I’ve been watching how the Inspired Affiliate Marketing Challenge unfolds on a daily basis and pretty much as I expected, there is a decent amount of people signing up for the challenge but only a few people are actually generating revenue.  Remember, this contest is all about revenue and not profitability and revenue is actually really easy to generate as an affiliate, especially if you’re not super concerned with being profitable right out of the gate.

I want to help you guys participate in the challenge so I’m going to do something fairly unusual that you’re not going to see many Bloggers do out there.  I’m going to setup an offer through Amped media in my account and I’m going to reveal exactly what I’m doing every step of the way.  Because I’m going to show everything on here, someone can and may completely copy exactly what I’m doing every step of the way, so it may not even work for me due to this and I may lose money on this, but at least it will show you guys each step involved.  Hopefully some of you may be inspired to use what you learn to launch your own campaigns.

What I’m going to show is just ONE way to do things. It may not be the best way to do affiliate marketing, it may not work with every offer, it may not work for you, it may not even work for me, but it is one way that I’ve had some success with and I thought I’d demonstrate it for you guys.

So, here it goes…

Step 1 – Picking an Offer

The first thing I do is I login to my account with Amped Media.  I see this screen:

Now, let me back up here for one sec.  If you haven’t yet signed up with Amped Media, follow this link to get a Free account setup right now.  That way you’ll be able to follow along with what I’m doing.

Ok, so I’m logged in and I see all the offers on their site.  In the "Quick Links " section on the left I can search for "Offers by Category " or I can click on the "Campaigns " menu item up top to search through the available campaigns.

For this demo, I’m going to just pick a random offer.  Here’s what I’m going to go with:

Campaign Name: ClickonHealth – Free Diabetes Guide – Short Form
Payout: $1.15 / lead
Campaign Limited to: United States
Promotion Methods: Email, Banner, Search

Ok, so basically this is an offer for people to get a free guide on learning how to control their diabetes.  Essentially anyone who has diabetes or thinks they may have diabetes might be interested in signing up to receive free information regarding it, and anyone that fills out the short form which only requires their Name, Last Name, Email and Zip Code will earn me a $1.15 / lead.

At this point in the Inspired Affiliate Marketing Challenge , nobody has claimed the number 3 spot yet, so if I was eligible for my own competition (which I’m not), all I would need to do is find ONE person who is interested in getting a FREE guide on controlling diabetes and I would earn $1.15 and be in the #3 spot in the contest to win a Logitech Gaming Keyboard!

Let me pause here for one second.  I really don’t even need to go any further and teach you guys any more than this.  Just by showing you this offer, you SHOULD be able to earn at least $1.15.  I mean, you could literally pick up the phone or email your friends and family and I would be willing to bet that you can find at least ONE person who wouldn’t mind getting a free guide to controlling diabetes.  I mean, if you ask around you probably know a few dozen people who either have diabetes or know someone who has diabetes (parent, child, friend, relative etc.)

Let’s say that you wanted to send an email to a friend who wouldn’t mind receiving a free diabetes guide.  How would you go about doing that?

Well, when you click on the offer on the Amped Media site you’ll go to the offer details page and in there you will see text boxes with your link codes for the offer page.  If you look in the first text box, you’ll see a link in there right after an "< A HREF = " tag.  It will look something like this:

http://www.amclicks.com/r.php?a=CDxxxx&b=6191&o=&d=0&l=0

Once you know what to look for, these links are pretty easy to find.  If you get stuck and can’t find your affiliate link for the offer, don’t be afraid to ask your Affiliate Manager at Amped Media, or shoot me a quick email and I’ll help you out.

So, if you have this link (don’t copy the one above as yours will be different), you can then send people to that page in order to fill out the form.  If you do know someone personally who wouldn’t mind a free diabetes guide, you can send them this link and when they go to the page and fill out the details you’ll earn $1.15 per lead and be in the running to win prizes in the Inspired Affiliate Marketing Challenge.

Of course there is no need to get your friends or family involved, but I was just pointing out how easy it is to at least make a few bucks and get in on this months contest.  To really get your revenues flowing what you’ll need to do is find a source of qualified leads for your offer.

If you have a Blog or website, you could take some of the banner ads available for this offer and place a banner on your website.  Then, anyone who has diabetes or knows someone with diabetes and who wants a free guide may click on the banner and fill out the information and you’ll get paid.  If you have a website that gets a lot of traffic from people who may be interested in such an offer, it might be a viable option for you.  However, if you don’t (and most of us probably won’t), then what we can do is buy traffic from other sources such as the search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN or by purchasing banner space on other people’s websites.

I will cover how to go about that in the next installment of this series of articles.  For now you should have the following completed:

1. You should have your Amped Media account created and approved.  Click here to Sign Up.
2. You should be able to login to your account and browse around for offers to promote.
3. You should be able to pick an offer and understand the types of promotion methods you can use to promote it.  Typically it’s a combination of any one of the three major types, being "Search ", "Web " and "Email " or a combination of any/all of the above.
4. You should be able to see the "Creatives " available for your offer.  Creatives are the banner ads and graphics available for your use.
5. You should be able to find and use your personalized affiliate link for your offer.
6. If you do know someone personally that may be interested in the offer you’re promoting, you may want to try sending them the link to see if they are interested.  You never know, they might go for it and you’ll earn your first commission.
7. If you know how to use Google or the other search engines to find qualified leads, or if you have a website or email list that may be interested in one of the offers on Amped Media, you can send the offer to them using your personalized affiliate link and earn commission.

That’s it for Part 1.  Stay tuned for Part 2 coming soon.

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