Facebook Interns Are Retarded
I can’t even begin to count how many times I’ve heard this phrase. But you know what? You should be thankful of this.
Who does the Facebook team of interns disapproving your ads consist of? Mostly, a bunch of clueless American college drones looking to scrape up some cash with an easy job. They sit in their comfy chair and click approve or disapprove, sometimes seemingly frivolously, randomely, and without much intent to actually carry out their tasks by not actually visiting our landing pages and then clicking disapprove.
But you know what I say to that? Thank god it isn’t one of us approving the ads!
If they put the time and money into getting their FB interns trained properly for this approval mess, I guarentee some would see some major drops into what passes as a reasonable ad. Then, they’d probably know what the fuck we are up to, too. I’m sure a few of the interns jot down notes on ads they see, get off work, and then reproduce them on their own, but we can assume enough to say they are dimwits for probably 99% of them that have no idea what Affiliate Marketing is. Train them, and they’ll know some of us are banking thousands of dollars a day on these silly booby pictures.
So, stop bitching and just keep resubmitting your ads. Eventually, you’ll get a retard that works in your favor and approves an ad that you know in the first place would never get approved if they actually read their Facebook Intern handbook.
Asians > Greater Than You: Maxim Chicks
I got bored and thought some you guys might enjoy this. The Thai edition of Maxim isn’t quite as flashy as the American versions, but there are still some hot Thai chicks in there. Have fun! If you want to use these pics for anything, I don’t mind, but please send some link love or credit back to me. Thank you!
Avoid Dreamhost at All Costs
This blog is hosted on my first webhost I ever purchased. I was frail, unknowing and ignorant when it came to hosting options, and at the time (around December) I was running on just a few dollars a month. I saw the space Dreamhost offered, and the growing amount of space they give every month. Oooo Shiny, right?
Wrong. At first I had no problems with them. I hosted my first few blogs there, had a few SEO’d sites that got awesome traffic on long tail keywords and direct product matches after just a couple weeks of work, and I registered all my domains with Dreamhost. Hell, this blog is hosted there even now.
Things stayed smoother for a couple months. Then, they were like “FUCK YOU to anyone that signed up with us on a debit card.” They ended charging my debit card with no money on it for 2 years of service. No problem though, as they immediately charged back the money. However, where were my overdraft fees they should have paid for, too? They did nothing and responded to no emails I sent them.
After that, things just sucked. My loading times on trying to get onto the backend of WP are miserable. Sometimes, it even times out. Then there are the times that the server status just cuts out for minutes, even hours and days at a time.
This was especially great when I went to cloak an ad using a redirect for Facebook. As soon as the ad got up and running, and I got to changing the redirection to what I really wanted, the hosting just died. I lost about 50 dollars in clicks until I noticed it. Maybe I’m just on a crap server, and should ask to be moved, but something just says don’t even bother with it.
I’ve read the reviews now, and everyone says Dreamhost is great if you need a shit load of cheap space and don’t actually use it for anything serious. I’d say its great for backing up files, and the hosting space and bandwidth keeps growing on a weekly basis. I’ll still keep my account for those reasons, and those reasons only, but never again will I host on it. It just isn’t reliable.
So, wanting to move away from shared hosting, I bought myself an unmanaged VPS server at Linode. I knew nothing about VPS, seting them up, or Linux, but hydrophonic from the Nicky Cakes Chat hooked me up with everything I needed. The new site I’ll be running some massive PPC campaigns on will be up soon, and I’ll hopefully be doubling my revenue by next month with this thing.
These guys have excellent reviews, and everyone I’ve talked to said they’ve had nearly 100% uptime and most dowtime is actually caused by user mistakes, not the actual servers. I’ll give a better review once I test it out, but I’m hoping it isn’t comparable to Dreamhost as it should be well better.
Market It - August 23, 2008
I’ve decided to start a little post every Saturday that will review what I think will do good business for marketers. Taking from my experience and work I’ve done with A4D, Advaliant, Copeac, NeverblueAds, and RocketProfit, if you can target the right demographics or keywords and write some nice copy, you should be able to get these to convert well and bank.
Smaxor has added a nice set of new offers for us affiliate marketers to push. Running off some tips over at Nickycake’s blog and Wickedfire, it seems that crush offers are a converting similarly well like ringtones, but it is less crowded meaning cheaper clicks and even a wider audience. Pushing to general demographics rather than long tail keywords is profiting, as well. Offer 1009 on Ads4Dough is an answer to this.
Even though we love to bitch and complain about how bad the Advaliant interface is, they get your money in your pocket fast. Lately, Tea niches have been dominating. Recent news from Advaliant caught my attention. Instead of offering a new tea offer, they’ve increased the demographics you can target. Check out campaigns #1473 - Wu Yi Tea & #1790 - EasyWeightlossTea where you can now target audiences in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. Does anyone else smell cheap clicks?
Copeac is kinda a mess of more offers than you could count. A lot of it is junk and free offers with low payouts, but there is some good shit on there that you might want to check out. They haven’t released any offers that particularly catches my attention, but #3267, Online Degree for Working Moms, looks like it might have some potential. It’s already targeting a very specific niche of people, and I know a lot of moms who just don’t have the time to go to school to finish their degree. My mother was one of those, and she was eventually drawn into these online schools. If you can get this one on Facebook, it might do well.
I really haven’t seen anything new from Rocket Profit for a long while now. So, lets just go back to dating offers, shall we? Dating is still smoking on Facebook, and longtails are running hot on Google and other search platforms. Rocket Profit has some excellent targeted landing pages for Asians, Jews, Christians, Blacks, and Hispanics on eHarmony. eHarmony is flowin out like hotcakes, and they have a high payout at $4 a pop. Set ‘em up on Facebook with some titties and watch some cash roll in.
Neverblue Ads is the sexiest network by far (both the interface and their AMs). They’ve had a lot of great offers come through their doors, lately. One that I am fairly interested in is Women Co campaign #3347. After a 3 page submit, you’ll gain 18 dollars. Wow wow! Big money. It’s an Edu offer, which convert well, and targetted towards women which are easy to persuade.
If you decide to sign up for any of these networks, stop being a bitch and actively push something. I’ve got plenty of referrals now, but only about 1% of them are doing any real traffic. I know you might be scared of losing money, but just build up a bank doing easy shit first. Hit up facebook with some big tittie pictures, a dating offer, and throw it up. If you can’t atleast break even, you are fairly retarded. BTW, I reccommend the Singles Net offer at Ads4Dough.
3 Things You Need to Perfect Before You Become a Great Affiliate Marketer
Affiliate Marketing steals basic concepts from the marketing that professionals and market managers use in Forbes 500 companies, and dumbs it down to the point where most anyone can make some sort of profit. I’m far from great, ultra creative, and experienced, but I still make hundreds a day (working on reaching thousands). Had it not been some advice I’d taken from my marketing courses in college, though, I may not be as far as I am now.
- Customer-Oriented Offers
This is a simple idea that any profiting AM knows about. No matter how much you love little kittens wearing ski-masks, you’ll find it extremely hard to push any offer selling ski masks for kittens unless you do your niche research before hand. You aren’t the one making the decision to but the kitten ski masks. No matter how much you think they will sell, you won’t be able to sell that offer unless you know who will buy them. That is why it is almost always easier to take the needs (the word want can be interchanged here as the lines between what is needed and what is wanted can be very broad depending on society) of a group of people and send them an offer that will work with them. In the end, it is down to the end user, the customer, or consumer to make the final choice on your CPA offer.
- Coordination
You need a plan. You need to be coordinated. You need to obtain a high level of coordination with all your campaigns. I used to run headstrong into these offers without demographic research, without split testing, and without giving much of a care on my click prices. Now, I’ve got data sheets storing my lead IDs, revenue and profit, demographic lists, and piles of other useful information I can use when I plan new campaigns. I no longer slack on planning, because even though it might take me an extra day, it might make me 100+ dollars per day which in the end, is well worth a few hours of extra work. Getting things coordinated will ensure atleast some sort of success, even if that success leads to learning from your failures.
- Performance Objectives
I used to be happy with any type of profit I made. 2 dollars or 200, it didn’t matter because it meant I was making money. However, it set no real goal for me. I had nothing to aim for except for $0.01 a day. It led to a lack in motivation, especially for expanding campaigns. That was stupid. I write down conversian goals and plans for new campaigns that I want to get running in the near future. I even write down profit goals I want to reach for the month and year. It gives me a sparkle of hope and a push when my profits drop. If I can’t realize these goals, I know that I need to change something or slightly adjust them.
There are certainly other aspects one should come to know in order to better perfect their Affiliate Marketing skills. These are just 3 that enjoy going over and use everyday in order to push myself further. So I suggest you do the same, biotches! I also suggest you sign up for the best Affiliate Network in the world!