NewbAffiliate.com

Today was a really good day for me. I woke up early and went and opened two new bank accounts, one personal account and one that I will use for my online endeavors. I also applied for my first ever credit card. It will be a student card so the limit won’t be to much, but hey, you gotta start somewhere. I also told my mom about my ideas and she agreed to hook me up with $300 to get started. $300 is much lower than what I was initially thinking, but after hearing what people had to say, I decided to start slow.

My Blog

As well as the addition of my About page, I have also added some adwords ads, just for kicks and I added the CommentLuv plugin. I really like this plugin and first saw it in use over at Caroline Middlebrook’s blog, where she uses it as an incentive for making comments.

Anyway, I will keep you updated on any progress I make, the next few weeks should be very interesting.

Well, I would like to say that today has been an exciting day for me! I did a lot of work involving this Blog and Affiliate Marketing. First off, I woke up to a bunch of positive comments on my first post. Hell, I though no one was reading this blog, I have no idea how they found it. The coolest thing was that one of the comments was from Caroline Middlebrook, it was very positive and had some good tips. Thanks a lot to everyone that took the time to make a comment, I love reading them and will always reply (you can email me also). After reading all the comments and sending some replies and emails, I started to work on my about page. I put up a few facts about myself and included a few picture so you could get a better idea of who I am. After this I headed off to class (full time student!).

When I got back from class I put focus into signing up for a few Affiliate Networks. I went ahead and submitted my application to Azoogle, CPA Empire, Hydra Network, and good ol Google Adsense. The first three listed there all require a phone call to confirm some crap which will be interesting because I have no idea what they are going to ask LOL. I suppose you will find out in my next post! Oh ya, I almost forgot! I also thought about signing up for Adbrite, which I am sure you all know. Adbrite is that advertising network that has those stupid double underlined keywords that pop out when you are reading something, they really piss me off. However, I decided I would give them a shot…….until I see what is in the security box…..

Sorry I had to use image shack there, Wordpress was being stupid.

After seeing the “SCAMS” message on adbrite, I decided it was a sign and I did not sign up ;).

The next thing I did was look at a few credit cards online, I will most likely just get a regular card with a $500 limit or so because I don’t really have any credit. This will be really cool because I have been limited to Bank cards. Don’t worry tho! I plan to use care!

Lastly, I went and signed up and Stumbleupon.com and stumbled myself as well as some other blogs that have really helped me out. Whew, that was one hell of a post! Please leave comments, and as always you can email me at Andrew@newbaffiliate.com, I will get back to you.

Thanks for reading,
-Andrew

Today marks the day that I will begin to pursue a money making venture in the wonderful world of Affiliate Marketing. If you have no idea what Affiliate Marketing is then you need to head on over to Wikipedia and see for yourself. This blog will be my outlet to you and will show every single step that I take to success, or maybe even failure. I plan on making public everything except for the niches that I choose to make money with, no matter if I lose 200 bucks, or purchase an e-book, I will share it. The idea is that maybe if I show you some of the things that I had success and/or failure with then maybe in some way it can help you. If not, then hell, it might just be a little entertaining also ;).

So…..let’s get you caught up on my progress so far. Late last year I started reading the blogs of successful Affiliate Marketers like Jeremy Schoemaker, John Chow and especially Paul Bourque of Uberaffiliate.com. These websites, and really uberaffiliate.com have got me fired up about Affiliate Marketing and the possibility of making it a successful career.

While browsing the three sites I mention above I have come across a lot of ebooks, two of which I really like (actually these are the only two I have read so far lol, but they have really gotten me motivated and on the right track). The first one is quite helpful and really helped me set up this page, it is by Caroline Middlebrook (also an affiliate marketer) and is called “How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with Wordpress” and has been really helpful for me while I have been getting started. The second one is Adsense Arbitrage by Brad Callen, this book really got me fired up and curious about the possibilities of making ALOT of money from Affiliate Marketing.

After reading those two ebooks, and many posts on many Affiliate Marketing websites I figured I might as well give this damn thing a shot, everyone that is successful encourages you to jump right in and get started. So, I went and bought myself a domain name Newbaffiliate.com, obviously inspired by Uberaffiliate.com and some hosting at Bluehost.com. And that is pretty much where I am at right now. Here are my goals for the upcoming week:

1. Work on Newbaffiliate.com (About page, more posts and some more content)
2. Get some capitol (1000$ to get myself started maybe?)
3. Work on getting myself approved with some ad networks (Azoogle, Neverblue, Hydra, etc…)
4. Brainstorm on some ideas and start to educate myself on Keywords and some available programs
5. Start a new Bank account and get a Credit card that has some good rewards

I doubt anyone is reading this page yet lol, but if you want to get in contact with me or you need to ask some questions, hit me up at Andrew@newbaffiliate.com