Jan

12

A Year In Review….

January 12, 2011 | 11 Comments

Where to start, where to start?It’s been quite an emotional roller coaster of a year with my cancer scare, and my dad living threw a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm ( less then a 0.1% survival rate! ).  Financially it was better then 2009, but still not what I need or what I want! In the start of 2010 I decided to go SEO only. I was losing shirt with PPC and simply could NOT afford to gambling with my money like that anymore. One year later SEO has paid off, but in the last 2 months it has not been as consistent as I need it be. Nor is it making me rich!

Lets just jump into the numbers. Oh and charts because charts are fun-a-roo!

This First Chart is of my Monthly Earning since January 2010…

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FOR A YEARLY GRAND TOTAL EARNING FROM SEO of

… Drum Roll PLEASE….

$ 22,340.46

Next… This Chart is my Daily Average Earnings Per Month – Since January 2010…

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Before I go into my thoughts all of this… Here’s  a list of my monthly bills so that we can put this more into perspective…

Mortgage         $ 425.00
Water $ 100.00
Heat $ 65.00
Prosper Loan $ 47.00
Chase Credit Card $ 20.00
Personal Loan $ 55.00
Personal Credit Card #1 $ 20.00
Personal Credit Card #2 $ 60.00
Personal Credit Care #3 $ 20.00
NY & Co Credit Card $ 20.00
Prosper Loan $ 47.00
Chase Credit Card $ 15.00
AMX Silver – Business $ 60.00
Advanta – Business $ 60.00
Health Insurance $ 150.00
Cable $ 15.00
Cell Phone $ 100.00
Host Gator $ 20.00

FOR A GRAND TOTAL of  $ 1,350.00

Bare in mind a few things… For starter I didn’t include, food , gas, monthly out sourcing expense, taxes or any miscellaneous expenses like dog care and such. So, If I want to make an estimate on the random expanses, I would say I need to make :

$2000.00 a month on average to sustain myself.

This means I need to make AT THE VERY LEAST $67.00 a day ( 7 DAYS A WEEK. )

Furthermore, this does not include putting extra money away into savings, retirement, toward my Credit Card debt, or for a wedding I might have someday….. Luckily my boyfriend pays for my car & car insurance. This is a “deal”  we came up with so that I could work on paying off my credit cards. Furthermore, lets also keep in mind I still have my “other” business , and I do a little ebay ( more on that on a different post) that brings in some extra cash. BUT this give everyone a good indication as to have much I need to make a day to “be comfortable” . While I understand that $45.00 average daily in ‘passive income’ is NOT to shabby , it’s not even close to anything I can live off of comfortably.  From online marketing alone, there were only 3 or 4 months last year that I was making more than my needed $2000.00 a month.

Additional I feel like in this stage of the game I should easily be way ahead of $67.00 day.  People like Brendan ( 20YearBillionaire.com ) , Pat Flynn (SmartPassiveIncome.com) , Beermonies.com, Nicole ( nicoleonthenet.com ) are all making $100,000 a year or MORE and  they ALL started around the same time I did. Some are even making a month, what I made in ALL of 2010! When I look at these people I get a very discouraged and dishearten. For inspiration and  to figure out “what I am missing” I have been spending every ounce of my free time listening to pod casts, reading blogs, and going on forums.  By doing this I have come up with a couple of conclusions:

#1. I need to set specific Goals. The more specific the better.

#2. “The middle of the road is the best place to get run over.”

#3. You get back what you give.

I will elaborate on #1 in a later post, because honestly I have a broad over view of goals but I believe they need to be more specific. #2 and #3 go together. #2 basically means if you do what everyone else is doing your going to get run over… and #3 means just it what it sounds like, I need to give more. In this case I need to give out more information of what exactly I do. In the next coming year I am promising to you to be more transparent. Honestly, there is only so much of my personal drama that one person can read before they lose interest. The promise to give out more information makes me nervous because I sometimes don’t have the confidence my abilities to share my “secrets” with the world. I fear the ‘experts’ will snicker and laugh at there computers and think “hahahahahaha this girl is doing that! Know wonder she’s dropping in google. She’s an Idiot!”. Additionally I worry the ‘bad guys’ will break into my site and sabotage them … I don’t know how they will do that, but I worry that they will… However, lately have been reading a lot from  Pat Flynn’s (SmartPassiveIncome.com)  and Glen’s ( ViperChill.com ) blog. Both of these guys just put it out there. Here’s what I do and here’s how I do it…. Thoughts?

As for my personal goals for 2011 here they are ( Again, I will go into more detail with you when I, myself, know them.. ) My main goal is diversify, diversify, D E V E R S I F Y. I can’t make it off one site and currently I relying 80% on one site. So, that needs to change and this is how I plan to change it…..

  • Make 5 more sites. Get them up. Rank Them. Make money with them via affiliates, google adsense, Amazon.
  • After they rank, Tell you all step by step, from start to finish how I did it!
  • Write an , promote, rank an e-book. Yup an ebook (  Most nervous about this one ).
  • Be more transparent with you, my readers.
  • Get more readers.. Specifically 100 Subscribers by the end of the year. I plan to do this by simply giving out better content.
  • Tell you more about the products & software I use.
  • Start a membership site ( maybe ? )…
  • Daily earnings goals:
  • Keep current income revenue coming – $50 a day
  • Eventually make a minimum of 2 sales a day on my ebook  – $40 a day.
  • Make $20 in sales a day from Amazon Associates.
  • Make $50 a day in NEW affiliate sales.
  • Make a minimum of 2 membership sales a day – $20 a day .

Of course I am LOW balling all these goals so that they attainable…  The about figures would add up to be $180 a day =  $5400 a month! AND $65,700 a year. $65,700 is below my goal of $100,000 BUT I do think it’s a great and attainable goal for 2011.

Questions? Comments ? Concerns? They are all welcome and loved.

Love,

Becky

Dec

29

Yet Again, Peerfly Makes me Smile

December 29, 2010 | 8 Comments

Sooooo, as we all know that last two months online have, well, stunk. My earnings aren’t any better, but I have been working my bum off! I’ve been able to pay my bills this month, but I won’t lie I am nervous about next month. Just before Christmas, while having a pitty party for myself my door bell rings and there is UPS with a HUGE – and I really mean HUGE – Package for me!?!? Lets get real folks, who doesn’t LOVE – L O V E – LOVE getting packages? Of course my next though was who could it be from? After a little investigation I figured out it was from Peerfly!

Yes, good ol’ Peerfly! They consistently come through and makes me think, “wow” this network is just plan amazing. The package was not only Huge is was heavy. I didn’t even know what it was before I started to open it. I am sure you are all wondering by now what it was! Well, it was a Giant Omaha steaks package! I mean enough food to feed an army. Filet Mignons , Pork Chops, Steaks, Beef Tips,  Hamburgers, Cakes, and Bake potato’s! Oh, and don’t forget to keep it cold it was packed in dry ice. I have no idea how much Omaha steaks cost , but this must have been $100 to $150 package for all this food!  I felt like a king – or in my case a princess. Here are some so pictures of the all the goodies, please try not to get to jealous!

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It was so much food that I invited friends over to enjoy it with me. And if you remember from previous posts sitting down to a nice dinner with people I love is one of my favorite things to do in life. I bought a couple bottles of wine and we all sat around for hours enjoying the wonder food.

It doesn’t stop here! THEN, a couple days later, I get an e-mail from Peerfly stating the following:

“PeerFly Christmas Early Payment Special – Because we want to make this a Christmas you won’t forget, we’re giving you the option to cash out your entire PeerFly balance (as long as you have at least $50) for FREE to be paid within 3 days (normally a 17% fee)! If you want it sooner, you can cash out your balance and get paid within 8 hours for only a small 10% fee (normally 22%)!”

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME! I cashed out with in seconds of getting this e-mail. I mean what other networks would do this? Go a head and tell me network who does this if you are NOT a super affiliate? Oh, yup, you can’t think of any can you? BECAUSE THERE ARE NONE! The people at Peerfly actually DO care about you!

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Love,

Becky

Dec

6

From Bad to Worse

December 6, 2010 | 13 Comments

Oh Gosh…. January 1st marks my 1 year anniversary change to SEO, and at this rate I almost feel like I am back were I have started from. I am dreading even writing this post because of the stress and disappointment I know it is going to dredge up. Yesterday was my worst earnings day in over 8 months. I made exactly $32.67. Yup… Not even $40.00. Keep in mind that there are only 19 more days till Christmas… This drastic decrease in earnings honestly sends shivers down my spine.

To give you a since on how bad it has been here is a 3 month chart of my AdSense earnings and AdSense impressions..… Now, mind you, this is decrease in earnings is happening among all my networks, NOT just AdSense.

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Now what am I going to do about this? Well, I have yet to figure that out. I know I am in deep, deep dog poop though if this continues this way….

I’ll post soon as to what’s happening and hopefully it’ll be a good update!

Love,

Becky

Nov

24

When Your Earnings Drop By 40%

November 24, 2010 | 13 Comments

Gee Whiz.. What a month…. So, the month started out great. My earnings were good, three sites were climbing google nicely and not ONE but TWO blogs gave me GREAT plugs in their blogs. Thank you Tyler [ www.TylerCruz.com ] and Dan [ www.dans-blog.com ]! You guys rock ! The plugs brought me some new readers, which is great. Still not making a dime from this darn blog though. On the up side, it does keep in the loop and that is defiantly worth something. Still I don’t yet have 50 subscribers, so no one has won my blog contest yet… If you have not Yet ENTERED, you should NOW. All you have to do is subscribe to my email subscriptions. When there are 50 subscriber one winner will be picked at random to win a $50 amazon.com gift card, and other goodie. So.. [ Click Here ] to subscribe.

Then shortly into the month I had few days of low earnings. My numbers quickly went up, and so I didn’t think much of it. They went down again, and up, and down, and up. Basically a roller coaster ride of money. No good! In fact, last week I had my lowest earnings day in month = $41.17 ! Yikes. That’s less then 50% of my average daily earnings in the last 2 months. I know that this line of work is going to have it’s ups and downs, so I try not to let it get to me. BUT, frankly, it freaks me the heck out when I see such low days like this. Before I explain what happen, here’s a little chart of my roller coaster earnings.  Ya – Charts are fun… ChartJPeg

 

 

 

 

Basically what happened was everything…. The triple whammy of SEO internet marking if you will. First off, my Keyword dropped from Spot #1 in google TO SPOT 5! Ouch! Second I was getting scrubbed left , right, up and down from my network, and third there a error on my sight. You see “ effortless “ income isn’t exactly “ effortless ” . Frankly I had an offer that was running so good I put it on the back burner, let it cook, and haven’t touched it in months! This months mess was created by ME, and ME alone. Of course this offer was going to reach it’s cap. And OF COURSE google was going to see I hadn’t touched the sight in a while and down grade me. AND If I should have been at least looking at the sight enough to notice that 1/2 the freaking pages you weren’t able to access. So, on 11/22 I kicked it into high gear. Fixed what needed to be fixed and little do you know my earnings started to jump back were they should be. Currently my monthly average this month is $87.65. No bad for a month like this, but far lower then I need them to be!

The moral of the story is two fold. For one I can’t be leaning on one of my sites for most of my earnings. I really, really need to get these other sites and other things into high gear! I mean REALLY! Secondly, “Effortless” is not “Effortless”. What you, or I, work on today, will benefit us in the future.

To my American Readers… Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!

To everyone else – Thank you so much for your comments and support. 

Love,

Becky

Nov

2

How Internet Marketing Has Changed My Life.

November 2, 2010 | 9 Comments

I have officially been fiddling around the internet in some form for about a year and a half now.  My average earnings last month a day was $115.00 . This is a number that needs to continually rise in order for me to go 100% full time at it. I am sure most of you are asking why I won’t be able to go full time right now. There are a couple reason for this. For one, New York State business taxes are pretty insane. So, this dips into my earnings significantly. Second, internet marketing is not a very stable way to make money. My site can be earning one month, and earning nothing the next. So, until I “hit the big time” I don’t exactly feel comfortable leaving my other business. With that said, internet marketing has significantly changed my life – for the better!

The extra “passive” income that internet marketing has brought in has really taken the edge off financially for me. A year and a half ago when the economy tanked I suffered from sleepless nights wondering which bills I was going to skip out on this month. Prioritizing bills to figure out which ones will hurt you less to skip is an agonizing feeling. However, since internet marketing has started to bring in extra income I haven’t had this worry anymore. I even have money left over for some extra goodies! I was looking over some older posts today and I came across the following on Day 22 of my adventure into internet marketing:

“I was in Target today drooling over a cute silverware set. I started thinking what would be nice right now in life is to have a little excess income. I am not vein; I do not want an abundance of unnecessary items like multiple sets of silverware. However, having the flexibility to be able to buy a couple of “wants” here and there would be a dream come true….. [Read More from this post] “

Well, the other day I was at Target and I not only got one set of silverware, but I got TWO! Silly stuff like new and matching silverware doesn’t contribute to my everyday happiness. I will say, however, that having a little extra cash every month DOES!

 

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Silverware I was “drooling over” in 2008 But couldn’t afford.

How has internet marketing changed your life? Or how do you hope it will change yours?

Love,

Becky

Oct

19

Happy Tuesday!

October 19, 2010 | 4 Comments

Here are some  exciting new things I’m up to…

#1. I hired an SEO company.

I know that probably sounds weird because doing SEO on my own is going good. However, everything could always be better. And now that I have some disposable income I need to start reinvesting back into myself in order to get to the next level of things. This SEO company will be working along side with me building upon the work I’ve already done, and the work I am currently doing. Our goal is to rank for some of the most competitive keywords out there. Thus, my guess is that this investment and work relationship will be long term.  Maybe even a year or so! However, I am hoping it will be well worth it!

#2. E-Mail list!

Currently I have over 6000 subscribers to an e-mail list, and everyday I get 100 to 200 more subscribers! For the longest time I didn’t know how to approach e-mailing the subscribers. I e-mailed the list a couple times and it lead to very large unsubscribe rates, and low conversations. So, I contacted Chad from Peerfly to get some advice. Basically he said that in order to reduce the number of unsubscribes to send affiliate links very seldom. The rest of the time to send other information related to the subject matter. So weekly or bi-weekly I have been sending useful information to my subscribers. This has resulted in a larger number of followers, far less unsubscribes and about a 40% click thru rate! Which is WAY above my original less then 1% Click thru! I have yet to send any affiliate links related to the subject matter, but when I do I will keep you posted on the earnings. THANKS CHAD!

 

So, this is all that is really new in the last week. Anything new with you folks? I’d love to hear from you!

Have a wonderful week. : )

Love,

Becky

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Oct

11

Secrets from a non-super affiliate ….

October 11, 2010 | 5 Comments

I’m not a super affiliate and thus I hate the idea of writing about techniques or secrets. No one wants to read about how to be successful from someone who has only seen mediocre successes. I mean no wants to read about how to become a millionaire from someone who isn’t a millionaire, right? Thus, I have told myself from day one, “I will not write about ways to make money online, unless I’m making a ton.” Well, today is the day I break the rules. But just a little bit. Nothing earth shattering… However, with this little technique a newbie would be able to see some cash flow.

So, in internet marketing with a web site there are 2 ways to make money. One is to have a couple BIG sites that make you all the money, and another is to have a bunch of little sites that make you a little money. There is also another you need to know, google is king. Oh, and the last thing… Keywords, keywords, keywords. Spend a good chunk of time researching keywords that have little competition, but lots to mediocre searches. Then see about how much these keywords get per-click using google adsense by using google’s keyword tool ( Find Google’s Keyword tool by Clicking HERE ). Once you find a keyword(s) that makes at least a good about per-click, has little competition & lots searches per-day you can move on to the next step. I suggest making an excel sheet to keep track of what keywords you’ve looked, which ones were good, which ones were failures.

Next, sign up for a FREE blog at blogger.com. When asked the name of the webpage put in your keyword. So, if you keyword is “Farting is Fun”, then your webpage would be “www.FartingIsFun.blogspot.com”. Afterwards, sign up for an adsense account by Clicking Here.  If you don’t know what adsense is then Click Here and read about it.

Then start to write about whatever that keyword is! And include your keyword often in your writing, but not sooo often that it sounds like SPAM! Also, add your adsense code to the blog. Make it the first thing people when they get to the blog. Feel free to make it loud! BUT not so loud that it looks like some ad screaming at you. Keep the texted color the same as the color of your typing, and keep the color scheme the same as your blogs color scheme.

Here are some things you should know to help you. Google currently owns Blogger.com, and because of it I have found that Google will rank Blogger.com blog’s faster then other blogs. (When I say ‘rank’ I mean rank higher in the search on Google). The downfall with Blogger.com is that google monitors it and google doesn’t like crap. So, if you are writing spam like stuff more then likely your blog is going to be flagged and remove. That will make you very sad. Another thing is when I say write often I mean it! Google Loves, loves, loves it when you update. So if time allows update your blog 2 times a day! Updates don’t have to be long. Other things that google likes is that you are linking to other blogs, and have a related twitter and facebook page that is linked to the blog. And from what I have heard, but I am not sure if it is true, google likes to see that your blog has an original design. So take sometime and find a unique blogger template. Or take an existing blogger template and change something to make it your own.

After sometime, all depending on how unique your keyword is, you will start to appear in google’s search engine. Please will come to your sight, click on your adsense ads and wha – la! You Are Making Some Money. If you repeat this process a bunch of time you will be making more money then you have ever thought!

Disclaimer: You can make money this way. I promise. But it won’t happen over night. With any internet business  —> YOUR EFFORT TODAY, WILL PAY OFF IN RESULTS TOMORROW!   <—– So, basically you have to put in a lot of work in the beginning with no payout, but I swear with time it’ll pay off!

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Oct

4

Knowing Your Weaknesses.

October 4, 2010 | 1 Comment

If I were a perfect internet marketer I would have no weaknesses. Heck maybe if I had taken at least one class in my entire life about marketing or the internet maybe I’d at least be a little a head of the game here! But instead, like I have done since day one, I guess my way threw all this… And because of this I am NOT a perfect internet marketer. Which probably explains why I am not making millions right now.

What I am though is good at knowing my weaknesses , which I have many. And as much as I hate to admit this ( I can’t believe I am going to say this to everyone!) one of my weakness is creating a clean website & landing page. In this day and age people are busy. They want to look at webpage, get a quick summery of what it is all about, click on what they want and MOVE ON. If a site is too busy, noise, congested folks tend to move on even faster. There eyes want to see what they are looking for with in the fist 15 to 30 seconds of them clicking on to your page. If they don’t see it, they click off your site. No sale for you. So sad. My problem is that I want to put ALLLL the information into the landing page. This includes lots of texted, pictures, all of it. As a result my sites tend to look unprofessional and maybe even, might I say “scam” like. If there one major thing I have learned from when I was on PPC-Coach was Less is More! Get to the point quickly & easily.

Thus, I have decided with all the extra cash I am bringing in to re-invest it back into myself and hire someone to help with my design. I tell then what I want and they aid in the creation if it. They are not going to be the full creator, or of a design assistant. I then plan to test the site for a while with PPC, and see if it converts any better. Also, figure which words I want to target for. Then , once I get the keywords picked and the site a little better I’ll start investing my time in getting the site ranked. All in all the process should take at most another 4 to 6 months. Then repeat the process over and over. Eventually maybe sell a few site or something.

To be honest my goal is only 4 or more conversions a day! Which would make more $100 or more dollars a day. Thus, bringing my total daily earnings to more then $200 a day! That’d be $73,000 a year!  I see NO REASON at all why I wouldn’t be able to accomplish this goal.  It seems like it’s right at my finger tips. Currently I have one site that is ranking on the 1st page of google with an offer that has a pay out of $33.75 . The keyword is good. The traffic is ok. However, in 6 months I’ve had only :

646 Clicks  &

ONLY

2  Conversions!

BLAH! Stinky! Horrible!

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Sep

3

SEO is ‘in’. PPC is ‘Out’.

September 3, 2010 | 5 Comments

 

I have been talking about fiddling about with SEO for sometime now, and I can officially say that at this moment in time I am 100% SEO and 0% PPC. There are couple reasons for this. Some personal, some financial.

The fact still remains that PPC is great for making huge sums of money fast, and SEO is good for making money for the long hall (you’ll read that on every blog known to man ).. O.k. Great, now that we have that out of the way… Simply put I just plain like SEO better. Why? Because it fits my personality a little better then PPC. PPC is high stakes gambling, and SEO is lower stakes gambling. PPC you gamble with your money, SEO you gamble with your time. At this moment in life I have more time to throw away then money! Further more, given the recent events of my life the last month ( i.e. my father almost dyeing. ). SEO just suits my life better. I almost took a month off being online when my father got sick and I when I came back online I was still earning $50 – $80 a day. No, It’s not millions or $1000’s a day BUT it’s nice income to have when you literally aren’t doing any work. Let’s face it folks, when a world renown surgeon says to you, “Your father could die at any moment with in the next 48 hours”. The last thing on your mind is optimizing and watching campaigns!

But listen, I’m not trying to convert anyone to do anything. If you like PPC, then stick with it. If you need to make a profit today, this second, this minute and have a spare credit card sitting around then GO CRAZY! I’m simply saying that after some soul searching the last 2 years I like SEO. : )

With that said, I don’t mean to brag but right now i can rank for almost any keyword that isn’t ridiculously hard to rank for like ‘ Payday Loan ‘ or ‘diets’ or ‘Make Money Online’.  Which might sound like I have it made, BUT … Because there is always a but… SEO takes time, and the harder the keyword the more time it takes. My usual goal is to try to find low competition key words with lots of searches. That research takes time and sometimes a few weeks to rank for. And even with the most careful planning a word or site might be a flop. Then you are back to square one attempting to figure out if the problem is the webpage, the word, or the offer.

Recently I tried my hand at a competitive keyword, just to see if I could do it. Three months later I am on page one in Google for this word! It’s not the 1st spot, but it’s page 1 none the less. But I am having little to no sales. Which is a bummer, but I’ll start tweaking some things and see what changes. Here’s the thing though, I now know I can do make it for a more competitive keywords. This very fact opens up a world of possibilities to me. If every 4 to 6 months I can rank for a money making keyword then i’ll be golden !!! Because let’s face it $50 to $120 a day is nice, but after taxes it’s nothing you can live off of. Plus, my goal is $100,000 a YEAR!

Now, your next question… How do I rank? Well, I can’t tell you in exact detail because if i did then everyone would do it. I can however tell you that 95% of what I do I learned online. Yup. It’s all over the internet on how to do it! The other 5% I learned by networking. Brenden from 20YearBillionaire.com is pretty much a genius and taught me some stuff. And I know I talk about Tyler ( TylerCruz.com ) a lot – But he’s pretty much an amazing human who has really helped me from day 1.

I feel like I have so much in my favor right now. Now I just need to do something with it!

Love,

Becky

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Aug

24

Amped Media – Good or Bad?

August 24, 2010 | 10 Comments

Usually the best way to tell if a company is any good, is to see how they handle something going wrong. This is especially true when it comes to Affiliate Networks. I learned this first hand with Amped Media a couple weeks ago.

Just a couple days before the end of July I got an e-mail from my affiliate manager at Amped Media stating basically that they were removing about $1000 from my account. A publisher said my leads were invalid and the money was going to be removed. Plain as that. No further explanation. No real sincere apology. Goodbye thousand dollars….

Need less to say i was a bit …um… annoyed and angry! With the offer I was running I could understand if some leads were invalid, BUT NOT $1000 worth! Furthermore, it was the end of the freaking month. They had all month to determine that some of the leads coming in were invalid! It seemed to mean that something fishy was going on.  That either Amped Media, or the advertiser of offer just didn’t want to pay. And guess what folk? If this was the true, I have ZERO way of proving it. There word against mine… Someone was up to some funny business, but all my affiliate manager could say was , “Sorry”.

Don’t get me wrong, I am NOT saying that I don’t believe in ALL scrubs. Scrubs are a way of life. What I am saying is that the way this was handled was ridiculous. Advertisers , or networks for that matter, can’t say on the DAY PAYMENT is due that they don’t want to pay! That’s like eating all your meal at a resturant and then saying it was horrible. Then demand the meal to be free!

Furthermore, I have been with Amped from day one. I have been loyal to them. I run there offers before anyone else, sometimes even at a lower payout! I couldn’t believe that this company wasn’t willing to go the extra mile for me. Especially after all the hard work I have done for them! I’m not a super affiliate yet, so $1000 is a lot of money for me! At the very least they could have met me half way, or done something for me. So, I sent some honest e-mails to my affiliate manager. I was even pretty close to closing my account all together!

Then I got a phone call & an e-mail from , Nicole ( affiliate relations director), stating that the advertiser was unable to “provide ample proof for most of the scrub.” Apparently I wasn’t the only one who was effected by this advertiser…. And that money would be returned to my account with any delay in payment! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

In the end I was paid most of all of the money I earned this month, which really made me happy. And I got a nice e-mail from both Nicole and my affiliate manager apologizing for the mess. It’s the personal touches from Amped that I like.  They make you feel like you count , even if you aren’t there biggest affiliate. They understand that even if you are only earning them $5.00 a day; #1. Your probably working hard to earn that $5.00 a day and #2. You might be there next BIG Super Affiliate.

At the end of the day I would still recommend Amped Media to anyone looking for a great network to join!

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Love,

Becky 

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