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 4 Summary
Wow, time does fly by when you’re <insert verb here>. Yup, so you really need to be on a plan/schedule. Boy am I glad I did. So am I on schedule? More or less. Ok, honestly, less. The big honking lesson is that I definitely underestimated how long tasks would/will take.
Anyone [...]
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 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided that bloggers need to disclose if they’ve received ‘freebies’ that they blog about or write reviews on. Otherwise they would be liable for fines on the order of $10 to $20,000.
In addition, testimonial advertisements now need to be more explicit in what customers can reasonably expect when they [...]
