Ticketmaster Affiliate Program Review
Posted by Mike | Filed under Affiliate Programs
Last month I decided to try Ticketmaster for my Hawaii blog. I post a lot of events that happen in Hawaii each month and it made sense to sign up with Ticketmaster. I had some results, but not high earnings.
Anyone who buys tickets has likely heard of Ticket Master. They are one of the largest online sellers of tickets for sporting events, entertainment shows and more. If you run a website that promotes events I recommend looking at Ticketmaster’s affiliate program. It is run by Buyat.
Ticketmaster Interface
If you use Google Adsense, you will find the Ticketmaster affiliate area much more complex and not as user friendly. When you first log in you will get the current’s month statistics for your website clicks and sales. That is where the simplicity ends. Generating banners is not as user friendly as other affiliate programs I have used like Google Adsense and Commission junction.
Earnings
Unless you have a site with a lot of traffic, don’t expect to earn a ton of money. On average I average I earned about $1 per ticket sale. For the first 2 weeks on August I had 472 clicks returning 12 sales. From that I earned $11 based off $781.50 in sales. My Hawaii Blog gets about 12,000 to 18,000 unique visitors each month, so it gets some traffic, but it is far from a popular, known blog. I also didn’t post a lot of events in August. Having said that, receiving a measly 2.5% commission rate is not great.
Recommendations
If you run a small blog with little traffic stay away from Ticketmaster’s affiliate program. The code that you embedd on your site tends to slow down your pages. If you have a popular site and don’t mind a little slowness I recommend using the affiliate program if you are not having success with other affiliate programs. Here are my recommendations for using the program.
- Post informational articles about an upcoming even that is at least two weeks away
- Embed the Ticketmaster code into each article. Forget about having a simple Ticketmaster banner on your site. It won’t get clicked!
- Submit your articles to these seven social media sites to gain tons of traffic and helping your article rank well in Google and yahoo
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RegNow Affiliate Program - Software Sales!
Posted by Mike | Filed under Affiliate Programs
One of the most successful referral programs on my Zune Site (Microsoft Media player like iPod) is RegNow. The company manages software affiliate programs. For example, there are dozens of companies that sell software for the iPod. There are software companies that sell programs that help convert media files to play on your iPod like a DVD to iPod program. You can pop in a DVD into your player and convert the entire movie to play on your iPod. There are hundreds of software vendors on RegNow and I’m sure some will fit your site. The great news for website owners is many of these programs pay out 50-85% commissions!
One good example is Cucusoft. The company pays out a 85% commission of programs for iPods, Zunes, iPhones, PSP and other popular media devices. Most of my commissions have been around $22-25 per sale. During the holiday season I have made well over $1,000.
The great thing about using RegNow is most companies allow you to post links to the trial versions. This allows users on your site to download trial software versions and if the customers purchases the software down the road you get the commission.
I highly recommend trying RegNow if you have a website or blog that is geared towards electronics, video games or tech. Let me know how it works out for you!
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Why Your Blog Isn’t Getting Anywhere
Posted by Jug | Filed under BloggingI know there are people who set up blogs and wonder why their blogs aren’t getting more readers, visitors, and even income. I have received numerous e-mails before asking for advice and techniques to make their blog get to the next level, so now I am writing this post to make you aware why some blogs (or why YOUR blog) isn’t getting anywhere.
Why Your Blog Isn’t Getting Anywhere
You aren’t a dedicated blogger. If you aren’t dedicated enough, then expect to see no improvements. If you post once a month, don’t even bother assuming that your blog is gradually growing… per month. If you own a blog, make sure that you spend some time on it everyday or at least thrice a week.
You never listen to suggestions. You are close-minded. Sometimes, you can only realize the best things that you must implement through suggestions from readers and other peers. If you think you’re so great and you don’t need any more improvements for your blog, then you’re nothing but a loser. Remember that you (and your blog) can only grow if you are willing to take constructive criticism and advice from BETTER and MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE people.
You cheat yourself. There are people who cheat by forcibly increasing their subscriber count. They think that by having more (fake) subscribers, more adverstisers will come their way, thus they would make more money. If you do this, then obviously your blog won’t get to the next level! Even if you have 1,550 subscribers, but 1549 of them are fake, then you still won’t make it to blogging stardom. 
You blog because you want to make money — and that’s it. Seriously now, many people create blogs solely to earn money. Helping people? Giving advice? Publishing their thoughts and opinions? No, nada, zilch. Those things never come into their minds. The only thought that they have is “MAKE MORE MONEY”. Now if that’s your goal, then why don’t you beg on the streets? Blogging should be considered as a way to help others, keep track of your achievements, and express your opinions. It should not be used as a tool to MERELY make some money.
Basically that’s it. If you do the aforementioned things, then your blog won’t be getting anywhere. It will slowly die, trust me.
P.S. A friend of mine is going to launch an internet marketing blog, and he’s looking for ‘early’ subscribers. He’s not publishing posts yet (as far as I know… well, you gotta trust me, I’m subscribed!), but I’m pretty sure that once the blog is up there would be some awesome posts.
Confirmed e-mail subscribers will be automatically included in a raffle, wherein one lucky e-mail subscriber will get $20 cash through PayPal. I am urging you guys to subscribe and not miss out on this one!
