So it has obviously been a long time since I made my last post. Here are a few random updates:

1. I’m finally getting TimSchroeder.com designed and will be starting a new blog there. eMonetized will still be around but I’m probably going to make some changes to this site. Go follow me on Twitter so you will know when the new blog is ready!

2. I’ve been working a lot with Market Leverage lately and hitting some record revenue numbers for myself.

3. I went to the Market Leverage Charity bowling tournament several weeks ago. ML hooked us up with a limo ride to and from the event. Thanks again. I tried to teach my affiliate manager Chelsea how to become an expert bowler like myself but that was a hopeless cause. Dina R. as usual ran around taking pictures and videos of everthing. Mike K. wore his gang attire.

4. Finally visited the ML offices in Orlando/Lake Mary FL. About time considering I live about 30-45 minutes away. Really nice offices. Chelsea even made my lunch for me so I plan to stop by every Friday now. Now I just have to just make it to the C2M offices mansion which is literally 10 minutes from my home.

5. I finally got a Mac! I’ve always been comfortable with my PC but I thought it was time to compare. It’s rare that you hear about someone getting a MAC and not liking it a LOT more than their old pc. I got the new 17″ Macbook Pro and so far I am loving it! I just bought Parallels today so I can also run Windows on it…

6. I need a haircut.

7. Tyler Cruz owes me some free advertising (he knows what I mean)

8. I have not Twittered in a couple weeks but I will soon so remember to go follow me.

9. I’m probably going to do some big advertising and big contests when TimSchroeder.com goes live. I’ll probably blog there a couple months and then decide for the second time that I’d rather work on my affiliate campaigns than become a famous blogger.

10. I had to put something here for 10 because I didn’t want to end on a 9. I just thought of something to put here. Andrew Wee, I’ll finally get to that podcast in another few weeks months.

11. …609, SM, geigo, 787, k… How about a little competition fellas? Oh, and again, Tyler get my check in the mail.

I can’t not login to any affiliate network running directtrack and none of my affiliate links are working.

It’s been down for me at least an hour now and had probably cost me a few hundred dollars before I noticed the problem.

You would assume that a giant like DirectTrack would have multiple backup servers.

UPDATE: I was just able to login to one network but when I tried to look at stats, it quit loading again. Seems like some sort of DOS attack or something but I don’t know…

I want to thank Market Leverage CEO Michael Jenkins and Marketing Manager Dina Riccobono for the invite. My wife and I were invited to a private dinner with Market Leverage at the Switch in The Encore. The food and atmosphere was amazing.

Here is myself, my wife and CEO of ML, Michael Jenkins. I look forward to chatting with him more at the Market Leverage offices. I also sat in on his Affiliate Videos session. He is one really smart guy and I have a lot of respect for him. During the dinner Michael announced ML’s new Green Links technoogy. It’s the first of its kind among affiliate networks. Hover over a green link on their website and a video will popup explaining it. It’s really cool. I’ll write more on this soon.

Here is myself and Dina Riccobono of Market Leverage. She is sweet, smart and from what I’ve seen, a superb marketing manager. Also quite the busy bee. Michael, you should give Dina another a raise. It was also nice to chat with Mike Kelly, Jen Fluker (and the rest of the ML crew), Ms Danielle, and Nate Whitehill of (Unique Blog Designs).

Here is another picture of the table with a side-view of Andrew Wee. I was able to talk to Andrew quite a bit during dinner and other parts of the Summit. Nice guy.

It was nice to meet Zac Johnson at the dinner. Hopefully we can hang out more at the next Summit.

ShoeMoney was also at the dinner. I was only able to chat with him briefly because he was sitting at the end of the table but he is very approachable and likes to make silly faces in most of his pictures.

And here is a picture of myself and my beautiful wife during the dinner.

Here are a couple videos of the dinner, one which shows the walls moving at the Switch.

Thanks again to ML for the dinner.

If you are not working with Market Leverage yet, you should be.

“CAMA” stands for Christian Affiliate Marketing Association and it’s a faith-based organization that was formed at Afffiliate Summit East 2007 in Miami. I wasn’t registered for CAMA but I knew they were all meeting downstairs to catch some cabs together.  CAMA was sold-out but thankfully they still were able to get me in.

CAMA does something different at each Affiliate Summit. I think they did a boat ride at the Boston Summit in 2008.  This year at Affiliate Summit West 2009 in Vegas they held a gospel brunch at The House Of Blues in Mandalay Bay Hotel.

This CAMA brunch was really one of the highlights of my first Affiliate Summit. The food was amazing, the gospel singer was amazing and I was able to meet and network with a lot of great people.

I met Jim Kukral for the first time at CAMA. He is one of the most down-to-earth genuinely nice guys you could meet. Jim Kukral is pretty well-known in the Social Media scene and also the emcee of the Affiliate Summits.

I met so many other nice people at CAMA and I can’t name them all but I was also nice meeting fellow Orlando resident Tyler Patton (and wife), the nice lady who sat across the table from me, Wade, George Hanson and the crew from OneNetworkDirect, and more…

CAMA, thanks for hosting this event. I hope to be at the Affiliate Summit East event in NYC as well.

Affiliate Summit 2009 Vegas is quickly approaching and has sold out! This will be my first Affiliate Summit and I’ve never been to Vegas so I’m really looking forward to it. Because I can’t write this post based on previous Affiliate Summit experiences, I’ll share with you some posts a couple Affiliate Summit veterans have made about preparing for this Affiliate Summit!

I was fortunate enough to get a Platinum Press Pass (thank you Amy!) so I plan to do a lot of blogging, take lots of pictures and also some video of the event.

My When, Where, How and Whats….

I’ll be in Vegas on Saturday the 10th and return on Friday the 16th. The Sat, Sun and Mon I’ll be staying at the RIO and Tues, Wed, and Thurs we will be staying at the Bellagio. My wife will be joining me on Monday afternoon.

I’m considering going to the CAMA brunch on Sunday but there are only a few tickets left so it might sellout before I decide. That starts at 8:30 (bus pickup time) and returns at 11:45.

I also wanted to attend the “Affiliate Strategies for Traffic Generation Session” moderated by Andrew Wee which starts at 12pm and ends at 1pm. I won’t have much time at all between the two. I assume I’ll obviously have to register either before CAMA or just after returning if I go. Hopefully the registration line will be shorter at that time??

On Monday I look forward to the Keynote and the “Advertising on Facebook session” although I’m not so sure they will be giving away any new secrets. I’m actually doing decent on Facebook although the inconsistency of my conversion rates drives me crazy. I also plan to attend the “Affiliate Videos: Where Do They Work Best” session among others….

If you would like to meet up at some point, please drop me an email or twitter ( twitter.com/timschroeder )

And The Parties:

So far I have received unofficial invites to the Advaliant (Monday) and CX digital (also Monday) parties. I hope to also make it to the ShareASale party and the Copeac parties if I can get an invite. If you are a network having a get together please let me know! I’d like to hang out with the MarketLeverage team some too (waiting for an invite somewhere!)

There are also a whole bunch of smaller get-togethers in which I hope to stop by (202, WickedFire)…

And here are some people I hope to meet in no particular order:

• Wes Mahler (aka Prosper202)
  
• Jimmy Ramos
• Andrew Wee
• Dina Riccobono, Chelsea and the rest of the Market Leverage Team)
  
• John Chow
• Zac Johnson
• Nate Poupko (my CX Digital manager)
• Alla Semenchenko (my Advaliant manager)
• ShoeMoney
• Chad Frederiksen (CDF Networks)
• Jim Kukral
• Ian Fernando
• Shawn Collins (Mr. Affiliate Summit himself)
• Jonathan Volk (are you going?)
• George Hansen
• I’m getting tired of adding links but here are a few more off the top of my head: Tamar, Ruck, Linda Buquet of 5 star, all my other Affiliate Managers, any of the CAMA members, any Webmaster-Talk.com members… I know I’m forgetting a whole bunch of other people…

Here are a couple more recent posts about preparing for Affiliate Summit West 2009 in Vegas:

1. How to plan, attend, and thoroughly enjoy your first Affiliate Summit Conference
2. The Affiliate Summit 2009 Survival Guide, Session Picks And Party Party
3. and for the very latest news, visit the Affiliate Summit Blog

What Are Your Plans For ASW?

For those of you thinking I might never post again, you are wrong. I just took a little 3 month break from blogging. What’s the big deal! haha

The cool thing is that my RSS subscriber number actually stayed about that same. Believe it or not, I actually do plan to start blogging again in 2009.

What I think I’m going to do is keep eMonetized.com but just keep it for affiliate marketing news such as offer updates and contests etc… Then I’m going start start a new bog over on timschroeder.com that will basically be about anything and everything related to running an internet business. I’ll talk about some of my websites and projects, cool stuff I find online, news, rants and whatever else…

During my blogging break I’ve stayed really busy working on some new content websites, getting pissed-off at Facebook ads, and losing money with Myspace ads (partly kidding about that). Actually my daily affiliate income is like a huge roller coaster lately but overall I can’t complain.  Despite the economy, 2008 has been by far my best year with affiliate marketing.

My wife and I will also be in Vegas for the Affiliate Summit West festivities. I think I’ll just be getting an Expo pass this time since I am primarily going to have some fun and do some networking. This will be my first Affiliate Summit but I know it won’t be my last.

Are you going to be at Affiliate Summit West in Vegas? I hope to meet some of my blog readers.

We have hotel reservation at the Rio but because this will be our first visit to Vegas I think I am going to cancel out and stay at the Bellagio instead. There regular room rate is about the same price as the Rio.

Vegas must really be hurting right because you can get a 2000 square ft Penthouse Suite at the Bellagio for just $399 a night right now! That’s about the same size as my house! I was really tempted at getting one (I still might) but I figured that it would be overkill considering it will just be my wife and I. Next time I’ll have to plan better and have a pre-dinner networking get together… Then I’d have a better excuse to get the Penthouse suite.

I am really looking forward to the Affiliate Summit festivities and chatting with other affiliates and networks.

I hope to see you there!

Here are a couple possible ideas I had for eMonetized.com

1. A Product and Service Review type blog

I review various affiliate products and services and give honest reviews on if they are crap or actually worth the price. This would entail myself actually buying the product or service and giving in-depth review with some screenshots. It’s amazing how often people recommend products without ever even trying them.

2. An Advertising / Internet Marketing Case Studies blog
Basically I buy ads (banners, text links, reviews etc) on other blogs and ad networks and share the results. You’ll learn which websites and services have the potential to send you the most traffic.

What do you think?

While I decide which direction to take this blog and/or timschroeder.com, check out these recommended affiliate networks:

1. Advaliant

Why? Really Nice Exclusives. Network contests. Alla La.

2. Market Leverage

Why? Best Referral Program. High default offer payouts. They sent me some really cool stuff!

3. CX Digital

Why? I made $4700 in 1 day with CX Digital. Nate’s a cool dude.

4. Hydra Network

Why? They seem to have the most new daily offers. High default payouts.

5. PepperJam Network

Not really a CPA network but their a great alternative to CJ. $10 signup bonus.

More Affiliate Networks.

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Who else than from the marketing geniuses and also my new best friends… The Market Leverage Affiliate Network Crew!! Thank You!

Market Leverage rocks! And a special thanks to the super-cool Market Leverage Marketing manager, Dina Riccobono. We all know that building relationships is important and they have definitely started off on my good side. No matter how much money I make, I’ll also be the type of guy that likes a good deal or even better, free stuff!

What did Market Leverage send me?

1. A sweet Flip Video Camera!
2. A Flip Video Tripod!
3. A Flip Video Soft Pouch!
4. 4 great shirts! My son Austin and daughter Katelyn are wearing cute “Future Blogger” t-shirts. Deb and I are also wearing high quality Nike gold shirts with the Market Leverage logo. I’ll be proud to wear it.
5. A cool Market Leverage hat. Deb is wearing it. It’s in youth size so it didn’t quit fit my head. I’m going to see If I can order an adult size because they are nice hats!
6. Gas gift cards.
7. A Ruth’s Chris Steak House gift card.
8. Movie ticket gift cards.
9. Two spiffy Market Leverage flash drive pens.
10. And a really nice Market Leverage Nike duffle bag (which all the great stuff arrived in).

Here are a couple more pics of some of the goods:

When you join the Market Leverage network, you will notice some of the highest default payouts anywhere! I’ve found several offers with payouts several dollars higher than the defaults at some other networks. This is NO joke and I’ll be giving several examples in a new review. I’m really excited to start working with them ASAP.

By the way, Market Leverage is giving away a lifetime referral bonus for each Publisher you refer to their network! Earn (5%) five percent of the commission for each and every Publisher you refer that signs up as a Market Leverage Publisher.

Thanks again Market Leverage! If you have not joined Market Leverage yet, you should do so now! Click Here