Archives for March 2012

Payoneer, which has offered a prepaid debit MasterCard as a commission payment option for networks and affiliate programs, launched the Payoneer Affiliate Card during Affiliate Summit West 2012.

The Payoneer Affiliate Card, like the original Payoneer card for individual networks and affiliate programs, enables affiliates to receive commissions faster, safer, and more cost effectively than checks, wire, and even EFT/direct deposit.

But with the Payoneed Affiliate Card, you can receive payments onto the card from any of their thousands of partners.

David Gonzalez and Jonathan Herbert of the Internet Marketing Party talked about How to Create the Three Quick Qualification Questions for any situation with anyone… from a networking event to a birthday party at the Affiliate Summit Meetup in Austin, TX on March 27, 2012.

It was a really interesting discussion on the right approach when communicating with people for the first time.

So many folks are a clumsy mess when they network, so I’d highly advise going through Dave and Jonathan’s slides for strategies and ideas.

Thanks a lot to Dave and Jonathan and everybody that came out for pizza and shop talk.

By the way, there will be an Internet Marketing Party the day before Affiliate Summit Central 2012.

About David

David Gonzalez is the founder of The Internet Marketing Party ™, whose motto is “Mixing Business and Pleasure since 2008? by bringing world-class marketing leaders OUT of stuffy conference rooms and into a cool BAR, for some of the best cutting edge digital marketing information, networking, and joint ventures with some of the most successful and highly recognized names in the online world. David also runs a successful joint venture company (Velvet Rope Joint Ventures) and is the creator of TopStarting (a system that shows you how to build a million dollar Rolodex helping you: “Start at the Top… of your next level in business”). He is passionate about spending quality time with truly world-class talent (in any field) as well as jamming out to music* with amazing friends that makes him dance kinda funny.

*at full volume

About Jonathan

Jonathan has always marched to the beat of a different drum. One of his biggest passions is connecting with industry leaders who have built their businesses driven by a purpose. His top priority is truly understanding what that vision is and uniting them with other like-minded individuals. He loves to create “the worm hole effect”, where mutually shared goals are achieved in the shortest amount of time possible. And these many resources combine themselves together as one “tribe”. Jonathan Herbert is also the co-founder of Velvet Rope Joint Ventures. His company is constantly expanding its knowledge regarding the people they work with while continuing to attend a wide variety of conferences, affiliate summits and networking events. He seeks out the truly unique “talent” and introduces them to the right people in a very quick, yet efficient manner. Yet, he always remembers to ensure that customer experience is king and that the “white glove” treatment is always applied. Jonathan loves fedoras more than most girls and shoes…and old women with cats. He also enjoys spending time with his wife Jennifer and enjoying a “Five Hour Energy” shot on a daily bases. You’ll find Jonathan all around Austin meeting new people, expanding his network or enjoying his favorite smoothie at The Juice Box on South Lamar.

Yes, that’s right. A postcard from the Ace of Sales affiliate program turned up in my mailbox.

If I saw a Google AdWords ad for the affiliate program, it’s unlikely I would have paid attention, but I’ll always read a postcard.

I was using direct mail to recruit affiliates back in my early days as an affiliate manager, and kept on doing it until I hung up my affiliate manager hat in 2007.

Direct mail was a regular tool for me, because it was very effective.

I reached out to Lisa Saline, Affiliate Manager at Ace of Sales, and she mentioned that got the tip about postcard recruiting, because she attended Affiliate Summit, and later joined the Affiliate Summit forum.

I love to hear that, and I hope other affiliate managers test postcards, too!

The exhibit hall and interactive portion of South by Southwest have wrapped up, so now I’m in catch-up mode.

This was my third SXSW (second time as an Austin resident), and it was a great experience all around. Lots of new and familiar faces, good times, music, and business.

We had an Affiliate Summit booth in the exhibit hall, where we chatted up all sorts of folks about the upcoming Affiliate Summits, while handing out hundreds of Affiliate Geek shirts, playing some air hockey, giving away free passes, and listening to hourly sets from Khris Thayer, CEO & Co-Founder at Optizmo Technologies.

Check out one of Khris’ songs from the SXSW show floor.

One of the nights of SXSW, a bunch of friends of Affiliate Summit jumped on board the PubCrawler of Austin to see the city in a different way and enjoy some of the watering holes.

I finished up the week with a little stress relief with my business partner, Missy Ward, by shooting up some sporting clays.

It was her first time, and I predict she buys a shotgun within a year.

Pictures: SXSW 2012