Archive for October, 2006

I was watching Walk The Line last night when something occurred to me.  The real visionaries aren’t looking for landing pages to copy and send traffic too.   The visionaries are already out working on the next big thing.  I know this is kinda common sense, but it is something I want to remind myself of from time to time.  I am currently playing catch up in the affiliate marketing world sending traffic to ringtone landing pages and looking for the next big thing.  That is the same thing a lot of you, who read my blog, are doing.  There is nothing wrong with us doing that because we can make money doing it.  The only problem is when we don’t allow ourselves to be visionaries. Don’t pigeon hole yourself by always copying what the other big players are doing.  Always save a little of your time working on your own Next Big Thing.

Ok, is this not the coolest store? I found this site today and thought is was very cool. They have all kinds of shirts, hats, accessories and all that kinda stuff. Check it out and let me know what you think.

I logged into www.GoDaddy.com to make some DNS changes for one of my sites and was very excited to see a completely new interface.  The new interface absolutely rocks.  It is set up like a file explorer and you can create folders for organizing your domains, easily switch between current domains, backorder domains, domain transfer, and all kind of other little features.  Awesome upgrade Godaddy!

I have been planning on reviewing my first 2 months at Commission Junction for a while so I guess now is as good of a time as any. Commission Junction is the big boy on the block when it comes to affiliate marketing. They have a very large selection of advertisers and an excellent interface. The interface is head and shoulders better than everyone else and the reporting is also top notch.

Commission Junction also offers “SmartZones” which are very handy if you aren’t a pure programmer. A SmartZone allows you to pick an ad size and create a group of ads that will randomly rotate on your page. The SmartZone creates a small script that you place on your website where you want your ad to display. Once you place that script on your site, you don’t have to change the website code to change the ads. All you have to do is add or remove the ads in your Commission Junction SmartZone settings. This makes changing your adds a breeze.

There is a great variety of ads as well. You have all the standard ad sizes plus text ads, keyword ads, content ads, and product catalogs.  My biggest success yet has been a CJ content ad I put up on a domain and started sending PPC traffic to it.  It has a CTR of over 27% and the EPC is over $40.

If I had to find something bad to say about Commission Junction I guess it would be you are a small fish in the pond there.  If I have an account manager there I don’t know it and I have yet to have any emails I sent to advertisers answered.

I really have to give Commission Junction a good grade as an Affiliate marketer. They provide good products, good tools, and good payouts.  If you are going to run a legitimate affiliate marketing  business, you have to have CJ in your arsenal of tools.