December 25, 1998 the sun wasn’t up, darkness surrounded my house, and underneath the Christmas tree laid a brand new Gateway desktop computer system for my brother and I. We had an old Compaq computer but the new Gateway was equipped with the latest version of Windows and had a complimentary monthly subscription to America […]
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What To Do When Your Favorite Affiliate Network Goes To Crap
What to do what to do… Suddenly the affiliate network you loved for many years owes you thousands of dollars, has nearly ceased bringing on new offers, and your affiliate manager completely ignores your emails, phone calls, and text messages. If you’ve been involved in the performance marketing industry online and have ran any amount […]
How To Evaluate The Cost Of Traffic
When purchasing traffic to your website or affiliate marketing campaigns it’s very important that you first do the math to make sure you’re able to sustain a reasonable ROI. Far to often Internet marketers jump the gun with their traffic source before doing a simple equation to see if it’s even possible to become profitable. […]
Advertising – It Makes Us Happy
Ruck and I have been watching the AMC television series Mad Men over the last several weeks. For those of you that have never seen it – the plot is centered around the advertising industry in the 1960’s. Quickly it’s becoming one of my favorite shows to watch because of the similarities with the online […]
In The Beginning…
When I got started making money online the last thing on my mind was money. That almost doesn’t make sense to many of you; I understand. While I was teaching myself how to create websites I wasn’t thinking about lining my pockets with cash. I was thinking about how “cool” it would be to have […]
How Google Killed The Longtail (Infographic)
immonkey in the IMGrind Community posted a pretty sick infographic from SEOBook.com that I felt was worth sharing on the blog. I learned a lot from Aaron Wall’s SEO Book back in the day and always had a shitload of respect for him. I personally increased traffic from my pro wrestling website from 500 unique […]
Putting A Price On Time
Ruck and I continue to get questions daily on effective time management. Recently I’ve been reading up a lot of about and making changes in my everyday life that save me time allowing me to get more done in a day. Given I have a lot going on mismanaging my time could potentially cost me […]
Campaigner Email Marketing Review
It’s been a while since we’ve reviewed a company on the blog so I decided it was time to discuss one of my favorite email marketing services. This past summer when Ruck and I were creating the Grind we were looking for an email marketing solution that would allow us to import our existing email […]
Make Bank With Your Own Membership Website #video
Ruck and I both found a lot of success in our early days working online with membership based websites. We found niches we were passionate about and started websites where we charged people to view exclusive content. Over the last week I’ve been in town with my identical twin brother Richard who co-founded my first […]
Does Your Email Copy Suck? Personality vs. Robot
I see a lot of emails everyday. From my three main email accounts I check to reviewing other Internet Marketers conversion funnels I can say with confidence I’ve pretty much seen it all. One of the biggest mistake I see marketers of all skills levels make is producing email copy without personality. If your email […]