Tricia Meyer

Affiliate Marketer, Blogger, and Consultant

Start Monetizing Your Blog (Video)

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Monetizing Blogs Panel

Last year I was lucky enough to participate in a panel at Affiliate Summit West with two industry veterans, Kristin Kinsey (affiliate manager and owner of MadHatter Consulting) and Carolyn Tang Kmet (now the affiliate manager for Groupon), and moderated by Marty Fahncke. Our presentation was entitled Start Monetizing Your Blog Today and is a great primer for new affiliate marketers. A few things have changed (Carolyn got married!) but the basics of the presentation are still solid.

Carolyn started the presentation with an introduction about the basics of affiliate marketing, who the players are, and how it all works. I then discussed ways that bloggers can use affiliate marketing including banner and text links. Kristin finished up by explaining the role of affiliate managers and Outsourced Program Managers (OPMs).

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Monetizing the Day Away

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Senorita Margarita
my philosophy

I’ve recently been talking to a number of bloggers who are having a hard time understanding the types of products that they can promote through affiliate marketing. Many of them associate affiliate marketing with either ebooks or diet pills. I decided to try a little experiment and see how many products I used in one day that I could easily blog about and include affiliate links. Some of these products I would just mention in passing in a blog post. Others could be an entire written or video review. I actually got tired of writing them down there were so many. Here’s are some of the highlights. [Read more…]

Win an Affiliate Summit Gold Pass

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Registration for Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas is now taking place and I am lucky enough to be giving away a Gold Pass. Before we get to the details of entering, you have to understand why I am so passionate about this conference.

When I started my Internet business, I didn’t know anyone else that did it or the least bit about getting into it. Even once I started to learn the basics by reading books and piecing together blog and forum posts, I still wasn’t making much money. Once I started making enough money to quit my job, I took the plunge and went to Affiliate Summit. My revenue DOUBLED the next month. Doubled. I’m not even exaggerating. I went from just scraping by to hiring employees as a result of the education and connections that I received from ONE Affiliate Summit.

I’m not saying that happens to everyone. I took that conference very seriously and have every single one since. You’ll see an entire category of Affiliate Summit posts on my blog because I write about everything from my preparations to my attendance to my follow-ups. It’s that important to me.

If you are serious about your business and are ready to learn more than you even imagined, the time has come for you to attend Affiliate Summit. The official dates are January 8-10, 2012, but I always go a little early and stay a little late for extra networking.

The Prize: An Affiliate Summit Gold Pass (valued at $279 before October 21 and $549 after). The pass must be redeemed BEFORE Affiliate Summit sells out (and it will). You can also pay the difference in price between the Gold and another pass if you want to upgrade it.

The Rules: Click on the entry form below and fill out your name, email address, and why you want to attend Affiliate Summit.

Bonus Entry: Tweet about the contest and include my Twitter name (@sunshinetricia) so that I will be sure to see it and give you credit.

Click here to enter

Contest ends October 28, 2011 at midnight Eastern. One winner will be randomly chosen. Winner must accept within 48 hours or I will choose a new winner. Learn more about Affiliate Summit and why you need to be there.

Affiliate Summit Indianapolis Meetup 09-28-11

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Affiliate Summit Meetup Indianapolis
Affiliate Summit Meetup Indianapolis

The September Affiliate Summit Indianapolis Meetup was held at Claddagh Irish Pub and was a terrific success! This was a restart of the group from a few months ago after I got some feedback that people were interested in trying it again.

Erika Crabtree and Haley Drummond from One Click Ventures were our speakers and came armed with great information as well as led us in some Q&A about their business, affiliate marketing, and SEO. Some of their brands you might recognize include Affordable Scarves and Handbag Heaven (affiliate program available on Shareasale). Here were some of the highlights of their presentation:

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My Affiliate Marketing Introduction for Newbies

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Business Strategy and Technology ForumI was recently fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to speak at the Business Strategy and Technology Forum in Indianapolis. It’s a great group of professionals in our community who come together for educational and networking purposes. I had 15 minutes to give my background, explain affiliate marketing, and relate to the audience how they could use affiliate marketing and related concepts like SEO and social media. A daunting task! It was followed by a Q&A period with the audience where I really got to connect with them and share.

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