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!

With Affiliate Summit East 2010 coming up on us quickly, we wanted to give a quick shout out to our fans and followers. Affiliate Summit is from August 15-17th. The majority of the ECM team will be in attendance. Most of us will be coming in Saturday and will be available for meetings before the convention and throughout.

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.

We have invited Tommie Powers, who is an expert on buying content-based advertising. Tommie is widely considered a top expert on the Google Adwords Content Network (now the Display Network) and he is going to share some highly valuable and actionable strategies you can use instantly. The webinar will be held on July14th at 9 PM Eastern Time.

Here is what you will discover:

• At least 6 strategies that will get you moving in the right direction with any form of paid traffic.
• Secrets that will boost your content-based campaigns by at least 25% by the time the webinar is over.
• Advanced methods he uses for not only his Content Network campaigns on Google, but also for all of his other Paid traffic campaigns on other platforms.
• The #1 reason why most of your campaigns are not as profitable as they should be.
• Other proven methods that have been thoroughly tested by Tommie and many of his peers.

Tommie will also take some questions live. If you have some questions you need answered on the topic, be sure not to miss this one!

To register, contact your AM for the link!

P.S. Come prepared to take notes. This one will be loaded with actionable information you can start using immediately!

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!

With Ad-Tech San Fran coming up on us quickly, we wanted to give a quick shout out to our fans and followers. Ad-Tech San Fran is from April 19th through April 21st. The majority of the ECM team will be in attendance. Most of us will be coming in Saturday and will be available for meetings before the convention and throughout.

If you would like to meet with any of us, please let us know as soon as possible so we can allocate time for you. Please contact your affiliate manager directly or send an email to Network@EliteClicksMedia.com and we will plan a meeting to see how we can grow business together in the coming months.  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!

If you’re in the affiliate marketing space or affiliate marketing is the way you make your daily living,  then more then likely you’ve heard the name “Jonathan Volk” mentioned a time or two. If not, then you’re not really keeping up on your industry and it’s time to do a bit more reading. Anyways, besides Jonathan being a true active super affiliate & a down to earth nice chap, he publishes a very respected affiliate marketing blog at www.jonathanvolk.com. Jonathan coaches & trains new and experienced affiliate marketers on different marketing methods he uses to make a very nice living online. This is one online marketer you want to pay attention too, out of the thousands of other resources that claim to offer help, but are really just looking to make a quick buck.

Just the other day Jonathan released an in depth 52 page guide  on affiliate marketing.  Here’s a short statement from Jonathan about his newly released guide.

Jonathan says:

“In this guide, I go over the techniques that I have used to generate over $4 million dollars in affiliate marketing commissions including PPC, PPV, Media Buying and Social Media Affiliate marketing!

I have been working extremely hard on this guide and I believe that it will be of great benefit for both newbies and more experienced affiliate alike… I mean, even if you get just one good nugget, it was worth it right? Well, I plan on many of you getting more than one nugget. ”

So don’t waste anymore time, if you want to download the guide please register via this link:

JonathanVolks Affiliate Markting Guide