Advertisement: Try Affiliate Marketing and Play on an Island

In the recent weeks I have been playing with and testing new means to make some residual income online. The majority of this has come from affiliate marketing. Whether information products, lead acquisition or physical products, the tests have been interesting, intense and promising. While I am not quite ready to release the test numbers, still have some payment wait times and stats to consider before seeing what I am going to focus on and put efforts into full steam, I did want to let you know about a really cool way to get involved in affiliate marketing.

Eric from Clickbooth wanted me to share this awesome contest to jump head first into their CPA Network. I feel very strongly about the product they offer and are one of the networks for my initial test. They have a cool staff and are really adamant about making their affiliates happy and informed. Here is the info:


Sign up for Clickbooth here and use the sign up code MAKEOVER in the comments portion of the application. Start promoting any of the offers on this page. For every lead you essentially get a point. At the end of the contest trade your points in at the following levels and win the corresponding prizes:


While the week on the island looks nice, I wouldn't complain about the commissions plus the HP Mini Laptop. 500 shouldn't be a terribly hard number to reach if you put some work and creativity into your promotions.

If you are thinking of starting an online income, affiliate marketing needs to be part of your process. It may not be with Clickbooth, but at some point you are going to need to look at using it as part of your monetization strategy. Anyway, hope you try it out, and if you don't, I should be back next week with some cool posts and updates.

If you want some meaty posts, check out the still in pre-launch Rock Star Lifesrtyle Design, which will replace this site as the means of my writing pretty soon. Two cool articles to check out include

• 2 Month Rock Star Surfing Plan
• Rock Star Lifestyle Formula

Have a great 4th and if you have a few free seconds, check out Clickbooth here.

-Greg

Eric's Rock Star Tale - From Intern To Internet Rock Star

In life you have the opportunity to do a few things. You can help someone that is looking for help, or you can ignore it and go on with your life. My wife tells me I do too much of the first, always looking to help someone out, teach them the things in my head and help them with their problem(s). Yea, she's probably right. Today I wanted to share a really cool rock star tale with you guys about a good friend and also someone that took the things that came out of my head and totally rocked the entire social media world in a way I never imagined.

It all started...

about a year or so ago in our first office in downtown Orlando. At this point we were just starting out the agency thing and had just merged Rollett Marketing into Endagon Innovations (to make a long intro short). In this process I came along a college student with an incredible internship at a local record label, Eric. Our first chat was about a site we had in concept and he thought it was cool and he said he may have some family investors that would want to get involved. All he wanted was to learn some of the SEO and Social Media stuff I was using for my personal brand as well as for some of our early clients.

I was an asshole.
After a few weeks on board, Eric was now a full member of the EI Team and had been immersed in a few of my trainings, swipe files and tools. Our first client together was the now locally fabled Orlando Ichiban. Eric got the sale and was hot to make them a new site, start creating new media content and run out of the gates. With his questions came my rudeness and ultimately an awesome web copywriter was born!

There is no secret that money is tight in a start up agency and when student loans come knocking, you need to go get yours. An opportunity came around to Eric a few months ago from the affiliate network Clickbooth. After a tough decision, Eric headed out to Sarasota to begin a journey as the Social Media Superstar in their organization.

Always one to put his personal brand aside for the greater good of his clients and company, Eric has killed it over there. Take one look at the Clickbooth Blog Design and you can see how far he has come from his Blogger beginnings (yes, that's even a jab to my own site - I know, I know, switch it over already!). Eric has been able to bring it and rock it with top affiliates like Shoemoney, Johnathon Volk and others and really made an impact to getting the word on affiliate marketing into a fun and positive light. He even let me shine over there, writing a post on not forgetting about the youth market in your affiliate promotions.

From Intern To Rock Star

So how did Eric do it? Well here is one thing to note: Eric is not working for himself. IN fact he works for a company. One that he loves, one that he doesn't mind waking up for in the morning or staying in the office late with.


Eric found something that he was passionate about and found an employer that believed in his mission, his skills and his idea of a great job. Some other things that I think helped him along the way include:

Patience. Eric wanted to jump into everything right away but he saw that a personal brand and developing relationships is not an overnight thing. It paid off nicely.

Practice. For all the long nights we spent working on SEO, HTML stuff, link building and content writing - he has come out stronger. Being a rock star requires practice. Rehearse, regroup, brainstorm and make yourself better every time.

Commitment. This dude was on it like no one I have ever seen. He knew what every Social Media superstar was up to at any given minute, every campaign, why things worked, why things didn't and how to fix them. He lived and breathed it and you could really tell there was a passion there.

Intangibles. There are some things that no one can teach, we'll call those the intangibles. In order for you to be a Rock Star you do need to possess some things that help, motivate and display rock star qualities. Eric had them (and could play a mean bass too).

Now the Sales Pitch
This Rock Star tale is one of many that I have been so lucky to be a part of and through building this relationship, I know have a great friend and someone that I can learn from. I have been 100% intrigued with affiliate marketing from the get-go in my Internet World and now Eric is giving me the extra kick in the ass that I need to make a few extra nickels and dimes. If you are looking to get involved with affiliate marketing I strongly encourage you to check them out, I can say they have been amazing and if you ever have any problems I know where their social media guy lives.

Blatant affiliate link to Clickbooth.

Check it out and if not, well, hopefully you can see a transformation beginning in yourself from "whatever you are now" to "rock star!"

-Greg Rollett