To better get to know my blog audience, I’m going to be running affengineer.com’s very first competition!
[Entries will Close on the 27th]
Usually I blog about whatever comes to my mind which I automatically assume people will connect with and find value in. Maybe this is the case but there’s also the possibility that it is NOT the case. The idea of this competition is to figure this out.
The Prize
6 x Aff Playbook Forum memberships with the first month paid for by me.
Aff Playbook is THE best Private Affiliate Marketing Forum on the net. It has over 4,500 registered members and a gazillion success stories, case studies, lessons, webinars, tutorials, etc, etc. This is the perfect prize for those that want to get more serious with Affiliate Marketing. You can read more about the forum here.
What You Need to do
In the comments section of this post, answer the following questions
How you first became interested in IM
Example Answer: When a friend of mine told me he earned around $100 during sleeping hours through ranking a review style website and promoting a clickbank product. I was mind blown to say the least.
What were your turning points/best moments in IM
Example Answer: When I made my first sale via paid marketing almost exactly a year ago. Also having an almost $xxx,xxx profit month. Again, mind blown.
The most you’ve ever earned in a single day, (You can just say $xx if you don’t want to disclose exact amounts) You don’t need to be the highest earner here to win. In fact you can win with $0 being your highest day.
Example Answer: About $7,400, (can also answer $x,xxx)
How did you hear about affengineer.com and what would you like to see more of.
Example Answer: Came across it through Google
How Winners Will be Chosen
Each Question answered will count as 1 POINT. There are 4 points you can earn in total. Once the competition closes, (on the 27th of this month – September), I’ll make a tally of each contestant and how many points he/she has. For each point, he/she’ll get an entry into the excel spreadsheet. Below is an example.
Contestant 1: 3 points
Contestant 2: 2 points
Contestant 3: 4 points
Contestant 4: 2 points
Contestant 5: 1 point
Contestant 6: 3 points
Contestant 7: 1 points
The spreadsheet will look like this,
Now I’ll add the ‘=rand()’ function which will give each row a random number between 0 and 1. Then I’ll simply order these and the 6 highest numbers will win 🙂
The Winners
I’ll contact you personally when you win. Once you sign up to the forum through the link I give you, I’ll transfer $$ to your PayPal account equivalent to the first months fee, effectively, paying for your first months subscription.
1)way back in 2012,i went for a seminar on how to start an affiliate marketing and i was shown a video where president clinton spoke about the future of marketing and the worth of the industry in the nearest future.
2)2yrs ago as a newbie on internet marketing,i scrumble on alot of mistakes and i almost lost interest until when i made an instant earns through promotions of games &downloads and it looks like magic and ever since then i’ve been thriving and make thousands of dollars into my hungry bank accounts.
3)$500
4)affbuzz and i would like affengineer to start recommending a good CPA Network.
A friend of mine told me about it and I was really interested at the fact you can make money doing nothing.
I’m still new so have just been reading but I’ve learned a LOT
$0 🙁 Haven’t tried anything yet
My friend sent me the link through FB, I think more case studies on Teespring would be good. (I know there’s a PPC one but I’m lost when it comes to targeting). I’ll start Teespring once I read more case studies
PS your blog is awesome 🙂
Hi
1) I was at work and I was always bored out of my mind running a crane all day 12 hours straight, at first I was listening to Joe Rogens podcast it was awesome. Then he kept saying being stuck in a cubical all day, listening to the boss you hate, giving you shit even though you bust your ass, its not worth it, do what you love ect ect. So eventually I looked for alternate ways to create an income online, I then stumbled upon Pat Flynn’s podcast and listened to that for a few month then took action, created a blog about something I loved. After a week or two I was losing my mind creating never ending amounts of original content was just not my thing. So I then searched some more and came across Viper Chill with this (http://www.viperchill.com/no-backlinks/) A great interview with Mr.Green, Jordan and Besmir stating they made $10,000,000 between the 3 of them without a single backlink. That blew my mind, I dug deeper, joined STM and the rest is history!
2) The best turning points in IM so far has been making connection with more skilled people and learning everything I can from them, because it is okay to make some mistakes but not every mistake the more you avoid the better!
3) Well I made $5400 over 3 days and I got paid by my network on one day so that’s technically one day 🙂
4) It was recommended by an Affiliate Manager and right now I’m working on teespring so more of that is always good!
Thanks for the cool give away!
How you first became interested in IM:
My understanding of IM was that it was sleazy/cool/fast & quick money.I thought I had landed on a golden opportunity to make the moeny I always dreamed of and quit my 9-5, until I realized it was all/mostly rented fancy cars and homes to promote the latest product launch…those types of things.
Back in 2009 I was going through a self help course (Brian Tracy or Jim Rohn,cant remember) when I saqw an ad on an IM opportunity from a then very well known IM guru (who is no where online now…last I heard the feds were onto him and he was divorced from his wife who was his business partner). He always left his courses hanging making you want to buy his subsequent courses to learn his entire system,lol! Don’t get me wrong his system worked only that it required more work than he mentioned. It was all about quickly SEO loop-hole ranking Amazon niche review sites and cashing $100-300 checks from each site. I later realized he never made his real money from this system…he was just upselling up his courses each more expensive than the other… $27, $97, $997, $1997. Luckily I realized this and did not blow out lots of money to learn from him maybe around $130 . I next bought tools to analyze data: Market samurai, Microniche finder while ranking a couple sites here and there
What were your turning points/best moments in IM:
I started to come across a few blogs (tyler cruz, andre chaperon, pat flynn,dan kennedy), though, that seemed to take a different approach and were instead talking about building legitimate businesses that use IM as a marketing avenue. That seemed much more interesting to me. I am now slowly moving my business to more long-term methods…list building, email marketing and building a brand promoting info,physical and cpa products. hopefully no more flash in the pan tactics… 🙂
The most you’ve ever earned in a single day:
Example Answer: I still make $*** a month (Amazon/CPA/Clickbank) but nothing earth shattering: (like your $85kmonth! :)) Most has been $2k last Black Friday, Cyber Monday, xmas holidays.
How did you hear about affengineer.com and what would you like to see more of:
I have been subscribed to AffBUzz.com for a while (where I see you are listed now – way to go Mateen!). I saw your guest post on Tyler Cruz…clicked through…MIND….BLOWN! Did not realie teespring can be leveraged that way. Have never built a teespring campaign so you got me really interested. When I make my first $$ will def send some your way! 😉
Lets see more actual teespring/fabrily campaigns (best designs,audience segmenting) using FB (with the new rules in place – no scraping data – custom audiences) and also Google search. I am not confiedent about PPV…maybe you’ll convince me otherwise.
1.) I first got into Internet marketing after reading 4hr Work Week towards the end of college, then started following Pat Flynn, Viperchill, Corbett Barr. I eventually built my first niche site selling a clickbank product based on a guide by Corbett.
2.) When the first check from clickbank arrived at my house after I had half forgotten about the niche site I had built. It was amazing getting that check out of no where since I had built the site in two days a few months before.
3.) $55 I feel like I should be making more but I’ve struggled with the content creation side of building sites for SEO and I’m only just getting into AM.
4.) I found you through Tyler Cruz’s website, which I’d just started reading a few weeks before
[How you first became interested in IM]
About 2 years ago I was struggling with offline network marketing. Then one day, upon frustration, I went online to search for ways to promote the direct sale product I was promoting. In the process I stumbled upon Empower Network(online network marketing company). The sales video is too enticing to not join. I got super excited because previously I did not know there is a way to make money without having a boss, without having to cold call strangers and without having to chase down my grandma or somebody elses’. It turns out I did not make a dime with EN while ended up losing several thousands USD, if converted to my currency, it’s more than 10k. But it got me into IM world anyway, it’s worth it.
[What were your turning points/best moments in IM]
I don’t really have any best moment yet. Still losing money every month.
[The most you’ve ever earned in a single day]
A couple hundreds from Teespring. But overall, I still lose money with Teespring.
[How did you hear about affengineer.com and what would you like to see more of.]
Had impression of you on warrior forum then saw your blog on google search.
I would like to know more about how you got from 0 to what you’re making now in PPV.
Heyup Mateen,just received your email about the Winning.but why did you asks all the winners to make the first month subscription payment through their paypal within 2days,that you’re going to refund them within 24hrs.i’m beginning to start thinking this whole competition thing is a game or maybe another strategical way of marketing your affiliate link with Affplaybook.
you should have send the $57 registration fee to all the winners as promised cos that will build a trust and also by way of fulfilling a public promise made.but to me it seems you never ever really meant to stand by your words about the cash gifts.
Hello Balogun,
Not sure what you mean by ‘you should have sent the $57 registration fee to all winners as promised’.
The prize was ‘6 x Aff Playbook Forum memberships with the first month paid for by me.’
The only way I can do this is pay for the first months payment myself to the paypal address that was used during the subscription. The only way I can guarantee that you joined is if you go through my link, I can see the name of the member and thus confirm that you’re not lying. Trust is something that affiliate marketers have very little of so sorry for the paranoia.
Effectively, I don’t earn anything since I pay the $57 out of my pocket, ($28.50 after my 50% commission).
I’m sorry if this is a bit inconvenient and to be honest I was double thinking whether or not I should run this because it all sounds so sketchy but I’m happy to do it another way if you have a suggestion.
Lying?guess it’s a competetion?and people WON right.i strongly believes $57 is nothing to make anyone RICH!
Hey Mateen,i think you should Start building the TRUST here and i can assure you that People’s testimonies on your blog will definately worth more than a Million dollars.
What you need to do is Just ask for the WINNERS Paypal email and send them the cash and promised each of them an ebook or something.
I think every Winners would like to Redeemed their Prizes Won before taking further steps.
“I think every Winners would like to Redeemed their Prizes Won before taking further steps.” I think you’re right, now rethinking the process , it seems it’s best to just give you guys the first months subscription $$ amount of $57 and let you guys do what you want with it. Email me your paypals!
Hopefully everyone who has commented above this comment has been contacted by me. If for some reason you haven’t, please contact me via the ‘contact’ page.
~ Mateen
Thanks Mateen, I have received your email! I had no issues on getting the price money that you have promised us. I hope to see more competitions in the future from Affengineer.
Great :). Yeah, I have a few things in mind, stay tuned.
$57USD just arrived in my Paypal acct in just 5minutes,Really?surely,it’s less than 24hrs stated in the contest.
Mateen you’ve made a huge differences amongst the rest of the world IM bloggers,sincerely it’s the most surprising cash gift i would ever received from a stranger in years.
Bravo to you Mateen and you’re outstanding as well.
Regards!!!!
Awesome!
No problem 🙂
I just signed up to affplaybook and got the 57$ almost instantly! Really appreciate the contest, lets just hope there are a few more contestants next time, make things interesting! Mateen is legit though, no problems here 🙂