Create a long-term career in Affiliate Marketing. Emphasis placed on how to scale and diversify campaigns to ensure growth and stability. Also covered: Forming an LLC, hiring and business planning. Experience level: Intermediate Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers Niche/vertical: Affiliate Marketing Erin Cigich, President & Managing Partner, Clickbooth (Twitter @ErinClickbooth)

1. How to Make Affiliate Marketing Your Career Erin Cigich Clickbooth.com President and Managing Partner

6. “ I had a better exposure to software development at a young age than I think anyone did in that period of time, and all because of an incredibly lucky series of events.” - Bill Gates

8. What vs. Who?

11. Built Up

12. 1 Laying the Foundation 2 Building the Castle 3 Defending Your Castle

13. 1 Savings 2 Plan 3 Paperwork

18. Work S M A R T “I will scale my traffic from $1,000/day to $10,000/day by the end of September by scaling my diet campaign and launching a skincare campaign,”

19. P r i o r i t i z e

21. It’s Time To Build!

22. E v a l u a t e

25. 10 Networks x5minutes =1 hour Negotiating 2 Contracts x5 hours =10 hours Stats, invoices, advertiser follow-up = 2hours Designing 1 Jump Page = 8hours Coding 1 Jump Page = 2hours Optimizing Your Buys = 2 – 3 hours per day = 33 hours of your REGULAR work week!

27. What Are You Good At?

29. Market Research Network Publisher Advertising Legal Accounting

30. S c a l i n g New Vertical Same Placements New Placements Same Niche

31. Creative Design

35. D i v e r s i f y

36. Defending Your Castle!

37. FTC

38. Step 1 Good Partners

39. Step 2 Add Consumer Value

44. $22.7 US Online AD Spending 2009-2012 (in Billions) Source: eMarketer, Nov 2012

45. Sources Gladwell, Malcolm (2008). Outliers. Little, Brown and Company. pp. VII–IX. The LA Times retrieved from http://www.latimes.com/ “US Digital AD Spending: Online, Mobile, Social”. eMarketer Digital Intelligence, retrieved from http://www.emarketer.com/Reports/All/Emarketer_2000794.aspx LegalZoom, retrieved from http://www.legalzoom.com/limited-liability-company/limited-liability-company-overview.html DMCA retrieved from http://www.dmca.com/ Verified Credible retrieved from http://www.verifiedcredible.com/

46. Q u e s t io n s ?