The other day Ruck wrote about How To Never Stop Scaling Profitable Affiliate Campaigns and it really made me reflect back on my career. Many affiliates just getting started out are finally relieved when they finally hit their “big break” and get a campaign profitable. But far too often these affiliates get “stuck in a rut” […]
5 Things That Make Me A Better Entrepreneur
If you’ve met me over the years then you know I’m a pretty down to earth guy and I don’t have an ego or like to toot my own horn. Fairly often I’m asked by people why my businesses continue to be successful. Since 1998 I’ve been involved in nearly a dozen different online ventures […]
Why Budgeting Is Very Important In Affiliate Marketing
Budgeting is important for any business but especially being an Affiliate Marketer you want to keep your budget at the front of your business. When I ask most affiliates what their budget is, a typical response is: “unlimited as long as it converts.” Typically I reply with an LOL because wouldn’t that be the case […]
How To Deal With Frustration In Internet Marketing
In today’s wired world we’re all looking for some type of gratification. If we want to know what are friends are up to we’ll simply pick up our mobile device and scroll through our Facebook news feed. If we want to buy a new car, we simply do a quick Google search, and find out […]
10 Tips To Becoming A Smarter Affiliate
Regardless of your experience level here are ten items that have allowed me to become a better affiliate regardless of the offer or medium I’m promoting on: Learn From Every Campaign – Not all campaigns are going to be winners. When you have one that kicks you in the ass, learn something from it. Maybe […]
How To Deal With Social Anxiety At Affiliate Conferences
In one of my post last week someone asked an important question: How to deal with social anxiety while going to Internet Marketing conferences and trying to meet people? This is something that some people have no problem with while it scares the ever living shit out of others. A lot of my success working […]
How Your Comfort Zone Will Be Your Destruction
Every day we build mental shortcuts into our daily routine, we recognize patterns that allows us to preempt future occurrences of the same event. This is pretty much how “mental shortcuts” are created which makes life more convenient by allowing these tasks to cause no big concern. However while tasked with new challenges they often […]
3 Important Campaign Optimization Tips Smart Marketers Make
Regardless of the medium, every performance based campaign thrives on successful optimization. Advertisers that start CPM (cost per one thousand impressions) campaigns make some optimizations but most are large brands with burn budgets that only want to be seen. A click through rate edit here, another creative there, not much optimization really takes place when […]
Does Coffee Make You More Productive?
My morning doesn’t start until I have a cup of coffee. No matter how many hours of sleep I get nothing gets me going until that first cup of coffee starts circulating the caffeine through my veins. For well over the last decade my morning has started with a fresh pitcher of black coffee. Ruck […]
How To Fire Your Boss
Everyone wants to be their own boss, set their own hours, and make a hefty income each month. For those currently working a 9-5 job on a set schedule it sounds really appealing to dream about being on a beach watching the waves come in while sipping on an exotic drink and adding up dollars […]