This is a sponsored review of the Motive Network. The ideas and recommendations in this post have not been swayed in any way by virtue of payment.

As a “make money online” blogger, I come across my fair share of affiliate networks. To be fair, pretty much every network around claims to be the best, the highest paying, the most exclusive and the cream of the crop. There are many popular names out there that serve their purpose just fine, but I have just recently come across what may just be my new favorite affiliate program around… and they are even available to all of you international entrepreneurs out there!

So which network am I talking about? Motive Interactive. For a company that hasn’t enjoyed a huge amount of success since their foundation in 2003, they have certainly come out strong in advertising and campaigning for growth as of late. Now, they have even been recognized by Entrepreneur magazine as one of the fastest growing online advertising companies in the United States. The bottom line is that Motive has the single best system that I have EVER seen. Period. With the rise of the new Advent 2.0 system… this is a network that you need to hear about. Let’s have a look!

A Quick Look into the Motive Network
I wanted to focus this review on the brand new (and quite sleek) Advent 2.0 system that was recently adopted by Motive… but let’s have a brief overview of the company before we do that. The Motive Network works primarily as a performance-based affiliate system for publishers looking to make some money online. However, they also have a pretty neat “Motive Media” service that focuses in display/media advertising.

Clearly, the pull of the Motive Network is their technological advantage over any other ad network. I have never seen such an organized, clean and efficient system as theirs… but there really are other reasons to join. With fast access to your personalized customer service rep at all times (very nice!) via phone, instant message or email, as well as some of the highest paying offers around… I have found some really unique offers through the Motive network that I had never seen before. What’s more… the payment schedule is very flexible and always on time, paying through PayPal, bank-wire and check.

Introducing Advent 2.0 – The Motive Network
Simply put, this is the best system of all time… and it has all the bells and whistles that you’d expect to find in the system that I give this ranking. AdventV2 is an advanced performance ad network that implements two functions critical to internet advertising: a publisher centric advertising network, and a direct lead generation network. As far as I can see, no other company can give you both. But that’s not it! You ALSO get a top-notch ad tracking function that allows you to fully analyze your ads and leads. This thing was designed by the professionals, and it’s all built right in to AdventV2.

In the affiliate realm, things are always changing… and I feel like the Advent system by the Motive Network is the only one that can fully handle future changes. I have had major concerns from the systems used by other networks (not going to name names here), and it seems like there is always something that you CAN’T do. However, I truly feel that the convenience and functionality in the Advent 2.0 interface is second to none.

Superior User Interface and Selection
So I’ve mentioned how much I love the Advent user system, but what exactly makes the thing tick? When you sign up as a publisher for the Motive Network, you are given access to their Advent 2.0 system. Essentially, it’s a clean system that allows you to get to the offers, creative, statistics and campaign information that you need quickly. Advent gives publishers the tools to measure important campaign performance metrics across all time periods, campaigns and payouts in multiple perspectives including ‘effective’ perspectives like eCPM and eCPL. By providing simple, but powerful, filtering capabilities for offers, campaigns and performance statistics… they have really streamlined the process for publishers.

My favorite feature of the Motive Affiliate back-end is the “My Offers” area. Unlike the typical system where all of the offers are simply listed in bulk form, the Advent 2.0 user interface allows you to scroll through the offers you like and move the ones you are (or are potentially) going to use into your personalized offer area. This creates a very nice distinction between the offers you don’t care so much about, and the ones you are focusing on monetizing for profit.

The Motive Network Referral System
Before I came across Motive Network, I had through that Market Leverage had one of the best referral systems with a fat 5% commission. But the Motive Network has surpassed even ML with a 5.5% payback for all of your referred clients, for life. You get reports sent each month direct to your inbox, and accounts typically get approved within hours.

The Motive Network Rewards System
While many other affiliate networks have monthly promotions to try to spur activity, the Motive Network likes to use their rewards system year-round in order to get you paid a little more for being a dedicated user. The reward system starts at 1% of earnings, then moves up to 2% on the second-tier. Below is the following rewards structure:

Commissions – Rewards
. $1,000 – $10
. $2,500 – $25
. $5,000 – $50
. $10,000 – $100
. $15,000 – $150
. $20,000 – $200
. $25,000 – $250
. $30,000 – $300
. $50,000 – $500
. $100,000 – $1,250
. $150,000 – $2,000
. $200,000 – $3,000
. $500,000 – $10,000
. $1,000,000 – $20,000
. $1,250,000 – $25,000

Bottom Line: I have been very impressed with the Motive Interactive Network to this point in time. I know that a lot of you readers are international, and needed a program that would work for you. Because of this, I recommend using the Motive system, with an all new Advent 2.0 user interface, if you are looking for a convenient and reliable affiliate network. They have all the bells and whistles that everyone else has, and have found a great way to incorporate everything together. A great service, with awesome representatives that will get you earning money online in no time.

-Jimvesting

It’s October, and time for another all-inclusive theNetFool.com earnings roundup for the month ended September 30, 2008. A bit of an interesting month this time around. Despite a major drop off in posting due to school and financial market chaos, I was able to double my revenues from August with a bit more elbow grease. Now that we are into October, let’s buckle down on our investments and focus on what we’ve got, eh?

Money aside, September was a pretty lacking month in terms of traffic. Google decided to drop me from a PageRank 4 to a mere PageRank 3… and my Alexa.com ranking tailored off as I tend to focus more on generating return visitors (which Alexa hates). I feel like with some more consistency in getting our at least 4 posts every week, I should be able to bring Jimvesting right back to the top. And hey, I’ve got a pretty cool web hosting contest wrapping up and a great big one planned for October. Let’s get cracking on our results from September!

August Results

• RSS Subscriber Count: 633 Readers
• Average Unique Visitors: 379
• Average Returning Visitors: 74
• Average Page Loads: 628
• Alexa.com Ranking: 103,212
• Technorati Ranking: 10,121
• 45n5 Top 100 Rank: 21
• Google PageRank: 4

September Results

• RSS Subscriber Count: 674 Readers (6.48%+)
• Average Unique Visitors: 443 (16.89%+)
• Average Returning Visitors: 69 (-6.76%)
• Average Page Loads: 652 (3.82%+)
• Alexa.com Ranking: 123,750 (-19.90%-)
• Technorati Ranking: 11,137 (-10.04%)
• 45n5 Top 100 Rank: 47
• Google PageRank: 3

Monthly Review and Growth Strategy
Results from the month show some pretty mixed figures. Understandably, I did NOT gain as many RSS subscribers as intended… I’ll admit that right now. I was pretty shaken by gaining less than 100 subscribers for the first time in a long long while, but the blame has to go toward my increased workload for the period.

Taking this lack of RSS growth into account, relative traffic averages were up considerably during September. I believe that this is attributed to market penetration, as I now get a fair amount of hits regardless of whether or not I actually make a blog post on that date. This is a point in the blogging career that can throw a lot of people out of the loop, since you can visably see traffic holding up even when you slack off. Regardless, I fully intend on breaking this trend and finally exploding upward to 1,000 RSS subscribers and a whole lotta’ traffic growth.

The most disconcerting news was the recent Google PageRank update that brought the website down to a PageRank 3. After jumping from a 0 to a 4, I may have gotten a bit too arrogant in my ability to squeeze PageRank for all it is worth. However, I do believe that it is possible to protest the changes. Because of this, and the quality content that continued to go out live a few times a week, I believe that they should have no problem taking me up on my request. I’ll keep all of you posted on the progress.

September 2008 Revenue Breakdown By Segment
Continuing with the nice graphs from Microsoft Excel, I have now broken down revenue into five segments. The leader this month was HostGator referrals, taking up around 55% of my total revenues. This was mainly the case because of my free Blog Domination package that I started to offer to all your readers out there. Second in the group were advertising sales and miscellaneous commissions, each taking about 15% of the pie. Advertising has been steady ever since I started to offer the 468×60 slot on the top of the page up for grabs. I amy consider raising rates, but will keep sidebar ads at $25 for the time being. Sponsored reviews took around 10% of my earnings while GPT lagged the group with a 5% contribution.

• Advertising Sales ($182.00)
  • 125×125 Ad Blocks – $125
  • 468×60 Ad Block – $45
  • Text Link Ads – $12
• Sponsored Reviews ($120.00)
  • On-Site Reviews – $120
  • ReviewMe reviews – $0
• GPT Website Referrals ($51.75)
  • SWATcash Referrals – $32.32
  • CashCrate Referrals – $19.43
• Misc. Commissions ($190.70)
  • Market Leverage Commission – $4.20
  • OIO Publisher Commission – $18.50
  • Scottrade Commission – $168.00
• HostGator Referrals ($700)
  • Blog Domination – $500
  • Misc. Referrals – $200
• Total September Blog & Blog-Referred Revenue = $1,304.45

Obviously the biggest driver of earnings this go-round were the inflow of HostGator requests that I had in the bank due to my free blog services packages in Blog Domination. Scottrade again brought in some quick cash in the form of trades for me, and successful advertising lending combined with sponsored reviews had my bookings full and healthy for the month.

October 2008 Outlook

As I get into the month, I am in the process of negotiating a competition to run with Market Leverage at the helm. This should be a three-way beneficial transaction. For me, I get some commission money from my referrals. For you, you get not only the money you earn, but prizes worth their weight in gold. For ML, they get new members that are working with their system and pay a bit for performance. More details to come, as I don’t want to reveal everything.

While a lot of other bloggers like to fill their pages with fluff material day after day, I tend to hold out on posts until I can more fully formulate my ideas and get useful information to you. But even with this being said, it’s a drag not being able to post as often as I might like to. Because of this, I am going to do my best once again to attempt posting early and often, so I can successfully run this blog in the face of other businesses, school work and financials. By focusing on the projects that I already have rather than investing in new ones, I feel that I can more easily manage my time and get you paid!

Stay bullish on the net!
-Jimvesting