PPV 101 – Everything You Need

July 7, 2010
Easy Button

Well in case you missed the giant lightbox pop-up when you arrived here, my new guide PPV 101 is now available.  Am I selling out? No. Am I becoming a guru? No. This is not to give you any over-hyped information on how to make millions of dollars online (although it is completely possible), this [...]

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Clean Up Those URLs

July 6, 2010
Scrubbing Bubbles

If you are running PPV, you are most likely scraping URLs. If you are scraping URLs, then you have probably wasted money on bad targets.  I certainly have.  Here’s a money-saving tip that will keep you from blowing through your testing budget bidding on google.com or answers.yahoo.com: Go through your scraped URLs before you launch [...]

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Affiliate AIM Etiquette

July 1, 2010
Emote

AIM is a staple of life when you live and work on the internet.  There are quite a few different IM services out there, but AIM is the most widely used.  It’s gotten to the point where a good 90% of the conversations that I have with people in the industry are through AIM.  It’s [...]

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Testing Offers 101: From Red to Green

June 29, 2010
Get Data Get Paid

One of the toughest ongoing questions for affiliate marketers is, “How do I know when I’ve spent enough money testing an offer?”  Everybody has a different approach. There are a couple of truths that we need to look at. It is very rare to find a campaign that is profitable right out of the gate. [...]

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Affiliate Marketing Is Dead, Everyone Move On

June 25, 2010
Oh Noes! Aff mktg is dead!

How many times have you heard someone echoing this doomsday sentiment lately?  People act as if this has never happened before.  I can hear them now… “But Facebook ads are way harder to get approved now!  Plenty of Fish doesn’t have enough traffic!  Nobody believes offers anymore, they are getting too smart!  There are too [...]

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Hydra Acquired by Adknowledge

June 21, 2010
Hydra Acquired!

Well, it has finally happened. MediaPost is reporting that Adknowledge has acquired Hydra.  Everyone knew this was coming, no surprises here.  Numbers were not disclosed, but I’m guessing that it wasn’t much money.  Nickycakes speculated that this was coming back when they canceled all those affiliate accounts a few months ago.  Looks like you were [...]

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Breaking Down Your PPV Campaign

June 18, 2010
Breaking down your PPV campaign

So you’ve scraped several hundred urls, you have launched the campaign on at least one PPV network, and you have traffic coming in.  What now?  Well, chances are you are not going to be profitable right off the bat.  If you are then, great!  But there is still optimization that can be done.  If you [...]

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Don’t Quit Your Day Job

June 15, 2010
Champagne

You’ve heard about them.  People that make their money entirely online.  A world of sleeping in until noon everyday, working in your underwear, and taking champagne baths bought with all of the money you are making in Affiliate Marketing.  But hold on just a sec cowboy…  While it’s true that many new affiliates jumping into [...]

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My 7 Favorite FireFox Addons

June 10, 2010
FireFox Addons FTW

I’ve been an avid FireFox user for years.  One of the main reasons I like it is the huge variety of Add-ons that are available.  Google and Apple have recently added support for extensions to Chrome and Safari, respectively, but FireFox has such a massive head start on them in terms of Add-ons that it [...]

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Thoughts on Tracking202

June 7, 2010
Tracking202

There have been plenty of posts about the re-acquisition of Tracking202 by Wes Mahler and Steven Truong, so I’m not going to rehash those here.  All the buzz and discussion about this topic, as well as the original sale to Bloosky, have made me think quite a bit about what was the cause of all [...]

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The Case of the Mysterious “J”

June 1, 2010
Mysterious J

Have you ever received an email from someone with a capital letter “J” at the end of it?  I don’t know if this happens much outside of the Affiliate industry, but I have received a ton of them.  I couldn’t figure out what it meant, so I looked into the issue. Apparently, it is caused [...]

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