Designers Love Using iPhones in Web Design, But They’re Wrong
As a designer, one thing I’ve noticed as a web-design trend lately is to feature Apple products in the design, primarily iPhones. While I understand that they are beautiful devices I don’t think they are as beneficial to a design as many may believe. While I do believe that showing shots of your application or site being used is fantastic because being demonstrable is a great tactic for conversions, it’s that I don’t think an iPhone should be used in all cases. For example, the site cookwiz.me …
Week In Review: College Football & Haters
This week in review covers quick paydays, exclusive pre-game football parties with Shoemoney, affiliate marketing investment and much more! “Ultimate College Football & Internet Marketing Experience“ – If you’re a college football fan and an Internet marketer, you’ll want to check this out. Doesn’t dinner with Shoemoney, an exclusive pre-game party, a football game, a tour of ShoeMoney Media Group’s offices and more sound great? “Should You Take the Money and Run?“ – Acquisitions are all over the news lately. Would you keep your …
Craigslist Becomes a Scammy Nightmare for NJ Flood Residents in Need
There are billions of dollars of money being flooded into New Jersey right with all of the insurance companies and FEMA making the rounds. Throw in auto insurances and every other way to make money with construction, contracting and scamming, you are sure to make a killing, be killed or play by the rules. Right now there is basically NO WHERE to find a place to live or rent 30-40 miles from the shore. Throw in pet ownership and you are really screwed. You can contact your local realtor, which we already have several looking for us, but they are all …
Destination and Display URL Not Matching?
Okay…geeky blog post coming…you’ve been warned… The BlackHatters were interested earlier this week when we were searching for the term ‘cocktails’ in Google (don’t ask!) If you Google ‘cocktails’ you get the following SERP delivered… We were particularly interested in the Smirnoff ad… The
PPC Account Review – What Not To Do In Your PPC Account
In this post I will go through a live account review – what not to do in your PPC account that I’m working on. I’m working on a screensaver account today. I’m doing this for a friend and I’m not going to give away what their company name is. When I do FREE work on an account, most of the time I will blog about…
Facebook proposes data-sharing with Instagram, end to site governance voting
Facebook today proposed changes to its Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities that will allow the company to share information with affiliates like Instagram and put an end to site governance voting, among other more minor changes. New language about “affiliates” has been added to the Data Use Policy to cover Facebook’s relationship with Instagram, which it acquired this year. The proposed policy …
Why *Joshua Rhodes* Is A Marketing Genius
Let’s be honest. If you’re in this industry and are ever on Facebook, you know of Joshua Rhodes. Yes, the one that *types* like THIS! Since some people don’t understand how truly genius this is, let me explain. In the midst of hundreds of affiliate/marketing Facebook groups, thousands of members of each group, and hundreds of thousands…
An Early Gift to the Industry From POF. Click Here to Unwrap :)
We have decided to remove the “Previously Converted” targeting option because we thought that we could do better. It’s a very cool option, don’t get me wrong, but you guys deserve the best so here it is. Instead of targeting people who have converted on a global level, we are now offering the ability to EXCLUDE people who have already converted on YOUR stuff… at a CAMPAIGN level. This will allow you to no longer show your ads to someone once they’ve…
Mobi Gold Secrets a Robert F Carrera Theft
UPDATE: Looks like the thief deleted his thread after he got called out. As most of the readers of this blog know, I have no interest in becoming a guru. I release all my training for FREE in the hopes that as affiliates become successful in mobile they will join my network or sign up to use…
Outkast At Affiliate Ball West 2012?
As you know I’m a big supporter of Affiliate Ball. For this next one in Las Vegas they signed Outkast. Yea yea, everyone is going to say way to go getting 90′s artists but If I recall, everyone had a blast with Nelly last year! Here’s the official release: Affiliate Ball signs Big Boi of
NDemand Affiliate Meetup in the Bahamas
I recently just got back from the Bahamas. It was an amazing experience to be on the islands, especially it being a just a bit cold in Atlanta. Last year I was at the NDemand Affiliate Meetup in Puerto Rico and it was a great experience to hang out privately …
Happy Thanksgiving! MobGrind.com Launches With Mobile News Daily From 200+ Mobile Traffic Sources!
Well it’s official. I’ve privately been working on yet another project, one of which is now yours to use at your disposal daily. I been at it for about 35-36 straight hours and hopefully I don’t fall asleep through Thanksgiving dinner but hey – When you start something, you HAVE to see it through! MobGrind.com is officially launched! In one sentence, MobGrind is – Mobile News From 200…
How to Learn by Osmosis: The Traits of a Successful Affiliate
There are many blogs, forums and ebooks where you can learn the intricacies of online marketing. Some are great, some are poor, but nearly all are inferior to the process of learning by osmosis. Osmosis is the art of unconscious learning. It is where we stop studying materials, and start absorbing them. 1) Park balls on knowledge 2) … 3) Profit $$$ Learning the Facts vs. Learning the Meaning Imagine two kids go in to a lecture. One has a stack of notepads and pens. The other has his hands in …
Is Affiliate Marketing a Long Term Business?
There was a somewhat heated discussion in the forum recently about whether affiliate marketing was a long term, sustainable business or not. It’s tough to come up with a definitive answer to this question, because it depends what you definition of a good business model is. I think this topic brings up something bigger regarding the…
Welcome to HUNGER GAMES 2 (Sponsored by F5).
The time has cometh my friends!!! The STM exclusive competition is back!!! Welcome to HUNGER GAMES 2 (Sponsored by F5). OOOOoooh Shiiiiieeeeeet!!! You know what time it is. Shit has just gotten a whole lot more serious. For those who of you who weren’t around when Hunger Games 1 was on, let me just give you a little recap: WHAT ARE THE HUNGER GAMES? It’s a competitive affiliate challenge with teams from 3 districts of the world who battle to the death …
Google Adsense Scraper for $19 per Month
Fresh off the press! WhatRunsWhere has launched their Ad Vantage product which gives people access to the WRW Google Content Network data for only $19. WhatRunsWhere has a ton of intelligence data ranging from mobile to Google Content network and other platforms. But this intelligence comes at a price. The full WhatRunsWhere monthly package is over $200 – which is completely justified for most affiliates and agencies, but its definitely not for everyone. The fine people at WhatRunsWhere saw this gap in the market and decided to offer something for…
AdScout Spy Tool Update – View All Creatives, Search Trigger Words In Ads, Time Frame Search
A few weeks ago, Bevo Media launched AdScout. AdScout is a fully customizable spy tool that allows users to actually chose which sites they want to spy on. AdScout will then monitor each site, and report back all information for every ad that has ran on the monitored site. For more information on AdScout, please see the launch post here. AdScout has recently added some new …
cognitiveSEO Review – Best Backlink Analysis Tool
Backlink analysis tools are one of those “necessary evils” to conducting a proper SEO campaign, or competing in search. It was true before Google launched the Penguin update but because of Penguin and the way Google shifted the way they rank websites, I’ve found backlink analysis absolutely critical to learning the “new rules” to SEO. Rather than take everyone’s ill-gotten advice about what ranks and why, actually analyzing the SEO campaign of your ranking competitors…Read
The Raccoon Got Into The Copier Again.
Helloooo! I wrote this post last week, but just got around to posting it today, so times might be a bit off. I do warn you it’s ridiculously long, and the title is 100{57b8cc37fd24bce1cf64c8b05d9407ce9171516056c1f5e762677747187a0de4} irrelevant.I’ve been on a pleasurable business trip for the past 3 weeks. This post is just a little journal, as well as a chance to thank a few people.Man it was eventful.Here goes…Day 1. Arrived in Prague. Met with Besmir my Italian/Albanian business partner for the first…
Defend Your Campaigns With a Moat
“In days of old, a castle was protected by the moat that circled it. The wider the moat, the more easily a castle could be defended, as a wide moat made it very difficult for enemies to approach. A narrow moat did not offer much protection and allowed enemies easy access to the castle. To Warren Buffett, the castle is the business and the moat is the competitive advantage the company has. He wants his managers to continually increase the size of the moats …