CNN Top StoriesLearn the difference between a patent, trademark, and copyright and how to avoid big mistakes when setting them up.
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Toolbars are a very heated industry topic and I applaud Brian Littleton from Shareasale for taking the issue head on and creating a roundtable discussion about the topic
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He’ll be discussing current trends and citing examples of successes that retailers have had with mobile marketing. He’ll also share opportunities that exist within the mobile space for affiliate marketers.
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I previously wrote about how to find people in the affiliate industry through AIM Instant Messaging and their Twitter accounts. While many individuals are listed, the vast majority aren’t. I wanted to pull together a list for you of some of the more well known Affiliate Networks that are currently using Twitter.
Whether they use twitter to just post announcements on new offers to the network, or actually provide some useful information, you never know when you might need another resource to contact these guys.
If you know of any other useful affiliate networks using Twitter, feel free to list them in the comments section and I will have them added to the list.
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I just realized today how absent I’ve been from this blog. I don’t really know what’s going to come out in the post, as usual I’m just doing it on the fly. So I guess I’ll try and explain what I’ve been up to lately.
ASW Vegas/Early January
I did not attend ASW Vegas for a couple reasons. One being that I’m not 21 and just watching everybody gamble would make me want to cry. Second being I wouldn’t be allowed into the actual conference, which I have described about 1,000 times how RETARDED that is. I also felt like I needed a break from affiliate marketing and life in general.
So I decided to go on a road trip. Me and 4 of my friends drove straight from NY to Disney World in Florida, I was able to hook us up with a suite with Amex points so they were able to cut down on a lot of their costs. We had a total blast and every single day was nothing but fun. Except for the fact that…
Affiliate Marketing Meltdown
All I had been hoping for that was when I went on the road trip, everything with AM would be going fine. I wasn’t going to spend a minute doing work – and I didn’t. But a part of me just laughed and knew something would go wrong.
So in a nutshell, I have a personal bank account and a business bank account. All my affiliate revenue goes into my business bank account, and I just put what I need into my personal bank account (so it doesn’t have that much). Well for some reason I had my old personal Amex Platinum on one of my advertising accounts, and it racked up $75k in like a week and a half. I needed to go to the bank and shift 75k to my personal account, but obviously being in Florida didn’t allow that to happen and I didn’t want to have to try to find a bank in Florida and deal with it. I was on vacation and I was NOT going to work.
So I just shrugged it off and Amex froze my account. Which wasn’t a big deal either because the very next day both of my advertising accounts got slapped. Google got slapped, and Facebook disabled my whole account. The FB thing didn’t make any sense and I got it turned back on today, but the Google slap I had coming. Basically EVERYTHING got shut down, and surprisingly I didn’t let that affect my vacation at all. I got back home and got on the grind, and I’m about halfway to where I currently was. My employee put together a graph for us to laugh at, so I figured I’d share it haha. This is January :
Today I think will be 6k profit about, so the climb back to 10k is en route.
Google Updates
Just to kind of share my experiences with Google, nothing has really changed at all for me over the past few months. Go to the Adwords category of my blog and not much has changed from that information.
You can still use the destination URL trick. They still slap you out of nowhere. You still have to bid high to start and then lower bids.
Facebook Updates
Facebook has been a changing beast, in bad ways. ANYTHING diet related they know to disapprove instantly. Even if you want to cloak your ads, getting decent adcopy through will be hard because they can sniff it out. You can cloak in other verticals though and still get it through, but eventually they’re probably going to catch and disapprove it.
The trick to Facebook traffic is just volume of ads. You can make 50 ads with a $500 budget. If you delete 45 of the ads, the remaining 5 won’t spend $500 (assuming you’re just maxing out your volume). So when I have Matt make a Facebook campaign, he usually makes around 50-100 ads per campaign. That’s how you get volume. Getting things approved helps too, lol.
Employees Rock
Seriously, go out and hire one. Find a smart Chinese kid at your local college and pay him $8/hr and tell him he gets to work out of your house and gets to come to work naked if he wants. It’s worth it.
Matt is now to the point where he can create new campaigns, run, and manage them without my help. I usually have to get initial things going, make the right landing page, and give him some ad copy. But other than that, he can replicate and manage things which is REALLY nice. It gives me more time to talk to my contacts and set up better deals. And gives me more time to play Xbox.
Secret Plans
I’ve been working a lot recently on some secret plans which I’m not going to talk about right now. Maybe in a month I can speak more about it, but it’s been taking up a good portion of time recently.
Referrals Kickin’ Ass Seabass
I usually get about 95% noob referrals that never make me money (due to the nature of this blog I guess), but this month I’ve actually brought in some nice change from referrals. Here’s roughly what each network has made me this month :
Hydra (68 referrals) : $1,200
Neverblue (223 referrals) : $800
Azoogle (40 referrals) : $200
Judging from the crappy 2% I get (5% of the profit they make from Hydra which is even crappier), my referrals have done around $175,000 revenue in January. Not bad guys! Most of it came from a few affiliates, so more power to them.
The Future
What’s in my future? Ermmmmm…probably a checklist :
-Keep doing what I’m doing
-Secret plans
-More road trips and crazy fun stuff
-Trip to Cali next month to meet with a business partner
-ad:tech San Fran in April
-ASE this summer WHERE I WILL BE 21
-Hopefully blogging more
LOST is on soon, so see ya!
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Andrew Policano, dean of The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, shares his thoughts on news–good and bad–in the economy.
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I’ve been so busy I forgot eComXpo starts today. It’s FREE and a great way to network plus learn. I’ll be in the chat room part of the day so come say hi.
Here are just a few of the sessions that I thought affiliate marketers may be interested in:
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Hey, do you want to know the fastest and most efficient way to LOSE boatloads of money with ppc affiliate marketing?
Well, honestly, being a complete dumbass isn’t just enough anymore to literally go bankrupt and have creditors knocking at your door. Now with the sophistication of Adwords and Google QS it takes a surprising amount of effort.
No worries I gonna reveal the EXACT step by step process to empty your bank account at jaw dropping speeds.
Of course there’s many strategies to going bankrupt as an affiliate, I’m going to share of the most effective ones I’ve uncovered so far.
Here’s one you can get started with today:
Remember the key is PERSISTENCE. Being a complete moron is not enough to really screw yourself over.
DISCLAIMER : You may risk stumbling upon an offer that actually converts and makes a profit BEFORE you go bankrupt. I’ll discuss ways around a sticky situation like this in the next post. So stay tuned!
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Just got back from the Affiliate Summit last night and I gotta tell you I was blown away by how many people approached me and said something like:
“Amit, I love your blog, PLEASE start blogging again!”
“Amit, I got started in affiliate marketing thanks to your blog!”
etc,etc!
Gary V. (no I won’t attempt to spell his last name) gave an AWESOME keynote about the importance of building your brand and social networking.
I GET IT!
I will start blogging again. But here’s the deal, I will post about once a week.
You gotta understand between PPC Classroom and my affiliate stuff I’m SLAMMED!
Plus I’ve been busy moving into my new place in Back Bay. It’s SICK, I’ll post pictures + a walk through video soon. Don’t think for a minute that I’ll stop doing lifestyle posts 
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I know this will come as a shock to a lot of you…
Due to my new commitments with PPC Classroom 2.0 and another company I’m launching, I can’t sustain the Super Affiliate Lifestyle, and keep up this Blog.
Truth is, I really want to dedicate a good portion of my time to helping PPC Classroom 2.0 students succeed. That’s my #1 priority.
I’m NOT shutting down. I plan to write a blog post ever so often, perhaps once a month, but I can’t sustain 3 times a week anymore.
Also, I’ve written and shared almost everything I wanted to write about and share. Feel free to read my older posts.
There’s lots great information on this blog, consider it an online ppc affiliate marketing resource for YOU! 
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