Affiliate Marketing Challenge 2: One Week Left!
August 7, 2008 Posted by Tyler CruzWe are down to the final week of the Affiliate Marketing Challenge 2! While the clock is certainly ticking (…literally! Check out the Affiliate Challenge widget on the top right of my blog), there’s still time to register and earn your way to a prize (or prizes).
If you haven’t entered yet, I highly recommend you do. MarketLeverage has put up so many great prizes that it’s certainly worth your while to try to compete for them. I’m actually very envious of you guys and wish I could compete in my own contest!
For those of you who have signed up, but are having trouble making any leads or sales, keep working at it! Part of the great thing about this competition is that it really pushes and encourages you to make more money through affiliate marketing. I know of a few contestants who have surprised themselves by raking in a lot more dough that they thought they could, simply due to the nature of competition.
Prizes
Before I get to the rankings, here is a reminder of what is up for grabs. Full details of the prizes and contest details can be found at the original contest page.
Top Grossing Affiliates
- 1st Place: Dell 22″ Widescreen Monitor with Built-In Webcam
- 2nd Place: Sony PSP + Secret Agent Clank
- 3rd Place: Mino Flip Video Camera
- 4th Place: iPod Nano
- 5th Place: $100 Prepaid Rewards Card
- 6th Place: $100 Prepaid Rewards Card
Top New Affiliates
- 1st Place: 2.0GB USB Storage Pen
- 2nd Place: 2.0GB USB Storage Pen
- 3rd Place: 2.0GB USB Storage Pen
- 4th Place: 2.0GB USB Storage Pen
- 5th Place: 2.0GB USB Storage Pen
Random Blog Draws:
- 1st Place: 2.0GB USB Storage Pen
- 2nd Place: 2.0GB USB Storage Pen
- 3rd Place: 2.0GB USB Storage Pen
- 4th Place: 2.0GB USB Storage Pen
- 5th Place: 2.0GB USB Storage Pen
Current Rankings
Here are the latest rankings as of August 6th, 3:10pm Pacific time.
I’ve now referred a total of 83 affiliates to MarketLeverage, 24 of which signed up during this current competition.
Together, during this competition thus far, they’ve generated a total of $22,661.75 in commissions. The current leaderboards are shown below:
| Top Grossing Affiliates | ||
| Rank | Participant |
Earnings
|
| 1st | CD8470 “The Behemoth” | $13,238.80 |
| 2nd | CD9189 “The Newcomer” | $4,711.20 |
| 3rd | CD9050 | $1,134.00 |
| 4th | CD8137 “The Tortoise” | $1,029.00 |
| 5th | CD8346 | $888.50 |
| 6th | CD8036 | $632.05 |
| Combined Total (all referrals): | $22,661.75 | |
| Top New Affiliates | ||
| Rank | Participant | Earnings |
| 1st | CD9189 “The Newcomer” | $4,711.20 |
| 2nd | CD9050 | $1,134.00 |
| 3rd | CD9618 | $171.20 |
| 4th | CD9506 | $99.00 |
| 5th | CD9475 | $65.80 |
| Combined Total (new sign-ups): | $6,181.20 | |
CD8470, aka “The Behemoth” as I prefer to call him, has continued to show his complete and utter dominance in the competition. He must really want that 22-inch monitor 
However, “The Newcomer”, entering into the competition a week late, is a force to be reckoned with as well, having secured 2nd place with nearly $5,000. From the pace he’s set so far, it doesn’t look like he’ll be able to catch The Behemoth, but anything can happen within the span of a week…
CD9050 seems to have sneaked into 3rd place somehow. It may have taken him sometime to get his campaigns moved over to MarketLeverage or get things set up, but he’s doing quite well now.
CD8137 has continued to play out his role as “The Tortoise”. He’s never been flashy, but he’s consistent and solid.
CD8346 dropped down another spot due to CD9050. He’ll need to be careful in order to stay in 5th place since there is a lot of competition looking to bump him off.
CD8036 is another “slow and steady” competitor, however he will need to try and ramp up his campaigns in order to continue to stick with the pack.
For the new affiliates, we see “The Newcomer” easily securing 1st place and CD9050 easily securing 2nd. A number of other new affiliates seem to have put in some effort as well, and there is now a lot of competition in the $50-80 range.
Blogging Entrants
So far, a total of 12 people have blogged about this competition. That means that as it stands right now, if you wrote a blog post about this competition, your chances of winning a 2.0GB USB pen would be 42%. Those are pretty good odds for taking 20-minutes to write a blog post!
Competition Goals and Thoughts
It appear as though I’ve already met and surpassed my goal of having the competition generate a total of $15,000, however it doesn’t appear as though I’ll reach my goal of also referring a total of 100 affiliates. So sign-up and help me reach that second goal!
There are still 7 days left for this competition, so if you haven’t signed up yet, come on and join the fun! Even if you don’t place in this competition, you’ll be all set up and ready to go for the next one.
Plus, what better way to get your feet wet into affiliate marketing than to join a contest?
I’ll be declaring the winners in a week from now: I hope to see you as one of them!
Contest seems to be getting bigger wishing everyone the best!
Damn I wish I signed up under your referral for ML.
Shame you can’t change it somehow…
Good luck guys
Thats amazing !!!!
13k boooooo !!! , i wonder how giant CD8470’s network of sites would be heheh
Anyways, Goodluck to other participants for 2nd and onward places as Behemoth is on the top lol
Cheers
P.S Wish i could participate too but Alas!!! , I’m already registered with ML referred from somewhere else not from here. (CD7580) anyways chao ! Best of luck to everyone
one hell of a successful competition, even if you didn’t hit your goal of 100 affiliates. Something tells me you will be sharing the success of these winners for quite some time 🙂
Even New Comer has little chance to catch the first place, but the current achievement is amazing…
You should email each winner and ask how much is profit 🙂 Anyone could make $4k-$13k easily if they shelled our the money for ad campaigns. I’d be more interested who had the higher ratio of cost:profit
I’m sure you would get honest answers 😉
To me the cost:profit ratio is not important at all – the only thing that really matters is net profit. Cost:profit ratio does not buy me vacations, cars or other toys – only net profit does. The only time cost:profit is important is if you are limited on funds and spending on one campaign would be taking funding away from another more profitable campaign.
And believe me, I would not be running a losing campaign just to win a 22″ monitor. 🙂
I signed up under you (CD9233) And I would be in thrid place right now for “new” affiliates.
Hey Cut,
I just checked and it doesn’t show you as a referral under me. Are you sure you signed up through my link? If so, you’ll need to talk to your AM and try to get switched over to my account.
Can we get switched over to your account if we didn’t sign up under your link?
Nope, unless you clicked on my own referral link and it didn’t pick it up.
No probs, slightly off topic – what plugin is this used to reply to comments 🙂
Richard
Hey Tyler,
I was wondering how I can sign up as a publisher without a website?do you have to have some kind of company website or something???
Hope you can answer or anyone
Thank you
Yes. You “could” do direct-linking but it’s getting harder to be able to do that.
I’d recommend first learning the basics of creating a webpage before trying your hand at affiliate marketing, which requires a certain degree of familiarity with web development.
This looks like a great competition! the top players are doing their thing 🙂
nice… I’m the last on the top 5 new affiliates 🙂
i’d love to hear from the first 3-4 guys how much it is their profit if they could share it.
Hey Tyler
No I thought you have to have a company website?o so I have to buy a domain, sign up in marketleverage, then create campagins but what if I want to create more campagins on different landing pages?can I list more domains?
Hey Tyler,
OH so when you sign up to marketleverage you have to buy a domain before you do. So then once you buy a domain and list it in marketleverage you can create a land page and then create a campaign and throw ads on them. But lets say you want make more domains and landing pages can you add them to your acc with out making another acc?
Thank you so much
Hope you can answer
Good Luck with the challenge
Yes. Once you’re approved, you can run the offers on any sites/pages you own, as long as they follow the network’s terms of service.
O and indtead of creating one I think I will buy landing pages because I am not sure what languages you need to learn to create landing pages and how long it’d take
I cant believe these people are making this kind of money, week after week!! this is crazy….
Tyler, this contest is getting bigger everytime I come to the site. I don’t see why you shouldn’t hit the goal of 100 ML affiliates in the next seven days.
Besides, from my own experience, don’t box yourself in with a rigid number like that. Instead I’ve always found that a more open goal works, too.
Just a thought…
Hey good shit Tyler sick way to build an extra $1500 bucks a month just on referral commissions. 😉
I know, makes me want to run my own contest like this. Plus, Tyler really doesn’t have to do anything and he makes money.
Hey Tyler or anyone,
I was wondering if I should team up with a buddy in all the networks I join and make campaigns together?
I’m not sure if it’s allowed, but even if it was, I’d highly recommend against doing that. It’d basically be like sharing a bank account with a friend.
Too bad I didn’t sign up under you, but I signed up before you had the contest. I would be in 1st place.
I already submitted my entry for blog posting.
I hope I will win.