by Bryn Youngblut on May 13, 2010
I just want to first state I don’t consider myself an expert on this subject at all but I do know a bit about it and I have mixed views on it.
When I first heard about scrubbing I thought it was horrible and immoral but I don’t feel that way anymore.
I remember jumping to conclusions about advertisers scrubbing my leads if one day my conversion rate dropped…I think a lot of people make this mistake.
Since I’ve started running and building my own lead gen offers in the last 6 months I completely see why scrubbing is necessary.
I’m not saying I agree with it completely but there are circumstances where it is OK.
For instance let’s say you start running a new email submit, you would be stupid to do more than 200 leads a day on it for the first week or so. If you do more expect your 50% conversions to go to 15% the next day. The reason for this is the advertiser needs time to evaluate if your leads will back out or not, they don’t want you killing the offer right away doing 10000 leads a day. The best thing you can do is run it under 200 leads a day for the first week then ask your AM to contact the advertiser and ask if they like your quality, if they do then feel free to pump it.
Sometimes things seem wrong until you realize the big picture. It’s not like advertisers scrub just because they are evil, we all want to make money and if your traffic doesn’t back out for the advertiser than they have no choice but to either scrub your conversions to where it does back out or simply ask you to stop running it.
by Bryn Youngblut on May 12, 2010
I just want to decipher this comment real quick:
That’s because he’s not a super affiliate. I know Bryn and he’s a fake.
I talked to quite a few affiliate managers of mine about him from 10+ networks… he never did more than 100k a month.
I love how n00bs love everything you tell them.
This person named “bob” used a fake name/email/website to post this comment, very credible information indeed!
I’ve never claimed to be a “super affiliate” and everyone knows I hate the term. This person claims to know me but seems to know nothing about me…hmm.
10+ networks huh? I probably have accounts with 50+ networks and I might work with 2 of them at most (I typically work direct with advertisers). I find this part funny on many levels.
First of all, what affiliate manager(s) would tell others information like this? I would love to know so I can never work with them again.
Second, what are you doing going around asking every network how much I run with them?
Third, according to my tax return I averaged much more than 100k/month last year. I guess this person missed the other interview I did where I mentioned completing one of my goals of doing over a million dollars in a 6 month period (it was actually done in about 4 months).
So anyway Mr. Bob, assuming you do know me like you claim, it must not be very well because as far as I know I am the most up front and easy going person with everyone I meet and talk too.
by Bryn Youngblut on April 26, 2010
I feel like there is a lot of emphasis on partying and having a good time rather than getting as much business done as possible at these events. I for one am guilty of this as I do love to have a good time, especially when in a new city.
To be completely honest I probably didn’t get too much out of ad-tech itself, which is my fault, but I did get some good insight that has helped me re-think certain ways I do things.
As far as new traffic sources go, I found a few I haven’t used so that will be useful to test. I already have my hands full in many as it is so that doesn’t bother me.
I think the most important thing I got out of ad-tech was simply seeing people I already knew and meeting others, constantly building long term relationships that might pay off down the road.
I see too many people asking if it was worth it to go to events like this. It really depends on what you are looking for and if you’re thinking long term. It’s taken me 2 years to realize the long term and slower route is much better. Being the impatient person that I am, it took me a while to adjust to this.
I personally think ad-tech was completely worth it for me and it was great seeing everyone and meeting some awesome new people too.
by Bryn Youngblut on April 7, 2010
by Bryn Youngblut on March 10, 2010
I’m really not sure why LeadImpact (formerly Zango) have this in place but I guess it’s just to try and get more money from suckers.
Typically the minimum bid on any target will be $0.015 cents. But sometimes that won’t always be the case…depending on what you choose as your campaigns category.
Now as far as I know and can tell choosing a category is basically useless, and even worse it just costs you more money.
For example lets say you are doing an auto insurance campaign. If you select the category Auto Insurance under Financial Services the minimum bid on ANY target will be $0.03. What you should do is select a different category like Astrology under Entertainment where the minimum bid will now magically be only $0.015.
Don’t worry about relevance for choosing categories for any campaign, they will still get approved and all the traffic comes from the same place.
I hope this helps out some people getting ripped off.
