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Mike Paetzold is retiring from Affiliate Funnel to focus on his booming blogging business. As Mike has said a few times, this was a real hard decision but it had to be taken solely for the good of his future business.

Tim Rash and I (Paul Kinder) were offered Mike’s share of the business and, well basically, we bit his hand off.

I had originally planned to open a program to replace the now-defunct Profit Rally. My plan was to use that to build a list before starting my own traffic exchange. However, Mike revealed to me privately last Autumn that he had something “better than Profit Rally” planned too.

So, I bought and relaunched Traffic-Splash in December and a couple months later Mike launched Affiliate Funnel along with Jon Olson and John Merrick.

This is why I have I always been such a strong supporter of Affiliate Funnel. I really really believe in the idea and it is now great to be involved with partners like Jon and John.

I’m not Mike, I have learned masses from him in this my first year online and squeezed in a lot of real experience, but I won’t pretend that I can give the same indepth technical advice. My abilities are definitely very different in that department as most of you who attend the seminars regularly will already know!

I really look forward to helping you and chatting to you in future seminars and I’m excited with the changes we are planning to add more value for members of this very successful program.

I’m really pleased to announce that we have a very special guest for next week’s seminar. Tony Tezak will be making a very rare appearance and sharing his thoughts on how to surf effectively and maximise your returns from Traffic Exchanges.

Finally, I’d just like to thank Mike for all the help and advice he has given me since I first started online and wish him all the best in his future endeavors. Please feel free to join me in wishing Mike all the best, by adding your comments …..

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We’ve got some big news on the horizon. We don’t want to let the cat out of the bag yet but get ready for some great new changes to take place at Affiliate Funnel. These new moves will help develop AF into the leader in hub based marketing on the internet today.

A special seminar is taking place this weekend and the details are below. This could be one of the most important topics we’ve ever touched on at AF. Time management is critical to your online success and Mike plans to really dive deep into the subject and give everyone some great tips and tricks on how to maximize your productivity while starting an online business. Be sure to stop by this Saturday!

Topic – Time Management For Beginners
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – October 13th
Time – 12 noon edt

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Yes it is rapidly approaching the finish line. At the time of writing this there were exactly 41 more chances left to win a prize in the Race to 7K. The great part is that 193 people that have a chance to win one of the prizes.

Getting real close to someone winning the $50 direct to their Payal account. Whoever refers the 7000th active member will win it. Should happen very shortly. Are you promoting so that it can be you?

Here are the top 20 promoters
1 Tyler Cant 45
2 Sam Falcone 42
3 Marc Lauzon 28
4 George Nikolis 28
5 Soren Jordansen 27
6 Paul Kinder 27
7 Kevin Anderson 21
8 Michael Saunders 17
9 Jerry Iannucci 17
10 Tom McKinney 11
11 Pat Grilliot 10
12 David Montgomery 10
13 Michael Cobb 9
14 Daniel Duverge 9
15 DeeDee Medcoff 8
16 Vincent Andrews 8
17 Michel Lavergne 8
18 James Kilman 7
19 Dor Peles 7
20 Eduardo Munoz 7

This week we will be continuing our back to basics theme with the seminars. Using and setting up the email series is the key in our opinion to building a sustainable business. The list is your real asset no matter what you want to promote.

Topic – Setting up your autoresponder
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – September 29, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

Hope to see you there.

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The Race to 7k is almost over. This has been amazing to watch and even better to participate in. A special thanks goes to every member of Affiliate Funnel for all their hard work in promoting the program. We are only a little over 150 people away from 7k. Amazing! The program is only 6 months old and each and every day, folks come on board and give the ‘Funnel Approach’ a try.

Reminder whoever refers the 7,000 active member gets $50 cash paid to their Paypal account.

Please remember, all you need to do to take part in this contest is refer one person. that’s it. Every time your refer someone your chances increase to win a prize. Here’s a detailed list of all the prizes that are up for grabs on the AF Race to 7k contest;

I Love Hits – 3 month Heavywieght upgrade
SWAT – 3 month aptain upgrade
Dragon Surf – 1 year Upgrade
Royal Surf – 1 month upgrade or 3000 credits
Advertising Know How – 5000 credits
Web Centre Surf – 3 month Pro Surfer upgrade
Hit Safari – 3 month pro upgrade
Max Traffic pro – 1 month upgrade
Traffic At The Races – 2500 Race points
Traffic At The Races – One Month Upgrade
Web-Biz Insider – 6 month upgrade
Real Hitz 4 U – 5000 each – credits, banners and text links
Traffic Roundup – 3000 credits
Traffic Punk – 3 month VIP upgrade
Traffic Splash – 1 year upgrade
Click Crazey – 5000 each credits – banners -text links
TS25 – 2month Platinum upgrade or 10000 vistirs (50000 credits)
Magnify Traffic – 3 month Magnified upgrade

Here is the Top 20 but remember that so far 170 different members have at least one chance in the draw. How many do you have?

1 Tyler Cant 40
2 Sam Falcone 32
3 George Nikolis 25
4 Soren Jordansen 21
5 Marc Lauzon 21
6 Kevin Anderson 16
7 Michael Saunders 13
8 Jerry Iannucci 12
9 Michael Cobb 10
10 Tom McKinney 10
11 Daniel Duverge 9
12 Pat Grilliot 8
13 Paul Kinder 8
14 Michel Lavergne 7
15 James Kilman 7
16 Mark Schwab 6
17 DeeDee Medcoff 6
18 Dor Peles 6
19 Vincent Andrews 5
20 Dorena Begonia 5

Also, this program is based on putting the member first. We encourage and promote the concept of building ‘your’ business and not someone else’s. And with that, we are trying to get your feedback onto which programs we should include in our program list. Let us know which have been working for you, give us your feedback so we can make this program the ultimate ‘hub’ on the internet.

Here is the information for the seminar this week.
Topic – Using Ad Tracking Effectively
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – September 22nd, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

Give us your input in the forum and lets finish this contest by next week end.

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The race to 7k is still in full swing with only a little over 300 more chances to win. That’s right, we’re closing in on active member number 7000 and should hit our target within the next few weeks. Please remember, every person you refer gives you a chance to win some amazing prizes courtesy of the programs within Affiliate Funnel. Good luck to everyone!

And just a note, we will be paying out over $1100 in commissions this week. A special thanks goes out to everyone that has helped build Affiliate Funnel into the program it has become today!

And finally, a quick reminder that we will be having our weekly seminar again this Saturday at noon EST (-5 GMT). This week’s topic is how to use traffic exchanges effectively hosted by our resident traffic exchange fanatic, Jon Olson.

Topic – Using Traffic Exchanges Effectively
Speaker – Jon Olson
Date – September 15th, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

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Okay gang today is the start of the Labor Day Weekend here in the US. The end of summer. Now the summer has been busy for us here at Affiliate Funnel and a big thank you to all that are using this the way we designed it.

Now with the start of the busy season we decided to put together a referral contest. I have contacted all of the traffic exchanges in Affiliate Funnel to see which would like to donate a prize. There will be a prize page soon. So far it has ranged from credit packages to 3 month upgrades.

Now here is how it will work. ANYONE can win a prize if they refer one person. I set the stats last Saturday when we were at 6360 active members. as of 7 am
this morining there were 6449. 89 new members inl ess than a week and 50 people that already have at least one chance to win a prize. Every referral you get will give you one chance to win one of the prizes. This way anyone can win a prize if ther refer at least one person.

Now for active member 7000 the referrer of that person will get $50 cash.

Note – Active members will not equate to user number as there have been people that have left.

Seminar this week.

Topic – Splash Page Basics
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – September 1, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

Hope to see you there.

Mike

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The seminar on Saturday at noon will continue our back to basics series. This week it will be on tracking, followed the next two weeks by using safelists and using traffic exchanges.

Here is the information for this week.

Topic – Tracking your results
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date – August 4, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

Hope to see you there.

Mike

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One of the problems that some people have had is finding products that they could sell as they built their list. Resell rights products can be an excellent way if you can find some good ones but the learning curve can be a bit steep.

To help those that aren’t comfortable with FTP, creatring Paypal buttons and editing HTML we have added a new section to Affiliate Funnel. When you log in click on Affiliate Products and you will see the first three. We will be adding more as we find good ones.

They are…

• The Autopilot Profits – sells for $27
• Peel Away Ads – sells for $37
• Underground Sales Letters – sells for $67

You will earn commission on each sale based on your membership level. Commissions will be paid on the same schedule all sales this month paid the 15th of next month.

• Gold members – 50%
• Silver members – 40%
• Free members – 30%

I will be working on adding some sample emails into the members area also but it will be a week or more before that happens.

Seminar this week

Topic – Integration Marketing and Your Autoresponder
Speaker – Mike Paetzold
Date -July 28, 2007
Time – 12 noon edt

Details are in the members area. Hope to see you there.

As always your comments and suggestions are wanted. Add a comment here or let us know in the forum.

Mike

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Oops. Wrong blog. Not about TV Wrestling but about Affiliate Funnel.

That being said there is an exciting announcement to be made.

Hits Connect is one of the programs recommended in Affiliate Funnel and as a preferred partner Affiliate Funnel will allow you to track your conversions. We have added the code so that if you send people to AF with a Hits Connect link it will track which code you had on the link that actually joined.

This is the first of two announcements to be made this week. Hopefully, by the week end we will have an even bigger announcement for you. Your gonna love it.

Mike

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