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Re: Affiliate Links In Twitter, Part 2

andrew wee — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:34:47 -0000

Nice example of blog comment spamming.

Re: Affiliate Links In Twitter, Part 2

andrew wee — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:41:12 -0000

This tactic is rampant on Yahoo! Answers, Ask.com, Craigslist and a number of other question and answer type sites.

Is it going to be "polluting" twitter, or even making it's way to FB status updates? You bet.

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It's just barely above email spamming in my book.
You're giving unsolicited suggestions to a stranger with whom you have no existing relationship.
That counts as anti-social or unsocial media in my book.

Unless you're desperate, I'd think you'd think twice before clicking on links (especially with the prospect of some DB sending you on a rickroll or a cookie stuffing page).
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I have a little belief in karma too.
If you do bad stuff on the internet, it is going to come back and bite you in the ass sometime.

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It will be interesting to have a "thumbs down" facility on these networks. the idea of a social rep score is looking pretty darn appealing right about now.

So when's part 3 coming out?

Re: Damn Marketers. Affiliate Links in Twitter

andrew wee — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:15:53 -0000

Great discussion. I think the biz model for affiliates is predicated on them clicking on a tracking link for a product.
If tracking based on some other type of tracking, would we still be having this convo?

I have mentioned before that when you promote something, you're putting your personal rep behind it.
Recommend something dubious and your rep might get shot from one lousy recommendation.

A number of shopping comparison sites, coupon sites comprise nothing but affiliate links, but on a deeper value, they need to provide some kind of value.

In this case if you've used the machine, it does what it's supposed to and more, and you make a couple of bucks recommending it, I don't see why all this stuff should be factoring in.

Re: Affiliate Marketing, Get Paid for Nothing

andrew wee — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:18:43 -0000

On the subject of Amazon, i think their aff prog needs an overhaul. I dont think they can justify their payouts because of this minor commission leakage.

It's probably an issue of management priorites that they keep launching trivial widges like the site stripe and more graphics, even as their cookie duration is a mere 24 hours and you have to manually create tracking ids (subject to a cap of 200).

Re: Affiliate Marketing, Get Paid for Nothing

andrew wee — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:37:35 -0000

Interesting to see a non-profit get into the downloadable software/plugin/toolbar market...
What does this portend for the rest of 2009?

I hope their extension observes the affsrc=1 tag (http://www.jangro.com/a/2005/07/28/afsrc1-frequen...

Re: Do Something That Makes You Uncomfortable

andrew wee — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:44:53 -0000

Years ago, I went to my barber and because my hair is thick, i asked for it short.
He said "Crewcut?"
Not knowing better, I said "Ok!".
Next thing I know, almost all my hair is on the floor.

If we can raise funds for the next ASW charity, maybe a group of us can get shorn for the books?

Re: Do Something That Makes You Uncomfortable

andrew wee — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:36:18 -0000

From the hair master:
When brad talks, everyone listens!

Re: Do Something That Makes You Uncomfortable

andrew wee — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:35:37 -0000

"Buzz Jangro" I like it.
Will you do another before ASW so we can take pics with you in all our glory?

Gratz on breaking yr comfort zone

Maybe a real shave this time?

Re: Affiliate Summit West 2009 Party-a-Day Calendar

andrew wee — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:45:07 -0000

1 individual notwithstanding.
Maybe Affiliate Segway Derby at the next Aff Summit?

Re: BUMPzee turns 200

andrew wee — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:17:33 -0000

Gratz Scott,
Now it's time to get more avatars for the other 70 or so other aff marketers up.

Keep up the great work.

Re: Meet me at Affiliate Summit and local events

andrew wee — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:30:46 -0000

Well, I don't have anything against any specific picture.

You merely look intense in this pic.

Anyway, I'll probably have the chance to snap some goofy shots of you at ASW and spray it all over the web.

It's all good.

Have a great week ahead, rest up and get ready to go the full 90 yards (!) in Vegas!

Re: Meet me at Affiliate Summit and local events

andrew wee — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:18:10 -0000

Scott,
I'll finally get to see you in the flesh at ASW.

I'm trying to reconcile your very different looking profile pics on this blog and on MyBlogLog.

Will the real Scott Jangro please stand up?

Seeya in Vegas

Re: Have You Got an Affiliate Marketing Blog?

andrew wee — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:19:25 -0000

Hi Scott,
great idea.
I saw your site mentioned on LeonardChen's blog.

i cover mainly blogging, affiliate marketing and social traffic generation.

my RSS feed is located at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WhoIsAndrewWee

I'll blog abt it and send some affiliate marketers your way.

have a great year ahead!

Re: The Desktop Meme

andrew wee — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:46:44 -0000

Another day, another meme.
Life is hard.

Re: Social Networks - Sam Harrelson

andrew wee — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:48:07 -0000

Susan,
I am very impressed.

You are a one woman commenting army.

Re: Twitter in the Wall Street Journal

andrew wee — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:48:15 -0000

Ha ha, great share, Sam.

I think I am suffering from social bookmarkitis...
Too many social thingamajig-du-jours being launched.

I'd probably stick to 3 core services - MBL, BumpZee, Affiliate Marketing Buzz...oops...I'm also on 9rules, Squidoo, TickMe!, mySpace, friendster...ugh...that put paid to the plan.

But seriously, do you think being on more services necessarily brings more QUALITY traffic?

PS: If you want an email notification for WP comment updates, I've uploaded some at whoisandrewwee.com/wordpressplugins

Re: Productivity Meme: Play More

andrew wee — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:05:20 -0000

Sam,
Thanks for taking part.

Btw, you mispelled crackberry as blackberry, just thought you might like to know.

I like the work 30mins, play 30mins idea. I use the work45mins,play15mins formula when i'm motivated.

The other thing that gets me going is waking up at 2am or some other unearthly hour and getting stuff done then.

With your hellenistic interests, maybe it's worth studying how Alexander the Great managed to get his world conquering done in such a short span of time. [I wonder if it's anything to do with dying at 30 though...]

Re: Bush vs Zombies

andrew wee — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:36:32 -0000

Priceless!

We need more of these videos.

Re: GMail Lockdown

andrew wee — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:31:58 -0000

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.

Re: What’s The Big Idea?

andrew wee — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:37:41 -0000

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

Re: TwitterMeWhat?

andrew wee — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:46:31 -0000

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

what happened to the beard, sam?

damn!
sorry, jangro...

Re: Moving Above 100,000 in Alexa

andrew wee — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:25:31 -0000

Hi Vlad,
i found your blog through scott jangro's affiliate blog lists.

i think it's admirable to want to achieve a high alexa ranking.
i used to want to do that too (and still do).

although i think from a business perspective, you might want to focus more on building a list (you'll get massive leverage there) and income monetization.

personally i feel those two are stronger metrics than just traffic numbers.

Re: Moving Above 100,000 in Alexa

andrew wee — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:08:10 -0000

hello vlad,
yes, i'm refering to email list.

there are many ways to get targeted and qualified visitors to your site. for example, article marketing can be very effective.

Re: My Famous Readers: Linda Buquet

andrew wee — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:26:18 -0000

Hey Vlad,
Gratz on landing the adbrite gig.

And it's great that you're proactive in initiating contacts in the affiliate marketing arena too.

Keep up the great work.

Re: Affiliate Marketing Blog Carnival: Affiliate Summit- Las Vegas 2007

andrew wee — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:33:02 -0000

Vlad,
Good roundup.

Will you be there?

Re: Moving Above 100,000 in Alexa

andrew wee — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:25:31 -0000

Re: Moving Above 100,000 in Alexa

andrew wee — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:08:10 -0000

hello vlad,
yes, i'm refering to email list.

there are many ways to get targeted and qualified visitors to your site. for example, article marketing can be very effective.

Re: My Famous Readers: Linda Buquet

andrew wee — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:26:18 -0000

Hey Vlad,
Gratz on landing the adbrite gig.

And it's great that you're proactive in initiating contacts in the affiliate marketing arena too.

Keep up the great work.

Re: Affiliate Marketing Blog Carnival: Affiliate Summit- Las Vegas 2007

andrew wee — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:33:02 -0000

Vlad,
Good roundup.

Will you be there?

Re: Twitter Day 1: I’m A Ghost In The Machine?

andrew wee — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:48:34 -0000

"Twitteroo is responsible for crashing my PC laptop, (HARD, take battery out reboots)"

The other alternative is to hold your power button for 20secs and the power should cut.

I've known laptop users who've fried their machines in mishaps while removing their batteries.
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Twitter looks like a good way to direct traffic to targeted posts if you use it effectively. Else it could be another time trap.

Re: YouTube “Stars” Won’t Get Rich. Google Isn’t In The HollyWood Business

andrew wee — Tue, 15 May 2007 05:31:38 -0000

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.

Re: 99.5 Percent Of All Wordpress Themes Suck

andrew wee — Tue, 15 May 2007 05:36:41 -0000

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.

Re: YouTube “Stars” Won’t Get Rich. Google Isn’t In The HollyWood Business

andrew wee — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:14:33 -0000

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.

Re: YouTube “Stars” Won’t Get Rich. Google Isn’t In The HollyWood Business

andrew wee — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:54:25 -0000

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.

Re: Going To The Affiliate Summit? Here’s Some Things You Need To Know

andrew wee — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:56:24 -0000

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

Cheers!

Re: Going To The Affiliate Summit? Here’s Some Things You Need To Know

andrew wee — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:29:51 -0000

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).

Re: I’ve Taken Over The Affiliate Summit Blog

andrew wee — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 02:52:15 -0000

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

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

andrew wee — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:13:38 -0000

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.

Re: Buying Blog Comments Is Like Playing With Fire & A Can Of Gas

andrew wee — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:03:36 -0000

>>> 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 wonâ€™t make a full time income.

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

Re: 5 Questions For Jason Calacanis: Affiliate Summit Keynote Speaker

andrew wee — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:03:12 -0000

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?

Re: The Secret To Being Productive

andrew wee — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:49:24 -0000

Ben,
the next step of the project is to compile all the posts, PDF it, include everyone's blog URLs include a bio of instigator blog at the front, and redistribute to all participants and viralize it!

Re: The Secret To Being Productive

andrew wee — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:00:01 -0000

Ben,
I'd suggest running the full post in the ebook.

You're creating value in the process, by collating, and publishing the content.

Since everyone had elected to take part in the project and linked back, they've given you some level of endorsement already.

I think dropping everyone a courtesy email shows concern for their contributions.

The other question is whether the content can be monetized.

It'd depend on the profile of the participants. If everyone's fairly revenue oriented, then if there's unanimous approval, there is some potential to generate income from it.

Else, we could distribute it under a creative commons license, on a free to distribute (with attribution basis) and everyone gets traffic out of it. [Maybe people could mail you a 2-3 sentence self/blog bio along with their blog address?]

It all depends how you want to play the cards.

If you want to blurb and evangelize it at SOBcon, by all means go ahead!

Re: The Secret To Being Productive

andrew wee — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:29:08 -0000

Hi Kathie,
It's interesting how you being in Australia, and me in Singapore end up in a discussion thread in the US. Interesting....

Ben: You need to install the threaded conversations plugin soon!

Re: The Secret To Being Productive

andrew wee — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:30:40 -0000

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!

Re: The Secret To Being Productive

andrew wee — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:31:05 -0000

Ben said: Iâ€™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. thatâ€™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.

Re: The Secret To Being Productive

andrew wee — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:32:18 -0000

Ben said: Andrew - if I missed someone itâ€™s because I didnâ€™t see a link back or havenâ€™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.

Re: The Secret To Being Productive

andrew wee — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:42:05 -0000

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?

Re: The Secret To Being Productive

andrew wee — Mon, 14 May 2007 02:52:57 -0000

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

Re: Simon Hodgkinson’s Project: Money Secret

andrew wee — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:28:28 -0000

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.

Re: Writing Articles for Traffic, Fame and Profit

andrew wee — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:47:28 -0000

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.

Re: Simon Hodgkinson’s Project: Money Secret

andrew wee — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:48:21 -0000

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

Re: The Penguin Digs Andrew Wee

andrew wee — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:03:22 -0000

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

Re: Facebook screws iFart author

andrew wee — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:35:00 -0000

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.

Re: Playing Blog Tag - 5 Things You Don’t Know About Andy Beal

andrew wee — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:46:18 -0000

andy,
nice blog tagging game.

if you're not careful this thing could turn viral!

:)

Re: Google’s Double-talk Practically Guarantees It Will Acquire Twitter

andrew wee — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:41:15 -0000

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

Re: Can YouTube Make Money?

andrew wee — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:30:18 -0000

Hi,
good analysis of youtube.
there're some additional factors to consider as well.
marketshare vs mindshare.
it's obvious they have mindshare, but market share is another thing especially since google video is starting to muscle it.
i feel that youtube is still building critical mass. the soon-to-be syndicated tv show featuring youtube videos is perhaps the first main thrust into commercialization.
there's still scope to go into DVDs.
and bandwidth costs are still cheapest in the US.
you have too much fiber optic going all around, there's always opportunity to purchase bandwidth from a tier-2 or tier-3 ISP willing to let it go cheap.
i think the bandwidth calculations dont fully take in economies of scale too... if you're buying $1m (or rather lots of bandwidth), you do have plenty of room to negotiate.

Re: The Entrepreneur’s Bookshelf: Pirates of Silicon Valley

andrew wee — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:25:31 -0000

good and succinct summary.

when i saw this trailer in the US, i was thinking it 'd smacked of pure commercialism.

will go check it out.
tks!

ps: if you're into business films, i believe HBO made 'barbarians at the gate' into a movie as well. it's abt the takeover of RJR Nabisco.
cheers,

Re: Why Great Student Enterprises don’t take Excuses for an Answer II

andrew wee — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 03:38:14 -0000

"As a student advisor, I always tell them that their first priority is studies. If they cannot do it well, they can resign their positions and not hog that place for a better and passionate student."

Hi BL,
As a trainer for entrepreneurship courses myself, I tell students that if they cannot commit to something 100%, they should not go for it at all.

I don't believe it a healthy trait to be able to resign from something if they cannot do it well.
If they put in 100% can they cannot go further with it sure.
But to go into any venture whether as a student or later as an entrepreneur, the 'escape route' only hampers their chance of success.
There's a great deal of difference in tight rope walkers who walk with a safety net below, and those who don't.

Re: The Art of Making an Awesome Business Card

andrew wee — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 18:09:23 -0000

Hi BL,
interesting article.

I'd like to add that there's a growing digital divide between old line and new line companies.

I find it's imperative to add an email address and a website/blog address to my business cards, especially since i'm positioning myself as a blogger/affiliate marketer.

furthermore, i'd say including your MSN and Skype IDs facilitate communication as well (but people keep sending email to my hotmail account which I hardly check!)

I don't have a fax number on my card and old line companies ask, how can i fax it to you?

me: don't have a fax. can you email it to me?

them: no, only hard copy

me: can you scan to PDF and email me?

them: huh? what's scan? what PDF?

me: ugh!!!!

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My other pet peeve: using a gmail, yahoo, hotmail address on a business card.

it's fine for your hobby dog grooming website, or kite flying blog.

but c'mon.... if you're a $5m service company and your management can't spend $50 a year for a domain and email hosting....

double ugh!!!!!

Andrew Wee
www.WhoIsAndrewWee.com

Re: Guy Kawasaki: The Art of …….

andrew wee — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:00:13 -0000

Hi admin,
good resource and timely too.

I just launched my biz-related forum a couple of days ago and to kick things off, i linked a copy of a creative commons released excerpt from the art of the start and a 45min 'art of the start' presentation.

perhaps the various SG entrepreneurs readers might find it useful:
http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/forum/viewforum.p...

ps: i really loved rules for revolutionaries and building the dream.

[Comment edited, SGE does not allow marketing of commercial products and will regard that spam, should same occurrences happen again]

Re: 1 Day Old

andrew wee — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:20:00 -0000

Hi Michelle,
congrats on Colum's birth.
I can still remember when my daughter, Bianca, was that tiny.

I hope you've recovered from the complications and look forward to lots of interesting social traffic insights from you in 2007!

Re: Marketers Totally Lie (but you knew that)

andrew wee — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:26:07 -0000

Really, I have no idea how those levitra and western union posts appeared on my blog!

The blog fairy must've left them...

But seriously, even if I were to do it, I'd set up another blog to do dubious stuff. If it's being done on a site clearly linked to them, then it'd be kinda....weird.

Ah well, different strokes for different folks.

Re: Is Web 2.0 Marketing BS? Or Is Calling It BS The Real Hype…

andrew wee — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:32:55 -0000

While I have the utmost respect for Dave, his diatribe against social traffic/SMO reeks of linkbaiting, and I think most with any inkling of SMO/SEO/SEM will be ROFLing to no end.

Reminds me of the recent Calacanis proclamation that SEO was useless... (http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/open-...)
"0% of the SEO market is made up of snake oil salesman. These are guys in really bad suits trying to get really naive people to sign long-term contracts. These clients typically make horrible products and don't deserve traffic--that's why they're not getting it organically so they hire the slimebuckets to game the system for them."

Re: Is Web 2.0 Marketing BS? Or Is Calling It BS The Real Hype…

andrew wee — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:54:37 -0000

[quote post="54"]the longer the rest of the IM community remains in the dark about SMO[/quote]

Not if you continue developing products like BA and EasyTubeTraffic!

Muhaha...

Re: Only ‘Cause Andrew Tagged Me - Goals Meme

andrew wee — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:22:57 -0000

Meme's are a rising vanguard of the Web2.0 charge.

Great to have you take part, Michelle...

Re: Web 2.0 Expo - I’ll Be There

andrew wee — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:49:53 -0000

Look forward to your updates from the event.

Cheers!

Re: Is Web 2.0 Marketing BS? Or Is Calling It BS The Real Hype…

andrew wee — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:19:44 -0000

[quote post="54"]The truth is my diatribe was actually against all the IM products that were introduced during this period of Internet history that claimed to make you rich with Web 2.0 strategies, when if fact they were full of hype and BS.[/quote]

That's certainly sound advice, David.
I've mentioned this a number of times...
Too many are focusing on the "internet", rather than the "marketing" aspect of "internet marketing".

Flashy stuff can't possibly compare to a business built on solid foundations with a compelling USP.

Re: Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

andrew wee — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:08:19 -0000

Tell us how you needed an acoustic coupler rig to dial into BBSes and i'll be really impressed!

Re: http://www.techipedia.com/2008/blogger-outreach-sears-style/

andrew wee — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:26:00 -0000

@Tamar

What was that tool you got that lets you remove stripped screws?

Re: Are We Burned Out On Guest Blogging?

andrew wee — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:36:22 -0000

In my opinion, the state of being "burned out" could be a reflection that the honeymoon period associated with guest blogging might've come to an end.

Like you mentioned, if you have a clear outcome, goals and a timeframe in mind, guest blogging, just like article submission, blog commenting, forum participation, just becomes part of the routine in building a solid internet business with deep foundations and fundamentals.

There is hard work involved at times, but in the longer view, it'll all be worth it.

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Re: Being Paid to Blog by Shared Adsense Views

andrew wee — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:28:53 -0000

Not quite the same, but I've done paid forum posting very cheaply before when I started out.

It can be useful (overlooking the $$$ element for a moment) to:
1) Get your feet wet, especially if it's among your first paid gigs.
2) You are also learning best practises from the blog network/content network.
3) You build up your personal rep/brand.

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I've received payments that some of you would probably laugh at ($20 for a couple of hours work), but it's laid the groundwork for some of the biggest projects I'm working on now.

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Depends on your focus. If you're slogging/grinding away, while getting a mass of intagible benefits that will build your biz, go right ahead.

But if your only payout is that $5, $20 or $35, I'd suggest staying far, far, far away!

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Re: Does Social Media Need “Directing”?

andrew wee — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:50:50 -0000

Great points, IMHO social media marketing requires quite a different skillset from traditional SEM, because the origination of traffic has more to do with a live reader's demographic/needs/wants, than a search engine's algorithmn.

In many ways, the best social media analysts are those with a psychology/sociological bent than a traditional comp sci/analytical background.

Kudos to the 10e20 team for scoring a great addition to the team and looking forward to some great posts.

Re: Donation Fail: How Los Angeles Screwed Itself with Michael Jackson’s Donation Website

andrew wee — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:54:33 -0000

Or even better.

1) A catchy domain - RememberingMichael.com
2) CA-based (or even better LA-based) hosting provider to sponsor load balancing/grid hosting
3) Payment processor with scalability to handle spikes/bursts
4) Problem solved.

Politicos fail.

Re: Friday Haiku: Twitter Fame

andrew wee — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:06:52 -0000

On the other hand,
it may also mean that twit-
-ter majorly sucks!

Re: The Art of the Auto Direct Message

andrew wee — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:32:03 -0000

Nice synopsis of the thinking behind auto DMs.

To "soundbyte" some of your thoughts
-create positive karma
-intrigue and curiosity are good linkbait
-do not piss people off
-aim to create a 1:1 convo even though it's a 1:many platform

ok, i've created a synopsis of your synopsis.

PS: I'm feeling a little uneasy about sending auto DMs to people you don't know. The sincerity issue kinda bugs me a little.

Re: The Most Overhyped Things About Social Media Marketing

andrew wee — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:52:32 -0000

The ROI on social media mktg is especially disturbing for me.

If social media is purely about branding, mindshare, buzz and other intangibles, it's not very much better than display ads in traditional print, broadcast and radio.

Not exactly a gripe (ok, it is), but as we see social media evolve (and perhaps with more tracking in place), the relationship between social media investment and ROI will be more apparent.

Re: The Most Overhyped Things About Social Media Marketing

andrew wee — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:46:46 -0000

@chriswinfield

Yep, I'm sure that the pros within the SEM/SMO space like 10e20 and a couple of others, there's an active drive to educate clients and show tangible metrics on social media spend.

I guess I'm refering more to the other 90% of one-eyed men leading the blind out there...

Re: The Pros and Cons of Social Networking for Movie Marketing

andrew wee — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:29:23 -0000

Video marketing should fit the demographic of the audience.

Eg for the new Wall Street movie, I'd probably dev a stock trading simulator and push traffic there via media buys on finance sites (watching budgets carefully) and where the core audience hangs out, which might not be social networks.

I believe the demo for twitter/facebook's more along the lines of male-oriented, 15-30 yr olds (or whatever quantcast/compete's throwing up at the moment), so going where the herd is and hunting them down might be a more viable prospect?

Re: Being HUGE on Twitter: A Small Business Case Study

andrew wee — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:51:12 -0000

This is the king of viral vids IMO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3oHpup-pk

Minimalls FTW.

Re: Friday Haiku: Conference Season

andrew wee — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:54:00 -0000

Cali calleth ye
Beca accedes and whipping
out netbook, live blogs!

Re: Polishing Turds and Igniting Viral Campaigns at SES San Jose

andrew wee — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:59:53 -0000

Great synopsis.

Is Greg's deck available as a PDF or some other form for those who weren't able to make SES SJ?
Thanks.

Re: Wine Tasting with Social Media

andrew wee — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:00:40 -0000

Great publicity for the 3 highlighted wineries, esp with coverage on 10e20.
If anything, it's proof for great ROI (and foresight on their part) on the social media spend.

Re: Traveling on Social Media’s Dime

andrew wee — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:24:16 -0000

Most travel writers get the perks you mentioned above.

Likewise, most movie reviewers and food critics get the same perks too (though for movies and food respectively). Having been there and done that, it's not as exciting as you might think. I'd still prefer the freedom of working from home.

But those campaigns are pretty great linkbait/generated good buzz.

Thailand: mmm, nice second mover advantage...