New Things – Busy Year
This has been a pretty busy year so far. I haven’t posted much because I am very busy but I wanted to post a pic of our new car.
We got it last week and I love it. I used to have one just like it but it was old and beat up, this one is immaculate and I intend on keeping it that way.
My buddy Jay is flying out here next week and it is supposed to be 70+ degrees all week so we will be taking the doors and top down on it and having a blast.
The spring cannot come soon enough!
Work From Home/Grant’s On The News
I had a pretty busy weekend and last night I was dying to go to bed so that I could get up early and start my day but i saw a preview on the news for websites that are targeting people who are jobless. It was a scam alert.
I stayed up to watch it and was in shock when I saw the name of a website that I myself have seen many times while promoting these very offers myself. I will not say the name of the site as it is wrong to out somebody’s site BUT it’s one I have been seeing around the net for months.
First the site was offering the Google Cash & Govt Grant and now it has switched to just Government Grants with Obama speaking on the offer page. Pretty funny but scary.
I do not promote those offers anymore and I would not suggest it to anybody. Just for the simple reason that you could end up getting screwed by the advertiser when they themselves get busted and cannot afford to pay their affiliates.
These offers have been the trend for the past 6 months. Between this and the fake diet offers YES they can make affiliates a ton of money.. but legally do you want to take the risk?
Advertisement Opt Out
I was reading the Wall Street Journal and I found an interesting article about how some of the top companies that us affiliates like to buy media from are going to be giving people the option to opt out from seeing ads.
If people could shut off ads it would certainly change things for advertisers, but it could also help.
If you think about it, you would only be targeting people who wanted to see ads and then would not have to pay for wasted impressions. Pretty cool
The article is here
2009 In Affiliate Marketing
It has been almost an entire month and I have to say that I have learned more in this one month about affiliate marketing than I have in the entire 3 years I have been in the industry.
Going to Affiliate Summit really helped motivate me and get me thinking about new ideas and techniques to promote and expand. Not only have I figured out how to crack Google QS, I have learned how to properly cloak and protect my links, pages and offers.
I will try to keep the blog updated with some of the projects I am working on. So much happened in my life last year that I ended up falling out of the loop with everything that was going on in the industry.
I am so motivated that I cannot even sleep at night. This will be a MUCH better year financially than last year.. and last year was great.
House Remodeling – Upstairs Bathroom Before & After
Who would have thought that with a little help from a book my father bought us and phone help from both Jon’s dad and my own that we would be able to figure out how to tile floor, do plumbing as well as minor electrical work?
When we moved in, our bathroom was extremely outdated. One day last fall Jon was out doing yard work and I was brushing my teeth and looking at the shower behind me through the mirror and I decided to rip the entire thing out. I grabbed a hammer and tore out the entire plastic lining of the shower and tub, as well as all of the rotting drywall.
We installed wall tile and then we decided to rip out the floor and put a nice clean white tile down. The toilet for our bathroom had been leaking into the sub floor for who knows how long so we had to deal with removing rot and replacing the toilet seal while keeping the new tile and grout clean.
Finally it came down to the vanity and the mirror and lighting. We ripped out the old vanity and medicine cabinet and today finally finished replacing it with a nice modern sink and cabinet with BRIGHT lighting.
Had we paid somebody to do all of this for us, it would have cost about $2,500. Our total costs are around$700 because we did it ourselves.
Next is the downstairs bathroom which we are removing the tub and putting in a corner shower. That will be fun! Then the kitchen. Between this and our work it is keeping us really busy but I am not complaining.
Check out the photos of before and after… Please ignore the lack of completed paint. We are finishing that. Also replacing all of the light switches as well as re-glazing our bathtub so it is as white as white can get!
