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Please Welcome MeetUp202 Charlotte

Nana Gilbert-Baffoe — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:05:00 -0500

We are happy to announce our newest MeetUp202 group in Charlotte, NC. The group is headed by Fred Sexton, an Internet Marketer, Cyclist and Artist. We asked him to write a short intro to you about his Meetup202 group, which is reprinted below:

Live in the queen city? Getting tired of staring at your screen? Are pixelated webcast of your affiliate marketing team getting old?
If so, come on out to the first official Charlotte Meetup202. We are looking to grow the online marketing industry empire in Charlotte and would to meet with YOU. New ideas and innovation are welcomed. Idea stealers and moochers please disregard. The idea of this group is an open network of business professionals

Meet other local affiliate marketers in Charlotte
Learn from some of the experts
Grow your network
Have fun in a relaxed atmosphere
Dinner and drinks

Where: Ritz Carlton Uptown Charlotte - Lobby Lounge
When: Nov 13, 2:00 PM
Please RSVP Here

Got any questions, email me directly at bigcheese@mouseandman.com or @fredsexton
Fred

If you are close to the Charlotte, NC this is your meetup. Please join the group here:

http://www.meetup.com/Meetup202-North-Carolina-Affiliate-Marketing-Meetup-Group/

The first Charlotte MeetUp202 event has already been scheduled for tomorrow. See you there!

About Meetup202
MeetUp202 is a place for affiliate marketers to meet with other like-minded marketers locally. Get together with super affiliates in your area, grow your personal network of contacts and share tips and tricks with fellow marketers. Each MeetUp202 event is different, headed by different organizers, they are generally causal networking events at placing that sell food and provide WiFi access.

If you are interested in starting a meetup, please contact us.

Yahoo Search Marketing Desktop Client Beta Application

Wes Mahler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:55:00 -0500

You can signup to be invited to the yahoo search marketing desktop client beta here: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/scp/viewer/index.php?event_id=21668&client_id=5467.

Thanks to Wes Moehlenbruck at masterlesssamurai.com for bringing this to our attention.

Meetup202 NYC - Oct 14th

Wes Mahler — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:28:00 -0400

Ryan Pamplin and Ken Chen have organized a new Meetup202 NYC event on the 14th of this month. Azoogle will be sponsoring the event. You can find all of the event details here: http://www.meetup.com/meetup202nyc/calendar/11560186/

Hi Everyone, A big thank you to AZN (Azoogle Network) for sponsoring our October Meetup! It will be at http://www.latitudeba... - 783 8th Avenue (between 47th and 48th Street). We have the entire 2nd floor to ourselves. There will be open bar from 7-9 pm as well as tons of free food. Quesadilla's, Chicken Tenders, Veggies, Pizzas, Cheese Platters, etc! As AZN (Azoogle Network) is sponsoring, we're kindly asking other networks/network employees to sit this one out. - OPEN Bar and free food! So you must RSVP! :)

Montreal Special Event

Steven Truong — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:00:00 -0400

Hey Everyone,

Our MeetUp202 Montreal Organizer, Sam, is throwing a special event soon wanted to get the message out to you guys about what is taking place over there. Here is what he has to say:

Hey Guys,

We are putting together a special event with speakers + a party afterwards up here in Montreal - http://www.MakeMoniesOnlineMontreal.com. For the full list of speakers see the site. So here's the deal about the presenters.

VJ - a little known affiliate that knows his stuff. He is doing some very innovative things not only at the affiliate marketing level but in internet marketing in general.

We have the head SEO of ICE.com (3rd-4th largest jewellery retailer on the net) and ex-head at Bodog presenting. He used to rank for poker/gambling terms.

The speaker on e-tailing will be talking about how to setup your own e-tailer and techniques on how to break into the distribution channels of mainstream brands. If you have ever tried this, you know how not easy it can be.

My buddy who runs an outsourcing firm will be talking about effective outsourcing methods.

Basil Hatto (MediaTraffic.com) will be talking about PPV.

I will be discussing FaceBook Ads - gaming, scaling and failing.

Daniel Bakerman (COO of ShareResults.com) will be discussing trends in affiliate marketing.

Along with the presenters we are expecting to have an interesting mix of affiliate networks, ad networks, advertisers, e-tailers and a variety of people who make monies online. We will have with us a group of advertisers who literally dominate the most competitive niche on the internet - they were supposed to present but unfortunately they shied away.

It will be good... we have affs coming in from Toronto and NYC for this one. Hope to see guys here!

-Sam W.

*Just a small disclaimer about the event... although we will do our best to ensure that the event runs as smoothly as possible, we cannot be responsible for any speaker or guests not showing up. No one is getting paid and we are all doing this for fun

Free Facebook Advertising Webinar For Revolution202 Publishers

Nana Gilbert-Baffoe — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:00:00 -0400

On Friday October 2nd, our resident Facebook Ads pro will be conducting one of the most informative Facebook advertising webinars you'll ever attend. For people who were at the last SF Meetup202 event, imagine more of what you learned plus multiple times more real, quality, sure-fire actionable information and advice.

If you are doing Facebook advertising, or want to discover how others are doing so well driving Facebook traffic to affiliate and CPA offers, this is a can't miss webinar.

To get signed up for Friday's webinar, contact your Contact your Revolution202 Publisher Manager, they will provide you with the registration link you need. Remember, this information is only for our current Revolution202 publishers.

Not yet a Revolution202 Publisher?

Frankly, I don't know what you've been waiting for. Sign Up Now to get reviewed to go through our review process. Once you've been identified as a quality publisher, you too will be able to be a part of the Revolution and this Friday's upcoming Facebook webinar.

Advertise202

Steven Truong — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:00:00 -0400

Due to numerous emails we've received in previous weeks, we decided to put up this advertise page for anyone interested in advertising on 202 and letting everyone know where advertising is available. You can see what is available on our advertise page.

All advertising is subject to review and pricing is set. Depending on the advertising deal, the terms may vary for each. If you are interested in advertising with us, please contact me for further details at stevenbounce@tracking202.com

As always, if you just want to help support us and our cause, we gladly accept donations. Thanks everyone!

2 Years Ago Today The Conception of an Industry Game Changer

Nana Gilbert-Baffoe — Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:00:00 -0400

Two years ago the idea for Tracking202 was born. It came from the simple need to be able to easily track how well affiliate campaigns were performing. At that time no one knew that two years later we be at this point!

We want to thank everyone who has had a part in helping that dream grow into what it is today. Whether you blogged about it, told your friends about it, donated to help fund our development, or just downloaded our software and used it to scale your campaigns we couldn't have done it without you.

We look forward to many more years of creating innovative software and solutions for this young but growing industry

Coincidentally, today is also the Birthday of our 1st employee! Happy Birthday Jen, thanks for all the amazing design work you've done for us over the years!

How To Choose Offers That Can Profit You For The Longest Time Possible

Wes Mahler — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:36:53 -0400

This is a post I wrote for another blog in August of 2008. The blog isn't really active any more so I decided to share this article with you on our blog.

We’ve all been here before. You have been working diligently and after 2 months of spending your money and time to test a PPC campaign, you finally got it to work! Your doing great and your campaign is producing a positive 100% return on investment. Your making a lot of money and you continue to scale it. Everything is going great, until, you get an email saying your campaign is being discontinued next week…

If you’ve been in the affiliate marketing industry for any time at all, you’ll have experienced this before. It is always disappointing to work so hard on a campaign and then have it turned off after you got it to work. After encountering this to many times I got frustrated and told myself I wouldn’t keep promoting things that would turn off after several days, and I would only focus on longer term campaigns. As a personal preference I’d much rather have campaigns that I could setup and let run for a several years. And although it might seem hard to believe it is pretty easy to find offers that will run for easily a year plus or longer if you take the time to find them.

Now lets not forget of course, that there is a significant amount of money to be made in short-term to medium-term niches. Sometimes you can make the most money in the shortest amount of time on a new campaign that you can hit off–just don’t expect it to last very long because the offer has no history. However, what if you also took your time and invested into getting up a campaign that you know would be around for a long time? You would now be able to make your money, you can still get a good ROI, and you’ll probably earn more money for a longer period-of-time, and ultimately make more than if the offer was short term.

So instead of getting the top converting offers for the month, you could take a different approach. Instead what if you got the top converting offers for the past year, only showing offers that have been around for 12+ months or longer. This will give you the best converting campaigns that have been around for awhile and will most likely be around for a lot longer because the advertiser has figured out everything on their side and made it profitable for them–so they will continue to run their campaign for years because it is working for them consistently.

So if your getting frustrated that the networks are closing down your offers after you just got it to work; you can avoid this, by doing a little extra work. When you want to look for a campaign you can now SORT BY HISTORY and only run the ones that have been around for the longest period of time. This will allow you to promote campaigns that if you get working, will continue to work great for you. And although as simple and basic this tip is, if you implemented it, it can pay you large dividends because now all your offers are staying around for 6 months or longer.

Get To Know & Work With CPABuilder a GlobalWide Media Company

Nana Gilbert-Baffoe — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:00:00 -0400

Where do top affiliates turn when they are looking to work with a top performance-based online advertising network with high paying branded offers?

If you are like many affiliates, the answer is CPABuilder, a GlobalWide Media Company. The one important thing to count on is the fact that their team has been in the industryfor over 10 years, so they are very knowledgeable in the space and have a lot of direct relationships with many of the largest brands online.

Sign Up To Run Some Of Their Top Performing Offers Below:

Payouts: $1.25 EPC: $0.28	Payouts: $22.00 EPC: $3.00
Payouts: $14.00 EPC: $3.50	Payouts: $18.00 EPC: $3.00
Payouts: $34.00 EPC: $3.25	Payouts: $1.40 EPC: $0.30

Once you Sign Up for your CPABuilder account, make sure to contact your affiliate manager to get an even more comprehensive and customized list of top performing offers you can promote right now.

The great thing about CPABuilder is that due the to level of quality of traffic running through their network, they are able to negotiate offers and payout that you will not see in any other network out there.

We ourselves personally know and work very closely with the team at GlobalWide Media and CPAbuilder, and we can comfortably recommend you also work with them.

Take a look at their personal directory page online at https://pro.tracking202.com/directory/listing/cpabuilder

This page is frequently updated with their top performing offers, so keep that bookmarked and refer to it often. You'll also find the signup link for CPABuilder on that page, please make sure to indicate you are coming from Tracking202 in the comments section. This isn't a necessary step, but it will help them prioritize you when you apply.

MeetUp202 San Francisco - Sat Sep 19, 2009

Steven Truong — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:01:00 -0400

It's been awhile since we had our last MeetUp202 SF. This Sat will be holding our long awaited MeetUp202 again at the WichCraft cafe. Those interested in attending can register and RSVP here for free: http://www.meetup.com/meetup202-bay-area/

If you're in the area and would like to attend to meet other affiliates, please make sure you RSVP. We have very limited spots left and RSVP is required. Hope to see everyone who is going this Saturday!

About MeetUp202
MeetUp202 is a place for affiliate marketers to meet with other like-minded marketers locally. Get together with super affiliates in your area, grow your personal network of contacts and share tips and tricks with fellow marketers. Each MeetUp202 event is different, headed by different organizers, they are generally causal networking events at placing that sell food and provide WiFi access.

You can see the full list of our meetups at meetup202.com

If you are interested in starting a meetup, please contact us.

If you're interested in organizing a MeetUp202 in your local area and wish to help us spread the 202 name while networking and meeting with other affiliates, contact steven@tracking202.com for more details on how to start your own MeetUp202 locally.