An idea came to me while I was reading this thread.
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=978141
It was about getting newb affiliates and it came to me that in 2010 there is a far more effective, easier and way more profitable to get a lot more profitable affiliates around the world than what you would get at a show.
Most webmaster areas are just a place to get free content, hosted or not. and little else. So how about giving the new guys and potential webmasters a lot more. 30 minute to 60 minute videoed lessons streamed from the webmasters area, on how to set up a Blog, Tube, TGP site, Ads. Teach them how to get traffic, maximise it, how to send it to the sponsors site/sites in the most effective way. And everything else they would need to know to make their efforts more productive and profitable. Not just a few seminars at a show that are easily forgot, but a real teach in that can be gone back to time after time, examples of how it should be done and printed foot notes. Plus what ever else you can think of to show you care about these guys.
The benefits are obvious.
It reaches a far wider and greater audience.
It's there for ever.
It can be referred back to.
It's far cheaper than doing this at a show.
It's far more effective.
You can cover a lot more than you can at a 1 hour seminar.
You can cover different niches and sites by doing different lessons.
It shows you care.
The downsides are.
Competitors will copy it, what most of this industry does, so nothing new there.
It might expose some sponsors knowledge of how to get and drive traffic.
Can anyone else think of any
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