Hooray! I won the 5th Affiliate Marketing Challenge run by Tyler Cruz!!!

OK, ok, keep your pants on – I’ve not become a PPC guru overnight or anything.

What I won is the prize for the part of the challenge intended for lame bloggers that can’t do any better. lol…

Nevertheless it’s a good feeling to win, and I hope that this or the following month I will be in the real winners’ list.

This month’s challenge is bigger than ever, having great prizes (but, also more contestants). Go over there and win something while it’s easy enough. Give it one or two months and it’ll be too crowded with experts going after the iPods and the Laptops. (This month there’s a Segway i2 as one of the prizes! wtf?! I want one.)

One more reason to participate

This challenge is a great way to put pressure on yourself to succeed in affiliate marketing.

Take PPC for example. You’re bound to loose money in the beginning. This is a fact and one of the rules of the game.

But with a challenge, even if you’re not breaking even, there’s a possibility for a great prize to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. (segway, segway… aaaaa..)

“There is a total of $11,475 worth of prizes up for grabs, including a 60-inch 1080 HDTV, Sony 60GB HD Camcorder, HP Compaq Notebook, and yes… even a freaking Segway i2!

Whether you’re a super affiliate, medium affiliate, or brand new to affiliate marketing, we have prizes aimed just for your skill level. We even have prizes for bloggers who post about this contest, so everybody is eligible to win a prize as long as you either do affiliate marketing or have a blog.” (TylerCruz.com)

Now, as a reminder:

To get the prizes you’ll have to sign up to Market Leverage using Tyler’s affiliate link and do what you do best. You cannot participate, though, if you are already working with Market Leverage. Oh wait – that’s not entirely correct. You can still write a blog post promoting the contest and get a chance to win a bloggers’ prize.

Now, go and have some affiliate fun at Tyler’s!

- Alex

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I won, I won Tyler Cruz’ Affiliate Marketing Challenge

Actually, the oven was on during the whole last year of me blogging on this blog. The problem was that blogging is way too comfortable for someone like me. You sit down in your home office, you write, you’re being social..

Anyway, this comfort zone had a high fence around it with barbed wire and German shepherds trying to keep me in. But, I’ve finally made the switch and going into PPC affiliate marketing full time.

Hooray! And, as you can see I’m still blogging though. Lol.. And that’s the way it is going to be. What better way of keeping your spirits than having a place to vent your frustrations or share your success?

First Steps in PPC

Well, what are the first steps I took before plunging in?

1. Started reading a few PPC related blogs. This is something I neglected during the year. WHAT? Why? Well, I was following bloggers trying to make money with their blogs. Some were succeeding, but most were not.
   Do you know how hard it is to make money with your blog? No? Well it is. You have to have tons of traffic, tons of followers (rss, twitter, etc.). You don’t have traffic – you don’t have nothing.

   I now realize that I should have spent my time following the leading affiliate marketers on their blogs. But, wtf. The year was well spent and I learned alot.

2. Joined a coaching program. I think this is the most important part of my progress. Without the continuous fuel and motivation it gives me to push forward I’d probably never would have gotten out from the “zone”.
   I knew there were a few of those around, and I’ve tried to compare and read reviews before deciding which one to join.

   I finally made my choice and joined PPC-Coach. The program offers a great set of tools and it has a great community which is constantly active on the forums. And, of course, there’s the coach, which personally sends you feedback when you ask for it.

The hardest part in the beginning is to stop reading and start doing. That’s exactly what the coaching does. It walks you through a few guides, few of which you might already picked up elsewhere, and then smacks you in the face, forcing you to get your butt up and do some actual PPC.

Great!

Well, that’s it for today. I’m off to pursue my dream. (Where are you headed?)

- Alex

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Changing Track to PPC Affiliate Marketing

On this journey I’ve stumbled upon a contest held by Tyler Cruz, which is sponsored by Market Leverage, an affiliate network that has great future ahead of it. If you just can’t hold yourself till the end of this post, go right now to check out the details at the Affiliate Marketing Challenge page.

This is actcually the fifth (monthly) contest he holds and I’m just sorry I didn’t hear about it several months ago, because the prizes are really great. And if you’ve had some experience in affiliate marketing then getting those prizes is not that hard either.

“There is over $11,000 worth of prizes up for grabs ($11,120 to be exact) including a 52″ 1080p HDTV, Alienware computer package, Playstation 3, and 16GB iPod Touch to name a few.

Whether you’re a super affiliate, medium affiliate, or brand new to affiliate marketing, we have prizes aimed just for your skill level. We even have prizes for bloggers who post about this contest, so everybody is eligible to win a prize as long as you either do affiliate marketing or have a blog.” (TylerCruz.com)

To get the prizes you’ll have to sign up to Market Leverage using Tyler’s affiliate link and do what you do best. You cannot participate, though, if you are already working with Market Leverage. Oh wait – that’s not entirely correct. You can still write a blog post promoting the contest and get a chance to win a bloggers’ prize.

Now, go and have some affiliate fun at Tyler’s!

- Alex

Happily posting useful content at Net-Entrepreneur.com
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Did You Hear About This Affiliate Marketing Challenge?