Say Hi to my intern – Seth Weber

After sifting through piles and piles of applications (OK, there were only 5 of them), talking to others, taking bribes, and figuring out who I could best mold in my image I have chosen my intern for the summer.  Say hello to Seth Weber. He will be working with me over the summer and learning all about affiliate marketing.  I will be showing him how to take an idea, do the research to see if it is a viable affiliate option, create the relationships with the merchants, build sites, promote the sites through SEO, social media, PPC, etc, and hopefully in the end make some money.

I have known Seth and his family for a number of years now. Seth is actually the guitarist for my band http://www.moderndissent.com (his dad is also our drummer) and I have gone to church with him and his family for quite a few years. I think Seth will do great as my intern because he has a desire to learn, likes tinkering with stuff on the computer, is creative enough to think for himself and take what I teach him and make it his own, and he really seems like he wants to do something similar to this for a living long term.

We will be documenting the whole process, making a bunch of blog posts, filming videos, and other stuff like that so hopefully you will be able to follow us and maybe learn something as well.  Seth will probably be coming into my office (the spare bedroom of my house) 2 or 3 days a week and the plan is to do a few hours of training and a few hours of production every day. 

I will also be setting up some chats, phone calls, video conferences, etc. with some other experts in the industry because if Seth just learns from me he will only be seeing a very small piece of the pie and I want to expose him to the big bad world if affiliate marketing.  So if you are an “expert” (or if you are any sort of affiliate, merchant, industry expert, social media person, merchant, etc) and you think you can help Seth be successful let me know and we will get you on the list. We are looking for anyone and everyone who wants to help us out. Just drop a comment here, DM me on twitter (http://twitter.com/drcool73), email me at joe @ macor.com or send me a smoke signal.

Also if you have a question about affiliate marketing and internet marketing leave a comment and we will try to hit it sometime this summer.

Or you can just leave a comment to say hello to Seth and give him an idea of what he is getting into with this.