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Introducing our new ‘Affilorama Services’: To serve or be served?

March 1st, 2011 simonslade No comments

The many hidden (and not so hidden) talents of our members have not gone unnoticed by the team here at Affilorama. We think that you’re all pretty special, and we’re lucky to have a supportive community where people are happy to help each other out.

So, we thought this is the perfect place for our members to make a bit of extra cash by lending a helping hand – AND the perfect place for our members to easily find services offering exactly what they’re after!

This is how our brand new corner of the forum was born – a place for our members to connect with each other to offer and find services. We’ve called it Affilorama Services.

What kind of services are we talking about?

Well,
this is an affiliate marketing website, so the services that are best offered here are those that can help out affiliate marketers, and
especially those relevant to our training products like
AffiloJetpack and AffiloBlueprint. Here are a few ideas to get the ball
rolling…

Writing services

  • Are you specialized at writing in particular niches?
  • Can you rewrite articles faster than you can read them?
  • Do you have a knack for writing great sales copy or banner copy that converts?
  • Maybe you’re a fast typist who can transcribe video and audio?

These will go down a treat with our AffiloBlueprint and AffiloJetpack members – offer your service now!

Design services

  • Fancy yourself as a talented cartoonist?
  • Or really good at making animated banners?
  • Like to create eBook and 3D covers?
  • Maybe you’re an all-round talented web designer who can offer the whole package?

Website creation services

  • Are you an expert in working with Xsite Pro or WordPress?
  • Able to write code really well in a specific language?
  • Maybe you’re an expert in putting together AffiloJetpack or AffiloBlueprint sites

SEO, Marketing, and more

  • Are you a link building pro?
  • A fantastic website critic?
  • Maybe you’re skilled in website optimization and usability design?
  • Good at video creation?
  • Social Media guru?

… How else can you help? Offer it now!

So, you’ve got a service to offer?

Great, offering your service on Affilorama Services is really simple.

All you need to do is create a new thread in ‘Affilorama Services’ that follows the following example ad:

=====================================================================================
Thread Subject: Setup of 1x AffiloJetpack site (AffiloJetpack members only) – $20
(Must contain a description of the service you’re offering, and the price.)

Thread content: (Should contain the details below).

Price: $20 USD (This should be stated in USD only)
Timeframe: 7 days
Paypal Address: simon@domain.com Please use your Affilorama username as reference on payment.

Description: Please provide a clear, detailed description of the service you are
offering and what the customer can expect in terms of quality, and
actual work completed.

=====================================================================================

What else should I know?

You must meet a few basic requirements before you can offer a service, and these include using Paypal as a safe payment provider, and having an Affilorama forum post count of at least 20.

If you’re looking for a service, please note that ‘services wanted’ type posts are not permitted, you can only use the forum to register your interest with advertised service providers. For more details on the specifics, please read the post How to Offer a Service.

We are excited to be introducing this new feature for our members, and want the forum to
serve as a convenient place for you to offer and find services.
Please help us to keep this a productive and beneficial place for all by
respecting our terms. icon smile Introducing our new Affilorama Services: To serve or be served?

Visit the forum now, or see you there later!

Introducing our new ‘Affilorama Services’: To serve or be served?

February 16th, 2011 simonslade No comments

The many hidden (and not so hidden) talents of our members have not gone unnoticed by the team here at Affilorama. We think that you’re all pretty special, and we’re lucky to have a supportive community where people are happy to help each other out.

So, we thought this is the perfect place for our members to make a bit of extra cash by lending a helping hand – AND the perfect place for our members to easily find services offering exactly what they’re after!

This is how our brand new corner of the forum was born – a place for our members to connect with each other to offer and find services. We’ve called it Affilorama Services.

What kind of services are we talking about?

Well,
this is an affiliate marketing website, so the services that are best offered here are those that can help out affiliate marketers, and
especially those relevant to our training products like
AffiloJetpack and AffiloBlueprint. Here are a few ideas to get the ball
rolling…

Writing services

  • Are you specialized at writing in particular niches?
  • Can you rewrite articles faster than you can read them?
  • Do you have a knack for writing great sales copy or banner copy that converts?
  • Maybe you’re a fast typist who can transcribe video and audio?

These will go down a treat with our AffiloBlueprint and AffiloJetpack members – offer your service now!

Design services

  • Fancy yourself as a talented cartoonist?
  • Or really good at making animated banners?
  • Like to create eBook and 3D covers?
  • Maybe you’re an all-round talented web designer who can offer the whole package?

Website creation services

  • Are you an expert in working with Xsite Pro or WordPress?
  • Able to write code really well in a specific language?
  • Maybe you’re an expert in putting together AffiloJetpack or AffiloBlueprint sites

SEO, Marketing, and more

  • Are you a link building pro?
  • A fantastic website critic?
  • Maybe you’re skilled in website optimization and usability design?
  • Good at video creation?
  • Social Media guru?

… How else can you help? Offer it now!

So, you’ve got a service to offer?

Great, offering your service on Affilorama Services is really simple.

All you need to do is create a new thread in ‘Affilorama Services’ that follows the following example ad:

=====================================================================================
Thread Subject: Setup of 1x AffiloJetpack site (AffiloJetpack members only) – $20
(Must contain a description of the service you’re offering, and the price.)

Thread content: (Should contain the details below).

Price: $20 USD (This should be stated in USD only)
Timeframe: 7 days
Paypal Address: simon@domain.com Please use your Affilorama username as reference on payment.

Description: Please provide a clear, detailed description of the service you are
offering and what the customer can expect in terms of quality, and
actual work completed.

=====================================================================================

What else should I know?

You must meet a few basic requirements before you can offer a service, and these include using Paypal as a safe payment provider, and having an Affilorama forum post count of at least 20.

If you’re looking for a service, please note that ‘services wanted’ type posts are not permitted, you can only use the forum to register your interest with advertised service providers. For more details on the specifics, please read the post How to Offer a Service.

We are excited to be introducing this new feature for our members, and want the forum to
serve as a convenient place for you to offer and find services.
Please help us to keep this a productive and beneficial place for all by
respecting our terms. icon smile Introducing our new Affilorama Services: To serve or be served?

Visit the forum now, or see you there later!

Introducing the Affilorama YO Blog

November 23rd, 2010 simonslade No comments

We are very
excited to announce a brand new free
feature available to everyone on Affilorama that we know you’re going to love.
Introducing (drum roll please) … The YO Blog!

What is the YO Blog?

YO stands for ‘Your Opinion’ (and appropriately, it’s also a casual greeting). The YO Blog is
your chance to put yourself in the spotlight in front of your peers, and it’s
also a great place to get well-articulated advice and opinions from fellow
affiliate marketing friends.

It looks
exactly the same as our regular Affilorama Blog, with images and comment
functionality too.

Why the YO Blog makes you happy

  • Are you someone who loves to
    share your knowledge or thoughts on something? Do you love using the power of
    words to get your point across? Well here’s a place where you can do exactly
    that, and get your post in front of a large readership.
  • You can place a healthy ‘do
    follow’ link from your blog post back to your site. We will be linking directly to the
    latest YO Blog posts from our Affilorama homepage (that has a pagerank of 6!). That
    means fast indexing of your content, and a lot of link juice coming your way…
  • This is your chance to build up
    your reputation as an authority figure among your peers. If you’ve got a
    product or service that’s of use to Affilorama members then here’s your chance
    to let them know you can be of even more assistance…
  • If your blog post is of
    exceptional quality, we might even promote it to our regular blog – amplifying the rewards you get from the
    benefits listed in the previous points.

Why the YO Blog makes Affilorama happy

No prizes for
guessing that adding a new stream of frequently updated quality content helps
us in the SERPs, and it gives us more to offer to people like you, both of
which give us an increase in traffic. It’s a win/win situation icon smile Introducing the Affilorama YO Blog

YO Blog fair play

We want to ensure
everyone gets the best experience out of the YO Blog, and this is why all blog
post submissions are reviewed by our staff before being published. Publication
is not guaranteed, so it would be a waste of your time if you send us a post
that links to a spam site, has irrelevant content, or is of a generally poor
quality. It must also be unique and not published elsewhere on the web.

There is no word restriction to the YO Blog, but remember this is not
the place for a novel nor a tweet.

How to submit a post on YO Blog

1. Click on
your Affilorama member profile at the top of your screen:

Aff member profile.d4a8004deacb4bf6eda71ab4c734994c Introducing the Affilorama YO Blog

2. Click ‘Create a YO Post’ next to your member profile:

aff member yo Introducing the Affilorama YO Blog 

3. Click ‘Create New Post’

aff create yo post.d4a8004deacb4bf6eda71ab4c734994c Introducing the Affilorama YO Blog
 

4. You’ll then
need to fill out the following details:

  • Blog post
    title – Make this interesting and descriptive, and no longer than 250
    characters long. Titles are hugely important for getting users to read your
    post, so put some thought into this.
  • Images – Ideally, images should be around 400×400 pixels (you must own the copyright on it or have paid for it)
  • Tags – Add
    as many tags from our list to your blog post as you like (they must be relevant
    to your post of course!).

5. You’ll then
need to insert your post content using our WSYWIG editor.

6. Hit the ‘Save to Drafts’. You will then be given the option to submit the post or edit it until its just right

7. You’re
done! We’ll be in contact if we need further information, otherwise you’ll hear
from us when your post goes live icon smile Introducing the Affilorama YO Blog

YO Blog topic ideas to get you started

If you take a
look to the right of this page, you’ll see a list of topics that represent all
of the subjects our past blog posts have been tagged under. This gives you an
idea of the kinds of things that are relevant to Affilorama members, and topics
that you can write about.

 Another good place to look is on our forum –
what questions and issues are people raising often?

Often the best
and most useful blog posts cover a very specific topic in-depth. If you begin
tackling a topic that is large in size, you can find it overwhelming and
difficult to cover in enough detail to make it useful for your readers. Pick a
topic and narrow it down to a very specific area.

Here are some
things to consider…

  • What areas of affiliate
    marketing are you currently focusing on? Maybe you’ve been spending a lot of
    time link building lately and you’d like to share your experience on hiccups
    and successes you’ve had along the road, and tips for other users.
  • Maybe you’ve even got a
    time-saving, simple or helpful plan that others could follow along with.
  •  What’s news in the world of
    Affiliate Marketing? You might have a strong opinion on something that’s
    happened in the industry lately, or a new service that’s on offer and would
    like to warn members of the dangers, or alert them of the benefits.
  • Consider yourself an expert?
    Maybe you’re a graphic designer and can teach people how to make cartoon
    images, or maybe you’re a social media expert and can give members the low-down
    on how best to use a service for affiliate marketing.
  • Consider yourself a newbie? What
    about a journal-style entry of your progress so far? Tell us about your first
    sale, or how you finally figured out how to do ‘annoying and difficult thing
    X’, and how others can do the same.

Are you ready
to get started? The YO Blog isn’t going to be live for a few weeks yet, but we are accepting submissions now. See you on
the YO
Blog soon!

Click here to log in and create your first post

Earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand

October 3rd, 2010 simonslade No comments

Hi Guys!
Just a very quick blog post to let you know that there was a massive earthquake in
Christchurch, New Zealand (where Affilorama’s head office is) and the city centre
is in a pretty bad way. It is currently on lock down and there is no power or access to our offices unfortunately.
We are all safe and well but ask you to please bare with us for the
next few days while we try and get everything back to normal. There may be some slight delays in us repsonding to questions on the forum and through our support center. Please accept our apologies in advanced.
Thank you to everyone that has sent messages of support, it has been much appreciated.
Regards,
Simon, Mark & The Affilorama Team
Here are a few photos:

Credit: The Press

Credit: The Press

Credit: Hera Hjartardottir
You can view more of the damage and destruction here

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