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MySavings Media Affiliate Network Review

Matthew Henrickson — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:26:31 +0000

Regardless of the affiliate network, I like to be a member of as many as I can. This can be beneficial for finding new programs, as well as participating in the ones that are worth the most money.

For example, I joined Panthera Network to promote an exclusive Vista Print certain offer that only lasted so long. After making $32, I haven’t found an offer to make money with again, however I’m sure something else will come up.

As much as I like Logical Media, I found a great competitor with similar offers.

MySavings Media

Programs offering something free is by far one of the easiest things to convert in my opinion. A lot of times you can find something that relates to your niche, or find a way to incorporate it.

For example I wrote an article that Website Magazine featured. They ranked the top 50 affiliate networks. At the end of that post I included a link I earn money for every time someone subscribes to a free subscription. While each lead isn’t a lot, stuff like that can add up.

MySavings Media offers free offers just like that. Whether it’s free magazines, samples, newsletters or promotions you can find something to earn money with.

They also have their own widget that you can throw in your sidebar, or dedicate an entire blog page to. I did that here, and was able to make about $10-$15 last month with little promotion.

Referral Program

Another component I often value is the affiliate program. A standard rate for an affiliate program seems to be about 5% give or take.

MySavings Media offers a 10% commission on all approved affiliates! The only downside is they only offer that fee for the first 10 months after they sign up. Any commissions generated after that aren’t credited to you anymore.

Overall MySavings Media is definitely worth checking out.

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Crazy Dog T-Shirts

Matthew Henrickson — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:36:05 +0000

I was told about CrazyDogTShirts.com and had to give it a review. No it’s not just for dogs!

I’m a huge fan of funny t-shirts, so when I saw this site I was instantly attracted to it. I used to get shirts like this at my local Anchor Blue, but since a few of them closed down, I’m shirtless.

Some of these shirts can be “offensive”, but there is easily something for everyone. Step Brothers is one of my favorite movies, and if you’ve seen you, you will recognize the shoe t-shirt. This is definitely on my “wish list”.

Even though it’s less than a week before Halloween, you can still order a costume online. CrazyDogTShirts will guarantee their order to be delivered to you by October 30th, if you order by Tuesday at 3pm EST.

Shop the Deals

I’m frugal at heart, so when I come to an online shopping site I start looking for deals. Two places to start looking are the $6 mystery tees and the $9 t-shirts.

I know the “mystery” shirts are supposed to be a surprise, but I would definitely like to see some images of previous shirts that were given as a “mystery”.

You can also see what the deal of the day is, today is a Ghost Bar t-shirt for only $6.99.

Affiliate Program

If you like Crazy Dog T-Shirts and want to write about it they do have a great affiliate program you can join.

It is ran through Share A Sale, and for every sale you generate you get 12.5%.

What’s your favorite Crazy Dog T-Shirt?

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Logical Media’s Terrible Payment System

Matthew Henrickson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:12:09 +0000

I’ve raved about Logical Media in several reviews. Not only on this site, but I’ve guest blogged about it as well. Enough to get about 50 referrals in total. And because I earn 5% of every referral, I will continue to promote them! The support is good, the offers are decent…

However, lately I’ve been having a problem with their payments.

Logical Media Payments

With so many different networks, affiliate support is huge. Market Leverage actually uses Fed-Ex to send checks, regardless of the amount.

The only option Logical Media has for payments is checks. That can be fine, but the problem I have is it takes forever! Okay not forever, but from the date that it is posted to my account, it generally takes over two weeks to get in the mail. The minimum check is $100, so it’s not like it’s a small amount.

Also it isn’t Logical Media’s fault for this one, but I always receive it on Saturday as well! That just adds to the irritation.

I did inquire about a direct deposit option and was told I need to make around $1,000 per month. For most of us that simply isn’t very realistic. My affiliate manager tried to even lower it a bit for me, but I’m not even close to making that much per month.

Months Behind

Another issue is the fact that they are very behind in the payments. Most of the networks I belong to pay out for the previous months earnings on the following months 15th. So for Septembers earnings, I would get it on October 15th.

With Logical Media, just a few days ago I received JULY’s payment! Basically I had to wait 4 months to get July’s payment! If it keeps getting pushed back like that, they could get almost 6 months behind, which in my opinion that isn’t acceptable.

Do you have any problems with your affiliate networks?

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Get Your Site Ready With ReadySite

Matthew Henrickson — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:42:16 +0000

Logical Media is one of my favorite affiliate networks. I have had some great affiliate managers and they have great offers to promote for my freebie niche sites. You can find out a little more with my Logical Media Review. Anyways, the point of that was that they have a new service out and it’s called ReadySite.

What is ReadySite?

ReadySite is basically a widget that you can put on your website. It automatically updates with new information for your readers to use. You can create widgets for Free Samples, “Fun and Wacky”, Healthy Deals, Surveys, and Sweepstakes.

Each time your readers complete one of the things you can earn money. It’s perfect for my free samples websites, all I have to do is put up the widget on the sidebar that automatically updates with new freebies and free samples.

The payouts range from 10-20 cents to $24, depends on the offer.

ReadySite Review

What’s great about it of course is the ease. It takes about 30 seconds to create a widget. You get to pick what color you want, the size, how many offers you want to display, and of course the category. So far I’ve been able to make about $6 just by putting it on a page on my freebie sites. Now that I’ve added it into the sidebar of Its All Free Online, I hope to see that increase.

There are a few things wrong though that I’d definitely like to see change.

First of all, you can’t see the amount that each offer is worth per lead. The only way I can see how much each thing is if it actually converts, then divide the conversions by the total.

Secondly, on the actual widget it says “powered by ReadySite” but it does not generate my referral link. Therefore anyone that signs up from my widget isn’t credited to my account.

Great Referral Program

However, besides the fact of the actual widget, just like Logical Media’s referral program, they have a great set-up. You earn 5% commission on every affiliate you refer.

On top of that ReadySite offers a $25 bonus for signing up, it adds on to your first payout. A free $25 to your readers + 5% of their commission leaves no reason not to promote ReadySite.

ReadySite – Make Money!

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Website Magazine: Top 50 Affiliate Networks

Matthew Henrickson — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:04:31 +0000

Website Magazine is “the magazine for website success”. In the May 2009 issue they have articles like “Traffic without Digg or Stumbleupon” and article marketing. However, the most eye catching for me was Top 50 Affiliate Networks ranking.

So Who’s Number 1?

In the rankings they didn’t rank Google’s Affiliate Network or Amazon, which seems fair enough. The #1 rank was ClickBooth. I’ve never really been a fan of ClickBooth and I’ve had the most trouble with them. Not the company, just trying to figure it out. I think it’s #1 mostly because it’s easiest to set-up your own affiliate program with them, I know many bloggers use it for that reason.

Seeing the list there are so many companies I don’t use and haven’t heard of. OurFreeStuff.net, Copeac, XY7, and RevenueLoop round out the rest of the top 5, with Copeac being the only one I’m a member of. I haven’t liked Copeac much at all, from affiliate managers not emailing me back, to the lack of good offers.

The rest of the networks I use, Linkshare, HydraNetwork, MarketLeverage, PepperjamNetwork, and Logical Media were all ranked. The only one missing was Neverblue, which I was surprised was left off the list. You can read my reviews of each network by clicking on their name.

Find out how your favorite affiliate network ranked.

Free Website Magazine

I breezed through the magazine (it was only 50 pages with quite a few ads) but there is substance to it. On top of that it was free. Get your free subscription by just following that link and filling out the information. Valid for new subscribers only, in the US.

As I join the top 50 affiliate networks I’m not a member of I will be posting reviews as well. As you wait for those here are some great affiliate networks to join:

Linkshare
HydraNetwork
MarketLeverage
PepperjamNetwork
Logical Media

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Logical Media Referral Contest

Matthew Henrickson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:38:18 +0000

Logical Media has become my favorite affiliate network in the last few months. After joining a few months ago, I’ve already been able to earn nearly $1,000. It fits perfect with the kind of niche sites (freebies) that work for me. I’ve also been able to find success with running PPC campaigns on their offers.

Referral Contest

Logical Media is giving away $5,000 just for referring members. Each time you refer 5 new affiliates to Logical Media on or before Dec 22nd, you will be entered to win. There will be only ONE winner of the $5,000!

Even if you don’t win you receive 5% commission for every affiliate you refer.

I wish they would of offered this BEFORE I got all of my referrals!

It’s a great network and I strongly recommend joining!

Join Now Logical Media Now

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Squidoo Is Perfect For Bloggers

Matthew Henrickson — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:36:43 +0000

Ok, I know I am a little late on this one. I’ve found quite a few people making a Squidoo Lens everyday so I figured I would find out what all the fuss was about. Overall I am pretty impressed and think that it’s perfect for any blogger to use. Yesterday I created my first Squidoo Lens.

Why Squidoo?

Every time I go back to Squidoo I find something new. I probably can’t cover everything in this article.

Building a Squidoo lens is like making a mini blog that exists on one page. It’s basically a landing page for any niche you wish to write about. Basically it can be an extremely targeting web page about whatever you want it to be about. You can even create multiple lens’ to basically link them all together.

But why? Well for many bloggers building links to your blog can be difficult, but it is also very important. The more links that you have the better your website will rank in Google, and for the terms you want.

For example, I made a Squidoo Lens about free samples. In the lens I put links to my own blogs, as well as displayed their RSS feeds and put a bit extra ways for me to make money.

For every Google Adsense click, Amazon Sale, eBay sale, I get my own bit of commission for it. As well, I put my own affiliates on my lens to give me 100% of whatever I can get sign-ups for. If you haven’t taken advantage of Squidoo lens’ for affiliate marketing, you just might want to.

Squidoo is Easy!

I was surprised at how easy Squidoo is. Blogger took me a bit to master, but it is pretty easy as well. You can start a blog and publish an article in a few minutes at blogger. With Squidoo it’s even easier. You can have an entire lens finished in 5-10 minutes after a bit of navigating around.

There are different modules you can incorporate into your Squidoo Lens to make it interactive. One of my favorite Squidoo Lens’ is about online contests. There you can submit your own contest or even a contest blog if you want to. I’ve used this function on my own Squidoo Lens and allow visitors to add their own free samples.

Squidoo Referral Program

I didn’t even know Squidoo had an affiliate program until after I joined! It’s not much, but if you can refer people and they earn money, you can get money too. When your referral earns its first $15, you AND your referral will each get $5.

Basically it’s incentive enough for you to join as my referral so we can both earn $5!

Sign-up to Squidoo.

Squidoo Wrap Up

While writing this article I got inspired to create a few more lens’. The possibilities and topics for Squidoo are endless. You can build links to your niche sites, as well as earn a bit of income doing it. I definitely plan on keeping updates posted about how am I doing with my Squidoo. If you are already on Squidoo make sure to comment on my free sample lens and point me to your lens’. We can exchange ratings as well as favorites and fans.

If I haven’t convinced you to join, maybe Janet can. She has the #1 lens on Squidoo. She writes about how shes made money with Squidoo. From June 4th to July 10th she’s made $483 on Squidoo alone, not including her affiliate commissions. Check out her lens, but make sure to come back and join as my referral!

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PepperJam Continuing Blogger Bonus

Matthew Henrickson — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:46:28 +0000

Since the launch of Pepperjam, we have been able to refer 28 people to the program. The most I’ve ever really referred to a program. It’s all for good reason, Pepperjam is a great network for bloggers.

Blogger Bonus Continues

With the success of the bonus for bloggers, Pepperjam has decided to continue the program. This really just includes more money for referrals, as well as the $10 sign-up bonus.

Pepperjam Referrals and Bonus

For reffering users to Pepperjam you can earn $7 per referral. It’s a 40% increase from the $5 it was originally.

To give people a little bit of incentive, publishers now also receive $10 for signing up. Remember, it only takes a minimum of $25 to get paid, so you only need to earn $15 to get your first payout.

Blogger Incentive

Along with the little bonuses, you also can receive a bonus for simply blogging about Pepperjam, similar to this post. For each post you write, you can earn $10 for the post.

Basically you can sign-up to earn your $10, write two posts about Pepperjam, then get paid. Not a bad deal!

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WP Affiliate Elite Wordpress Plugin

Matthew Henrickson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:40:07 +0000

I’ve noticed more and more bloggers are turning to affiliate marketing to make money online. Of course, a popular way to promote the affiliates is through blogging. Why not make that process easier?

Turn Keywords Into Affiliate Links

With WP Affiliate Elite you can simply choose a keyword that you’ve used on your blog and make it an affiliate link.

Here are some bonuses with using WP Affiliate Elite:

Takes only a few minutes to install (very simple plugin)
Hides your affiliate links to avoid losing commissions.
Tracks each click making it easy to analyze which are the most profitable keywords/links.

Timesaving and No Follow

I hate backtracking on posts. Sometimes my affiliate links change and then I have to go back and fix them. If I’ve put the link several places, it can take a while to track down. With the plugin, you can do this all in one spot.

No follow is another problem I’ve had. The same thing with updating affiliate links, sometimes I have to go back and add no follow. With simply one click, you can add no follow to your links or affiliate links!

Price Check

The cost for this plugin is $47, accompanied with a 60 day money back guarantee. I generally have a hard time paying for a plugin (although I did buy OIOPublisher) but this particular plugin may just save you the time and effort to pay $ for it.

Buy and download the WP affiliate elite plugin

Take a look at the video in case I missed anything.

No Self Pings Please

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Affiliate Network Review: Logical Media

Matthew Henrickson — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:40:37 +0000

It’s always a good thing to explore other affiliate networks, even if you are happy with several you’ve already joined. This will only open up different possible revenue streams to you. That’s what I just did with Logical Media. I had really never heard of it before, I just saw another website using them (copied their tracking code). This has allowed me to reach over $100 in earnings already.

Logical Media

Most affiliate networks are similar, but little things set them apart. With Logical Media, their offers seem to set them apart.

Logical Media has interesting offers that I haven’t seen on other networks. Most of them are freebies and free samples, which always seem to convert well for me on It’s All Free Online.

What is good for me is that they have special offers almost daily. These offers run so well on the network that the budget of the campaign often runs out in a day or two.

$25 Sign Up Bonus

It’s always a plus to have incentive with affiliate networks. Not only does it make them competitive, it usually means more benefits and money for us, the members.

With Logical Media they are currently offering a $25 bonus when you sign-up and get approved. The approval process only took about a day or two. It did not require a phone call (those can be annoying).

The downside though, is that the minimum payout is $100. I always like getting paid really as I earn, like with some affiliate networks that pay bi weekly, with low minimums.

However the $25 bonus will definitely help you reach that $100 goal.

Referral Program

Logical Media offers 5% of all the commissions of every approved affiliate that you refer. All Webmasters/Affiliates who sign up through your site/code are tracked in real time through the Logical Media tracking system. If they sign up and are approved, you become a Super Affiliate for their account.

Logical Media – Make Money!

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