I’ll start right off by saying that I’m a somewhat of a fan of Mark Cuban’s. What’s not to like. This guy is the ultimate entrepreneur. He started off as a value added reseller and built several successful businesses. In 1995 he eventually sold his Broadcast.com to Yahoo for an insane amount of money.

Way back in the day while Cuban was a systems integrator and founder of MicroSolutIons (which he later sold to CompuServe), he wrote a column for a reseller trade publication where I worked. I liked his in-your-face style then and I still do. Plus, this guy owns a NBA team, which is my dream. Cuban and I have exchanged emails over the years as I did a lot of writing about how technology was shaping the NBA and other sports.

Okay, I wasn’t a huge fan of his reality TV show, but whatever. I still love to read Mark’s very candid blog and I usually learn something. Even other great bloggers reach out to Cuban.

What I learned this time from reading Cuban’s blog is that he is looking to use affiliates to help his business and if you can help him, he may just give you a job.

As founder of HDNet, Cuban is now looking to solve the problem of getting audiences out to see movies without spending more than he makes on each theater ticket. His company is already doing typical movie marketing, buzz marketing, putting up video on the Net, setting up movie websites, buying ads, and participating into movie forums.

Now they want to try affiliate marketing.

In his most recent blog entry, Cuban writes, “We are looking at affiliate programs. So people with lots of myspace or other social network friends could get a buck or 2 or 3 if someone goes from their myspace page directly to fandago, moviefone, movietickets.com etc and buys a ticket to a film of ours prior to its release. Get 100 friends to buy tickets to a movie, get a 100 bucks from us.”

If you have any great ideas, contact Cuban and you may get a job.

He writes, “So if you want a job, and have a great idea on how to market movies in a completely different way. If your idea works for any and all kinds of movies. If it changes the dynamics and the economics of promoting movies, email it or post it. If its new and unique, I want to hear about it. If its a different way of doing the same thing you have seen before, it probably wont get you a job, but feel free to try.”

With so many smart people in this industry, Cuban is likely to be overwhelmed with more great ideas than he can handle. lisap@revenuetoday.com