by kirtok on December 1, 2009
in Personal
This is my personal blog. My current readers know that I write on any topic I like.
Lately, I have been focused mostly on affiliate marketing, and I’m pretty excited about it. I want to share more about affiliate marketing and that’s the only reason I’m changing the focus of this blog from broader marketing, ebiz & personal topics to narrower affiliate marketing. I will keep writing personal stuff once in a while though.
Since I’ve written a few posts related to affiliate marketing, I have received numerous emails asking questions and more information about affiliate marketing.
This is one of the reasons why Kirtok.com’s new name is; Internet Marketing with Kirtok.
I wasn’t sure about changing the name to “Affiliate Marketing with Kirtok” or “Internet Marketing with Kirtok”, and I’ve decided to use the “Internet Marketing with Kirtok”.
To be able to run a successful affiliate marketing business, you need to be good at several fields in internet marketing. So whether it is affiliate marketing, email marketing or SEO, I will be blogging about anything related to internet marketing.
Check out this post I’ve written about Affiliate Marketing Success while I get busy writing some cool posts, tutorials and case studies.
If you are new at kirtok.com; Welcome, and I hope your time spent here will be worth.
I love receiving feedback. So keep the comments coming, and feel free to ask anything in the comments. I’ll do my best to answer all the questions.
Live blogging from Affiliate Summit East, please refresh for up to date content
This is the 3rd session I am attending today and live blogging.
Presenters at SEO Site Clinic:
Important Notes from the SEO Clinic Session:
- Rae Hoffman of Sugarrae, Inc. is giving an example from their site TheBinocularSite
- Michael Gray is mentioning Quarkbase.com
- Chris Pearson mentioned the “The Blender Guy” example for getting free backlinks
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When I talk to people who are just starting with affiliate marketing, I get tons of newbie questions. One of the most popular questions is;
Should I buy an affiliate marketing education product/course/eBook?
Since the day I’ve started doing affiliate marketing, I have never purchased an affiliate marketing education course, product, or an ebook. (but I have received many review copies from several gurus/experts without asking for it).
I have received several recommendations from friends I trust, but after reviewing some of the sales pitches, I didn’t feel like buying any of them.
Internet marketing information product niche has become a huge market and I have nothing against this market getting bigger every day.
The problem I have is;
Most of these self-claimed gurus don’t tell you the truth. They have one and only one goal; To sell you their information products.
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I have been involved with affiliate marketing business for almost 4 years now. Like any other online marketing method, I have started with reading and researching about affiliate marketing. I have read every single blog post, forum topic and article I could find about affiliate marketing before running my first campaign. While researching about affiliate marketing, I was getting more excited every single day.
I had the feeling that affiliate marketing would be the next big thing for me and for the internet advertising. Later, it was proven… Affiliate marketing was the next big thing for me.
Lately, I have been getting involved more in affiliate marketing industry, and trying to network more often with fellow affiliate marketers and networks. During these networking events, I have been meeting with many smart people who are new to the industry and just getting started with affiliate marketing business.
I am a huge believer in the benefits of networking and helping the newbies. I help people without asking for a return or favor. It might sound too naive, but this is a part of my character, and I’m glad I have this in my genes. As much as I would like to help all the newbies in affiliate marketing, my crazy busy schedule doesn’t let me to be flexible. Therefore, I have decided to share almost everything I know about affiliate marketing via my blog posts. I am also planning to add videos and screencasts.
Let’s start with the mindset I had when I was first starting affiliate marketing.
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My brother Volkan and I were invited to Azoogle’s Publisher Appreciation Day on Thursday. We wanted to go to Azoogle’s office early and spend some time with our affiliate manager Michael Boghosian. It was my first time meeting Michael face to face. He turned out to be a great, down to earth guy and we had awesome time.
We have met Michael at Azoogle’s office around 3.30pm, then some other affiliates started coming in around 4pm. We have spent some time in Azoogle’s kitchen chatting with other affiliates and met some smart people.
Then, we had a chance to meet Epic Advertising’s CEO Don Mathis. He also had a surprise drawing for a free ticket to Azoogle’s Playboy Mansion Party. After the short meeting, we have headed out for happy hour in Manhattan. Azoogle was a great host and had bunch of food and drinks for the whole night.
Our final stop was a bar in the city where Epic Advertising COO Charles Nowaczek was playing with his band.
It was a great event. I met many affiliates and affiliate managers. Here are some names I still remember after several drinks;
Kyle Paterson, an affiliate from New Jersey, great guy, we have talked bunch of things through the night.
Jon Fisher of Wickedfire.com, met him first time, seemed like a very nice and quiet guy.
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Important Update: This post is the 101 information about CPA Marketing, also known as CPA Arbitrage. I see many visitors coming to this page to look for more information about an affiliate marketing course called “CPA Arbitrage”. If you are looking for further information on this course, please visit this link. If you are here to learn more about CPA Arbitrage, and CPA Affiliate Marketing, please keep reading below.
Let’s Start with the definitions of CPC and CPM
In online advertising, widely known two advertising methods are CPC (Cost Per Click) and CPM (Cost per thousand impressions). In the CPC method, advertiser pays a fixed or variable $ amount per each click its site receives. In the CPM method, advertiser pays a set or variable $ amount per 1000 impressions its advertisement (banner, contextual, etc.) is shown regardless of CTR (Click Through Rates).
There are many advertising venues in the market which sell both CPC and CPM methods, some to name; Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN AdCenter, etc.
What is CPA ?
Compared to CPC and CPM methods, CPA is a newer advertising model. CPA is called “Cost per Action” or “Cost per Acquisition”. In the CPA method, advertiser doesn’t pay for the impression or click. Advertiser pays when an action is taken by visitor. Here are some popular CPA advertising offer types:
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