As many of you know from the link on the bottom right of this blog, I recently joined SeoBook affiliate program. Great book by the way. Ok, I joined so what? Well during the signup process I noticed a very powerful Affiliate Marketing Strategy which was so powerful, I just had to tell you about it.

During the signup process, I noticed that JUST FOR SIGNING up into the affiliate program, he gave me $20 as a SIGNUP BONUS. Hmmmm.

I thought about this for a while after I signed up.

Let’s say you sell a $97 product and you pay out lets say 50% so roughly you payout $50 for every sale. Well on the first sale from this affiliate, you would pay them $70. Would this motivate affiliates to get the first sale? I don’t know, but I believe its worth a very serious look at testing it.

Just imagine the the marketing you can use… I’ll Give you $20 Just To Signup For My Affiliate Program!!!

Doesn’t that sound great?

I am writing this to let you, the Internet Marketing Community know that we have lost a great marketer and to many of us a great friend… Phil Huff.

I would have written sooner, but I wanted to get permission from Jody his wife to let all of you know.

Phil Huff passed away unexpectedly in a recreational vehicle accident on Saturday, October 28th along with Jody’s father.

Not only was this shocking for me personally to hear, but Phil was just married to Jody on April 15th of this year.

Our prayers go out to Jody and Phil’s family.

I met Phil quite a few years ago at one of the first seminars I have ever went to. It was Michael Penland’s event in Atlanta, GA.

I guess that was 6 years ago now.

Phil commented on my wearing cowboy boots there to a seminar. LOL Since then, Phil and I became friends and talked frequently about Internet Marketing.

It won’t be the conversations about Internet Marketing that I will miss though. Phil and I often talked about life and how we felt about it. I always enjoyed the late night talks we had and those types of conversations that really make you stop and think.

He always had a unique outlook on life and was a walking and talking testimonial about the positive outlook you should have

You have to understand, Phil was one of the most caring and giving people I have ever met in my life and all us will miss him greatly.

If there was one big lesson that I’ve learned from Phil it would be that you have to be grateful for what you have. He always told
me how much he appreciated me every time we met. It was usually his closing words when we said goodbye to each other.

Phil… I appreciated you!

In closing, in Phil’s own words… “I love you man!” You’ll be missed, but I can tell you, you’ll never be forgotten.

We are awaiting final information about the services for Phil.

I will post about it on my blog when I hear more, I know many of you will want to attend. I do know there will be two services,one in Arizona and one in South Carolina.

The guys from EepyBird are back, with 251 bottles of Diet Coke and over 1,500 Mentos mints. In Experiment #137, they did a mint-powered … all » version of the Bellagio fountains. This time, it’s one giant Coke & Mentos chain reaction that has to be seen to be believed.

Now they are even sponsored by Mentos and Coke!!!

They get paid for this stuff… AMAZING… I want that job.

We just finished BigSeminar 8 a few hours ago. It was one of the greatest successes we’ve had to do date. The Biggest crowd we’ve ever had and the speakers were just amazing. Stay tuned for some photos we will be posting soon.

I have been watching a site called Tubetorial.com for quite some time. I was waiting to see the quality of the tutorials on the site. I have to say… NOTHING LESS THAN AMAZING. This is a great site if you want to learn almost anything having to do with Internet Marketing. I just wish I thought of this idea myself. DAMN!

Even if I did, I don’t think I could have done as good of job as they have done on this site.

Head on over there and see what you can learn today. http://www.tubetorial.com/

Odeo has just gone bye-bye. The assets were picked up by Obvious Corp a new found company by Evan Williams who you may know, made a good chunk of change by selling a little company called Blogger to Google. I first heard of this over on ValleyWag. You can check out the full story there.