When you’re trying to find your customer to pitch them something – whatever it is – think WHAT WERE THEY DOING BEFORE THEY GOT TO YOU? What about right before that? What about before that? Your customers, your leads (and of course you) are the sum of their lifetime choices, and even the choices of…
Category Archives: Affiliate Marketing
Bizarro World Leaks Affiliate Marketing Bollywood Film Starring Anik Singal
I just can’t stop laughing. The amateurs pose as strippers for ClickBank products, the felons do sweat lodges and the pros do Bollywood films to promote shit… I’m not even sure what he is promoting, whatever it is I bet it ain’t free and it ain’t funny what it does to your finances. I’m sorry Anik, I’m sure…
Test your popups on the cheap and easy with a tiny .htacess trick
This post is for the less technically inclined using PPV. While you can see your pop-ups on a contextual network by browsing the site/keywords you are bidding on with whatever “web experience enhancer” causes them to pop installed, this has a few drawbacks: If your bids are high, you’re kinda wasting money and messing your…
Affiliate Mistake #1 – Using Your Common Sense
Your are not your customer You are not MY customer either. So stop trying to act like YOU know what THEY want and GO FIND OUT. It never fails. Every time I tell someone what I do with affiliate marketing, sometimes even other marketers, I get this look of “You are so dumb, that will…
FTC Complaint on AdWords Ban – Yes, I’m still banned
Google’s final response to the San Jose BBB case was this: We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we are unable to provide any additional information. Google reserves the right to disable any ads when deemed necessary per the AdWords Terms and Conditions: https://adwords.google.com/select/tsandcsfinder. Again, we apologize for any frustration. Your AdWords account…
Obama Email Submit Exposed in Pictures
Shady email submit using Obama’s face, exposed for all to see page-by-page – Because I’m a dick, and I hate it when I don’t think of scammy stuff before someone else does. Shady email submit using Obama’s face, exposed for all to see page-by-page.
How Google Banned Me – And The Simple Way to Save Your Ass
I wish someone had told me this two years ago: Google associates your AdWords account to the domains that you advertise. Worse yet, they associate it to the domains and then refuse to break that association. Just to be clear: Its not…
International Marketing – Giant Spreadsheet of Cultural Differences
Need a leg up on international campaigns? Use this giant interactive Excel to compare cultures, create ads that connect and avoid pissing money away.
Integrate – Network for Ballin’ Outta Control
Imagine you were the only marketer out there promoting something hot. Imagine you found something to sell where you have NO COMPETITION.
Creamed your pants yet?
That’s what Integrate does for me. They are the wide open field of affiliate networks and marketing. Instead of fighting for table scraps with three thousand other hungry affiliate dogs, you get to go hunt your own prey in the whole wide world.
How to Get Into Any Affiliate Network
In two words how to get into pretty much any affiliate network: Brutal Honesty Its that simple, really. Plain old honesty. Most of the time folks asking about getting approved into CPA/CPS networks are afraid they won’t get accepted since they have very little experience. The formula that has worked perfectly for me is just…
Crazy CTR With One Wicked Idea from AdSense Outlaws
Take a really good look at this page. Yes, the ads are indeed Google ads. My initial reaction was “Wow, I didn’t know Google allowed explicit ads like that“… As my mind started reeling at the possibilities I noticed something… “Wait, those look like Facebook ads because of the images… and Google ads because of…
Microsoft Sues Magic Bullet System and Amish Shah Along With Jay Styles
Microsoft is suing Amish Shah, Jay Styles and two companies (the creators of the Magic Bullet System guru product) for using Microsoft trademarks and cybersquatting on Microsoft trademarks. And for contributory infringement. This should send an epic shockwave through the “guru” ranks – The lawsuit talks about contributory trademark infringement and contributory cybersquatting. That means…
ASW 11 Here I Cum!
Heading out to ASW11 in a few hours – Hit me up on Twitter if you’d like to meet-up!
One Weird Resolution for 2011
I have a single goal for 2011: To smoothly transition into affiliate marketing full-time. Not so weird. And not a resolution. I don’t do “resolutions” – as if my willpower was lacking and it could be improved by merely “willing it” or “really, seriously, positively deciding”. That only works in the fantasy wonderland where most…
PPVSpy Purchased and Reviewed – The Sky Isn’t Falling
I bought a PPVspy “perpetual” license from BevoMedia on Friday morning five minutes after Mike Chiasson sent me a text message about it. Interested in an unbiased no-affiliate-links capsule review? Read on. And no, I’m not biased in trying to justify to myself my purchase – Lets get that out of the way. The way…
Avoid Getting Swindled This Holiday Season
If you haven’t read Robert Cialdini’s masterpiece: “Influence”, you’re a tool. I can even tell you what tool you would be… You’d be a plunger, ready to dive into a toilet full of shit – My shit to be specific. In this little story below there is a tale of how massive amounts of people…
Video Boss Shitstorm and The Salty Droid
This is one of those posts I know I will regret within minutes… A while back I started reading The Salty Droid’s blog. Honestly, I don’t get it. The guy behind The Salty Droid is funny and brilliant – I laughed my ass off with his videos. What I don’t get is how “The Syndicate”…
Retargeting
Retargeting is the newest craze. You visit a site, then that advertiser can target you wherever you go across some advertising networks – like Google. It starts to get very creepy and ridiculous after a while, though. The bald dude from Storm on Demand has been following me around the net for over a week…
That’s My Story, and I’m Sticking to It
That right there is a powerful agent of positive change. The power lies in SAYING that phrase and seeing how silly your stories sound. “That’s My Story, and I’m Sticking to It” That’s the phrase I began chirping every single time I said – or heard someone tell me- something that sounded even a tiny…
Spot Where I Fucked Up
Lets see who can spot where I fucked up, changed the landing page and went to bed ASS-uming everything was just fine.
Decent Landers in Two Minutes Flat – WYSIWYG Website Builder
Its fucking retarded that DreamWeaver, Adobe’s top-of-the-line ($$$) web design package can’t just work graphically kinda like PowerPoint and then figure out what it needs to do to display your doodle as a working web page. Maybe there’s tons of wizards out there that know how to do just that with DreamWeaver. As far as…
Easy Flash Banners – SnackTools
Awesome tool I started using last week: BannerSnack from Snacktools. Its not as fancy as Wix. Unlike Wix, it creates small files needed for banners, uses the clickTag attribute and most importantly it lets you download your creation free and clear – so you can use it without having to bleed money to them. I…
What About Guru Products?
Nothing is ever black and white – so here’s the skinny. You keep getting bombarded by “Product Launches”. What to do? Are they good? Bad? Evil? They are not all bad, and they are not all good. The major difference between a good product and a bad product is YOU. Yes, you. Not the product,…
How to Avoid Getting Screwed by Internet Marketing Douchebags
Practical checklist to spotting internet scammers trying to fleece internet marketers. The only thing you need is a bit of an ability to read your own emotions and this handy list. Don’t surf without it! You know you are about to get scammed when: You feel you’re going to lose out if you don’t do…
Funny AffBuzz Banner
Good chuckle out of this AffBuzz ad on http://whatwouldryaneagledo.com/ I have Ryan on Twitter and sometimes I wonder what kind of glue he’s sniffing – whatever it is, you have to recognize he’s got talent to brand himself to the point he can be recognized by the writing style and even the glasses!
This is How Your Mother Bought an Acai Rebill
Talk about fucked up. I’ve seen this pretty much all over the place – reputable news outlets carrying the shadiest of ads. Some of these advertisers clearly have the dough to grease the wheels — if you go try to advertise this crap with these same ad networks, you’ll get declined. I tried. Fuckers. Then…
Bad Traffic Sources for Bad Boys
Lets find listings of things “Forbidden” as sources of inspiration to continue on the journey to total jackassdom. When I saw the “Non-Approved Traffic Sources” file from Azoogle (renamed Epic) I almost creamed my pants. Not because they renamed their company to “Epic”… I have to wonder, why “Epic” and not “LULZ” … Or maybe…
Sample Failed Pop-Ups
Here’s a sampling of failed pop-ups. Notice the SIZE of the viewable area. I know about the little trick of adding scroll-bars to a pop-up to fool the user into clicking – Somehow I don’t think that’s the idea here, and these scroll bars are no fake.
