Archive for July, 2008

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The “Value” Approach To Aff Marketing

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

There are hundreds of affiliate networks. On each network, there can be hundreds of affiliate offers.
How do you possibly figure out which affiliate offer to promote?
Here are a few of my evaluation criteria:
1) Does the offer have brand equity (Is the company well known?)
I suppose this isn’t a requirement, but I’ve always had [...]

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High Quality Streaming Audio

Friday, July 25th, 2008

I’ve been a subscriber of Digitally Imported for about a year.
They have a wide selection of radio stations available in 128k for free (contains annoying commercials).
For $4.95 a month (via paypal), you get access to their high quality, commercial-free, 192k broadband streams.
I highly recommend their Sky.fm Contemporary Christian stream which is phenomenal! It features [...]

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Fail Often, Fail Fast, Fail Cheap

Friday, July 25th, 2008

In this business, we must FAIL FAST! This means taking massive and continuous action using the principle of fast iteration.
Benefits of Fast Iterations

Fail Fast
A major benefit of fast iteration is you also fail fast. Failing fast means you invest less time in the things that don’t work. If you quickly find out what [...]

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Adventures in China

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Traveling in China
My good friend Melanie was kind enough to fly out to Shanghai and put up with me for 10-days while we traveled around China. We had a blast exploring Shanghai, eating at the 88th floor of the Jin Mao tower, and hiking up and down the massive Yellow Mountains (an overnight train ride [...]

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The Joy Of Remote Desktop Sharing

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Although I have a “2 MEG” ADSL connection from Shanghai, I found it especially slow when uploading/downloading changes using Adwords Editor.
All the inbound/outbound internet traffic from China goes through the Great Firewall of China. It’s basically a sophisticated filter that blocks many websites including offensive content.
Before I left Florida, I set up LogMeIn, a [...]

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My Shanghai Apartment

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I just moved into a beautiful 3 bedroom 2 bath apartment on the 30th floor in Shanghai, China.
I’m going to be working from Shanghai for about 2 months. Of course, I brought my laptop with me and have a 2MB high speed internet connection from my apartment.

I booked the Shanghai apartment rental through [...]

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