Here’s a quick recap of our 2-week internal competition. How did we do? In a nutshell, not well. We ended up losing money, mainly on paid advertising.
How much? We haven’t added up the numbers exactly, but we were both each under the $100 mark. It turns out that we were both a bit hesitant to [...]
Well so much for blogging every 2 days or so. Participating in a game that you’ve never played before can seem deceptively easy at the onset. And this one certainly caught us.
So I got my site up and posted about it on a few forums, submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools, did some basic [...]
Khalid’s Day 1 Summary
As promised, here is a post describing my efforts so far. Doug’s summaries will appear in separate posts.
As I was thinking how to sum up my day 1 of our contest, I initially thought it was mostly a failure, but then I had a second opinion and that was that it *is* [...]
Have you been in the affiliate marketing game for a while now and are just flailing around without any real success to speak of? Perhaps some traffic to your site or a sale here and there, but not the kind of envious profits that the gurus advertise on their products? Well, here’s an admission you [...]
The Affiliate Summit West conference currently is in session in Las Vegas. The three day conference attracts the best and brightest affiliates as well as upcoming affiliates and includes an exhibit hall with affiliate merchants, vendors and networks. There are multiple educational tracks lead by leaders in the industry.
ASW ’09’s keynote was given [...]
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Yet another reason to start your own business, so you never have to hear, or for heaven’s sake say, “it is what it is” ever again. This phrase is the war cry for those that only strive for mediocrity and makes me cringe every time I hear it.
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The topic of taking the plunge and leaving corporate life has been discussed heavily lately by several friends and of course my padna kjh in his article on when to take the plunge so I decided to put together a couple thoughts on the subject myself…. please feel free to comment with your [...]
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You’ve already determined that you’d like to, at a minimum, supplement your main income with an online side business, and now you’re wondering if it’s time to strike out on your own, take the plunge, quit the 9-to-5, free yourself from your corporate masters… You get the idea.
But when is that ‘right time’? Is there [...]
Chris Pearson of Pearsonified wrote an excellent post two years ago called How to: Kiss Corporate Life Goodbye that is an inspiration for those of us wanting to leave corporate life and go it on our own.
His story started in October of 2005 when he built a community blog site called BlogLouisville. Starting as [...]
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