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T3Leads Affiliate Review

Making money online may seem easy when other bloggers talk about it but there is one thing that all bloggers will agree upon, and that is diversifying your income. This means that you don’t put all your eggs in one basket. In the sense that you should explore many different ways that you can earn money online. One such way, which has recently become popular is through affiliate marketing.

There are a lot of good companies out there and I’ve talked about a few of them before but there’s another one that I had forgot to mention and thats T3Leads. You may have seen them featured on some other blogs and now its their time to shine on EnkayBlog, so lets take a look.

Background Information
T3Leads is an affiliate marketing company located in California. Their affiliate program directly cooperates with large networks of banks and other financial institutions to bring to its affiliates, a wide variety of ads to promote. These include anything from payday loans, auto insurance to mortgage loans and more. They have a very unique auction system in place that helps maximize profits for the affiliates.

Usability/Support
The idea of an affiliate system is that it should be easy to use not only by experienced affiliate marketers but also new affiliate markets. The sign up process for T3Leads didn’t take but 5 minutes and it was quite simple. If you ever find yourself stuck or pondering on something for a while then you can always find the contact page to get in touch with their friendly customer support who are ready to answer any and all types of questions. They can also help you with technical problems. One of the good things that I liked was that their contact page had phone numbers, email addresses, ICQ user names as well as AIM and Yahoo screen names. This makes contact with a customer support agent that much easier and accessible. They even have a great forum over at http://forum.t3leads.com that you can use in case you have any questions. Below is a screenshot of their contact page.

Interface
The user interface on the main page can be seen below. Its a bit graphically challenged and sometimes its not all in English but aside from that, its not that hard to navigate. The menu is located at the top and its a drop down menu so navigation is not an issue even if you are new to affiliate marketing. I would suggest that adding a bit of color and better language functionality would help them reach out to a lot of new affiliate marketers as well. On the plus side, they provide their users with lots of high quality promo tools that are constantly refreshed by their creative team to maximize performance.

Offers
They have lots of great offers that are seperated by public and private websites which are websites that are owned by people like you and I. They guarantee the highest conversion rates in the industry ranging from 1:6 to 1:9 in terms of ratio. Those are some pretty impressive numbers. Furthermore, they do not resell generated leads. Their leads help maximize the profits for its affiliates. They pay for each customer sent to them after the customer responds to your offers for qualified products and services. Here is how the offer page looks and as you can see im viewing the Public websites page.

Payment
T3Leads gives you several options for payment. The minimum payout is $100 based on the option you chose and you have several options to choose from. There is ePassporte, Company Check, Bank Wire Transfer, WebMoney, Paypal or Fethard. Some of them have a commission percentage which is subtracted from your payout but there are a few such as check and Fethard that don’t have any additional fees. Here is the payment screen below.

Final Thoughts
So, In conclusion I’d say that T3Leads seems to be doing a good job. They have some good offers, great support system in place and they have several payment options. Their user interface could use a little help in terms of navigation but aside from that they have it all figured out. If you haven’t tried them out yet, now is your chance to do so - Sign up!

Hatching The Blog Egg - Blog Development

Many of us have blogs, I mean ofcourse I do but, I know that several of you do too but there are also people that read my blog that don’t have blogs themselves. This post is for everyone, whether you have a blog or not. It really doesn’t make a difference but it will give you an insight into the process of how a blog develops. Theres several stages in the blog development processing and I think its interesting to see how this process works. So lets take a look:

1) Initiation - The initiation phase is usually the first two months of blogging. This is where you start getting things figured out. You set up pages, and get the design together and write some great posts. During this time, you also start setting up things like Twitter or MyBlogLog.

2) Recruiting - The recruiting phase has a start period, which is usually the third month but it should never end for your blog to be successful. This phase involves writing comments on other blogs and interacting with other bloggers so that you can recruit readers and visitors to your blog. This is the phase that helps establish you in the blogosphere.

3) Establishment Phase - This phase usually begins 6 months into the blogging process. By this time you begin to realize how popular your blog is. You begin to realize whether you are established in the blogosphere or not. Some blogs disappear during this time because they realize that it hasn’t worked for them but if youre able to stick around then you’re doing really good so far. This phase is important for the blog to survive.

4) Acknowledgment - The acknowledgment phase is usually 10 or 12 months into the blogging process. This is when you acknowledge blogging as a part of your daily life. This is a good phase to be a part of because you realize that you love blogging. If you’ve been in it for that long then usually youre successful and youre happy with the way things are. Its a phase of celebration for your confidence. Sticking it out to this phase means that youre definitely in it for the long run. You also begin to acknowledge yourself as a “Blogger”

5) Contemplation - Sometimes what tends to happen is that bloggers go into this optional 5th phase called contemplation. This is when they think about selling their blog but aren’t completely sure whether thats the route they want to take. Its when they want to sell the blog but also want to keep it. Not everyone goes through this phase but most of us are faced with the contemplation phase. Personally, I’ve had to deal with it and I’m glad I kept my blog. This phase requires quite a bit of thinking and making the right choice in the end.

So hopefully you’ve seen these phases with your blog if you have a blog. Even if you dont have a blog you may have seen these phases with some of your favorite blogs. Let me know what you think about my little list and I hope you guys have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! Have a great day!

Why Haven’t I Been Around?

Okay, so before I tell you why I haven’t been around, let me first remind you guys about a great contest that Market Leverage is hosting at my blog. Its really simple to enter and the prizes are amazing so you should definitely check it out if you haven’t already.

So, if you’ve noticed, I’ve really not had a chance to go around the blogosphere and check out my favorite blogs or even comment for that matter. Its the end of the semester at school and that means its final season. I guess I’ve been caught up quite a bit at school this semester but its mainly because classes are harder (since its my last year) and I’m taking a lot more classes than usual.

So what does this mean? Basically, I’ll be cutting down on my blogging till the 15th of December, so thats about 9 days and then after that its back to normal. Next semester, I take fewer classes and so I’ll have more time to keep up with the blog.

I have to apologize to my loyal readers and my favorite blogs for the lack of time dedication that I have shown because I’ve been trying to keep up with all my tasks and papers and exams that are required for school. The good news is that once school is over, its all about blogging and as I get more time, things will get back to normal.

If you’ve been my reader since the beginning, you know that I’ve had these phases where I get really caught up with school but I always bounce back and I know that I will. So please hold on tight and I’ll be back with a bang. For right now though, please check out my contest for your chance at amazing prizes sponsored by Market Leverage and I’ll bring you some posts really soon (in the upcoming week!).

Wednesday ML Contest Update

So, here is another update for the ML Contest. There will be another update on the last day of the contest which is the 31st. The race is close still for a few of the contestants and anyone can win. I wish all of you luck. Without further ado, here are the current stats!

2330 $82.25
2331 $0.00
2332 $16.35
2333 $58.10
2334 $2,108.60
2335 $2,062.50
2336 $25,507.20
2337 $0.00

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Market Leverage Contest Stats

So, after a little bit of a confusion, I finally have updated stats and hopefully I’ll be able to provide you with update stats more often now as the contest comes to a close but if you haven’t entered and would like to enter still, you have a chance. Just email me your publisher ID and I’ll add you to the list. Here is what the leader board looks like so far:

2330 $82.25
2331 $0.00
2332 $16.35
2333 $58.10
2334 $2,041.85
2335 $1,980.00
2336 $24,425.90
2337 $0.00

Theres obviously a clear lead with Publisher 2336 however, Publisher 2335 and 2334 are very close and this could be a close finish. Don’t take it lightly though, anything is possible in terms of who wins the contest because many of these contests have taken turns in the last few days. The grand total for the contest so far is $28,604.42 which is excellent!

I was waiting for the stats so I could put them up thats why there was a slight delay but I finally have them up. I look forward to updating them daily I’d hope but considering that Thanksgiving is coming, it depends on whether I’ll be able to since offices will be closed and all but we’ll see.

Either way, I hope you guys are impressed with the results. Just to let you know, there is another contest on its way so if you didn’t get to take part in this one, then don’t worry because you’ll have another chance! Hopefully you guys have a great Thanksgiving and I’ll definitely try to keep you updated as much as possible regarding the stats and ofcourse, more new posts on their way!