30
Jun
Jun
PPC Marketers, why not do a bit of DIY?
Now I do dabble in PPC + CPA marketing to get a bit of spare cash when I can afford to invest, but I spend most of my time freelance web developing/designing for PPC marketers who simply don't know how. Here's a quick wake up; most of you are wasting money.
There are the upscale PPC marketers who simply don't have time to design/develop every site, but for those smaller guys that only have a few sites, if you have a slight idea of how a website works - why not look into making your own?
I picked this up about 2 years ago and read it through and through and constantly reference it; PHP and MySQL Web Development.
Now some people might think it weird that I'm telling people to make their own sites when a lot of my income is based around making sites for novices, well if you have a technical background and the time - just give it a go - what's the worse that could happen! And as for me, there's plenty of rich marketers who don't have the time or patience =]
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Now I do dabble in PPC + CPA marketing to get a bit of spare cash when I can afford to invest, but I spend most of my time freelance web developing/designing for PPC marketers who simply don't know how. Here's a quick wake up; most of you are wasting money.
There are the upscale PPC marketers who simply don't have time to design/develop every site, but for those smaller guys that only have a few sites, if you have a slight idea of how a website works - why not look into making your own?
I picked this up about 2 years ago and read it through and through and constantly reference it; PHP and MySQL Web Development.
Now some people might think it weird that I'm telling people to make their own sites when a lot of my income is based around making sites for novices, well if you have a technical background and the time - just give it a go - what's the worse that could happen! And as for me, there's plenty of rich marketers who don't have the time or patience =]
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16
Jun
Jun
Are you using the bird?
Are you using Twitter to it's true potential? This past week I've had a lot of poking at the Twitter API thanks to two clients wanting some work doing with it, then writing a tutorial for a website (I'll let you know if it gets approved!) and I've come to realize in the right hands Twitter can be unbelievably useful.
Not only can you reach an audience of hundreds to thousands, but you can do it instantly. This revolution has lead me to believe I can make a great (membership based - sorry I'm broke) tool, so look out as soon I'll be unleashing it, and the first 100 users will get to use it for free =P
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Are you using Twitter to it's true potential? This past week I've had a lot of poking at the Twitter API thanks to two clients wanting some work doing with it, then writing a tutorial for a website (I'll let you know if it gets approved!) and I've come to realize in the right hands Twitter can be unbelievably useful.
Not only can you reach an audience of hundreds to thousands, but you can do it instantly. This revolution has lead me to believe I can make a great (membership based - sorry I'm broke) tool, so look out as soon I'll be unleashing it, and the first 100 users will get to use it for free =P
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8
Jun
Jun
Marketers: Make cash out of your unwanted designs
Lots of my readers have been in touch and it's pretty obvious that the most common readers I get are startup affiliate marketers, or people looking for marketing tips. We all know that when we're starting up, every penny we can get to fund our venture is great.
This leads me on to my clearout I had the other day. I've developed loads of landing pages, wordpress skins and small layouts to try and use in affiliate marketing, but I only use about 10% of them. Someone somewhere will try the niche that you tried and decided against, and they'll want a layout. I went through my designs folder and sold all the designs I no longer use and made almost $200.
For a startup, $200 extra money to feed the search engines, buy domains and whatever else is gold. So if you're not using that domain, website layout, logo or anything else - sell it! There's places such as digital point forums, ppc-coach forums or even places like themeforest. Get selling, get earning!
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Lots of my readers have been in touch and it's pretty obvious that the most common readers I get are startup affiliate marketers, or people looking for marketing tips. We all know that when we're starting up, every penny we can get to fund our venture is great.
This leads me on to my clearout I had the other day. I've developed loads of landing pages, wordpress skins and small layouts to try and use in affiliate marketing, but I only use about 10% of them. Someone somewhere will try the niche that you tried and decided against, and they'll want a layout. I went through my designs folder and sold all the designs I no longer use and made almost $200.
For a startup, $200 extra money to feed the search engines, buy domains and whatever else is gold. So if you're not using that domain, website layout, logo or anything else - sell it! There's places such as digital point forums, ppc-coach forums or even places like themeforest. Get selling, get earning!
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4
Jun
Jun
PPC-Coach Got a re-vamp
Now for those of you clever souls that use the wonderful PPC Coach, you'll know the site has always looked a bit basic. The HTML was a bit too table-ish, the rounded corners didn't look fantastic in some browsers. But it worked, and it helped people get off the ground and get their campaigns going too a profitable level where they could scale.
Now however, the coach has realized how much presentation counts, so PPC-Coach members area has got one hell of a revamp. The first page you hit now is the latest updates blog and the forum fits in perfectly with the new theme. The cost per month is still a well worth it CAD $49.99 (USD $45.50, GBP £28.00). Trust me, you'll earn that back very quickly! Be in the loop and sign up soon, prices won't be low forever!
P.s. sorry for the lack of posts, I'm back in the game now...
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Now for those of you clever souls that use the wonderful PPC Coach, you'll know the site has always looked a bit basic. The HTML was a bit too table-ish, the rounded corners didn't look fantastic in some browsers. But it worked, and it helped people get off the ground and get their campaigns going too a profitable level where they could scale.
Now however, the coach has realized how much presentation counts, so PPC-Coach members area has got one hell of a revamp. The first page you hit now is the latest updates blog and the forum fits in perfectly with the new theme. The cost per month is still a well worth it CAD $49.99 (USD $45.50, GBP £28.00). Trust me, you'll earn that back very quickly! Be in the loop and sign up soon, prices won't be low forever!
P.s. sorry for the lack of posts, I'm back in the game now...
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21
Apr
Apr
Allow me to explain
Well, what's going on! There's been no blogging in a while, a rare amount of tweets and low flickr stream activity! Truth is I've got an overwhelming amount of web work coming in from big clients and so I'm dedicating my time to my projects, I'll put all my NYC pics up at some point and get back in to my blogging habit once the work dies down =]
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Well, what's going on! There's been no blogging in a while, a rare amount of tweets and low flickr stream activity! Truth is I've got an overwhelming amount of web work coming in from big clients and so I'm dedicating my time to my projects, I'll put all my NYC pics up at some point and get back in to my blogging habit once the work dies down =]
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9
Apr
Apr
BRB, New York
Hey all, I'll be even more idle than usual for a while as I'm heading off to New York City for a long weekend! Normal service will resume on wednesday next week, I'll be adding a lot of pics to the flickr stream and tweeting where I can =]
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Hey all, I'll be even more idle than usual for a while as I'm heading off to New York City for a long weekend! Normal service will resume on wednesday next week, I'll be adding a lot of pics to the flickr stream and tweeting where I can =]
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1
Apr
Apr
Getting Over Phone-Phobia
In affiliate marketing, in order to get approved in to a majority of networks nowadays you'll be called by a representative of the network to check your human and run some details passed you. Now I'm guilty of phone-phobia myself as are a lot of new marketers.
Startup marketers are scared incase they get asked questions they won't know how to answer, to be fair if a network rings you, you're probably already approved. In order to ease your stress, I've been rung by about 5-6 networks now and here's what they'll ask and what to answer;
What is your address?
If you can't answer this you should consider a job as an idiot
How do you plan to generate traffic?
This is what a lot of new people are afraid of, but it's an easy question. If you're going to use Pay-Per-Click, just say "I plan to use pay-per-click to generate traffic", if you are going to use existing websites you own then say "I plan to use organic traffic from sites I already own". They're not looking for an essay, they just want to make sure you meet the network requirements!
Are you interested in [category a], [category b] and [category c]?
Often when you join a network online it will ask what you intend to use the most, i.e. dating, insurance and travel. They will ask if this is true and you say a big whopping... "yup".
That's pretty much it. I've had a few phone calls from america to my iPhone, as I'm a student in halls and so have no landline, where the connection was pretty bad on each end which made it a little bit hard but it took no more than 2 minutes for him to ask those exact three questions and then tell me who my affiliate manager was (I didn't hear what the hell he said but I said "ok great, thanks").
So sign-up with that network, give them your number and expect that call, it's quick and easy and you're confirmation email will be through 30 seconds after and you're ready to earn even more cash!
Get over it!
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In affiliate marketing, in order to get approved in to a majority of networks nowadays you'll be called by a representative of the network to check your human and run some details passed you. Now I'm guilty of phone-phobia myself as are a lot of new marketers.
Startup marketers are scared incase they get asked questions they won't know how to answer, to be fair if a network rings you, you're probably already approved. In order to ease your stress, I've been rung by about 5-6 networks now and here's what they'll ask and what to answer;
What is your address?
If you can't answer this you should consider a job as an idiot
How do you plan to generate traffic?
This is what a lot of new people are afraid of, but it's an easy question. If you're going to use Pay-Per-Click, just say "I plan to use pay-per-click to generate traffic", if you are going to use existing websites you own then say "I plan to use organic traffic from sites I already own". They're not looking for an essay, they just want to make sure you meet the network requirements!
Are you interested in [category a], [category b] and [category c]?
Often when you join a network online it will ask what you intend to use the most, i.e. dating, insurance and travel. They will ask if this is true and you say a big whopping... "yup".
That's pretty much it. I've had a few phone calls from america to my iPhone, as I'm a student in halls and so have no landline, where the connection was pretty bad on each end which made it a little bit hard but it took no more than 2 minutes for him to ask those exact three questions and then tell me who my affiliate manager was (I didn't hear what the hell he said but I said "ok great, thanks").
So sign-up with that network, give them your number and expect that call, it's quick and easy and you're confirmation email will be through 30 seconds after and you're ready to earn even more cash!
Get over it!
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27
Mar
Mar
Keeping your blog active without blogging
Eh? A blog is that, a blog. Somewhere you log your thoughts, opinions, share tips and more. How can you keep it active without actually blogging? More importantly, why would you? When your blog gets popular enough to get recurring users (I'm starting to get some!) then people will visit your page every few days and see if it's changed. If it has then great, new content to read an absorb, if not then your page is as stale as the last time they refreshed it.
People forget there are lots of services you can use to make your blog 'move'. In my blog I have a twitter account embedded on the right and below that I have my flickr stream, both of which get updated quite often. That's just two services, you can embed facebook apps, poll's, news from elsewhere - anything. By tweeting a few times a day and adding new photo's to my flickr, it makes my blog look a little less static - also even subtle things like rotating your ads more can help the user think that your page is dynamic and always up to date :)
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Eh? A blog is that, a blog. Somewhere you log your thoughts, opinions, share tips and more. How can you keep it active without actually blogging? More importantly, why would you? When your blog gets popular enough to get recurring users (I'm starting to get some!) then people will visit your page every few days and see if it's changed. If it has then great, new content to read an absorb, if not then your page is as stale as the last time they refreshed it.
People forget there are lots of services you can use to make your blog 'move'. In my blog I have a twitter account embedded on the right and below that I have my flickr stream, both of which get updated quite often. That's just two services, you can embed facebook apps, poll's, news from elsewhere - anything. By tweeting a few times a day and adding new photo's to my flickr, it makes my blog look a little less static - also even subtle things like rotating your ads more can help the user think that your page is dynamic and always up to date :)
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23
Mar
Mar
Check Out My New Toy! =D
W00H! I'm going to NYC in a few weeks on a family trip for my dad's 50th. I've always wanted to try and take some really nice shots in a city like New York but my old Canon Powershot isn't really up to it, so I've got a new toy as a very early birthday present! Introducing the Sony D-SLR A-200!
Me there with the signature "first in-the-mirror shot" =] I love it, had it a few hours and took almost 2 hours learning how to set exposure and aperture properly etc, it's a great piece of kit!
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W00H! I'm going to NYC in a few weeks on a family trip for my dad's 50th. I've always wanted to try and take some really nice shots in a city like New York but my old Canon Powershot isn't really up to it, so I've got a new toy as a very early birthday present! Introducing the Sony D-SLR A-200!
Me there with the signature "first in-the-mirror shot" =] I love it, had it a few hours and took almost 2 hours learning how to set exposure and aperture properly etc, it's a great piece of kit!
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19
Mar
Mar
My Own Forum
For those of you clever people who are signed up to PPC Coach, just a little heads up to let you know in the main forums, I have my own little forum now called Programming which I moderate :) If you need any help at all, from me or the huge PCC Coach community then leave a post in that forum :)
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For those of you clever people who are signed up to PPC Coach, just a little heads up to let you know in the main forums, I have my own little forum now called Programming which I moderate :) If you need any help at all, from me or the huge PCC Coach community then leave a post in that forum :)
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