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This is a paid review, however it’s one of the best kinds of paid posts you’ll see – one informing you about a quite easy (to be honest) contest with sweet prizes up for grabs. 
Direct Agents are a fairly new affiliate network and one of the best ways to promote yourself when you’re new is by running a contest… one with awesome prizes. What’s up for grabs?
MAIN PRIZE – Weekend getaway for two to the Caribbean
Everyone could do with a holiday (or two)… and what better place to go than to the Carribean? Beautiful beaches, a place to relax without stress… that’s what you’ll get if you make first place in the Direct Agents contest. Take a look:
SECOND PLACE – 42″ Flat Screen TV
I was actually thinking of buying a 42″ flat screen TV for my room (to watch football and the like)… if you hit second place in this contest, you’ll get one free. How cool is that?
Last but not least…
THIRD PLACE – $300 Gift card
The third place winner will get a $300 gift card. $300 can pay for a lot of things – a few years hosting, a couple dozen computer games… and it can be used anywhere, so it’s entirely up to you how you spend it.
What do you need to do to win the competition?
The affiliate that drives the most leads to Bidz short form campaign will win the main prize.
Bidz is a jewelry auction type website, and their offer is one of the easiest to promote out there – it’s a 3 field form, and the payout ranges anywhere from $1 – $7 (which is pretty sweet for the amount of work.
As this is only one campaign, and Direct Agents is relatively new (although growing fast, of course), this is probably one of the least competitive contests out there for you to enter. So get in there and win yourself and a friend a vacation.
Now, here’s an idea of how you can destroy the competition with very little expenditure.
You’ll need to find jewelry forums, ones that discuss it – nothing too niche, but use Google and the other search engines.
Approach the owners, tell them about the benefit of Bidz and ask if you can sponsor a contest. It doesn’t have to be a lot – it can be something small, like $50 to spend on jewelry… but in exchange, ask for banner space or even a pinned thread.
It is incredibly easy to get advertising for dirt cheap on non-IM niche forums (auto forums are another one you can target for other offers – unrelated to this contest). Sometimes you can even get advertising for free if you promote well enough.
Of course, the advertising banner will be your affiliate link, and as Bidz is fairly well known and its a quick signup, you’ll find quite a few people will check out your offer, even if they sign up, browse once and never check the site again. Of course, as you’re promoting to targeted users you’ll find a few of them convert into users of the site too.
This strategy is one I’ve used with success in the past – although I offered a PLR information product in exchange for incentivized allowed signups – try it out.
You could also promote this in the usual ways – a landing page, Adwords, buying reviews on blogs… if you live in the US you could even try some offline advertising. Be creative.
The contest runs until March 31st. You have more than a month to get started and get promoting, so get cracking! You need to sign up with Direct Agents to participate of course, but that’s easy enough.
Even if you’re not going to participate in this contest, Direct Agents is a network I’d recommend you try out – they have a few offers you can profit on. One of the main reasons I like them is the personal touch – they sent me a Christmas card via post, despite the difficulties with the postal system in this region. 
I’ll try and get a rough figure of how many leads the current leader has, and will post this in the comments section when I know it. Feel free to ask any questions – whether you want to know about the contest, or if you need help
February 26th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Thanks for the heads up.
I’m just about to get into affiliate marketing and I think entering a contest might help me get more focused on it.
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February 27th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Wow. that is really what I need right now is a trip to the carribean. Whoa..that sounds nice. Its really cold where I am right now. Sad face..
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Melvin (106 comments) Reply:
March 1st, 2009 at 7:21 am
dude, seriously i never thought you could put ur affiliate link at the url.. LOL
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February 26th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Would like to know if there’s a country restriction to join?
I’m very interested to join if there’s no restriction to place. Thanks for the heads up!
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February 26th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Hi Norilyn,
Are you referring to the contest or our network in particular? Our network accepts most countries as long as you pass all the checks. For the Bidz campaign in particular, only traffic in the US and Canada is allowed. Hope this helps!
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February 26th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
So it’s a Visa gift card? Same as cash…
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February 26th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Nice thing, I’ll surely try it out.
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February 27th, 2009 at 2:37 am
Wow, I would denfinatley have some uses for $300.
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February 27th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Great Prizes. I have never seen some one giving away free trip as a prize online. Great review Jason.
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February 28th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Sounds good actually! Not really my niche, but it can be done, and I might be able to get it underway! Of course, the many other participants like you Jason with brilliant ideas and many resources – may blow away whatever I can do. I will still try for the tv though!
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March 1st, 2009 at 6:05 am
Well wouldn’t I just love a nice relaxing (FREE) trip to the Carribbean – seriously, I’m in this to win this, so watch out :p
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March 1st, 2009 at 7:18 am
seriously i want to win this one but doubt if i could as some more other people have started way earlier than I…
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March 1st, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Weekend getaway at Caribbean? Thats a dream dude!
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March 1st, 2009 at 5:31 pm
wow!!! thats some big prize money being offered. The prizes are tempting
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March 2nd, 2009 at 1:48 am
Wow those are some really great prizes! Thanks for the heads up.
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March 2nd, 2009 at 5:06 am
Normally I’m way too late for contests… Niiiiice prizes too, I could definitely use a free trip to the Caribbean
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March 2nd, 2009 at 7:02 am
Well this is one of those cool contests I won’t take part in
just another affiliate network I am probably not going to check out 
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March 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Great Prizes. I will join the contest and hope I will become the winner.
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March 2nd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I love that tv, but I’m just terrible at affiliate contests. Still, I wish everyone the best of luck!
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March 3rd, 2009 at 2:45 am
My friends dad is the owner of Bidz.com. Always interesting to see anything mentioned about them
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March 5th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Great contest, I am IN For it! Wish me luck guys!
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March 8th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Hey i want to ask YOU is this only of USA people or UK people are allow to participatE ??
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March 8th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
I tried affiliate marketing but its hard to get started and you need to have a great niche. My advice is find a niche and then find a niche inside that niche, its better to dominate the small rather than be nothing in the big.
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March 9th, 2009 at 1:17 am
This looks like a great contest, with great prizes, good luck to everyone
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March 11th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
This looks interesting…I have a feeling the big jewelry forums are going to fill up with related posts soon
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March 14th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
All those prizes are great i need a vacation cant handle the snow any longer.
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March 21st, 2009 at 6:10 am
Contests like these help people practice their internet marketing skills! cool. good luck to everyone!
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April 4th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
This information is brilliant. Thank you ever so much.
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November 17th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Great info for newcomers to decide which affiliate offers to promote to make maximum profits. I always learn a lot from your posts. Thanks.
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