Ian Fernando » Interviews

Clickbooth Catches Me on Camera

Ian — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:30:42 +0000

In January I went and visited the Clickbooth campus. It was a great time hanging out with Eric and my Brittany. Besides taking my acting skills to a whole new level, Eric pulled me aside and we had a great conversation about out industry.

Another great part while I was in Sarasota, FL was the nice scenery. Eric took me out to lunch that day and I got to see some great places and beaches. One of the best part was seeing the night life… If you watch the video to the end you will see that Clickbooth got me on camera without me knowing…

…but I cleared the floor… literally… watch below

FIRST! … at the NEW Clickbooth Campus

Ian — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:11:29 +0000

When I visited Eric at the Clickbooth office, I was invited to get a sneak peak of the brand new campus. It was a crazy day of just having fun an a brand new building. It had that new building smell to it. The unique part is the fact they have two big buildings. It was a nice day in Sarasota that we decided to do a Youtube Hollywood clip.

Below is the video we did at the new building. It took months to prep up for this part and a lot of acting practice. But I think I held it down and I did my thing. I am hoping to appear at the Grammy’s next year for “Best Affiliate Actor”.

Enjoy.

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Interview: Wes Mahler and the New Vision of 202

Ian — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:25:40 +0000

The past couple days I was hanging out with Wes Mahler, Tracking202 team, and BlooSky. As you know BlooSky acquired tracking202. The ideas between Wes and Bloosky owners are some great visions which I do want to see in affect. Expect some big changes in the prosper202 platform and how meetup202 are being organized. The vision they see are very powerful and Bloosky took advantage of what Wes has already done within the affiliate industry.

Well why all this change? Wes and his Tracking202 team has done a great job at creating such a platform, that I bet a good amount of affiliates has or is using Tracking202/Prosper202. So I had a chance to grab Wes and talk about the merge and the branding behind tracking202 with Bloosky.

We go in-depth about a couple things but also kept it pretty general. Watch the video below…

Interview with Glenn from Unique Leads

Ian — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:18:15 +0000

Its been while since I did a podcast, so I decided to do one.

…I just got off the phone with the VP of Unique Leads, Glenn Pagan. We discuss the after affect of ad tech and as well as their network and how they differentiate themselves from others. We discuss international traffic and how lucrative the market is overseas versus domestic.

All in all it was a great interview… If you do not know Glenn you should I interviewed him a while back about the changes our industry is having. Now with more information and a love for our industry he comes back with more information.

Unique Leads is currently having a contest where they are going to fly out an affiliate to the Affiliate Convention in LA. Now I have been to LA and LA is super nice! I personally havent been to the Affiliate Convention but I did hear a lot of good news about it from its first one in Denver.

You can easily win a trip to the Affiliate Convention, find out more about this contest.

Listen to our call and let us know what you think.

MediaTrust: All About the FTC and More…

Ian — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:49:43 +0000

This is the last of the video series that I have been posting up in the past few days. This one is a pretty lengthy one and a really good video I think in my opinion. I got a chance to talk to Lauren from MediaTrust about the issues that has been going around the affiliate marketing industry about the blog style designs, using celebrity images, ftc laws, and all that good stuff.

I think I asked too many questions about the FTC to Lauren that she started turning red as the video progresses, but she held her own. The video is 10 minutes long, so I hope you are able to watch it that long, it does have a lot of good info. Lauren definitely gave a lot of information and was willing to share the information with me and my readers.

Again, I want to thank Peter and the whole MediaTrust team for having me at their office and hope to come visit once more!

That is it with the video series that I have been posting in the past couple days and I hope they were all informative. If you missed any, you can check the rest via my YoutTube Channel.

DirectAgents: Agency Side of a Network

Ian — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:56:03 +0000

As you know I have been doing a serious of video interviews with a network the past couple days and I hope it has been very informative. I am reaching the last couple and today I have Daniel from Direct Agents to speak about how they do search campaigns on the agency side of Direct Agents. As you know from the prior videos with Direct Agents, they are not just an affiliate network but an agency as well.

They handle other clients and send traffic either search or seo. I thought it would be a good idea to interview him and how they do search for their clients. Daniel has a team of 5 I believe, which handles other clients. We discuss how they set their budget, what person works with what advertiser, etc. Good interview on how an agency does it.

Direct Agents: 6 Years in the Making

Ian — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:04:39 +0000

I got another great interview for you guys! I sat down with the co owner of Direct Agents and he goes through and speak about his network and how he overseas all actions in the agency and network.

Our discussion consists of Direct Agents as a company and how how they perform as an agency and as a network. Josh goes into details about Direct Agents and how rapidly they are growing. They are growing so fast desk are on top of desks!

Enjoy the interview! BTW trying something new – a lightbox will appear when you press play on video to play the actual video.

MediaTrust Interview: Pulling Offers for Publishers

Ian — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:45:27 +0000

Again I am back with a really good interview from MediaTrust and this one is geared towards the types of offers we want and how we want it to look. When we are with a network and there are offers that did will last year or want to test out an offer you often ask the network, do you have this offer.

Well, it is interesting to see how a network does that on their and and how they grab it to fill our needs and all affiliates a like. While I was at the MediatTrust office I interviewed Shauntel (I apologize if I spelled your name wrong) to discuss how she pulls in offers. We discuss what an exclusive is, how she pulls in offers that relates to our needs, etc.

I apologize for the lighting, in my camera screen it looked good. I guess once I stepped in the shot it decided to go dark on me. In any case it was a good interview seeing how a network works to help us out.

In Depth Direct Agent’s Contest Conversation

Ian — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:51:49 +0000

While I was at the Direct Agents Office this past Friday, I was able to grab some people to talk about the industry and what their network is doing differently from the other networks. Well, I pulled Francesca and she was a bit nervous but she easily got comfortable in front of the camera.

Our topic was all about the current contest they are currently hosting across networks. We talk about the reason for having such a contest and how users can get a really great prize on being a top affiliate at Direct Agents. I want to thank Francesca again for having the interview with me as well as the up and coming video interviews I have in store for you guys. So expect more video interviews in the coming days or subscribe via my YouTube channel to get first exclusives.

Generally Speaking with MediaTrust

Ian — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:10:56 +0000

Almost like I was part of MediaTrust’s Relevantly speaking video series. Anyways, I got Glenn from MediaTrust to talk about certain aspects of MediaTrust and what they are up to as a company.

A couple things that were interesting were the fact that MediaTrust/Advaliant is partnering with Facebook to provide a better service to affiliates. Now I personally think this is a great jump into Facebook marketing. I have had several case studies on marketing on Facebook and I would sometimes reach a snag.

For example, everyone that does advertise with Facebook will have an account representative! Now that is such a huge plus, since it is hard to get a rep at Facebook now.

There are also random discussion with overseas affiliates and how MediaTrust/Advaliant as a company will leverage the industry to help benefit others. Enjoy the interview!

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