By Tricia Meyer (tricia.me) and Deborah Carney http://bloggingabcs.com Are you a blogger who isn’t quite sold yet on the benefits of affiliate marketing? Do you know just enough about it to be curious but are wondering if you will really benefit from it? Have you started adding affiliate links to your blogs but want to make sure that you are maximizing your benefits? If any of these sound like you, I need to show you “Five Affiliate Marketing Benefits for Bloggers.” Based on the great feedback I received speaking at Blog Indiana last month, I have tweaked my presentation from there and will be giving it again via a free live webinar on Blogging ABCs. Deb Carney will be adding additional ideas from the merchant and affiliate manager perspectives. Both of us will be available for Q&A as well. Whether you are a mom blogger, have a non-profit site, are a consultant or focus on content curation, you can benefit from affiliate marketing. Join us September 8 from 1-2pm Eastern to learn how being an affiliate will not only earn you money but also help you generate content, grow your network, and drive traffic to your site. If you would like to see the replay go to http://bloggingabcs.com and please sign up for our newsletter. Once you confirm your subscription you will be sent the link to the webinar replay and be notified of new podcasts and new webinars.

1. 5 Affiliate Marketing Benefits for Bloggers Presented by: Tricia Meyer Owner, MeyerTech, LLC Deborah Carney TeamLoxly and ABCs Plus

2. Why Is Tricia Here? Education Legal Career Switch to Affiliate Marketing Current Endeavors Tricia Meyer tricia@sunshinerewards.com Twitter.com/sunshinetricia www.tricia.me

3. Who is Deborah Carney? Affiliate: since the early days Affiliate Manager: Former In-house for CaféPress.com Consultant: for several CPA networks and other ecommerce companies Outsourced Program Manager: (OPM) since 2006 – Multiple programs in Shareasale Top 100 Merchants List Merchant:LoxlyGallery.com Training and Podcasts: ABCsPlus.com –for Affiliates, Bloggers, Merchants and more MerchantABCs.com @loxly @merchantabcs Facebook.com/loxly Linkedin.com/in/loxly

4. Do You Recognize Any of These? Affiliate Marketing Helps You Work With Them

5. How Does Affiliate Marketing Work? Affiliate Marketing Wikipedia

6. 5 Affiliate Marketing Benefits for YOU Revenue Opportunities Free Products Contest Sponsorships Content Networking

7. Revenue Opportunities Who can benefit? Traditional bloggers Non-profits Consultants Curators/Aggregators (deals, news, etc)

8. Revenue Opportunities How do you integrate it? Banners Text links to products Text links to stores Widgets Datafeeds Videos

9. Revenue Opportunities

10. Free Products How can you use them? Written reviews of products Video reviews of products Monetize the reviews Exchange the reviews for backlinks

11. Free Products

12. Contest Sponsorships How does it work for you? Merchants supply prizes Contest engages your users Contests go viral Contests get backlinks Follow up with contestants Introduces merchant to your visitors

13. Contest Sponsorships

14. Affiliate Marketing Creates Content What kind of content can you get out of it? News of upcoming product releases Lists of hot and best selling products Insider information directly from merchants

15. Affiliate Marketing Creates Content What kind of content can you get out of it? News of upcoming product releases Lists of hot and best selling products Insider information directly from merchants Exclusive coupon codes for your readers Vanity codes lend credibility

16. Affiliate Marketing Creates Content What kind of content can you get out of it? News of upcoming product releases Lists of hot and best selling products Insider information directly from merchants Exclusive coupon codes for your readers Vanity codes lend credibility Pre-written articles or product descriptions Videos Editorial calendar suggestions

17. Networking Who will you meet in the affiliate marketing community? Web/graphic designers SEO specialists Social media experts Customer service agents from companies Other bloggers

18. How to Learn More Affiliate Summit (Conference, Free Forum) http://forum.affiliatesummit.com Podcasts (Geekcast.fm, Webmaster Radio) http://geekcast.fm Network and OPM Conference Calls BloggingABCs.com

19. Questions? Tricia Meyer tricia@sunshinerewards.com Twitter.com/sunshinetricia www.tricia.me Deborah Carney dc@bloggingabcs.com Twitter.com/bloggingabcs www.bloggingabcs.com