Twitter - My Thoughts After 4 Months Of Use
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Bloggers diary, Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging
For a long time I did not understand twitter. I thought it was pretty stupid. Then an opportunity came. The person who had the shoemoney account sent me a email and asked if I wanted it. I said I did and they just released the account to me. Pretty cool of them. I still did not do much with it until one day Michael Gray sat me down at SMX West last spring and showed me how he was using it (I had to sign a NDA or I would tell). I was pretty fascinated with it So last May I gave it a serious look.
The first couple months I used twitter it was down more then it was up. But I still had fun learning and now its pretty rock solid.
Starting To See The Light:
For the first month I was using the website only. I started to find other people I partied with met at conferences and followed them. Most of the people I hang out with at conferences I only talk to them during that time. The value of twitter was starting to become a little bit more clear to me. The best way I can do it is to compare it with other ways of communicating with people:
Traditional ways to keep in touch:
- Email - I honestly hate email. Between not getting email because of spam filters and people that fricking write a book it drives me nuts. I just do not have time to go back and fourth with emails 99% of the time even with friends. Just takes to much time and if the email is longer then a paragraph its probably lost me anyway. Twitter only allows 140 characters in a tweet. Its very easy for me to respond to pretty much 100% of the people who ask me a question and takes little time out of my day to do so. Also a lot of times with my answers to people it has a nice side effect of answering perhaps what other people were interested in also. Double win.
- Instant Messenger - Being most of our team works remote throughout the country we use Instant Messanger services as our key communication tool. I would say 90% of our communication even inter-office is done with Instant Messanger. I never accept anyone to my Instant Messanger unless there is a very good business need. Twitter is much less informal but still has that feel of an instant messenger client… only it does not bug you when you get a message if you are busy.
Ok so that’s what I realized after the first month. The just of the service IMO is that its a great way to contact people that is much more intimate and to the point then an email yet not nearly as invasive as a instant message.
Great way to find local people:
Being centrally located in what is not exactly a tech hub its been very hard to find developers. We have advertised in the local college papers, traditional papers, craigslist and other means but there has just not been one good source to find the people we are looking for…. until I started using twitter.
Twitter has been a great way to find people that fit well with us. For one if they use twitter they already get some social media stuff but lets go beyond that… Lets say I am looking for a developer who lives around me. I can simply search twitter like this.
Its also good to find local recommendations for restraunts, happy hour specials, and other local events.
Quality of traffic from twitter:
The quality of traffic from twitter is pretty awesome for a blogger. Check out these numbers for the last 2 months to shoemoney.com sorted by highest refer’s of traffic. (click on image to enlarge)
Lets break down these numbers a bit from twitter in the last 60 days I recieved almost 17,000 visitors. Of those 17,000 visitors over 40% had never been to shoemoney.com before. Once they were here though they viewed an average of 2.25 pages per visit and stayed on the site for an average of 2 minutes and 18 seconds. They had a 65% bounce rate.
Now if you compare that with Google traffic that was 95% for the search term “Shoemoney” (and should be the highest quality) that brought in double the amount of traffic but had less pages/vist, less time spent on page and higher bounce rate.
I now consider the #2 most important source of traffic in terms of value behind only stumbleupon which always delivers an amazing about of new visotors with the lowest bounce rates.
How do I get the traffic in the first place? Well I twitter everytime I have a post… so once a day. But the cool thing is other people retweet my posts probably 10x for each one I tweet… kind of a domino effect.
I know I hear the excusers saying it can’t happen to them cause they are not me but guess what its all relative.
The badass twitter reach:
Couple months ago we were really stuck in a rut. We were working on a new application and felt that a service amazon was offering called SImpleDB would make a massive impact on its performance. While simpleDB was open for anyone to appy for they only had about 200 people they let use it. I really wanted to try it out and so I twitted asking if anyone knew anyone at amazon that could get us into the SimpleDB program. Within 1 hour I had 2 different AWS people contact me asking what the application was and what SimpleDB was going to be used for. I replied and moments later got the email saying it was now added to our account.
There has been a ton of other times I have asked for tips, contacts, or whatever about a subject and got help within seconds. Twitter is an amazingly powerful tool.
So to those that don’t get twitter hopefully this makes a little sense. You dont have to have a blog or anything you just need to start connecting with friends. Through friends of friends you will develop an amazing reach.
For those already using twitter whats your tips?
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Twitter - My Thoughts After 4 Months Of Use
Ride-Strong.com - Free Shirt Friday
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Bloggers diary, Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging
Ride-Strong.com is a cycling blog that is run by Tyler Ford, which he started in 2007. This blog is really cool, and he has great content related to cycling.
Just a warning there is a really sic picture of a guy with a branch stuck through his leg from a biking accident on the front page. Might be a little too early in the morning to see something like that. 
So if you cycle or want to cycle or just want to read about cycling, check out Ride-Strong.com
Thanks for the shirt!
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A Country With No Leader
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Bloggers diary, Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging
I cant believe we are less then 10 days away from the election.
I have always been a political junkie. I love the way politics works. Its a long the same lines of how religeon facinates me. Such a study of psychology and how to get people to do what you want them to do (believe your beliefs, give you money, vote for you, etc etc).
For the first time in my life I am pretty disgusted with our voting population. Not for the way they are voting but rather for what they are putting up with from their elected leaders. No matter what source you look at congress has the lowest approval rating in history. But what are we going to do about it? Do you even know who your congressman is? Do you know how they voted on this recent bailout? Do you know even who is on your ballot in 9 days?
You probably do not and that pisses me off.
When times are tough is when we need to step up and do what it takes to get back on the right path. You work hard for your money and your elected leaders are wasting it and laughing in your face.
I feel like we are a country with no leader. W on the way out and who knows who is coming in. I am actually still undecided.
There are many things I like about both canidates and negative things. I honestly think about this every day and go back and fourth.
So I would like to here from you who you are voting for for president and why?
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ufc90 Anderson Silva VS Patrick Cote
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Bloggers diary, Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging
Back to back UFC events! For a true MMA fans this is a pretty stacked card and for newbs to the sport the main even with Anderson Silva should get your attention ;).
Unlike last weekend I think a lot of these fights will go the distance (minus the main card). There are tons of world class wrestlers on tonights card
Rich Clementi VS. Gray Manard - Love this match up. Up in comer and Xtreme Couture trained Gray Manard vs is going to give UFC veteran Rich Clementi all he can handle in this fight. I look for Gray to take this fight to the ground and ground and pound as much as possible but Clementi is pretty dangerous off his back. I look for Manard to take this fight by decision.
Tyson Griffin VS. Sean Sherk - Another great matchup of Xtreme Couture trained younger fighter vs the Muscle Shark Sean Sherk. 2 Great wrestlers… This fight is an absolute must win for Sean Sherk and I look for him to control this fight and win by decision.
Junior Dos Santos Vs. Fabricio Werdum - Junior Dos Santos has never been heard of before to most fans but this guy is a total badass. This is my underdog pick of the night. Right now he is a giant 5:1 underdog. I think this guy will shock the world and knockout Werdum 2nd round.
Thiago Alves Vs. Josh Koscheck - I am totally partial here because I am friends with Josh Koscheck and have partied with him before. He is a really cool guy and I will be rooting for him. Its going to be a massive challenge against Thiago Alves who is coming off of a huge upset win over Matt Hughes. I will go with Koscheck by decision.
Anderson Silva Vs Patrick Cote - I have only seen Anderson Silva have problems twice in his career. Once against BJJ Blackbelt Travis Lutter and against Dan Henderson. Both excellent ground fighters. Cote will stand with Anderson Silva and while he has a punchers chance… its not much of one. I am going with Anderson SIlva by TKO (right hand) 2:22 of round 1.
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How To Carve A Pumpkin
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Bloggers diary, Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging
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Ask Questions Round 16
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Bloggers diary, Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging
Its been a couple weeks since we have taken questions so fire away!
Also I have been toying the the idea of doing site reviews. People ping me a lot for advice on how to make money or increase there revenues on their site and a lot of times I wish I could post it here because I think the advice is great content and a lot of people could benefit from it (or disagree with me which is great too).
So if you want you can submit your website from this form. We will see how it goes. Might make it a regular thing.
Comments closed pending answers
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New Sumo Omni Plus Bag
Oct 27, 2008 Blog, Bloggers diary, Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging
2 years ago I wrote about a Sumo Bag I got online and how much I liked it. Well a month ago in the mail I got a new Omni Plus from them.
The new Omni Plus is totally awesome. My daughter Juliet is now 2 1/2 years old and she loves running fullspeed and jumping on it (and also demanding I do the same).
Here is a picture from their site:
Its also good for just lounging around and reading your kids books too. Great product!
Check out sumolounge.com and pick one up!
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Google Diluting Quality To Remain Profitable
Oct 22, 2008 Blog, Bloggers diary, Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging
Google turned in healthy third-quarter earnings largely thanks to the fact that Google is finally getting serious about cost containment. But that is only half the story. Going into the expected economic downturn, Google is now turning on every additional source of advertising revenues it can. For instance, so far earlier month it began offering AdSense in Flash games, new AdSense links at the bottom of Google Maps, and introduced click-to-buy buttons on YouTube videos. Now, it looks like it may be testing two more ways to juice those AdSense revenues: an AdSense search box and AdSense ads that link to syndication pages filled with . . . more AdSense ads!
Google might just be testing these, but these efforts are starting to get noticed. One reader who runs a site about Google Chrome
, for instance, runs AdSense. But instead of a regular text ad, Google served up the search box at left, inviting people to search for specific ads. In effect, Google is saying, “We are not 100% sure what ads you’d like to see, so why don’t you just tell us?” An ad-only search box is a departure from Google’s past policy of showing the most relevant results, with ads on the side. Although it is clearly labeled, some people might still confuse the AdSense search box with a regular Web search box. Others might find it more helpful than the regular text ad links.
More troublesome is Google Syndication. Another reader, Michael Oxley, noticed that the AdSense text links on his golf site are directing readers not to a product page with information about a “Tiger Woods Caddy” or “Golf Wear,” but rather to a Google Syndication landing page filled with more AdSense ads (see screenshot below). These landing pages are run by Google (they take you to a googlesyndication.com URL). These pages basically syndicate a bunch of other AdSense ads triggered by the keywords in the original ad that was clicked on.
If Google starts using its Google Syndication pages more widely (they’ve actually been around for a while, it seems), it could become controversial. That is because they seem to run counter to Google’s own stated policy for landing page quality, a factor that goes into how Google scores each ad. As this NYT article explains:
Google now takes into account the “landing page” that the ad links to, and, for example, gives low grades to pages whose sole purpose is to show more ads.
The lower the quality score, the higher an advertiser has to bid for a given keyword. Google itself provides the following guidelines to advertisers who want to improve the quality score of their AdSense ads (I’ve bolded parts for emphasis):
Relevance:
* Users should be able to easily find what your ad promises.
* Link to the page on your site that provides the most useful information about the product or service in your ad. For instance, direct users to the page where they can buy the advertised product, rather than to a page with a description of several products.
Originality:
* Feature unique content that can’t be found on another site. This guideline is particularly applicable to affiliates that use the following types of pages:
o Bridge pages: Pages that act as an intermediary, whose sole purpose is to link or redirect traffic to the parent company
o Mirror pages: Pages that replicate the look and feel of a parent site; your site should not mirror (be similar or nearly identical in appearance to) your parent company’s or any other advertiser’s site
* Provide substantial information. If your ad does link to a page consisting mostly of ads or general search results (such as a directory or catalog page), provide additional, unique content.
The question here is: Why isn’t Google heeding its own advice?
And is it in effect running house ads that it wouldn’t tolerate from an outside advertiser (or at least punish by increasing the minimum bid required to run them)? When times are tough, anything goes.
This post was originally posted by our content partner Techcrunch and is being republished on shoemoney.com with permission. I occasionally syndicate news posts from Techcrunch I feel shoemoney.com readers get value from and likewise you may see posts on Techcrunch from ShoeMoney at times.
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Soxialize Launches With 2 Great Products
Oct 22, 2008 Blog, Bloggers diary, Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging
Cesar Serna former 3dogmedia employee has started his own company Soxialize and has come out of the gate swinging with 2 great products.
Tweet Pro is an interesting application for power twitter users who want to manage multiple twitter profiles, do very advanced searches and other things.
To learn more about Tweet Pro check here.
WpBayAds is an eBay affilaite plugin for Wordpress. Its incredibly customizeable allowing you to edit the way listings/images/pricing is displayed and even the ability to nofollow links very easily from the wp-admin interface.
Both of these plugins are high quality and ready for commercial use and come with a small price.
Speaking of price Soxialize has its own affiliate program which pays 30% per sale and has an initial $20 signup bonus for new users.
Cesar is a great developer and I think we will see a lot of products coming from Soxialize
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From BlackHat SEO To Affiliate Network CEO - Interview With Ads4dough Owner Jason Akatiff
Oct 22, 2008 Blog, Bloggers diary, Blogging, Blogging tips, Life of a blogger, Make money in blogging
Jason Akatiff was a regular blackhat SEO making cloaked pages and having fun making money online until he purchased a failing affiliate network last June. I thought it would be interesting to do an interview with affiliate network Ads4dough owner about his network and the issues he is seeing starting his own network.
ShoeMoney: Jason tell us about your background and what made you take on ads4dough.com?
Jason: My background is I was raised up in a suburb of San Jose, CA and lived there until I was around 27 when I moved to San Diego. I wasn’t ever into computers much other then to play video games. Then totally stopped using them for anything other then term papers and stuff like that for about 10 years.
Being as I was from Silicon Valley I wanted to go into computer engineering but hated college and doing anything that wasn’t going to make me money or I didn’t absolutely love doing. So that whole college thing didn’t last to long. Went to Junior college for 4 years so I could kind of drift for a while. Then transferred to UC Santa Cruz to get a degree and dropped out a year later.
I had various jobs in between then and now like being a waiter, notary public loan signer, sold franchises and was a speaker for Tony Robbins.
I got into this whole line of business when I was working as a franchise sales rep for Blimpie Int’l the sub sandwich chain and they we’re about to go into bankruptcy and I got laid off my job. So I decided I was going to go into buying and selling of real estate which I created a site for it called enhousepayments.com. It actually expired the other day and doesn’t exist anymore. So I knew absolutely nothing about computers, online marketing, ppc, servers, really nothing at all to do with this business.
I picked up a copy of dreamweaver and a template from template monster and hacked together a site that I put on one of those cheap 7$ hosting providers. So i started reading around on how to get traffic and started to learn some SEO. Got my site ranking pretty well and a decent amount of traffic (which was about 5 hits a day at that time, which was decent for me then 
) And a lead would be generated here and there. So I was pretty happy. But but then the site got hacked and someone managed to put a bunch of spam pages on it which I had no idea about at the time. They were auto generating pages on my domain and and then using some sort of ppc xml fee to create search pages. I found this by checking in google and seeing I had 10k pages indexed and the site was only 10 pages. Needless to say the site eventually got banned and I was so pissed off as I’d put all this work into building it out and now it was junk in my eyes at that time.
I started to poke around and stumbled across search engine cloaker and the search engine cloaker forums And that’s what got me started in Blackhat SEO. Which I’d like to clarify is different then straight Blackhat. I think they get confused a lot. Blackhat SEO is the art of auto generating sites and links on a massive scale through automation. Blackhat can be construed as anything shady like fraud and hacking.
ShoeMoney: I disagree with your definition of blackhat but please continue.
Jason: One thing I was always sure of is that I never defrauded anyone and never broke any laws. So eventually after playing with search engine cloaker, blog solution and a few other pre-packaged software solutions I kept finding flaws in them and thinking to myself “If this software could only do this or that it would be so much better”.
At that point I had met some people through cloakingforums.com and syndk8.net and they had suggested that I try to hire some people offer the freelance boards. So I did.
Trying to use freelancers at that point was basically a joke as I had only a half baked idea of what I wanted. And most of the time would wind up with things that didn’t do what I need. That’s when I decided I needed to learn to code myself if I was going to stick in this business for the long term. To this point I’d been in the biz for about 4 months and honestly had no idea about anything. I just kept hearing about people talking about it.
I decided PHP would be the best way to go as that’s what most of the people I knew were using. And figured it would be better to chose a common language rather then something like PERL that might have been more robust. In short I learned to code and started automating all sorts of projects myself.
But that had it’s limitations. As a single person you can only do so much work. I had a lot of friends that had been trying to work this business for some time and weren’t seeing a ton of success like I had to that point. So what I decided to to is start taking on what I called “project partners.” Often times when someone tries something they only try half way, or there is just one hurdle they can’t seem to get over. Or they get stuck.
What I decided to do because I had that unfortunate experience trying to outsource was to work with people as partners and a project by project basis. We’d structure it as I usually had the idea, at least when first starting out, they’d do most of the coding but if they needed resources or got stuck I’d push them through. Then we’d split the profits. Often times I get the question aren’t you afraid they’re going to take the idea and go run with it themselves and take all the money? Sure that’s a concern but I think a lot of that has to do with how you pick the people you work with. I always worked with people that didn’t make 1000’s of dollars a day by themselves. Maybe they made 100-150$/day on their best day ever. Then I’d work with them and we’d make 500-1000/day on their project and so splitting half was still much better revenue then working by themselves. And in all honesty it’s much more fun to work in teams rather then in isolation.
This really lead me to figure out that I truly enjoy helping people make money and seeing them get excited when they have success. But in all honesty buying a network never crossed my mind even 1 time really until I was in #cakes on irc and someone posted a link to an ad for ads4dough.com on sitepoint.
Funny thing was I knew who started ads4dough.com, it was originally started by a couple for friends of mine Rick and Rob. And apparently they’d taken on a new partner to help them and he had listed it on sitepoint to sell.
That’s the first time I thought about owning a network in all honesty. I saw it on there and it seemed relatively cheap I think the price was like 30k and they had claimed it was making 10k/month so I figured it’d be a good investment and just something to do on the side with my other stuff. Little did I know what I was in for.
ShoeMoney: When was the date of purchase?
Jason: I purchased ads4dogh technically on June 1 although I started taking it over a couple weeks before that. So about 4 and a half months now.
ShoeMoney: During that time what was the most surprising aspects of owning your own network?
Jason: Well from an affiliates perspective it looks like a really simple thing to do. All you have to do is get some offers at one price and then get some affiliates to promote them at a little lower price and that’s it. That’s just not the case. There’s so much work that goes into it. It really is all consuming.
ShoeMoney: How many active publishers do you currently have in ads4dough.com?
Jason: I’d guess around 350-400 based on the checks I send out monthly.
Yeah I soooo love it. It’s the greatest thing ever for me personally. I get to share all my knowledge with affiliates and help them get going in the business and make money. And if they do well I do well. It really couldn’t be a better scenario in that sense. Honestly I think it’s the tip of the ice berg I’d like to take it as big as possible. I really think this industry is tiny and growing. There’s a lot of very very risky things about it. But I do love it.
ShoeMoney: Do you think your Blackhat SEO background helps you in running the affiliate network?
Jason: Oh 100% helps! I haven’t just done BH SEO. I’ve done PPC, Banner Buys, etc. But knowing as many aspects of the business as possible is very very important. How can I help an affiliate that’s doing BH SEO if I hvaen’t done it myself? How can I help a guy running content network if I haven’t done it myself? You get the picture.
ShoeMoney: Lets talk about a huge issue in affiliate marketing - fraud. How do you deal with it?
Jason: A huge thing about running a network is blocking fraud. There’s soooooo much fraud in this business. A lot of the stuff we built to get around things as BH SEO’s we utilize on the other side today. Such as building tools to hunt down fraud. It’s rampant and there’s a lot of different levels. There’s whole rings of people in China, India, Vietnam and other countries that apply to be affiliates. That’s the full out blatant fraudsters. They’ve gone as far as to hire actors to call in to the affiliate network to get approved, if you can believe that. So when affiliates apply they wonder why they don’t just get approved and it’s a free for all, that’s what we’re trying to stop on a daily basis.
As an affiliate you may think, well what’s that got to do with me. You’re just impeding my progress. But think about it like this - How long and how much money can it take you to setup a fresh campaign on adwords? A while and can be a good amount of money right? Well imagine there’s some fruadsters in the system that decide to start frauding the offer you’re running. The advertiser gets pissed and pulls the offer. Who loses? There’s other types of fraud as well. There’s guys that control botnets and stuff leads. So guess who this hurts, that’s right all the good affiliates. As the advertiser sees the value of the leads being worth less and less. Because they’re getting so many junk leads.
Those are just a few of the major types of fraud. You also have people that signup to be affiliates that have no money. So a 30$ comission to them is big money. So they use their CC and fill in a couple leads then immediately cancel the offers. This really is fraud too in my opinion.
ShoeMoney: wow thats a lot. So how are you trying to grow to compete with the bigger players in the industry?
Jason: In any marketplace you really need to differentiate yourself. But luckily in this industry most of them are truly terrible and rip off artists. So first off is we truly don’t shave affiliates ever. And to stand by that I’ve posted a split test script on the ads4dough.com blog so people can put us head to head with any other network on a straight split. I’ve had at least 10 aff’s do it and we win 80% of the time and tie the other 20%. I mean truly we’re putting the affiliates first. As they’re the whole driver of this industry. I always felt like a peon and I was the least important peice of the puzzle. But honestly that’s not true, we as affiliates are the most important peice. We’ll be releasing competitive research tools, split testing tools, multi-variant tools and eventually a bid management platform. All of it will be free to our affiliates. We want to earn our money by affiliates having more success. We also believe that will build loyalty to the network at the same time.
Also we only hire experienced Affiliate Managers. I know this could be looked at as a conflict of interest in a way. But it’s worked well for us so far. Kaveman from Wickedfire aka Brandon has been an affiliate himself for around 3 years and decided he wanted a nice steady job. So he’s got experience in most of the fields of AM and is able to help his affiliates under him the same as I do with the affiliates under me. It’s worked really well so far and people have really appreciated it.
ShoeMoney: So you think a lot of networks are shaving leads and stealing from affiliates?
Jason: It’s been proven time and time again. I always encrouage every affiliate to split test their offer from time to time. Even my own guys, if they say “hey this offer isn’t converting that well” I say “use the split test script and network x or y has it test against them”. As affiliates that’s truly our job. Split test everything. I know networks that have gone as far as shaving clicks to make conversions look better. So always go by the clicks at the advertising source and divide your revenue earned to get a true EPC. As EPC or eCPM is the only thing that matters really. Everything is else is just a component of those.
ShoeMoney: What kind of feedback are you hear from users on the social network platforms like Myspace and Facebook?
Jason: Facebooks and Myspace are doing amazing. My favorite part about the social stuff is it’s more roots, demographic based marketing. Rather then trying figure and fight over a keywords it’s much more find offers that convert to a general demographic. So what are things that convert to a general demographic? Weight loss, dating , tones, payday loans, halloween costumes, and the list goes on. I think it teaches people how to think for doing large scale CPM banner buys as well. Same ideas and mentality. From so many years as PPC affiliates most people are stuck in the keyword mindset and if you come to the social game with keyword mindset you’ll usually go home empty handed. From so many years as PPC affiliates most people are stuck in the keyword mindset and if you come to the social game with keyword mindset you’ll usually go home empty handed.
ShoeMoney: What are your biggest challenges currently with the network?
Jason: I mean there’s really a lot of financialy at stake as the payment terms are different. Most of the big affiliates want to be paid on weekly wires. Because they run massive CC debt to run their campaigns. Well most of the advertisers want to pay on the best terms at a net 15. So for big offers you can be floating 1-2 million at any given time. That’s a ton of risk if the advertiser decides they don’t want to pay for whatever reason. And do advertisers decide not pay? Oh hell yeah.
ShoeMoney: This has been a great interview! Anything else you would like to add before we go?
Jason: Networking is everything man. I know you’ve talked about it a lot but let me reinforce it. It’s the heart and soul of this business. It’s all about who you know at the end of the day. I hope this industry changes. I think think that a lot of affiliates are treated poorly and given the short end of the stick. I’m hoping to make a difference and put affiliates at the for front. And the networks are here to serve them. I’m hoping through word of mouth, helping and treating people right I can be a catalyst for change in the industry.
Special thanks to Jason for the honest interview. Check out Ads4dough for more information about his affiliate network.
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From BlackHat SEO To Affiliate Network CEO - Interview With Ads4dough Owner Jason Akatiff
