Archive for the ‘Q and A’ Category

Answers to Q&A: Round 2

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Below are the answers to round 2 of the Q&A. I know I went through these questions quickly, so if you have any further questions feel free to leave a comment and I will try to respond. One of the questions that came up a few times was how do you quickly set up a [...]

Answers to Q&A: Round 1

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

It took a long time to answer your questions! Hopefully this helps you guys out a bit.. Let’s do round #2 soon.

Meeting Up at Affiliate Summit?

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

If anyone is interested in meeting up in Vegas for Affiliate Summit, shoot me an email.. I’m arriving Saturday afternoon. Affiliate Summit is a conference held bi-yearly that brings together affiliates, merchants and everyone in between. Basically, it’s a chance to listen to some newbie related topics, visit booth babes, meet your affiliate managers and [...]

Q&A: Getting Started Seems Impossible!

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Here’s a question that came from the Four Hour Workweek forum. I seem to be stuck with the same problems forever and the problems are numerous: getting a muse, then designing a website, drive traffic towards it and so on and so on… It’s like an endless list of obstacles to overcome. And on top [...]

Testing A Niche in PPC

Friday, February 1st, 2008

This question comes from a forum thread on 4 Hour Work Week: How much time & money should I spend testing an affiliate offer with PPC? Many successful PPC marketers will spend $200-$500 or even $1000 on testing an affiliate offer before breaking even. There’s a few things to understand: 1) Your budget – Let’s [...]

Newbie Affiliate Marketing Q & A

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I received a few questions via email from a loyal scrappy business reader: 1) I wonder if you feel if someone follows your step-by-step instructions, things should work out, or are there other online manuals or blogs similar to yours that you recommend? Even if you follow my step by step instructions, you will still [...]

How To Make Money Online

Friday, October 12th, 2007

What does it take to make money at this? I’d assume that this market is saturated and it takes some special skill or knowledge to make it pay. There are some products I believe in that I’d be happy to sell as an affiliate, it’s just hard for me to believe I could make money [...]

Need a Business Entity for Affiliate Marketing?

Monday, September 17th, 2007

This question comes from Teressa: I have one question for you, if I may: Before I begin an affiliate marketing business, do you recommend I create a small buiness? Or can I begin as an individual, using my personal SSN and banking account information? How did you and Kirk begin? You do not need to [...]

PPC Certification Programs & Tips

Monday, September 10th, 2007

This question comes from a reader: hey i see you got certified in adwords and yhaoo and msn, can you tell me how to do this and how hard is it? i just started reading your blog and its very good im going to become an affiliate marketer and i like your tools thanks. Getting [...]

How Do I Pick A Domain Name?

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

I’m thinking of producing some information products (web, ebook, affiliate), and the question is: am I better off getting a .com or another extension (i.e. .info, .edu)? I’m not sure how the search engines treat extensions, or do they focus on the content? Thanks in advance!! Cheers, Jon Hi Jon! There are 3 main components [...]