sell your website or a web property you own? Let us help you get the best price for your website. We will provide an accurate valuation of your website, tell you realistically what it’s worth, and find a buyer for it. Not every website sale is successful and a lot of the value depends on your niche, how much traffic the site gets, and the amount of revenue it generates. If you are looking to sell your website let us know. We have sold several websites in the past year and we have buyers that are aggressively looking to build their domain/site portfolios. You can contact us through this site or email evan at experienceadvertising.com. Please send your url, traffic stats, and revenue data if any. All sites will be looked at and evaluated no matter the size. Thanks!

Now that Sony is in charge of the Jimi Hendrix catalog we are in for a whole lotta Jimi folks! Sony is already using Jimi to demo their 3D TV technology which is cool. With the release of the new Jimi Hendrix album in March of 2010, there is renewed excitement about the music of Jimi. Here is the new Video to go with the single from the new album Valleys of Neptune.
Jimi Hendrix Valleys of Neptune Arising

Hey everyone! Exciting news…the newest and hottest new Internet marketing conference, Performance Marketing Expo, is now booking exhibitors and sponsors for this exciting event! If you are looking to get your business in front of proven super-affiliates and other Internet companies, this is a must show for you. The show will feature 30 guaranteed super-affiliates that will be flow in for the show from all over the world, as well as 100s of hungry intermediate and new affiliates to meet and network with. I will be personally inviting 100,000 of our affiliates and publishers from the affiliate programs we manage to this show, so you know it will be huge!

The company producing the show, IIR, is the world’s largest conference organizer so you know it will be a top-notch production. My company, Experience Advertising, has already agreed to exhibit and speak at the show and help with the promotion, which I’m really excited about because you know how I like to promote!

Don’t wait! I will be blasting all of my Internet connections (2000 on LinkedIn) to see if they are interested in exhibiting or sponsoring so if you want a good booth space do it quickly. I already have commitments from several companies that I know, so don’t be left out of this great show. Also, you will get the early-bird rate if you sign on early.

You can visit their homepage here: www.performancemarketingexpo.com

You can visit the exhibitors page here: http://www.iirusa.com/performancemarketingexpo/become-an-exhibitor.xml

Or simply contact:
Lisa Deutsch, Business Development Manager
Phone: 646.895.7482
Email: ldeutsch at iirusa.com

Any questions please let me know. I will keep you updated on all the exciting developments leading up to the show. Hope to see you there!

Very exciting news that there is a brand-new affiliate marketing/performance marketing conference taking place September 27th-29th in South Beach at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The event is being put on by IIR, the largest conference company in the world. This will be a very exciting event featuring excellent education, great speakers, proven super-affiliates, online merchants, affiliate networks, and hundreds of affiliates eager to learn and meet people. Since my company is based in South Florida, we have been asked and am taking a large role in promoting this affiliate marketing conference. If you are interesting in attending a fantastic affiliate event you should save the date and make plans to attend. All of my connections in the Internet marketing industry will be there and we will be inviting all of our affiliates/publishers across the major affiliate networks we manage on (over 100,000 bone-fide unique affiliates) I hope you will come on down to sunny, beautiful Miami Beach later this year and do some business at the Performance Marketing Expo!

In this tough economic climate you have to be really smart about who you hire internally and who you outsource projects to. I personally went from have a large in-house tech team to work with, to hiring a good outsourced IT company to work on my projects. I started searching for tech companies and design companies about 3 years ago through all the typical online channels like sites and forums. I used a few different companies for programming and a few independent designers for my projects. I actually got some good work done, but there was a lot of flakiness from the designers and programmers I was using. Then I found Vtrio. Let me tell you its so nice to have a company that completes programming projects in days not months. I use them for all of my outsourced programming, web apps development, web design, and graphic design. It’s nice to be able to use one company for everything you outsource. And not to mention they are very affordable. Since they are out of Indian you have learn to work to with them to get the most production from them. All the guys at Vtrio are great to deal with. I have my own programmer to work with every day, as well as a full-time designer on my projects. I have been extremely pleased with their work and I highly recommend working with Vtrio on your programming and design projects. They designed and programmed my entire corporate site which you can view here. They have helped me develop all the web apps I have been dying to build all these years. This is bascially a glorified testimonial because I believe in sharing and not hording what I know and my connections. If you know me you will know this. So feel free to reach out to Vtrio if you have any programming or design projects that need to be completed competently, quickly, and inexpensively.

For more information you can contact Vinu at Vtrio.com. <- convert to email address obviously. Tell him Evan sent you for the best rates!

Here are some real-world affiliate marketing strategies that were discussed at the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas. Why pay for affiliate marketing systems when you can get all the knowledge you require to make money online for free? Here are some really great affiliate tips, techniques and strategies:

Intro: Niche website/blog building is an integral part of publishing content on the web, generating traffic, and therefore producing affiliate sales. Content is king and the more content you are able to allow the search engines to “spider” and then rank, then more possible traffic you can generate to your sites. Here are some site, SEO, and linking concepts to get you moving in the right direction:

Site Building Tools – I highly recommend WordPress to build sites with (our free site builder with free hosting uses Wordpress. There are many sites builders you can use to get a presence up on the web. Make sure to set it up properly with good titles and categories. If using WordPress, utilize tagging as well which multiplies the actually amount of spiderable pages on your site.

Site Organizational Strategy – When you go to launch niche sites, to promote affiliate merchants, make sure to stay organized in a spreadsheet with info like: Merchant promoted, platform used to build it, login info (passwords), and posting frequency, i.e. (Date.com, WordPress, Evan@exper.com (jimihen5478321), twice daily). This will help you stay organized and will allow you follow a pre-established plan of action. Strategize on posting frequency to maximize your efforts.

Daily content posting – Posting content daily (i.e. articles, bog posts, essays, merchant reviews, product reviews) is a great way to ensure that the search engines will be coming back to your site frequently to check for new content to “index”. Over time, the more frequently you post, the more pages you will have in the search engine’s “cache”. The more pages you have in the cache, the more possible times your site’s pages can come up in the search results for various search terms, i.e. “Purchase flowers in Las Vegas”. Daily content posting is the best way to increase the number of pages on your site and therefore increase the amount of possible traffic you can generate with that particular site.

Use the Best Plug-ins to Enhance Your SEO – One of the advantages to using WordPress to build your sites is all the amazing plug-ins you can add to your site to increase functionality and “stickiness”. Here are some links to the top plug-ins available:
http://yoast.com/top-wordpress-plugins/
http://wphacks.com/wordpress-plugins/
http://mashable.com/2009/03/20/wordpress-seo-plugins/

Socially Bookmark Articles – Social bookmarking is a great way to generate traffic, inbound links, and better rankings for your site’s content. You have to join the sites and create a profile. This will allow you to bookmark any articles you wish. You can submit your own articles to these sites and other people may bookmark them if they find them interesting. You should bookmark mainly other people’s articles and some of yours as well, so not to appear like a spammer.

Top Social Bookmarking Sites: http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-bookmarking-websites
Social Networking - Create a Twitter account and Facebook Fan Page for each actual entity you wish to build up. Example, you are running a site advertising flower affiliate merchants, so you would create an identity “FlowerGuru” on Twitter and a FlowerGuru Fan Page on FB. This will allow you to advertise these groups on your sites and generate followers and fans. Then, these followers and friends can be messaged and communicated with to generate traffic back to your sites. Social networking is very powerful and shouldn’t be abused. Always remain professional and post content you think your followers and fans would benefit from, i.e. helpful tips, informative articles from trusted sources, interactive polls, and affiliate promotions. Try to avoid being annoying because you will lose followers. You should also have a main personal identity that you can maintain in order to network professionally and with actual friends and business associates.

Coupon Sites – Coupon sites are all the rage because people are looking for coupons to save money with retail merchants. Many affiliate merchants provide coupon codes to affiliate to help them promote. Some merchants provide coupon feeds that you can grab and publish on your site on a page or per merchant. You need some skills or tools to accomplish this. Posting unique merchant descriptions and merchant reviews will allow your site to rank well because it has unique content and isn’t just posting coupon codes. Unique content is absolutely essentially to good rankings, especially for a coupon site when there is so much competition and possible duplicate content.

Communities and Forums – Launching your own social communities is great way to build something real and substantial that will grow over time. Social communities are great for repeat traffic and building a large member base. Like sites, the larger it builds the more traffic it can generate. Ning.com is a tremendous free tool for niche community building. Vbulletin for forums.

Link Building Strategies – Acquiring inbound inks to your sites is essential to building better search engine rankings over time. There are many different ways you can get links to your site, such as:
- Blog roll links – when a fellow blogger links to your blog sitewide, you can reciprocate
- Blog commenting – posting comments on blogs related to yours (Google Blog Search)
- Forum posting with signature link – Join multiple forums, set-up sig links, start posting good comments

Site Stickiness – Site stickiness is a tremendous concept to grasp and implement. Making your site more sticky will allow you to capture more from your site’s traffic. Some essential sticky features are: newsletter signup, bookmark this site, follow on Twitter and FaceBook Fanpage, and RSS Feed.
RSS Feed Submissions – Every blog has by nature RSS feeds included. RSS feeds allow you to syndicate your content all over the web and into people’s feed readers. Your RSS feeds need to be manually submitted to get the best effect. Definitely check out Robin Good’s site for more excellent info on RSS and the top 200 RSS directories to submit to: masternewmedia.org

Content Ideas – Coming up with article and blog post ideas can be challenging at times. Here are some examples of article titles:
- “Top 10 ways to Find a Date Online”
- “Best Ways to Lose Weight in the New Year”
- “What are the Top Phone Service Providers for Home Phone Service”
Also how to’s, breaking news, and new product launches are good topics to write about.
Brand Your Affiliate Sites – Creating a brand with your affiliate sites is a good idea because people will remember your site and revisit them frequently. Give people a reason to bookmark your site or join your newsletter. Treat them well and grow them huge over time!

Content provided by Experience Advertising, a leading affiliate management and social media management agency.

Having great social media management in place is absolute must for any company with an online presence in this day and age. Have a really comprehensive and proactive strategy for leveraging social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook is vital to keeping up with your competitors. There are many good reason to have excellent social media managers in place including:
- Posting frequent, valuable content to your followers and fans
- Increased interaction with customers and visitors
- Capturing more site visitors and facilitating interactions
- Providing better, faster customer service
- Generating more search traffic from your social media postings
- Conducting surveys and generating valuable feedback from your customers and followers

There are many other excellent benefits to have social media managers in place. Don’t settle for less than decent social media management. Your social managers should be extremely proactive, responsive, and engaging in order to do it truly effectively. Make sure to check out Experience Advertising for your best social media management solution.

My friend and blogger Murray Newlands recently contacted me about some blog outreach he is going for the shopping deals website UrbanStone.co.uk. I have seen Murray picking up more and more blog outreach projects and decided to interview him about them.

Murray how did you get the project?
I had a meeting with the team behind UrbanStone.co.uk for another project and they had googled my name and seen my affiliate blog prior to the meeting. Once we had finished the meeting they told me about this project and asked if I could help. They saw the success of my blog and that I offered blog outreach. I always tell people, blog about what you want, the services you want to offer or the products you want to sell, so few people do that.

What is blog outreach and how you can it help?
Well firstly by contacting bloggers I know ad asking them to post about them. They want to rank for shopping deals and compare shopping prices as well as terms like freezers. In the first week I have had either write about them or commit to write about them. This part of blog outreach really is about who you know. Once people start blogging about a company people do start to come to you.

Why did you take on this project?
I saw that they have started their own blog and having spoken to the team at length they are serious about blog outreach.

So is it just about SEO?
No it is also about building traffic and buzz about the site too.

What are you looking for?
Be honest and write for your readers first, I am looking for bloggers who can build buzz about the site.
I want bloggers who have a real audience and can send traffic the only way you are going to be able to do this is if you are able to maintain your audience with quality posts.

What advice would you give to bloggers wanting to offer blog outreach?
Try and think what an advertiser is looking for from blog outreach and what their objectives are and then start working with smaller clients before moving forward.

How can bloggers contact you?
Stop by my blog and say hello or email me at mrn@(nospam)murraynewlands.com