Hey everyone, I hope you are having a Blessed day.

If you are looking to get some exposure for your Christian affiliate program, you should get in touch with me.   We have a combination of options here to help you do that including the opportunity to podcast on the CAM Blog,  program announcments and press releases, as well as advertising options to promote your program to affiliates who follow ChristianAffiliateMarketers.com and the CAM Blog Feed.

If you are interested,  please contact me using the site contact form above and we’ll discuss your program and offer and see if we can’t find a way to help get the word out.

A warning though.. if you are someone who is looking to prey on the Christian community as “just another niche” without delivering a high quality product or service and preferably, advancing the Gospel, save your time.  I’m pretty picky with what I endorse here.

God Bless,

Wade

Today was an awesome day as I had the chance to Skype it up the one and only Gary ” Gary Vee” Vaynerchuk

Gary is “The Man” when it comes to video casting - his video site at www.winelibrarytv.com is a definite must see for anyone who either likes wine… or just wants to see an example of a passionate human doing what he loves… or both.

We talked about a ton of things… wine being the least of them. Gary talked about the history of the Wine Library and how he was inspired to jump into the world of video casting, social networking and new media. He talked about his goals (buying the New York Jets and having a healthy family) and the obvious disparity there.

We talked about some of his recent appearances on major talk shows (Conan, Ellen, The Big Idea, Nightline, etc) and he talked a lot about how all of this media attention is great … he’s most blown away the the number of people’s lives he’s been able to impact and the feedback he receives every day because of what he does.

Gary also talked about what a day in the life of Gary Vee is like - (there is a TON of email interaction with fans happening) and just encouraged everyone to go out and live life to it’s fullest. Life is a blessing that is fleeting and we have to go out and put our passions into play.

We also talked about wine a bit including getting a tip on some tasty wines from Portugal and a Pino Grigio to avoid at all costs.

Gary is a really inspirational guy… an immigrant from Russia who loves America and the opportunities it has brought to him and his family. My favorite thing Gary said in the call was this:

“When I was about 30, I woke up and realized that I just wasn’t happy with my life… I was about 99% happy… but that was unacceptable”

So- he decided to “Bring the Thunder” and step up his efforts to take his message of togetherness built on a platform if wine to the masses.

Gary has stated that his one major public goal in life is to buy the New York Jets (you’ll see their logo on his spit bucket in his video casts) and I honestly don’t put it past him. The guy has a passion for life and for his family and for wine ( and no doubt for the Jets) that just oozes out of him. I’m fired up just Skyping with Gary.

Gary has done some awesome things in his business, building his family business from a $4 million a year business to a $50 million dollar a year business by attacking every day with a passion for life, and with a passion for impacting other peoples lives and bringing them together via his business and via his personal brand.

So - for all those folks who have emailed or commented here asking how to get started - I repeat the question I posed to you. What is your passion? What can you do to “Bring the Thunder” in your life?

You can learn more about Gary Vaynerchuk at www.garyvaynerchuk.com or check out his absolutely awesome wine ramblings at www.winelibrarytv.com

 

 Podcast with Gary Vaynerchuk on Passion [13:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (254)


I’m definitely recharged after the long weekend, and I was excited that I had an early appointment this morning to chat for a while with Josh Wexelbaum of PositionLeap and the Scrappy Business Blog.

Josh is a Believer and an affiliate who makes his living promoting merchant offers via paid search with Google, MSN and Yahoo.  His affiliate work has enabled him to see the world through some really far flung travel that will be continuing shortly as he heads off to Shanghai for 6 months (have laptop, will travel)

I met Josh through some of his travels - he had actually rented a room with a former employers sister in Cape Town. South Africa.  We had the chance to meet in person at Affiliate Summit - with Josh joining us at one of the Christian Affiliate Marketing Association events.

Josh and I spoke today on a range of topics surrounding affiliate marketing using paid search - here are some bullets on what we covered:

• Josh’s entry into the business
• The travel friendly lifestyle affiliate marketing has made possible
• The basics of paid search based affiliate marketing
• Some of terms and conditions he likes to see from merchants and networks
• The importance of merchants placing conversion tracking code for Super-affiliates using paid search
• Some of the techniques he uses to test offers, then profit big from the ones that work
• Why merchants shouldn’t fear paid search affiliates if well regulated

I had a great time and we chatted for about 30 minutes - I hope you enjoy.

If you’d like to follow Josh and his writings and videos on online and affiliate marketing, you can check out his blog at www.scrappybusiness.com

 

 CAM Blog Podcast #8 with Josh Wexelbaum [32:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (235)

On Tuesday this week, I connected for a chat with Alejandro Reyes of Successfool.com. Alejandro is a Christian brother with a background in youth ministry (a passion of mine as well) who has a passion for helping people find success through exposing them to successful entrepreneurs who are willing to share their techniques and inspiration.

We chatted for about 30 minutes on a number of topics including:

• marketing with social media including Twitter and how he has been able to build a nice following for SuccessFool in a short time.
• the connection between ministry and marketing and how they are not exclusive, but complimentary
• the Illuminate Conference (July 29-August 1 in San Francisco) that looks to connect Christian affiliate marketers in fellowship and great content on SEO, social media, Affiliate Marketing as well as worship and fellowship
• the affiliate opportunity for Christian marketers to promote the Illuminate Conference

It was a cool discussion and I hope you enjoy it - please give me some Grace on the itchy throat

If you’d like to follow Alejandro on Twitter, you can do so at http://twitter.com/successfool

 

 CAM Blog Podcast #7 - Wade Tonkin with Alejandro Reyes on social media and Illuminate Conference [29:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (116)


I am pretty excited about next week on the CAM Blog as I am going to be sitting down on the Podcast with Jim Kukral. Jim is a long time online marketer and blogger who I have worked with for a number of years on a couple different projects. Jim was the Affiliate Summit Blogger of the Year and recently was the MC of Affiliate Summit West 2008. He also hosts a daily video cast called “The Daily Flip” that features video’s Jim shoots with his Flip Cam that he has now infected nearly the entire secular affiliate industry with. In 2007 Jim launched Scratchback a fun “blog tipping” widget that makes it possible for bloggers to accept “tips” from followers and reward them with a link. Jim is a blogging and social media mentor to me and I am excited to chat with him.

We’re going to be chatting about “Finding Your Voice in Online Video” which is a topic that I think is really topical and awesome. Online video is very hot and destined to get hotter, and can be a powerful tool in both developing a following through Viral Marketing, but also when used to promote and review products and services as an affiliate.

Jim and I are chatting on Monday afternoon, so expect the podcast to be updated Monday night or so.

 

 CAM Blog Podcast #2 with Rob Gettemy of 1M4JC.com - a new Christian t shirt company with a mission focus. [14:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (74)


I had the chance to sit down with Rob Gettemy of 1M4JC.com today to discuss the launch of their new Christian apparel line, and the affiliate program that goes with it.

1M4JC (One Million 4 Jesus Christ) is interesting in that they are mission minded and have a heart for supporting Christian non profits and churches, both by tithing on their gross sales, as well as making a special offer to Christian non profits in their affiliate program that designates the tithe to that organization - making for a 20% total commission earned on sales. For profit affiliates can earn 10% commission on sales.

The flagship product at 1M4JC.com is a serial numbered (on a tag on the sleeve) t shirt in men’s, women’s and kids sizes, although polo style shirts are also available.

The affiliate program is built into the cart and is still a bit of a work in progress with more banners and link types to come.

For more info on the affiliate opportunity, please visit http://www.1m4jc.com/Affiliate.aspx

I just wrapped up recording a podcast with Rob Gettemy of 1M4JC.com - a cool Christian t shirt retailer that just launched both their site, a social network and an affiliate program in the last couple weeks. Editing this evening for post late night tonight.

We’ll be giving away a free tshirt from 1M4JC.com each week through mid June through the CAM Blog Podcast Giveaway.

If you’d like updates (like when the site is updated, or when you can win free stuff) you should follow the CAM Blog on Twitter at www.twitter.com/camblog