BLAM Ads is a new service started by the affiliate marketing legend, Ryan Eagle (and company). Need I say more? Probably not, but I will anyways.
If you've been in the affiliate marketing industry for any length of time, you've probably heard of EWA Network. An exclusive, private network with top level payouts, weekly payments no matter what level of income, excellent guides, knowledgeable staff, and seriously the list goes on. In fact, when networks ask me for "reviews" I generally ask them (without directly asking them) how they pair up to EWA.
Take that same excellence and apply it to an incentive affiliate network with content gateways, virtual currency platforms, and more.
Let's look further into what BLAM Ads has to offer:
Incentive Offers
What is an incentive offer?
An incentive offer is basically when you give someone something in exchange for filling out a "survey" or completing an "offer". You are paid a commission per offer completed (like normal affiliate marketing) and then give the user a predetermined incentive.
Traditionally, incentive offers can make you a TON of money if you know what you are doing. For a while, every network had incentive offers. Then for a (more recent) while, every network killed those incentive offers. Now you have specialized networks like BLAM ads that deal ONLY in incentive offers.
The most common use of incentive offers has been to put up some sort of rewards website where users get a prize for completing a certain number of offers. I've heard crazy stories of these type of sites making huge dollars. One of the most popular examples, freeipods.com, made over $20 MILLION in 2004 according to Inc 500. Oh, and they only had 12 employees. Epic.
Using Incentive Offers In New Ways
Content Gateways
A new(er) way that incentive offers are being used is by premium content locking (also known as content gateways). This is one of BLAM Ads specialties.
Basically you put up content that people need or want... It can be a video, a file, a driver, a piece of software, anything really. Before they can access that material, you make them fill out a survey or offer. It might sound complicated by BLAM Ads makes it extremely easy. You paste some script onto your page... and you're done.
I'm sure you can get really creative with it. I'm starting to see more sites use content gateways as a method to monetize their premium content. For those who are good at SEO, this can be an excellent way to make money on high traffic, low competition, harder to monetize type of niches.
Virtual Currency
As Facebook and other social networks continue to grow, we have seen a huge explosion in social gaming. Along with that, we have also seen a huge explosion in making money using social gaming via virtual currency.
With virtual currency, a user is given a certain amount of in-game credits in exchange for filling out an offer or survey. Can we say 100% profit? Haha 
No matter how crazy it might sound to some, millions of people are flocking to these games that allow them to make their virtual lives better. Companies like Zynga (Farmville) are hitting it to the tune of hundreds of millions to billions.
The reason I like the idea of expanding my affiliate marketing using something like virtual currency platforms is because it's a new, creative way to provide value to your visitors (a game or something) and make a ton of money at the same time.
I've looked into social games before. I'd sure love to have one someday! ... :: going to put that on the list of ideas ::
It also does not have to be social games, it can be anything that would need virtual currency.
Creative, Crush it
Get creative... those who innovate are those ones who crush it. BLAM Ads provides every tool you need to simplify your entire monetization strategy for a ton of different styles of sites.
If you're looking for some tips and ideas, check out the BLAM Ads Blog - Really good tips and ideas here! Also follow their tweets for great tips: @BLAMAdsIncent @AndreBLAMAds @JesselBLAMAds
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