We got a suite on the 49th floor of The London, which led to a great view and a great stay.  As you can see the pictures above, that was our view around our suite.  If you haven’t stayed at The London in NYC, it is a must.  Between seeing Michael Jordan, TI, Molly Shannon , and screaming little girls waiting for the Jonas Brothers, The London also serves a great spot for late night entertainment.  Every night of the show we were able to hold some private parties which led to great networking and meeting up with publishers and clients we don’t get to see all that often.

The team started out Sunday at the meet market which was nuts as usual.  Although the meet market compares to a bunch of sardines in a can, a lot of connections and networking was done.  It usually proves to be one of the best days on the floor for us and this show was no different.  Later that night we were able to have a team dinner which is always nice to get everyone together.  After dinner, some of our team went to the parties as advertised, while others headed up to the suite and held a great get together with pubs, networks, and advertisers alike.

Monday was the first day of the actual show and the ECM was up early to discuss things beforehand.  We came with a new look for this years show and it consisted of MLB quality team baseball jerseys.  Those lucky enough to get one appreciate them as much as we did.  The show started out with a bang and business was being done as usual.  After a long day at the show we all split off and went to our own separate dinner meetings, including the ASE Dinner which our very own Mike Delacruz and Thy Lam attended.

After dinner some of us went to the industry parties, which all ended up leading to the private ECM Suite Party, which everyone agreed was better than any of the other parties they attended.  After meeting and having a good time in the suite, we hopped over to the famous Faces & Names.  Here we took many of the suite attendees and met up with other industry folks to finish off a great night in NYC.

Tuesday, the team headed out to the show once again, and also held some private meetings in the suite and other venues around NYC.  This was one of our most productive days, wrapping up the show and making deals to set the future of affiliate marketing.  Instead of taking off late Tuesday night, we decided to stay an extra night, pack in a couple more meetings an take off Wednesday.  Overall, this was one of ECM’s best show and you will see some great things come out of it.

We would like to thank everyone who stopped by the suite to get to know us and have a good time.  A special shout out goes to our friends including Ian Fernando, Kris Trujillo, Nicky Papers, Prosper Guys, Reenev Guys, Victor, Jason Venters, Zac McGrath, AdHustler, Jon Fischer, Ben Louie, all pubs, and everyone else who we might have missed. We enjoyed seeing everyone again as well as forming new connections.  We will see you all at the next show!

Thy  is originally from San Jose, Ca.  She is currently living in San Francisco.  She graduated from San Jose State University with a degree in Marketing.  Thy started in the internet industry 2 years ago with Adteractive as a product manager and went on to manage and build up a lead gen vertical.  She was first introduced to affiliate marketing by recruiting publishers and then went on to run campaigns herself, which she now does internally.  Thy is very passionate and genuinely loves internet martketing.  Everyone at Elite Clicks Media is excited to bring her on board and we believe she represenst numerous benefits and fits into our team very well.

We would now like to welcome Thy to the ECM team as an Account Manager.

Below we have provided Thy’s contact information :

Again, we are excited to welcome Thy to the team and feel free to introduce yourself to her and get acquainted.

We’d like to let everyone know that the majority of the ECM team will be in attendance at Affiliate Summit East in NYC.  We will be landing on Saturday and taking off Wednesday afternoon.  Thy, along with all the others will be there, so be sure to introduce yourself if you see anyone in ECM gear walking around.   If you’d like to make a last minute meeting in the ECM suite, contact your affiliate manager or email us at Network@eliteclicksmedia.com to see if we can squeeze you in!

We have once again invited Tommie Powers for another webinar, who is widely considered a top expert on buying Content-Based Internet Traffic and he is going to share the complete blueprint to the Aftershock Method that was developed by one of his former coaching students. The webinar will be this Wednesday, August 11 at 9 PM Eastern Time.

Tommie’s former student originally took one of his training courses and was able to take those strategies and techniques to a completely new level by applying the concepts he learned with affiliate offers.

Here is what you will discover:

• Proven Techniques To Find Niches Based Around In-Demand Products Where People Are Already Spending Money.

• Why You Need Content-Rich Blogs And How To Set Them Up In No Time Flat.

• Surefire List Building Techniques That Make The Aftershock Method Highly Effective.

• Low Cost, Low Barrier To Entry Method To Start Driving Traffic Almost Immediately For Your List Building Campaigns.

There will also be time available to take some questions live. Be sure to register now and attend live in case you need your questions answered.

To register, contact your AM for the link!

P.S. Tommie’s former student has given him full permission to share this highly-valuable information and has given him the complete blueprint to share with you that can be implemented immediately after the webinar!

We’re grabbing a rock star suite for NYC at The London, so if you would like to brainstorm with a member of the team, grab a few drinks, let us know and reserve a spot. If you would like to personally meet with any ECM team member during the show please let us know so we can allocate time for you.  Please contact your success manager directly or send an email to Network@eliteclicksmedia.com and we will plan a meeting to help you increase your profits with us. Your business is our business. Let’s grow it. We look forward to meeting everyone and if you see any of the team walking around in ECM gear, be sure to stop us and introduce yourself!

This is what the people who aren’t making any money are screaming from the rooftops.  Is it true? Well has the real estate market crashed for real estate investors? No, people that had bad business plans lost millions and went under. If your business plan was flip-this-house, right now you’re probably waiting for the next seminar so you can punch one of those real estate Guru’s in the eye.  But, the people that bought based on solid investment principles and had a solid long-term business plan are by in large doing just fine.  It is the same with internet marketing.

The people that jumped in with no business plan and were looking to get rich quick have been sorely disappointed. Why?  They have no business plan. Let’s get down to brass tacks.  You get paid to sell products to customers or generate leads for advertisers, period. That is it. Whether you do it through ppv, ppc, media buys or running butt naked down the highway with your website painted on your back same thing. Don’t get caught up in traffic methods. It does not matter how you get the traffic to your site, what matters is the ability to get conversions.

The question of hot offers. Does it matter what offer is hot? Yes of course it does. But, only if you have traffic that converts. Having a killer billboard on a street that no one drives down does not bring in thousands of sales.  Once you have the traffic.. which means a converting ad, a good landing page, the offers on the backend become interchangeable.

How do you get to the money? Testing. The tools will change. The marketing methods may change but the principles remain the same.  We’re in the business of sales not software.  Getting the new this or the new that is cool, but if you don’t know how to get conversions you need to change your traffic source, your ad copy, your landing page, or the offer. That is it. No bells no whistles.  Getting better tools can increase your conversion rate, but all the software in the world does not guarantee you more conversions.  The goal is selling, period!

It sucked when we were children, it sucked when we were teenagers, and guess what it still sucks. Do you know what Kobe Bryant, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, and Greg Davis have in common? They are students of the games they play. They study and they research.  They make mistakes and get back at it. They hate losing. Don’t get the affiliate game twisted. It is not a lifetime of partying all day and popping Champaign bottles. It’s work.

The only thing sure in life is that you are at the mercy of your choices. Either you choose to sacrifice and put in the work to get good at what you do or you look for short cuts and suffer. Are there short cuts to get to the money? Yes, but only after you have the principles down. What are the principles? What is my cost per customer acqusition? How do I optemize?How to choose offers? What are the metrics? What is my target conversion rate? Where are my customers? What do my customers like? What do they watch? How do they think? Did they graduate from college? Where do they live? How do they talk? How can I target them better? What gets them emotional?

Abraham Lincoln once said “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Rather than throwing traffic and money at a page you’re direct linking too, how about throwing all those test clicks at a presell page. Use those test clicks to optimize a good lander. If you know that for the product you’re trying to market news style landers are working grab one and put your own twist on it.

Now one of the things I wanted to address was the questions that I’ve been getting from some of my affiliates about ppv marketing. Does it work? Yes. But, only if you know what you’re doing. Ask your account managers at your traffic source(traffic vance, directcpv, media traffic, etc..). They know what’s hot on their platform. PPV marketing is like the penny slot machines in Vegas. If you don’t know what you’re doing you‘re still going to lose money it’s just a slower bleed. The basic questions still apply. Does that ppv platform have your target demographic? What url’s will your ads be shown on? How do they target? If they have no way of targeting and you have no way of tracking then you might as well go to the bathroom, open up your wallet, dump your cash and credit cards into the toilet, and flush.

The most successful affiliates understand the business aspect of the industry. They ask the important questions. They do things by the numbers. They have systems in place. They have people who build their landing pages; they have specialists who they hire to assist in different aspects of their business. They follow trends and know what people are looking for. They stay up to date on what is going on in the news and factor it into their marketing. They watch Oprah and Rachel Ray if that is what their target demographic is watching. Remember no matter how many bottles of Champaign you pop, how many lambo’s you buy, how many watches you have, this is still a business. If you want to be number one then you outwork, out hustle, and out grind the competition.

Mike is originally from Los Angeles, Ca.  He is a single father of an 8 year old boy.  In 1998 Mike joined the United States Navy and was honorably discharged in 2006.  While in the military he earned a BS in Information Systems from the University of Phoenix.  After discharge, he worked as a Network Engineer at the Space and Naval Warefare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego, CA.  While in the military, Mike was introduced to affiliate marketing by a friend he met, Jose Rivera, aka Jay Styles.  As a side job he ran CPA campaigns with Jose for fun and some extra income.  In 2009 Jose Rivera partnered up with Amish Shah and opened yMultimedia to the public and had Mike manage the network.  He officially left SPAWAR in 2009 to manage yMultimedia full time.

We would now like to welcome Mike to the ECM team as the network manager.

Below we have provided Mike’s contact information :

Mike Delacruz

Mike Delacruz – Network Manager Office : 800-496-4067 x116 Cell: 213-422-0046 Email: mike.delacruz@eliteclicksmedia.com AIM: ECMDelacruz

Again, we are excited to welcome Mike to team and will see him as a valuable asset moving forward.

Following the success of his monster affiliate marketing guide a few months ago, “Super Affiliate” Jonathan Volk does it again with his latest affiliate marketing ebook, Facebook Ads Guide.

This guide proves to be chock full of great information/tutorials ranging from bidding strategies and demographic targeting tips to maximizing your campaigns full potential using the Facebook Ad Manager.  You can stop scouring the net looking for information on how to properly test your FB ads against each other and when to kill a campaign.  Volk lays it all out for you!

If you have bought in to other affiliate marketing guides or programs, you will notice that they sometimes trickle the information to you on a month-to-month basis.  We all learn at different paces, so Volk makes it easy and just gives you everything you need from the start for one low price.  This is 10 months of valuable data and experience all in one bundle so you successfully launch a Facebook campaign and dominate the competition.

With Facbook surpassing Google as the the number one visited site on the internet,  you can imagine that there are plenty of money making opportunities available right now.  Volk’s ebook will help you get to the level you need to be to compete with other online marketers on this global social media platform.  Furthermore, we are encouraging all publishers serious about making money with Facebook to pick up a copy of Facebook Ads Guide.

Get one step ahead of your competition today with the Facebook Ads Guide!