The past 2 days I have attended the Underground Online Seminar which is held by Yanik Silver. This is one of my first REAL internet marketing seminars/conferences. I have always attended conferences that delt with traffic and digital media. The reason is because it has to do with what I currently do now.

For example I love Affiliate Summit because it brings networks, advertisers, merchants, affiliates, and traffic sources all together. With the internet marketing space they tell you to make a website and use social media etc.

But at Underground Online Seminar, I learned a lot about JVing, creating business deals, using unknown sites that produces results, and talking to some big ‘gurus’ in the internet marketing space. I met a lot of big people that owns info products and ecourses.

In fact most of them I have seen are all MLM style marketing. One ad I saw took me to Youtube who talked about .WS downline platform. They maybe legit but your landing page is YouTube?

So from my understanding, Ryan’s product told people Facebook is the new Google and now every MLM is doing Facebook ads. I even see retarded internet marketing ads on here that are just horrible. Almost everyday I see a new ad, I assume targeting marketing online. I see a new ad everyday because these newbies either lost cash and do not see any conversions from their crappy landing pages and give up.

Did Ryan not show some type of value on how to run a campaign and not just an ad?

The reason for this is because Beach Body does not have an affiliate program, well they do they just run their model totally different. Very similar to an MLM model. Also, the way they word their program is very similar to any affiliate program or even merchant.

In any case… I just want to ramble about Beach Body Marketers…

First I went off to visit Pulse 360, they are a CPC and CPA network. I met Daphne at Affiliate Summit West and had lunch with Dan, another member of Pulse 360. We had a really good conversation about their network and how they want to expand. They definitely picked my brain about it.

It was interesting to see that they are starting a network as well, outside their CPC platform. If you have ever seen ads on MSNBC then you will see they are distributed by Pulse 360.

Another great part while I was in Sarasota, FL was the nice scenery. Eric took me out to lunch that day and I got to see some great places and beaches. One of the best part was seeing the night life… If you watch the video to the end you will see that Clickbooth got me on camera without me knowing…

…but I cleared the floor… literally… watch below

Another cool thing was Ryan was giving away 3 iPads to some lucky winners in the crowd. It wasn’t me thought… sighs… It was a good turn around to a point. The night ended really well with just hanging out with AdHustler, Cousin Vinnie, Michael P and others. The night turn out real well.

On to the pictures.

Early, today I had the opportunity to get 2 other people that relies on PPV traffic for their business. We got on a phone call and discuss the circumstances of the traffic, the good, and the bad. We just had an overall discussion about PPV traffic and its uses on the internet.

I got Cashtactics, Kris Trujillo and Stephon Rudd. These guys base their business on strictly PPV and use it to their advantages. Kris came out with the popular product Mass PPV Traffic and Stephon Rudd who also has his own product called Dark Side of PPV, are the ones on the podcast tonight.

Pics form left to right: Kris Trujillo and Stephon Rudd

If you do not know what CPS is, it means Cost Per Sale. Being paid on a percentage commission base. Similar to the Amazon affiliate program but higher than the 4%. What I have seen with other CPS networks, the payouts start at around 7%-10%. The only problem is the brand recognition of the merchants vs Amazon or other big online retailers.

For 2010… I want to have a continuous stream instead of running into problems like I did in the past month with CPA. I am not leaving CPA at all, it is just too easy to make money from CPA offers… this will just be a side project more so and hopefully something even bigger.

I was kinda of hesitant of participating in this event because it is in Oklahoma, what is there really to do in Oklahoma. I have been to Nebraska which is a state up. I hated being in Nebraska… so I was just thinking will it be the same in Oklahoma?

I have been in communication with Mike of NDustry Clix and he stated the March Madness event is being presented the following Saturday. Which is pretty cool since i have never been to one of their shows.

So I decided to accept their proposal and see what Oklahoma got in stores for me. Presenting with me will be Murray Newlands, he is one of the other presenters that will be presented at this meetup. So I will be at this local meetup and it will be interesting to see local affiliates in the Oklahoma area.

So what will I be doing in Oklahoma… Really not sure… I will be meeting up with some local affiliates there and I guess they will show me the ropes of what to do in Oklahoma. Since it isn’t anything like Jersey or New York, I may be bored out of my mind or have a blast.

Also, today I finished my presentation for the event and I will post it up on scribd.com once I return back form the meetup. I will also try to get it recorded if I can and post it on Youtube. It should be a good event… I was undecided on what topic to talk about, since I do not know the skill level of the attendees attending.

The one thing though is Oklahoma steaks better be good! Its a cow state isn’t it?

Are you attending? Register if you are in the Oklahoma area or want some insight in the affiliate industry. Plus I don’t think I have ever met an affiliate from Oklahoma.

On a side note lots of free stuff… food beer prizes … now who doesn’t like free?

Affiliate marketers in my opinion are one of the better breed of marketers because we are always interested about more volume and conversions. While most of the internet marketers out there are about JVing with big guys and gathering affiliates. Notice gathering affiliates, because we know where to find traffic.