Scrappy Business Idea Blog

First off, congrats to my friends Joel Hoard, Luke & Karn for presenting at Startup School 2008 for their online highlighter idea.

The “Awesome Highlighter” is a firefox plugin that allows you to literally highlight any website text with your mouse, and then save a cache of the highlighted website–making it easy to archive for later review or send to your friends.

Check out the videos from Startup School 2008:

- The Secret To Making Money Online For Web 2.0 Startups by 37 Signals and Ruby on Rails developer David Heinemeier.

- Listen to Jeff Bezos promote the incredible blah, blah benefits of Amazon web services.

- Greg McAdoo is a VC at Sequoia Capital. He says to “ride the wave”.. Meaning, ride the online trends.

- Paul Buchheit, Founder of FriendFeed and creator of GMail, discusses how to listen to your users at Startup School 08.

And More.

Generally speaking, the more affiliates promoting an offer, the harder it is as an affiliate to do well with that merchant.

Check out this awesome list of affiliate networks!

By the way, if you look at the site of Stats Remote you’ll see they sell a program which helps you track stats on those networks. It automatically logs in and updates your cost on Google/Yahoo/MSN and also checks your commissions on all the networks.

Currently, I’m using Stats Junky which accomplishes the same purpose, but hosts fewer programs.

Those are the best two on the market from my research. It saves a lot of time when you have all the stats at your fingertips, without having to log in. They also do some pretty useful graphing of commissions, cost, profit, etc per day or month.

I’m going to drink the koolaid and jump on the Twitter bandwagon.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

You can follow me here.

Sorry for the lack of updates. I’ve been super busy with all sorts of cool stuff :) Mostly automation related. Basically, just trying to focus on using software to reduce the amount of actual work it takes to create a successful campaign. It’s fun stuff.

I’ve also been playing around with Adwords.. I love figuring out how to beat that black box :)

Hopefully I’ll have some nice content coming your way soon.

-Josh

I get this question quite a bit.. Here’s my video response:

Here are some of the links mentioned in the video:

Google Adwords Professional Training - This is a complete free online course developed by Google to show you how to use Adwords

Perry Marshall’ Adwords E-book - Great ebook, highly recommended for learning all about Google Adwords. Alternatively, you can buy his Ultimate Guide to Google Adwords on Amazon.

SEO E-Book - Learning search engine optimization is good, but I wouldn’t necessary recommend this as a starting point.

Azoogle Ads - Trusted network where you can find products to promote.

Incentaclick - Another good CPA network.

Hello Scrappers,

I just got a digital camera, so I recorded a video on keyword research tools:

To learn more about keyword research, check out my site KeywordResearching.com.

Also, I put together a introduction to keyword research tutorial which is available by email. I sent you an email every day for 5-days explaining the different keyword tools on the market (the last day will BLOW your mind.. It’s a free tool.. I bet you haven’t seen this one yet..)

Just submit your name and email below:

Do you love writing copy? I’m looking for talented copywriters with a passion for direct marketing sales copy.

The benefits of this job are fantastic:

* Work From Home!
* Complete Training in Writing Copy for Google Adwords
* Part Time Position (3-10 hours/week)

This job is a copywriter’s dream! :)

This type of training is priceless!! (Trust me, this industry is taking off)..

Please send several samples of your copywriting along with your requested pay rate to:

Please include “Copywriting Job” in the title of the email.