Affiliate.com T-Shirts for Haiti

Affiliate.com is doing a blogging contest to raise money for Haiti (and for the winning blogger). To enter the contest you are supposed to take a picture of yourself wearing their latest t-shirt.  I figured, why do that when we could have a showdown of all the other guys that have posed for the contest!  Unfortunately, it appears that the only people that have actually taken a picture of themselves for this contest were Shoemoney and Ian Fernando.  Take your pick*:

Shoemoney rocks the Affiliate.com shirtIan fernando rocks an affiliate.com t-shirt

*There’s not a poll or anything, because polls are lame.

There were also blog posts by a number of the usual crew like Zac Johnson, John “I’m Gonna Lick His Neck” Chow, and Murray Newlands.  Instead of being creative, however, they simply chose to grab the image from the email that Affiliate.com sent out and post it on their blog.  Real creative guys.  If you don’t want to immortalize yourself by doing a gangster pose in an affiliate tee, at least come up with a nifty way to get around it…

On a serious note, if you haven’t donated anything to the relief efforts in Haiti, it only takes a second and you can do it by going to StillerStrong.org or texting “Haiti” to 90999 and charging $10 to your phone bill.  Every little bit counts.  We all make tons of money compared to people living in third world countries, let’s share the wealth a little bit.

Colorado Advertising Tax UPDATE

Yesterday was the meeting of the Finance Committee, the group of State House Representatives that are in charge of hearing the case for and against the new tax laws increases that are on the table.  This of course includes HB-10-1193, the “Out-of-State Retailers Sales Tax” bill.  Nice name they came up for it, eh?  I liked it better when it was the “Amazon Tax”.

My Sr. Affiliate Manager and I headed over to the Capitol to show our opposition, and we really didn’t know what to expect.  I thought we could possibly be one of a handful of people that showed up, sealing our fate before the hearing even began.  However, as we approached the building, there was already a crowd of familiar faces gathered outside.  There were representatives from several CPA networks including Affiliate.com and HybrydAds, and a bunch of affiliates as well.  All in all there were well over 100 people that turned out in opposition of the bill.

Finance Committee

The initial plan was to get into the hearing room, sign the sheet in opposition so we could be counted, and then stay for the hearing to see if anything interesting happened.  Unfortunately, after 2 hours of debate, the Finance Committee was not even half way through discussing the first bill on the list, and HB-10-1193 was the 5th in line.  I ended up leaving to get back to work once my name had been added to the opposition list.  I heard today that the Committee was in session until 2 a.m. and they still hadn’t got through all of the bills on the list.

Long story short, the Committee passed the bill on to a final vote by the Colorado State House of Representatives.  That should be happening either tomorrow or early next week.  The next step is to do another email blast of the House Democrats to try and sway them.  The House Republicans are already voting in opposition of all the bills that are tax increases.

If you want to help, let me know before about noon tomorrow (Friday) and I will get you the list of House Democrats to email and otherwise harass.  The battle rages on!

affiliate.com’s Economic Bailout

Today affiliate.com announced their Revenue Stimulus Program.  Here is the official announcement:

Affiliate Economic Bailout

In today’s challenging economic climate, it seems like just about every industry is getting some kind of bailout program.  But, we haven’t heard anything proposed for the Affiliate Marketing Industry.

Rather than waiting for the Congress to institute a bailout program for our Affiliates – we thought we would just do it ourselves.

Introducing the
affiliate.com Revenue Stimulus Program

Our industry was built on the principles of self reliance and innovation.  In the tradition of those guiding principles, we have instituted the affiliate.com Revenue Stimulus Program to help our Affiliates generate some extra income this holiday season.  We believe that the best way to help Affiliates drive more revenue is to give them an incredible payout increase on one of the hottest offers in the industry.

Beginning today (Monday, December 15, 2008) at 10:00am Mountain Time, we will be raising the payout on Ringtones.net (6013) to an unheard of $16.  (This new payout will remain in effect until December 31, 2008.)

Ringtones.net
Payout Increase – $16
(From December 15 – December 31, 2008)

Take advantage of our Revenue Stimulus Program today and watch your revenue soar this holiday season!

This is the time to make some serious money with Ringtones.net.  I’m not just saying this because I work for affiliate.com, this is a HUGE payout on a Ringtones offer.  I remember when Flycell used to pay something similar and people were going crazy for it.  If you already promote ringtones, you owe it to yourself to switch out your links for the next 2 weeks and enjoy the extra revenue boost.  Nothing starts off the new year like an infusion of cash.

Now go make some money!

2008 Breakaway Conference – Affiliate.com Announcement

The 2008 CPA Empire Breakaway Conference took place on Thursday and Friday in Denver.  There was quite a turnout of top affiliates from all over the country, as well as special guests Declan Dunn, Jeremy “Shoemoney” Shoemaker and Jon Fisher.

The big news of the conference was the announcement, given during the opening banquet on Thursday night, that CPA Empire is changing to Affiliate.com.  Along with this change are going to come some welcome improvements to the network, including a brand new in-house tracking system.

If you’ve never been to an event thrown by Scott Richter, put it on your to-do list.  He knows how to have a good time, and we had a good time over the 2 days and 2 nights of the conference with after-hours events at 5 Degrees and Theorie Nightclub, as well as the Mountain Ranch Club at Coors Field for the Friday Rockies / Padres Game.

Anyone can qualify to come to the Breakaway next year, it’s just a matter of being active on CPA Empire, running offers with us, and making a bunch of money!  That’s all for now, I’ve got a stack of emails to get through and a crazy 2 days to recover from…