For those who haven’t heard, the Top Affiliate Challenge is an unprecedented web-based reality show pitting three teams against each other in a real time affiliate marketing competition. These 12 contestants will be split into three teams led by John Chow, Ken McArthur and Shoemoney working their tails off in 21 15-20 minute episodes.

Meet some of the contestants:

Some additional posts ’bout it:

• Top Affiliate Challenge – Who Will Step Up? [Shoemoney]
• Heading Off To The Top Affiliate Challenge [John Chow]
• The Top Affiliate Challenge [Joel Comm]

Dear John,

I’ve been saving my Entrecard credits for some time now and have finally horded enough to place my humble card on your (pricy) Entrecard widget for a day. Since you’re probably new to my blog, I’d like to first say welcome, and second, show you around a bit. So kick off your sneakers and come on in!

My name is Jeremy Waller. I’ve been blogging now for about a year and a half. I’m a bit of a finance nerd, tech junkie and entrepreneur. After you subscribe to my RSS feed, you’ll get approximately 3 posts per week on these topics (or whatever else I decide to blog about. It’s my blog. I make the rules) freshly picked from the ripe fields of my mind. I’m a part-time blogger and just don’t have the time to be a posting machine like you are, but the posts I do put out are mighty tasty (Dot Com Dump anyone?)

Go check out some of my ramblings and, before heading out, why don’t you join MyBlogLog Community and become one of my followers on twitter (Just in case you were wondering, I’m one of your followers.) I’m giving some link love to anyone who follows me.

Thanks again for stopping by!

Sincerely,
Jeremy Waller

I’ve given in. I’ve jumped on the tweeting bandwagon. Twitter, the not quite so new internet fad, has drawn me into its fold. My joining was prompted by the musings of blog giants Darren Rowse and John Chow, both of which are active twitter-ers. These guys use twitter as a social networking/marketing tool. They tweet regular updates through the day highlighting new posts and other random happenings (The other day Problogger let his 6,600 followers know that his son poked him in the eye.)

Stealing Their Ideas

Well if twitter works for my favorite full-time bloggers, then it works for me too. I know that social networking is a big key to driving traffic to your blog. This is an area that I need to work on some more. So here’s my secret plan (shhh! Don’t tell anyone!) <secret plan>…I’m investigating the social networkings of all my favorite blogging heavyweights. I’m looking to see what works for them, what sites are driving traffic to their blogs and what is generating the most reader interaction. Twitter is my first attempt at this. </secret plan>

Are you Following Me?

Become one of my faithful followers on twitter – WallerBlogDotCm. When you become of followers, comment below and I’ll give you a shameless plug in a future post (free link love baby!)