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April 24, 2018

Express Revenue Review: Things You Need to Know

Are you a seasoned affiliate marketer looking for an effective way to manage multiple websites and campaigns while making the most money possible? Are you a fairly recent affiliate marketer who sometimes feels discouragement over the workload or slow sales while your campaigns are still in their beginning stage? Are you looking to party at the hottest clubs in Vegas? Are you a busy entrepreneur or product owner looking for a strong network of affiliates to help promote your products and services to the widest possible audience? Let me tell you about my guys (and girls) over at Express Revenue.

This Express Revenue Review takes a peek into the inner workings of Express Revenue, a performance based cpa affiliate network that connects advertisers and website publishers in ways that allow both affiliate marketers and merchant companies to succeed together in their advertising and sales goals.

Express Revenue was founded by both affiliate marketers and advertisers with seasoned experience in the industry. Heck, the owner was just a kid when I first met him (to be fair, he is still a kid compared to me). They wanted to create a solution that eased the tracking of marketing campaigns, connected advertisers with the best possible affiliate marketers and brought the right kinds of campaigns to niche market websites.

Its goal: to create an environment where both advertisers and website publishers could grow together. In essence, Express Revenue works as an advertising campaign hub, which simplifies the process of finding the best possible matches between advertisers and publishers. Because both advertisers and publishers benefit when the affiliate marketer thrives, finding ways to promote website publisher growth was a top priority.

How does Express Revenue work?

Express Revenue is completely fee-free. There’s no sign-up cost, and there are no hidden fees. For a publisher looking to grow, this makes signing up a very low-risk investment with the possibility of high payouts. Sign up, choose a campaign, and start promoting.

Express Revenue is a performance-based company. This means that advertisers don’t pay fees, either. They’re only charged for commissions on sales and leads that are generated by the publishers—and they only pay those commissions after the leads and sales are already generated.

There are a wide variety of campaign types on Express Revenue, ranging from display, mobile, e-mail campaigns to native content and lead generation. Express Revenue also boasts one of the largest selections of campaigns, and exclusive and owned campaigns, which means all publishers will most likely campaigns that meets their needs and niche.

What kind of support does Express Revenue provide to help website publishers grow their affiliate marketing businesses?

Express Revenue has several features that make it easy for both experienced publishers and newbies to grow their sites. Consider the following:

Express Revenue has its own proprietary tracking software

Because the company founders knew and understood the inner workings of the industry, they worked with a private software development company to create a software that would meet the needs of both advertisers and publishers. Including the most used and required features in a simple easy manner. It’s been tested over years of use.

For a publisher running multiple websites, having the ability to track campaigns and split-test sources in the same system can free up time for even more campaign management, and help identify the most profitable sources.

Ultimately, this frees up time to build up websites and write great content that will increase sales and lead generation even further.

Express Revenue provides support with a dedicated account manager

Both publishers and advertisers are assigned a dedicated account manager for support. The dedicated account manager will be available for questions, tips, and support daily. The account manager can help with issues like reviewing performance, optimizing advertising campaigns, planning and starting new projects and acting as a sounding board for ideas and feedback.

The account manager monitors metrics like conversion rate, retention rate, and EPC. Besides being able to provide valuable feedback to a publisher, they’re able to watch for fraud and help prevent Express Revenue’s users from getting taken advantage of.

Wide variety of choices

Express Revenue offers publishers an extensive library of advertising campaigns to choose from, including campaigns that are exclusive to Express Revenue. From Credit Repair, Dating, Crypto, Health, Insurance, and more, Express Revenue has your vertical, and can create a custom campaign for your vertical.

This works in reverse, too, allowing advertisers to handpick top publishers from the long list of affiliate marketers using the site.

What kind of compensation is provided for affiliate marketers?

This is an area where Express Revenue really shines. Because its founders understand the scaling capabilities of there publishers, they worked to make regular payments a reality. Weekly payments, and sometimes even faster is not a problem.

The company provides competitive rate matches on a cost-per-action basis. If a publisher knows of a better rate with another company, Express Revenue will work to match it or beat it.

Payments are made through AHC/wire, PayPal, or by check—whatever suits the publisher’s preference.

Incentives for publishers who work hard to bring in sales and leads

As an incentive to publishers to continue growing their websites, Express Revenue rewards publishers who generate more volume. For campaigns with high volume, the CPA payouts will increase and your account manager will ensure payments are made more quickly and on faster terms. Basically, the more volume and scaling potential there is, the more money there is to make.

Express Revenue also hosts several performance contests to help publishers stay motivated to building businesses and working on campaigns. From small contests, to larger contests, such as some that are tiered by revenue, and the highest performing publishers can win large prizes like cruises, travel packages, and a Private Jet membership!

Publishers can access contests from their dashboard once they’re logged into Express Revenue. All contests are network-wide.

My Verdict

For publishers, Express Revenue could very well be a game changer.

Simply having a custom tracking software with all the tools needed to succeed, and the ability to have access to a multitude of campaigns in one spot makes signing up worthwhile. And since there are no fees, there’s virtually no risk. Because it works the opposite direction for advertisers finding publishers to work with, this looks like a win-win situation from all sides.

“Express Revenue was made by Advertisers and Publishers, which allows ER to constantly adapt to industry trends, and provide you, our users, with the tools needed to stay cutting-edge and ahead of the curve” – Jake Kauffman, CEO Express Revenue

The payment features and incentives make Express Revenue particularly appealing for publishers over other CPA Networks. Cash flow, fast communication, having high rates, and fast payments can make or break a campaign. Five out of five stars here—we’re impressed.

Express Revenue has made the game of advertising a game everyone can win so join now by clicking the link below.

April 6, 2018

ShareASale Affiliate Program Review: Things You Need to Know

By Ricky Ahuja Affiliate Marketing

Are you an affiliate marketer constantly looking for new affiliate networks where you can find some highly converting offers in your niche? Or are you searching for affiliate networks to find new untapped niches to build your next winning campaigns?

Are you a product owner who is looking for a reliable affiliate network to find hungry affiliates who are always looking for good products to sell and earn their commissions?

In this article, we will talk about one of the biggest affiliate networks in the industry which you can join today for your affiliate marketing needs, may it be for earning commission as an affiliate or get help to sell your product as a merchant.

The network we will talk about here is, ShareASale (now a part of Awin), an affiliate network founded in the year of 2000. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States; ShareASale has thousands of offers and products listed on its website, out of which you can definitely find some golden nuggets to promote and make some good money from it.

ShareASale with its best customer support team active all round the clock, helps all of its affiliates and merchants to earn the best possible money out of their traffic.

How does ShareASale help its merchants?

ShareASale has a training tool, ‘Welcome kit’, which takes the merchants through a series of checklists and how-to-do concepts for a period of four weeks. This program is amazingly beneficial for all product owners or merchants to get started with the platform and make the best out of it.
ShareASale provides a report to its merchants from time-to-time which helps them know about the areas where they need to pay more attention for better growth of their business on ShareASale.
ShareASale conducts monthly webinars which covers advanced aspects of selling products by merchants and help them boost their sales as well as enhance their expertise of selling their products on the platform.
ShareASale provides their merchants with ‘Best Practices Series’ which are basically PDF files with tips and resources regarding FAQs about the platform.

How does ShareASale do its best for the affiliates?

ShareASale gives special priority to the growth of its affiliates by deploying a team of experts who are active all the time to help the affiliates with their queries and needs.
They understand how difficult it can be for the affiliates to find the best winning products out of more than 3000 products on their platform and so, they help their affiliates by recommending the best products to promote in their niche, which saves huge amount of time for the affiliates.
Affiliates can easily take advantage of the affiliate marketing classes, newsletters, webinars etc. to learn more about different aspects of affiliate marketing and getting deeper into them.
Monthly interviews are conducted by ShareASale for its affiliates so that they can show the affiliates how to better use their tools to optimize their campaigns.

What’s so great about ShareASale?

Now, let us talk about the technologies deployed by ShareASale which makes it a great affiliate network.

The tracking of ShareASale works completely in real-time which means you will be able to see your clicks and sales as soon as they occur. You don’t have to wait for the system to sync and show it.
Merchants can easily create different affiliate groups by the use of ‘tags’ based on certain criteria and easily manage them by sending group based newsletters, coupons, bonuses etc.
ShareASale Merchant API makes it possible for the merchants to easily void or edit transactions in real time, setting up recurring commissions, approve or declines requests from affiliates automatically based their own criteria and more.
Are you a merchant with many stores? Have no worries, ShareASale got you covered with its finest feature using which you can easily setup different stores within the same account but set different commissions for each of the stores. You can even upload creatives in different store categories for the affiliates. Also, all the clicks and sales reports are shown in different categories to the corresponding affiliates.
The strong affiliate API provided by ShareASale makes it possible for the affiliates to view their stats in real time without any delay, find niche relevant products by searching certain keywords and also to find new banners from the merchants as soon as they are uploaded by the merchants.
Affiliates can easily create custom deep affiliate links to promote in their marketing campaigns which makes it possible for them to send the traffic to certain product pages and promote winning products individually from a store. This optimization feature alone increases the earnings of affiliates by huge extent. There is also an optional feature, ‘SocialBar’, which helps the visitors to share the affiliate links with their friends and family on different social media platforms and by email.

My Verdict

Anyone looking forward to join a reliable affiliate network to take the sales at their store to the next level, ShareASale is definitely worth a shot!

ShareASale has products in all possible niches to promote and they will certainly have products for your niche as well. The only key here is to keep the traffic very targeted in a particular niche so that you can sell products in that niche to that small audience and make some decent commission, followed by scaling it up for different niches.

All in all, ShareASale with all of its strong features is undoubtedly one of the best affiliate programs we came across over the years.

January 31, 2018

What’s the Bitcoin Frenzy All About? We Break It Down

By Ricky Ahuja Business, Life Lessons

Until recently, most people have heard something about Bitcoin, but after this fall, everyone knows about it. Since the second half of September, the price for a single unit of Bitcoin has gone up nearly five times. From around $3000 on average, it has jumped to almost $17,000.

All of this happened within a three month period and, compared to January, when a single Bitcoin cost $800, the jump is huge. The news about this gigantic spike in value has made a lot of people pay attention and many of them are also jumping in, looking to invest.

The first ever crypt-index fund was opened, where adequate investors can trade with Bitcoins legitimately and now, a lot of people who were reluctant before are looking at the possibility of investing in Bitcoin and trading it. However, is it really smart to invest in Bitcoin? We break it down for you.

Cryptocurrency, what was it again?

This is a digital currency generated by a computer and it has encryptions that make it secure. They cannot be found in physical form. At their core, cryptocurrencies are code and nothing else. Still, this doesn’t mean that they aren’t valuable.

Bitcoin is the most well-known cryptocurrency and it was created in 2009. However, there are many other cryptocurrencies that have showed up on the market since then and one of the mentionable ones includes Litecoin that also had amazing growth in 2017 (over 7,000 percent).

Don’t rush into investing before knowing these things

Even though there is a lot of potential, like with any other investment, there are risks and you need to understand them in order to make a sensible investment. First of all, no cryptocurrency is backed by any government and they are all decentralized.
While others feel that this is a downside, others think that that this is what’s good about them as there are no banks involved and people can transfer Bitcoins whenever they want, while at the same time having the option to do this anonymously.

Still, no regulatory institution regulates its value if it rises or drops suddenly. Additionally, cryptocurrencies don’t have intrinsic value, meaning that their price is determined by how much people are currently willing to give for it. Cryptocurrencies don’t pay dividends, neither do they generate income.

This is why extreme value swings like the ones we have been witnessing recently are possible.

Is investing in cryptocurrency in long-term a thing?

It’s still too early to discuss long-term investing in digital currencies. There isn’t any long historical data like with the stock market and it’s impossible to make a good analysis of trends. Still, there are already people who are worried about the possibility of hitting a bubble.

Should you invest in any cryptocurrency?

It is possible to buy any cryptocurrency using various exchanges. Still, before you make such a move, make sure that you’ve set aside a sum that you don’t really need when it comes to your life quality. If you are investing, make sure that you will in no way be in danger if you lose the money you invested.

January 10, 2018

Post-Affiliate Summit Conference Adrenaline Rush?

By Ricky Ahuja Business

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[/fusion_text][fusion_text]”WTF do I do with all these business cards?” The common question many attendees ask after a long few days at a conference (this is assuming you are still hung-over). Word of advice: Don’t worry about the business cards until you get back to the office! There is no one that is expecting a call from, well perhaps your wife but other than that, literally no one. However, it is super important to reflect on your experience for personal growth and share that reflection with your peers to show that you are proactive and actually attended the conference to GSD (if you do not know what GSD, be sure to hit me up for some enlightenment)! Weigh out the pros, cons, successes and windows of opportunity and 5..4..3..2..1 – ACT upon them NOW.

Personal Reflection: Write in your planner, journal, smartphone notepad, your daughters scratch and sniff notebook – but just write. For your own personal growth and accountability, be sure to measure your performance at the conference. Learn from mistakes and glorify the major WINS then plan ahead for the next event. Ask yourself: “What could I do better for next time? What should I have done differently? Why do some people refuse to eat fish tacos?” But I digress.

Public Reflection: Blog about it on the company website, Facebook page, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Post on social media. Every business should have a website with fresh content (I know, I know, I need to look in the mirror before saying it here!) From a company perspective, you want to show your audience the strong points of the conference. Try to use more visuals (photos/video) instead of text. Too much text can lead to losing the readers attention (a problem in content marketing!) Reflect on speakers, team member speeches, favorite quotes, prominent photo ops, etc. It is time to dominate.

Follow up, Follow up, Follow up: Take the five most promising people you met, and follow up with them. Send them an email that starts by reminding them of the details of where you met and what you discussed, and ends with a next step to move forward. Do NOT leave it open-ended.

Connect on Linkedin/Facebook: This is one of my favorite strategies. I look the people up on Facebook or Linkedin (or Instagram if they are cute) using their business cards and add them to my network. Now, I know their birthdays, their occupation, and their day to day status (literally!). Best Rolodex in the world.

Introduce two people to each other: One of my colleagues, Steve Lowry, is a master at this. He finds one person at each event and introduces them to someone else he thinks they should know. Now, where those two people take the relationship is up to them, but he is always remembered as the guy who made the introduction!

Thank the host: A quick note thanking them will go a long way. Do not look at these events as a chance to make money or attain clients. Think of it as a personal growth exercise where you not only get to hone your networking skills but maybe even help/enlighten someone else on something they may not have known or thought of. This is a small community and as I like to say sometimes, “It is not about making a buck but about making a difference.”[/fusion_text]

January 3, 2018

How to Get the Most out of Attending a Trade Show

By Ricky Ahuja Business, Social Issues

If you want to rub shoulders with the movers and shakers in your industry, then attending a trade show is just the thing for you. At a typical trade show, you will have an opportunity to come across people you normally wouldn’t, since everyone involved in the industry will be there. Such shows normally last for 2 or 3 days (unless it’s Vegas then it’s a “crap” shoot). 😉

However, if you decide to attend a trade show which is out of town let alone a different country, you will have to spend a couple of days there, so it may seem like an expensive little adventure. That doesn’t mean that you should change your plans, you just need a good guide on how to get the most out of the show, so I will make sure to provide you with some useful tips!

1. Make a good choice

First of all, you need to be certain that you have chosen the right trade show to suit your needs. The most important thing to do before choosing is to check the show’s website in order to find out which companies will attend, check their Facebook page or newsletters to gauge the relevancy of the show.

2. Register ahead

Different shows offer different pricing and policies. If you do your research right, you can possibly save some money by registering in advance. There are some shows which exclusively cater to experts and qualified buyers, while there are some that will only require your online registration.

Moreover, if you register ahead, not only that you will save money, but you might also get an opportunity to schedule appointments with some companies and yes parties you can benefit from. Shows such as the Affiliate Summit and AWA and AWE tend to sell out so be sure to register well in advance.

3. Choose the right accommodation

It is advisable to stay at the hotel that is associated with the show you are attending, even though the prices may be higher than in other accommodations, because you will get a chance to run into many of the attendees there and you never know when you may run into your next big affiliate or advertiser. This is a great chance to make some acquaintances and potential business deals.

4. Stick to your plan

Attending any kind of show without having a precise plan is a bad idea because you will miss out on so many things. You need to determine what your goals are and stick to them. Since these shows are usually huge, the first thing you need to do as soon as you arrive is to get a map and familiarize yourself with the attendee list and their location.
You should mark the booths that are your priority and visit them first. Afterwards, if you have any time left that is, you can freely explore whoever else is there.

5. Carry your business cards with you

When it comes to such events, you never know when you are going to run into someone important. That is why you should always carry your business cards wherever you go. Moreover, it would be a good idea to make copies of your sell sheets and bring them as well. This is one of my biggest peeves – people who run out of cards on the first day, when in actuality they probably just forgot them.

6. Approach booths at the right time

At trade shows, timing is everything. If you pay a visit to a booth that is overcrowded, you won’t get a chance to interact with the right people. To avoid wasting your time and waiting in lines, it is recommended to visit booths on the second day. However, never wait for the last day because the majority of the companies may be already gone by then.

To sum up, attending trade shows can give you a lot of lucrative business opportunities, so make sure you follow my guidelines and stick to your plan to get the most out of them!

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