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Entries Tagged ‘contest’

Live and Learn: Contest Post-Mortem

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 [...]

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Another day, another dollar? And oh yes, PPC sucks!

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 [...]

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Contest Day 4: A Bit Behind

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. [...]

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Day 1: Plan, plan, plan

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 [...]

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A Little Friendly Intramural Affiliate Marketing Competition for Knowledge and Profit

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 [...]

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