How did it Start ?

Well actually it all begun when somebody from Marimedia.net send me a note in my contact page as follows

My name is XXX, writing from Marimedia Ltd, an international advertising network.

We run 12 billion monthly impressions and partner with leading players such as Yahoo!, Facebook, Blinko, MSN, and Virgin Mobile.

We are interested in buying display advertising and would like to evaluate cooperation between our companies.

I was impressed with the monthly impression that they are covering, it only means that they are a big company that could handle a massive publishers. So the first thing that I do is to search in Google about “Marimedia Review” , only to find out some negative comments about the network. But those negative comments stayed with the network for only a week or two. Which I know is not enough to test a certain network.

So I take the risk and put their ads in my site, after a phone conversation with the affiliate manager calling from Israel.

Experience with Marimedia

After a month of having Marimedia at  this blog and on my other Philippine Sites with targeted keywords related to Philippines, I got a good an additional pending income in my calculation. Since this blog does not have Google AdSense ads, Marimedia is now compensating the lost that I have from Google AdSense Ban. There are days which Marimedia is giving us a really good revenue. Marimedia is perfect Google AdSense alternative. There are days that it can also beat the performance of Smowtion in this blog. The 728×90 Banner works best. And of course there are also days which it is not giving good amount in a day. Which is only normal to all networks.

Tech At Hand got the best results among other blogs where we tested this network.

You may ask your affiliate manager not to show any indecent ads in your blog if you want.Their affiliate managers are professional and easy to deal with.

Their affiliate managers are ready to answer any clarification that a publisher may have.

Pictures grab from their site

Facts from Marimedia Blog.

Interesting Facts about Marimedia:

• Leading international performance display network
• Over 12 billion page impressions per month
• Over 5,000 publisher websites
• Over 1,000 advertising partners
• We speak over 12 languages in perfect fluency
• Grew 500% during 2010, both in volume and in personnel
• Development of in-house technologies
• 2 internal business units: Sprintile and ProfitBuyer
• Specializes in optimizing positive ROI campaigns

How to implement this in your blog ?

They will send tags that you need to install in your blog. This tags or html codes will be copied and paste to your blog. The earnings are being tracked through Right Media Exchange Site.

Marimedia Payment Cycle

They are paying on Net 45, but I got the payment 5 days early.

Affiliate Links?

There is no Affiliate links for me to earn for new publishers, but I am just doing this a gesture of saying thanks to Marimedia.

Are they Paying?

Every marketers are looking for information if a certain company pays, for information , I just received my first payment from them through PayPal. I don’t have to post the picture here but I could say that it is now being transferred to my bank in Philippines which is now going to pay my monthly amortization for a premium lot that we bought in Cavite in Antel Grand Village. BTW our second month with them is even better. Let us see the third month.

Check their blog here . In conclusion I recommend bloggers to use this network because they are paying and they are professionals.

You may contact Elad Francis ( My Affiliate Manager ) -  elad.fr@marimedia.net

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I juts don’t know how will my affiliate links work with this new site. Application is now available in the appstore.

Here is our   PR Source and site as follows : http://www.windowshop.com/ . Our site is now full of Amazon links but just for information my earnings in Amazon is still very little. I need to unlock the technique for amazon. So do you have any tips for amazon ?

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As of now I have made two successful sale using their network and of course I earn from those sale. That is a commission basis sale.

I don’t know if I will succeed with this one. but like what other experiments that I made, there are some that succeed and some that do not.

BTW They are giving a $10 bonus which you will get after you made the first sale. They are paying thru Wire Transfer, Cheque or via PayPal. Although they have to verify your paypal first. And that is what I am waiting now. To become a Verified PayPal Affiliate.

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So I just hope to succeed in this new adventure. See you also at my Affiliate Marketing Blog.

Disclosure : Above links are affiliate links.

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Are you trying to sell some space at your site, And you are having problem doing it manually, Well here is an answer to your Problem. There is a program called OIOpublisher where it does automate your Advertising transactions. It sell text ads, banner ads, in-content ads and peyd reviews . Here are other things that the system may offer to you.

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You may not see OIOpublisher in action at my blog but soon it will be, I am just waiting for some cash in my PayPal . This is one of the Tools that will help you Earn Money Online. BTW it cost $47 when you purchase it. There are some Pinoy Blogger using this Plug in you can check it out from Hussein.

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I will not put the figures but the percentage only. You just have to calculate from my report last year ok

The above graph shows my AdSense earnings this year compared to last year. I may say that it triples my earnings this year in AdSense Alone. But if you will deduct the expenses for hosting at Dreamhost I may say that it is only a few dollar from my earnings. I was also able to do private Advertising thru forums and contacts in the industry. If I will sum it up ( including Peyd post , Which I already stop doing ) I can say that in this year I made 5 times on what I have last year.

It was a really great year for me and I am looking for another great year to come. I am now studying the ins and outs of Affiliate Marketing and I know I still have lots to learn. So If you want to know the details about it, just keep an eye in my Personal Blog because it is there where I will details the finding that I may find with Affiliate Marketing. Paypal ( Affiliate links ) helps a lot in doing Online Transaction because I am able to transfer payment from Paypal ( Affiliate links ) to my Citibank Credit Card.

I stop doing Peyd Post since I am having issues with my blog indexing and SEO Matters in this blog.

Always remember the saying don’t put the eggs in one basket. try to find other source of income and make your blog as an entrance to those things. Don’t be afraid to look for other niche, try to understand the system and later you will be able to understand it.

Upon checking my Adsense stats I found out that my CTR decrease to about 22%, This is mainly because of the Direct Advertisers but I was able to increase my daily earnings because mainly on blog traffic that I in my last post about 2008 Blogging Statistics.

Here is my statistics for this blog alone

Biggest earner is this blog, because of the Unique Visits and Regular readers that drive traffic to this blog. Thank You Guys. So watch out for my Blogging Goals for 2009.

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Here is the present payment option for Dreamhost.

• Pay Monthly @ $10.95/mo + $49.95 setup = $60.90
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I still don’t know if Filipino’s are ready for online purchasing.  I have made post before and ask my readers if Online Banking is safe in Philippines and I receive some good feedback on that time. Now I would also like to know thought from the Filipino Consumers, Do we now trust online banking? Because online banking is also synonymous with Online store since you also have to provide you credit card details in purchasing. And I believe that the success of paypal in Philippines is also one of an indication that one could really transact online.

Let us compare price in US Online Store and Philippines Apple Online Store , A Macbook Pro cost US$ 1,999 in US and in Philippines online store it is Php 109,990 which is almost 15% more compared in US price.I believe it is fare price since it is due to the tax and delivery of the unit from US to Philippines.

So I just hope that Apple Online store will not be the only one to do the online store and I think by Next year more and more company will do the same. I suggest that those company open it’s affiliate marketing system so that we bloggers can earn from the referrals

What do you thinks is it a good idea ?

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I have been implementing the Asia Century Multi Advertising Affiliate program and I would like to have an in depth analysis on my earnings for this local ads that I have start implemented in this blog since July 10,2008.

I will have an assumption that if I use AdSense I will have an approximate CPC [ Cost per Click ] of $ 0.04 which in reality ranges from 0.02 to 0.06 or even better. But for the sake of calculation I will use $0.04

Facts about my account with with Asia Century Multi Advertising

Implementation Period = July 10 – August 5

Page Impression – 55,000

CTR 1.22 %

55,000 x 1.22% = 679 Clicks

By Calculation I would like to use my assumption above using the data I gathered from my Advertising period as follows

679 Clicks X $ 0.04 = $ 26.84 x Php 44 / US$ = PHP 1,180.00

Comparing to the above mentioned Assumption I have a total Php 92.5 amount in my Account with them with 137 approved , 10 Leads which is approximately 7.8% of the assumed calculated cost above.And if I used the approved one I will have as follows

137 Clicks X $ 0.04 = $ 5.48 x Php 44 / US$ = PHP 241.12

Where the Approved Amount is almost 38.34 % of the assumed AdSense Clicks. 

Suggestion :

1. It would be great if they could make a contact page where we as publisher could ask question about our earnings. ( Have you found their Contact Page ? )
2. They need to explain why the Clicks are not matching with the Approved Paid Clicks
3. It would be great if they can make their CPC cost higher. At the moment they only have about PHP 0.5 to PHP 0.6 ( $ 0.011 – $ 0.014 ) compared to Google AdSense which can give an average of $ 0.05 according to some experts
4. They have to make other option in Payment aside from Check, Perhaps they can make Globe G Cash or Smart Money or via PayPal.

Conclusion :

I can only conclude for this site and not for all blogs. For this site I believed I have to remove those ads and consider looking for some other opportunity with Direct Ads or Affiliate Marketing thru Market Leverage, Pepperjam or CJ where I might have a better earning opportunity. Asia Century Multi Advertising might be better for other site but not on this site. Their Ads might not be contextually relevant with my niche that is why I am having lots of Click not Approved.