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There has never been a better time to signup as an affiliate with Motive Interactive. To kick the new year off, Motive is holding a pretty big promotion for any new affiliates that join through this blog and can push some big numbers.

For the first time, Motive Interactive will be rewarding their affiliates with some big prizes for anyone that can push volume. Here are the prizes up for grabs in January 2009!

TITANIUM TIER: $300,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: A New Smart Car ($11,990 Value)

PLATINUM TIER: $90,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: VIP Las Vegas Vacation
1st Class Air, Stay at the Wynn for 2 nights , $500 Cash

GOLD TIER: $10,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: 32 GB iPod Touch with $500 iTunes Gift Card

SILVER TIER: $1,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: XBox 360 Elite Package

The rules are simple. You must sign up to Motive Interactive through this blog to participate in this promotion. Your tier ranking will be determined by your total commissions earned between January 1st and 31st, 2009. Motive Interactive reserves the right to change, modify and have the final say on all prizes and participation. Once you hit the commission level for each tier, you will receive that individual prize. There are no limits how many prizes will be rewarded. One level tier prize per affiliate.

MORE PRIZES UPDATE: After looking over the prize levels, I wanted to make sure something was available for everyone. I sent Motive an email and they agreed on the “Silver Tier” which only requires $1,000 in earnings for January. Earn at least $1,000 and you’ll receive a free XBox 360 Elite package!

BLOGGER REWARDS!

In addition to big rewards based off your January earnings, you can also win prizes just by simply writing on this promotion on your blog. Three random winners will be February 1st, that have written about and linked to this promotion post.

- $100 Cash
- Flip HD Mino Camera
- 16 GB iPod Nano

Blog winners will be selected and listed on this post on February 1, 2009.

This is a limited time promotion, so make sure to take advantage of it, if you aren’t already an affiliate with Motive Interactive.

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Seems like I just wrote my Top Posts of 2007 post a few months ago. Another year has flown by, and it’s time for my 2008 recap. The blog has grown exponentially over the past year, along with completing a 12 month blog revenue case study, going live with ZJ Blog Design version 3 and passing 5,000 blog subscribers. Instead of going through a recap of all blog posts, I went through and grabbed two of my best posts from each month. Here are the top 24 blog posts of 2008!

January 2008
- My Blog Readers Have Earned Over $100,000!
- Guide to PPC Marketing on MSN

February 2008
- How I Made $860,538.38 PROFIT in 4 Months!
- Insider Secrets to a Making a Million Dollar Web Site!

March 2008
- How to Effectively Sell Private Advertising on Your Blog
- INC vs. LLC - Whats Best For Your Business?

April 2008
- Quick Tips to Improving Your Landing Page
- Free AOL Disks, Domain Names and Kicking it Old School!

May 2008
- Affiliate Bloggers Work Space
- Affiliate Network Rewards Programs

June 2008
- Create Killer Landing Pages - Free Template
- How Much Will That ZIP Offer Reward Really Cost You?

July 2008
- The Emotions of Color in Marketing
- Creating Your Own Video Entertainment Web Site

August 2008
- Advertise on Perez Hilton’s Blog for $54,000 a Day!
- Split Testing with Facebook Ads

September 2008
- Super Affiliate’s Guide to Blogging Profits
- Think Small to Think Big

October 2008
- Examples of Good and Bad Landing Pages
- My First Affiliate Checks and How It All Started!

November 2008
- Split Testing Image Ads
- How to Find Niche Markets

December 2008
- My Blog Readers Have Earned Over $500,000!
- Your Job Sucks? Six Reasons to Be Your Own Boss Now!

It’s been quite an exciting year, and I can’t wait to see what happens in 2009!

Keep on making that big money!

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I’ve been keeping an eye on T3 Leads over the past couple of months, as I have seen them reviewed on many other blogs, and they requested a review of their own for this blog. Unlike other networks that have a huge collection of CPA offers, T3 Leads focuses on lead transactions. You are paid whenever you refer a user to complete a form process.

T3 Leads Offers & Commissions:
Since T3 Leads is a “pay per lead” type of network, you won’t find many offers that are already on other networks. T3 Leads has offers in the following categories; Payday Loans, Auto Insurance, Debt, Home Improvement, Auto Loans, Credit Repair, Insurance, Mortgage Loans and Renter Insurance. Based on offer type, requested information, volume and quality… leads can earn affiliates anywhere from .45 to $55 per lead generated. When logged in, you can use the menu toolbar and “Web Sites” feature to view all offers currently available on the network.

Promotional Methods:
T3 Leads has a system in place to allow their affiliates to promote offers through several different methods. Once logged in, under the “Promo” menu, you will have a choice between the following ad methods, Banners, JS or IFrame Form, Referral Banners or Popup Payday Banner. When selecting any of the desired creatives, you will be sent to a page which divides up the creative by campaign. Referral banners are also available, which in turn will offer you a 10% residual income from any referred affiliates who use the network. T3 Leads also proudly boasts that their offers convert on average between 1:6 to 1:9. Considering some of these offers pay in upwards of $30-$55, it’s definitely worth trying out.
(While all of the ad creative does look great, I would imagine affiliates would like to see more banner sizes and options available. Right now the network has a wide variety of banners, but  each campaign is limited on the size of creative available.)

Acquire Signups through IFrames:

A really exciting feature that T3 Leads offers to affiliates, is the ability to pass through data and leads on their own landing pages. Instead of creating your own landing page, then having the pass the user off to the CPA landing page, you can create your own iframe and convert on your own page. I haven’t seen many other networks offer something like this, but it’s a huge opportunity for any affiliate looking to generate leads.

Payment Methods:

Networks that limit themselves to only US affiliate or payments is always a set back. T3 Leads allow affiliate payments through the following methods; WebMoney, Fethard, ePassporte, Wire Transfer, Check, PayPal and E-gold. Minimum payment threshold is $100, sent out twice monthly.

Top Earning Bonuses:
It’s always nice when a network adds a little something extra for their top earners. This month T3 Leads will be rewarding $200 to each of their Top 20 affiliates, and in the past month they have awarded such prizes as a Sony Vaio VGN-FW139, Sony Cybershot Camera, Geek Squad 8GB and more.

T3 Leads in the Blogosphere:
Since T3 Leads is so anxious to get the word around, I thought it would be fitting to include what other blogs and affiliates are also saying about T3 Leads:
- InternetBusiness Daily T3Leads Affiliate Review
- T3 Leads, Using the Power of iFraming
- T3 Leads, Highest Paying Affiliate Program?
- Make Money with T3 Leads Affiliate Network
- Review of T3 Leads

Summary:
To sum things up, T3 Leads look like they have a solid foundation and a lot of room to grow. They already show they are a step ahead in lead generation, by offering iFrame capabilities. As for growth, if the network was to move on past big lead gen offers, they could differently bring in a few smaller or less information requested offers and see how they affiliates would do on volume. I like what I see at the network and I may end up throwing a landing page together with their iFrame and see how it performs.

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Just wanted to drop a quite note and wish everyone a wonderful Christmas! Forget the stats, and ad campaigns today… they are already running on auto for you anyway!

Add a little fun to your Christmas day with the Heat and Snow Misers!

Enjoy your Christmas, and thank you to all of my readers!

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Joel Comm (and his company, Developer InfoMedia) has done it again. I’m sure you’ve seen his name across several blogs, or internet marketing articles over the past few years. Most notably known for running the first internet reality show, “Next Internet Millionaire“, Joel is now being recognized for his latest killer iPhone application, iFart. It may sound stupid, silly and even pointless… but the amount of money this application is pulling in daily is serious.

VentureBeat and Wired reports that the iFart app is generating over $10,000 a day! What’s the point of the iFart app? Simply put, it’s a fart machine. iTunes users can download the app and select what fart sounds they want to hear, then play them through their iPhone or iPod. iFart also has different fart features such as Security Fart, Sneak Attack and Fart Now.

It’s also no surprise that Joel is publicly sharing his iTune success and stats with other. Over at his blog, he has official updates and install numbers on the iFart app. Take a look at how the app goes from 75 installs on 12/12 to over 5,000 installs on 12/20. Quite amazing.

Since the iFart app went live, word has spread of it’s success and profitability, and more “fart” apps are being added to iTunes daily. Apparently the demand for humor and fart sounds is more serious than most people would imagine.

This isn’t the first time something so silly made mega money… just a few quick instances are icanhascheezburger.com getting acquired for $2 million dollars, eBaumsWorld for $20+ million and early Facebook apps getting acquired.

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