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I Admit it… I Ripped It Off…

Recently, I sent out an email that had a subject, “$27,287.50 In 8 DAYS! (How To)”. This email was to notify people that the recording of the free CPV webinar with David and Corey was ready for free download (you get it for free on my affiliate marketing guide page). In this webinar, David explains how one of his campaigns made over $27k in just 8 days. They then go on...

Turn Captcha Into Profit

The other day while on Wickedfire forums, I noticed a cool thread about a new service called Adcopy.com. Essentially this service allows you to make money from the people who enter captcha’s on your website by having the captcha code be an advertising message. (See above) This is a pretty cool little feature that can pay anywhere from a few cents up to ten or eleven cents. I’m not sure...

Increasing Form Sign Ups

The other day my friend Dan showed me this awesome post on increasing form sign ups using a “mad lib” type style instead of a traditional form style. The post is here. In this post, the author shares how he saw this mad lib style sign up form and decided to test the form out on his own site. Apparently doing this increased his form conversions by 25-40%!!! That is crazy awesome! I would...

Penny Auctions – Huge Money Makers

I love all things involving making money online. When I see websites that are clearly successful in making money it always makes me excited. That’s why when I started to see those penny auction websites, I couldn’t help but smile. If you don’t know what penny auction websites I am talking about, it’s websites that offer a really high demand item (electronics, etc) for just...

What Inbound Marketing Is And Why You Should Have It

I spend zero dollars marketing my business. “Marketing” in its traditional sense includes advertising, baiting media outlets with press releases and, to paraphrase David Meerman Scott, buy, beg and borrow for leads and attention. The way people find out about my business is through two primary mechanisms: Word-of-Mouth recommendations and finding me through search engine results. Word-of-Mouth,...

HasOffers Ad Manager and Offer Exchange Released

HasOffers has just recently released a couple particularly notable additions within their already impressive affiliate tracking system. HasOffers Ad Manager With the Ad Manager, they’re providing the ability to handle ads throughout the entire creation and managing process. The HasOffers Ad Manager enables you to create ads within the site and then optimizes the campaign based upon how the...

Cap/Redirected Offer Texting Service Update

Yesterday I wrote about this idea where a service would text you if your Affiliate Marketing offer got redirected, capped, pulled, etc. The response I got was pretty impressive. In fact, I was pretty excited to hear that this service indeed does exist already!!! Whoop whoop! (Sorry if you started making this type of service – hey there is always room for improvement). Today I was contacted...

Idea: Offer Cap Texting Service

So here is an idea that I don’t have time to make but would be epic. So often I have offers that I run with caps. Capping out on an offer is annoying. Usually, if you don’t catch it in time means you’re going to lose a chunk or all of your profits. This can also happen when an offer is suddenly pulled or the host goes down. So the solution to this would be to make a service where...

Top 5 Crucial Internet Marketing Tips for 2010 – Are You Prepared?

Can you believe that it’s already 2010? I’ve been involved with Internet marketing and SEO for over 7 years now and each year has always been more exciting than the previous one. 2010 is looking to be no different. There are so many opportunities online to make money and make a difference. If you ever wanted to get started in this space, now’s the time. I know that I’m a...

Big Flaws in the “Most Influential Online Marketers of 2009? List and 4 Ways You Can Avoid the Same Mistakes

I’m the #61 most influential online marketer of 2009. Seriously. Are you surprised? I know I was when I first saw the list a few days ago. While I’m flattered and honored to be included, a part of me just doesn’t feel right. How am I ranked higher than the very SEO superstars that I look up to? This includes guys like Patrick Altoft, Jordan Kasteler, Eric Ward, and Michael Gray...

Local Internet Marketing

Jaime Irvine runs Neptune Local, a local online advertising company based in Santa Monica. Recently, he and his team launched Chirofresh.com which specifically targets marketing for Chiropractors nationwide. My partners and I have been in the local internet marketing space for the past 12 months or so. We initially jumped into it after reading a number of different blogs, and thought we could replicate...

Top Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Every year Tamar from Techipedia puts out an awesome list of the top internet marketing posts. This years list is really awesome so I figured it was worth mentioning here. Four of my posts got featured (Thanks!) so I decided to list them below for you to check out: The Beginners Guide To Advertising On Facebook – Beginners guide to facebook ads. Cut the Fat: Some Quick Tips To Instantly Gain...

Twitter is for closers

You’ve probably heard the famous line “coffee is for closers” from the movie Glengarry Glen Ross. While I’m not into the whole high pressure sales vibe of the film, that line does ring true in many ways. How much time do we waste while there is still work to be done? It got me thinking how that relates to the self employed Internet marketer. For our industry, Twitter is...

ShopperPress – Wordpress Shopping Cart Plugin Review

WordPress has always been my favorite blogging platform since the beginning of my blogging journey. I always admire WordPress because of its flexibility and functionality. I would like to tell you the story of my first e-commerce website which I launched last month. Since very long time I have dreamed of an e-commerce website powered by WordPress. I have tried various WordPress plugins throughout...

$22,000 in Losses

The year 2009 has proven to be my best year as an internet marketer so far. In fact, I’ve broken more goals than I even thought I would have (although not the $20 million / year goal… next year maybe?). Some of these goals are good. Revenue was up, profit was up, I purchased a home, got married, life is good. Some of these “records” so to speak… not so good. In looking...