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This will be a sad day if G acquires Twitter.

They'd probably try some GTalk or Android integration which would frak everything up and I will end up using plurk or other second tier service.

Just say no.
Please.

andrew wee's last blog post..Friday Podcast: Affiliate Summit - The Next Step with Missy Ward and Shawn Collins

Alas, camera gal was too vigilant, else i'd have brought you to warmer climes, penguin, oh my penguin.

Facebook is playing by some antiquated set of rules that only they understand.

They're anti-user, going by their draconian user admin policies.

They're anti-advertiser, going by their arbitrary rejection of facebook ads.

If you're rejecting users and sponsors, erm, who's left?
Maybe they're only beholden to the powers that be?

Meh.

Here's proof that people gravitate to the most personally relevant point in content.

what happened to the beard, sam?

damn!
sorry, jangro...

gratz sam, no wonder the AFC updates have been moving a little slowly...

Having straddled the fence as a blogger and an affiliate, I'd say that those who come from a blogging background tend to have a writer's mindset (which seems to tend towards not wanting to generate income from their writing...or not too much).

For most bloggers, the affiliate marketing universe seems to consist only of amazon, adsense, clickbank, cj and paydotcom.com.

oh well...

at least there's affiliate summit, right?

I get that sometimes, if I'm logging in via browser and using pop3 at the same time. You'd think they'd verify it came from the same IP or something...

I'd a little surprised that you didn't get the SEOQuake and Search Status plugins for your firefox.

Priceless!

We need more of these videos.

>>> Comments are awesome. Nothing is better than going to your blog and seeing real content from users, especially when they like the blog. Screw paid comments, it won’t make a full time income.


Unless you live in India. Or Romania. Or Indonesia. Or Africa. Or East Germany...[fill in the blank]

This is the thread that won't die, isn't it?

I've been reading up on Internet Marketers who habitually abuse their lists over the last couple of days, by sending out one sales promotion after another, and then follow up sales promotions.

Their unsubscribe rates are naturally high, but the thing is their replenishment rate is even higher. One aspect of the 'game' is that if you've enough backlinks, articles and press releases as well as PPC ads out there, you'll have hapless newbies flowing into your blog or your list.

From there, it's just hammering away at them and even if you get 100 unsubs a day, but 500 new people coming in, then what the hey, right?

I agree it's amoral and there's always the fine line between what's legal and what's moral.

If someone wants to nickel and dime their way to whatever income they want, they're inciting certain consequences and rammifications to their brand.

Maybe they were a political refugee or maybe a boat person, or maybe an illegal border crosser and having coming from an imporvished background of eating bread and water, maybe whatever they're doing now is a reflection of that?

What knows? But regardless, I find that my time is better spend on beating my own path and achieving my own goals.

Just because someone around you is raping and pillaging, doesn't mean it's ok, or that you should do it too.

After all, you have your own brain, don't you?

Use it.

I'll hold you to those "videos" you promised to post, Mr Kukral!

Sara,
Good to hear.
I look forward to reading about the launch on your blog soon!

Hi Sara,
Nice write up.
I like your clear, concise style.

To bring your review to the next level, you might like to do some formatting like the use of text bolding or italics, especially for keywords.

Heck, I think you could even package a nice little $7 report out of your post into a mini review and generate some sales for Ewen's product.

Hi Sara,
I think you'd make much more, setting up a couple of the CMS I sites and get recurring membership income from that.

Promoting ebooks is a good way to get into affiliate marketing, but you need some kinda system to make it a long term thing.

On a scale of 1 to 10, i think it merely register as a 0.0001 on the Jim Kukral Pressure Scale.

I look forward to meeting you at ASW in Feb in Vegas. (another 0.0001 on the pressure scale).

Jim,
I'll be giving ASE a miss, but will look forward to some interesting coverage on your blog.

Cheers!

Shawn,
Good points.

Although I typically like to benchmark myself against the top, rather than the median.

Anyway, it seems with these social things that the trivial and frivolous stuff tends to win out most of the time, and it's mastering the trivial which'll get you the traffic.

I think some weird, offbeat thing is going to beat out an info type video any day of the week (talking about immediate monetization). The info type video will probably yield more in the long term, especially if it leads to consulting or other type of high value gigs.

Jim: the engaging - funny/informative/insightful/entertaining bit is something that everyone has to get a slice of, whether you're a purebred internet marketer, a starving musician who wants some traffic juice from his myspace profile, or a teenybopper with movie aspirations. like they say 'content is king'.

Shawn: Have you checked out Metacafe.com? Some of the guys are banking about $800 a week from their videos. Some of the "magic trick revealed" videos have racked up $14k or more.

A number of the video sites which aggregate Youtube vids are using an algorithmn to split google adsense revenue.

Video is the future, it's just a matter of embedding affiliate links using some of the technology you highlight over at affiliatetip, or using it as a branding opportunity to springboard to something bigger.

I'd suggest to go with content, content, content.

Unless we're professional designers, I don't think a 'pretty' design should factor at all.

But the layout at least has to be intuitive and not leave me wondering where the heck the archives are at.

some basic stuff like sorting out your permalink structure, including commonsensical plugins like most popular posts and recent comments, into a decent template do it for me.

Joe Blow might not make the transition to network TV easily, but you can bet your bottom dollar the TV execs are watching the most popular videos on youtube for sure. [which is the basis for them broadcasting the most popular clips on tv].

Like everything else, whether a paperback book, or a youtube clip, or a webmasterradio clip gives you the leverage to make it to mass media depends on your media strategy.

I can think of at least a dozen ways to parlay a popular video series.

Those guys at AskANinja.com can get a feature film done easily if they chose to go at it that way.

Ben,
How's the project coming along?
Drop me an email if you need help.

Ben,
I think if you want to put a quality product, you could aim for a 10-20 page report, and a suggested structure could be:

1) cover page (1 page)
2) intro - instigator blog, ben - bio (1 page)
3) meme intro - why you start it, what it's supposed to achieve, how viral was it, did it meet your expectations (1 page)
4) edit and repro the content - (include a bio or one or two of the author's preferred link - sign up to the feedburner/bloglines link or mailing list. (as many pages as you have content for).
5) conclusion by yourself. (can give away a goodie if you have one), or include a list of your favourite blogs, etc. (1 page).

simple, yes?

Ben said: Andrew - if I missed someone it’s because I didn’t see a link back or haven’t found the post searching through Technorati, Google Blog Search, etc.

Sam is being Sam, I guess...

Confucius say: Man who play with widgets, gets blog in tangles.

Ben said: I’m still torn on the issue of full posts or edited posts, because many people add pre-ambles or information about where they heard about the writing project, etc. that’s not relevant to the specifics of productivity tips.

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I'd suggest editing the entries so it's more on-topic. The key is that the person who reads the PDF will get something contextual and useful out of it.

I say go for it, with the option of adding a 2-3 sentence author/blog bio.

Perhaps you could open a fresh "submit your profile" post and contributors have 48 hours to add their bio in the comments.

It'd create 2-way linklove.

Wayne:
I was kinda surprised that messr Harrelson didnt get his meme post listed here [ref: samharrelson.com], but it looks like he may have tumblr-ed himself off to oblivion.

See? You play with too many widgets, you'll go blind.

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Meme away, my captain, oh my captain!