Originally Posted by Kelli58

How do you find them? There are a ton of noob threads on this board. Start with that. Help them out. REALLY help them and you would be surprised how amazingly loyal those people will be. Your help may not always pay off but with some it will and those are the ones that will be extremely loyal and some of them will one day have decent traffic.

The things I think the bigger companies need to focus on is spending less time on coming up with new hosted galleries or whatever and spend more time on education. Teach your noob webmasters how to be successful, REALLY provide them tips and advice.

They can then take what you've taught them to improve the quality of the site and the amount of traffic they get. They will appreciate your efforts and hopefully pay you back in kind by sending your program their new found traffic and hopefully if you helped them enough, new found 'higher quality' traffic.

About how going around the country and offering seminars in 5 or so major cities that will -- get this -- not promote your affiliate program but actually provide quality advice on how the people attending your seminars can improve the quality of their website and get more traffic. Bring with you 2 or 3 hot "booth babes" as if you were at a show and make sure they all have your company logo on their shirts but minus that one tiny promo, really really really really really focus on teaching these people something.

Now that would be money well spent. I think a company would get far more business out of those kind of things than by spending the money they do as shows like AEE. If you factor in the cost of a booth, the money for each employee to attend, the cost of models, rooms for everyone and then a party suite which in some cases can run $5,000 to $10,000 per night .... then yes .... it's just not worth it.

Anyway I've completely gotten off subject here. If you want to find webmasters that need your help a) look on this board and dig up all the posts in the last 6 months with people who ask questions like "I'm about to start my first blog and ........." and b) go through your own program and find webmasters who have signed up and have really low traffic. Go through their websites and if you see they suck, help them. Invite them to your private classes, etc.