Allow me to explain

Well, what’s going on! There’s been no blogging in a while, a rare amount of tweets and low flickr stream activity! Truth is I’ve got an overwhelming amount of web work coming in from big clients and so I’m dedicating my time to my projects, I’ll put all my NYC pics up at some point and get back in to my blogging habit once the work dies down =]

BRB, New York

Hey all, I’ll be even more idle than usual for a while as I’m heading off to New York City for a long weekend!

Normal service will resume on wednesday next week, I’ll be adding a lot of pics to the flickr stream and tweeting where I can =]

Getting Over Phone-Phobia

In affiliate marketing, in order to get approved in to a majority of networks nowadays you’ll be called by a representative of the network to check your human and run some details passed you. Now I’m guilty of phone-phobia myself as are a lot of new marketers.

Startup marketers are scared incase they get asked questions they won’t know how to answer, to be fair if a network rings you, you’re probably already approved. In order to ease your stress, I’ve been rung by about 5-6 networks now and here’s what they’ll ask and what to answer;

What is your address?
If you can’t answer this you should consider a job as an idiot

How do you plan to generate traffic?
This is what a lot of new people are afraid of, but it’s an easy question. If you’re going to use Pay-Per-Click, just say “I plan to use pay-per-click to generate traffic”, if you are going to use existing websites you own then say “I plan to use organic traffic from sites I already own”. They’re not looking for an essay, they just want to make sure you meet the network requirements!

Are you interested in [category a], [category b] and [category c]?
Often when you join a network online it will ask what you intend to use the most, i.e. dating, insurance and travel. They will ask if this is true and you say a big whopping… “yup”.

That’s pretty much it. I’ve had a few phone calls from america to my iPhone, as I’m a student in halls and so have no landline, where the connection was pretty bad on each end which made it a little bit hard but it took no more than 2 minutes for him to ask those exact three questions and then tell me who my affiliate manager was (I didn’t hear what the hell he said but I said “ok great, thanks”).

So sign-up with that network, give them your number and expect that call, it’s quick and easy and you’re confirmation email will be through 30 seconds after and you’re ready to earn even more cash!

Get over it!