Well I did learn a lot while I was of the show, I kept my cool and worked on my product launch with some video testimonials, worked on my Facebook Campaigns, and my other PPC Campaigns. I learned some new ways of generating some traffic to CPA offers, learned some new aspects of article marketing and even learned some ways to brand yourself to the ‘furry’ extent. I have even manage to create close networking circle with some contestants. I have helped several new people with blogging and even creating their first PPC campaign.

The host and good friend Monica Durazo has finally started a blog and she is killing it already. Everyone on the blogosphere says she can’t do anything but look at her blog and now he is one of us!! She has walked into a geek/marketing show and she has learned a lot about blogging and creating brand. The other host Wes Wyatt is a very knowledgeable and family loving person. He has tons of domains and I encourage him to be a domain broker or domain flipper, he has so many domains and really good domains – I may have to buy some from him one day, just need his domain list.

Well, the purpose of this post is to show you guys what the other 11 contestants have to show and speak about. There was a huge learning curve for everyone and I simply just asked everyone what they learned at Top Affiliate Challenge that they have learned or if they would like to share a trick or tactic on what they specifically do. There is good information from everyone and everyone provided good solid information, while others were just ‘ehh’.

Well below are the tips and tricks in 3 seconds or more. While some provided a quick tip/trick, others provided some good detail on marketing and aspects of marketing. Everyone has their strong points and others came here to learn. A lot of networking has happened and a lot of potential new marketers are born. But let me get to the chase and the 9 minute video of what the other contestants has learned or is providing to you.

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Before:

This is the end of the night and we have survived the night and stress by simple preparing. As you can see below we prepared very quickly and made money within a 8 hour period. We talked to multiple affiliate managers and multiple networks to get the best deals and the best offers. We have managed to even party a lot and still take some money to take home, I mean concentrate throughout the night by taking ‘non-sleeping medication’.

After:

The Top Affiliate Challenge is very interesting and has very odd twists I did not expect. John Chow is a great team guru and is very fun to be with. He wants to have fun and be serious at the same time. Maybe tomorrow you might see John Chow on the table passed the hell out! Ok guys till next update!

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But what is in Lincoln, Nebraska? I am an east sider and I like to go out and ball out. Not too much I think I am getting old. But I want to experience each states natural ‘funess’. When I was in Vegas and San Francisco I was acting super tourist. I have never real traveled outside of the east side. I have been to every state on the East but nothing on the West or elsewhere.

What I plan to do in Lincolkn, Nebraska other than working my ass off at Top Affiliate Challenge is:

• Workout everyday – they have a gym in the hotel which is free so I can do some cardio or strength training regiment.
• See any clubs or bars out there that might be worth entertaining
• Eat out – I like to tray different cooking styles, since I like to cook myself

I started to research too about Lincoln, Nebraska and Wikipedia says:

The City of Lincoln is the capital and the second most populous city of the U.S. state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County and the home of the University of Nebraska. The population was 241,167 at the 2006 census estimate.

I know I will be meeting with other people there and the show starts on July First, so make sure to watch at Top Affiliate Challenge, root for Ian! I will definitely make the show extra nice, with a touch of east coast rumble and the show will be a hit! Now time to finish packing.

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Some of the bloggers or contestants I have met, JVed with, and have read their blogs. There are faces in the contest that I know and hope to network with them even after the show. If you have seen the Next Internet Millionaire, I assume this will be the same concept except it will be about affiliate marketing and not online marketing, a sub category of online marketing.

This competition or marketing show is made possible by Thor Schrock, whom I have also met and had great conversations in the past. Thor was one of the contestants in the Next Internet Millionaire as well and I think he had the most potential to do more than the winner. I mean you do not hear about Jaime Luchuck or even Charles Trippy. Thor has had ideas I bet once he was shipped home from the show and his name is ringing in the internet.

I hope to learn, network, and of course takeover. There are other experienced marketers on there and this would be good to compare myself to others. Now the blog maybe lost of post for the time I am in Nebraska, I may ask some of my readers to do a guest post, but still thinking I still have mixed ideas about guest posting.

Yesterday at the MSN AdCenter WorkShop

Yesterday, I was at the MSN AdCenter Workshop in New York. It was very informative but also very novice. Instead of just going for the whole day, I should have went to the afternoon sessions. The beginning of the MSN AdCenter workshop was starting with PPC and opening an MSN account. It also talked about PPC and it’s basics.

The crowd was more of business oriented people who want to target customers, very few affiliates. Sad Face. I was very interested in some of the affiliates that were there, I talked to some and even met one of my readers! It was pleasing to talk to one of my readers and told him if he needed help to just contact me.

There were also some aspects I found interesting such as landing pages and different types of ad copy strategies. The most entertaining part of the workshop was the use of MSN AdCenter Ad Intelligence Excel Tool. It is crazy nice! I have already installed it and I was playing around with it last night, I think it may be even powerful than my Wordtracker!!! It gathers a lot of data and let you know al ot of keyword information.

Another aspects that I like was the tools in AdCenter AdLabs, I already use a lot of the AdLabs tools, but the workshop broke down a lot of information and how to use it to our advantages. Since I just started with MSN I will make sure I will take over it, because the traffic is good converting traffic. Microsoft did a lot of case studies and their results are great. I have read from other bloggers and affiliate marketers that MSN is better converting than other T1 search networks, so I definitely want to take advantage of this.

The workshop was from 8-5 a whole day, by mid day I was tired and since most of the information were fairly basic with a trick here and there, I kinda doze off. But the AdLab tools woke me up and questions others asked, with the exception of “What are impressions?” WOW I swear the person should not have been at the workshop. I talked to a couple people and by the end of the day everyone seemed to rushed out, I mean I did too – I guess everyone was super tired from the workshop.

After seeing the big numbers and tools and even little tricks with ad copy and landing pages it has motivated me to do more and take over MSN! I definitely will try to bare with the shitty ajax interface, but Mark, our presenter said we are all qualified for the AdCenter Desktop tool! I am super ‘supped’ to get that and I sent her an email late last night to make sure I can get it and start all my campaigns I want to run! With the desktop I know I should be able to do more and uploads campaigns the way I want without waiting or the shitty adcenter interface crashing.

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