Hey guys, my buddy Chad over at CDFNetworks just released his new local lead generation course.  I just finished it myself and I think it’s one of the best complete guides that I’ve seen on the internet about local lead generation.

Local lead generation is affiliate marketing, however, instead of using CPA networks like Market Leverage, AzoogleAds, etc in order to get offers, you find local businesses that are looking for leads, like maybe a local dentist office, and enter in to a contract with them to supply them local leads using the same methods that you are using already for affiliate marketing.

The biggest difference is that you are advertising in Google Adwords, Yahoo, etc locally instead of advertising your stuff across the entire country.

There have been several large affiliate marketers talking about this method of affiliate marketing lately at a lot of different affiliate marketing blogs, however, no one has really put together much information about it in to an easy resource.  For example, Shoemoney talked about the possibilities of local affiliate marketing on his blog.

This is what Chad has done!

His course includes an ebook that explains everything you need to know about local lead generation, but it also goes much further by including sample contracts, sales proposals, invoices, etc to help you do it correctly and so that you are taken seriously when you go in to your local dentist office…don’t want them thinking your an idiot do ya? Haha!

Anyways, it really is a great course if you’ve been wondering how local lead generation works or if you’ve been wanting to give it a go.  It’s only $79 bucks and honestly, after reading it and looking through all the stuff you get, I think it’s worth every single penny.

Your probably thinking this is another course that is just going to take your money and provide you with nothing of real value like so many courses in this industry does…however, I encourage you to at least visit his site, view his video, and read about the course before just completely writing it off!  As I said, I’ve personally gone through it and although I’ve never personally run any local affiliate programs, I must admit that I’m pretty excited to give it a try.

He’s running the program through ClickBank which means that it offers a 60 day money back guarantee if you’re not completely satisfied, so trying it out for yourself can’t hurt you…

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Okay, so today I read that Twitter is coming out with their own Advertising Platform. At least for big name clients right now like Best Buy, Virgin America, and Starbucks. It doesn’t seem like there will be a self-serve platform yet, but anyways…

As most readers of this blog know, my main source of traffic comes from PPC from the top three search engines, I still believe that this is the absolute best traffic you can get and some of the easiest to make work and see the biggest profit revenues from.

However, there is one mistake I’ve made several times in the past that I’m not planning on making this time…

For whatever reason, when these new ad platforms for social media sites come out…Facebook, Myspace, etc come out, I don’t jump on board immediately…

My reasoning most of the times is because there is so much to figure out because it’s new that I just don’t have the time, or I tell myself I’ll let a couple people get going and write up a couple guides that way I don’t have to go in and spend a bunch of money testing stuff…

This time I’ll be jumping on board as soon as they offer it to us regular folks and I encourage you to do the same as well if you’re normally like I am when it comes to new ad platforms that social media sites release.

If you’d like more information on it, TechCrunch, Jonathan Volk, and Zac Johnson have all written articles on Twitter’s New Ad Platform, I’d definitely recommend giving them a read.

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Hey guys, I just wanted to give everyone an update on the Click Consultants Affiliate Forums.  I have changed it that after you register you’ll immediately have access to all the forums as soon as you verify your email.  You don’t have to wait until I approve your account or send me an email or anything now.

All parts of the forums are opened for free, except for the Learning Center.  The reason being is because as I mentioned in the previous post, it’s the part that is currently being updated.  All the old videos, articles, etc have been deleted and new ones are currently being worked on.

I’ll continue to give updates to the forums, and I can’t say exactly how long free registrations will be open, so I encourage you to signup immediately to make sure you don’t miss out on this opportunity.  Thanks.

Please let all your friends and followers know by using one of the social media buttons below!

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Scaling is a very important part of affiliate marketing.  It’s the skill that allows you to take a campaign making 10-15 dollars a day up to 50-100 dollars a day or even more!  It’s the technique that allows you to increase your profits by getting more traffic, split testing things to allow for higher conversions, which increases profits, or whatever else that may allow you to get more traffic or increase your profits.

Most people, however, when referring to scaling are talking about getting more traffic to your affiliate sites.  So this article is about that…traffic!

Once you take a campaign and fine tune it and it’s making money the first thing you’ll get told by 99% of gurus would be to increase the traffic you are receiving.  How so?

Well, let’s say that you are running a campaign in Yahoo, they may tell you to run the campaign in Bing or Google, or maybe they’ll tell you to start using facebook ads, or start looking at 3rd tier ppc sites like ask.com or 7search, etc.

Maybe you’ll get told you should start PPV or run the content network if you are only using the search side of it…or whatever!!!

Now I’m not saying any of that is wrong or that you shouldn’t get traffic from other sources…however, I feel that way too often people realize or are told that they need more traffic and very quickly they decide to start messing with other traffic sources…often times way too early!

Let’s just get right in to it!

You should not move on to other traffic sources until you have exhausted the maximum potential of your current traffic sources.

You see, the problem I see when consulting affiliates is they start an offer, in our example let’s say online dating…  They start running a campaign for online dating in Google Adwords on the Search Network.  After fine tuning the campaign, split testing, etc…they start making a profit.

Let’s say in this example that they start making about 10 dollars a day profit.  They are proud of themselves, yet even more importantly they want to make more money!!!  So they decide to open up their campaign and starting running it on the content network as well…

One small problem…The more sources you start using to bring in traffic to your sites the more separate campaigns (even if it’s really the same as each have to be optimized for each source of traffic) you have to manage which takes more time and eventually what happens if you spread yourself too thin!

If you are making 10 dollars a day from the search network side of Google Adwords, there is no reason that you can’t continue to optimize that campaign and increase the amount your making substantially more.

Before you move on to other traffic sources, even if it’s as simple as running the content network alongside the search network, you need to make sure you are first making the most amount you can from the traffic source you have already got working.

See, the problem is this…too many affiliates get something that is working for them, yet they then want to spend time on working on other traffic sources that they may not be able to get work…Why wouldn’t you increase and milk the source you already have working first?

So while it’s important to use other traffic sources in order to increase your profits, it’s more important to first increase the amount of traffic you are getting from your one source first, in the case of this example, from the Google Adwords search network side.

Your thoughts on this?  What do you think?

PS: Don’t forget that you can join the Click Consultants Paid Affiliate Forums (which normally costs $29.99/month) for free for a limited time!!!

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UPDATE: You do not have to send me an email or PM any longer, now every 10 minutes accounts will automatically be upgraded to a free account and you’ll have full access to the forums.  This will all happen automatically it just may take a few minutes for it to process.  If after one hour you still don’t’ have access to the forums, please send me an email using the contact form.  Thanks!

Hey guys!  I know it’s been quite some time since I’ve posted.  It has been an extremely hectic year so far, that however is a post for another time.  Here are some quick things going on and then for the big news of this post…

First off, I’m back!  I’m going to start posting again on a regular basis, the first couple posts back will mostly be about stuff going on in my life, ideas I have for the direction of Click Consultants, etc.  So if you’re looking for affiliate marketing posts, it may take a few before I start getting back into them.

Also, I know there are still a ton of you that have emailed me asking about One on One consultations and I never responded.  I’m sorry for that, but at this time, I’m still not really taking on any one on one consultations, at least not with anyone new.  I have done a few here and there, but because of time issues I’ve kinda stopped.  The reason it’s still listed at the top is because I do still plan on doing them, just kinda taking a break from them.  If you really really really want to do some one on one with me, shoot me an email and tell me why you think I should spend some time with you and I’ll be glad to consider it, just don’t be upset if I can’t get to you right now.  Lot’s going on!

The Big News!!!

Okay, so for the big news…..The biggest thing I’m working on right now is to completely redo the Click Consultants paid forums.  If you don’t know what the forums are, they are private forums about affiliate marketing that I started as a way to help more people.  I’m redoing videos, articles, screen casts, etc…as I type this…

It will probably take me another full month or two to complete everything before Click Consultants Paid Affiliate Forums 2.0 comes out…I know long name…it will still simply be called the CC Forums   Anyways, one of the things I allowed to happen is basically let the forums die.  I’m not ashamed to admit it…well I am ashamed that I did, but you get what I mean…

So in order to boost posting on the forums again, I’m giving away free memberships for life!!!  Yep, you heard right, you can sign up for the CC forums completely free.

There are a couple conditions though…You must be posting, I’m not saying you have to post like crazy, but if you’re just looking for a free membership to read and take in but not share, then when the time comes that I start charging again I’ll delete your account if you haven’t been posting.  I’m giving these accounts away for free, but only if you return the favor by helping discussion get going again on the board.

As of right now, there isn’t a lot of new posting going on, most of the old videos have been deleted since I’m creating all new ones, however, there is still a ton of awesome free information that will help you get going in affiliate marketing.

So how many free spots am I offering and for how long is this offer available?  Well to be completely honest, I have absolutely no idea!  I guess it depends on how big the response is and how many people start signing up.  I’m definitely willing to at least give away 100 free memberships.  I’m expecting the spots to fill up extremely quick, so if you’re interested, I’d recommend signing up asap and shooting me an email.  You can use the contact form by visiting this page or you can send me a PM once you sign up on the forums.

Why do you need to send me an email?

The reason you need to send me an email is because when you sign up, you won’t actually have access to any of the forums unless you pay for a subscription.  However, since it’s free, simply send me an email with your username and I’ll grant you full access!

REMEMBER!!!

You must have a name signed up and activated (meaning you confirmed your email address) before the system will automatically move your account to the free members usergroup.

PS…

If you’d like to help more with the forums the best thing you could do is send a tweet, post a message on facebook, myspace, etc. or create a blog post letting others know they can join the forums for free and continue to receive the subscription for free for life instead of paying $29.99/month!

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