If you are doing the arbitrage I revealed in the previous RSS only post, make sure you check your links. If you customized them to land on search results, check if they return “no results found”. I don’t know if it happens only to me, but it will kill your conversions if it does. Switch the link back to the primary ppc homepage.
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So funny… Just had to repost.
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If you are looking for the RSS prize I mentioned in the previous post, I said you will only find it in my RSS feed!
Long term project management. It sounds hard, doesnt it?
Its not really. I know, I know, not all of you have studied business/computers and management in the university.
Universities are overrated though. There is nothing to be taught there that you cannot learn for yourself from seminars and/or good reading.
Anyway, lets stick to the subject. Project management is about managing a project, to:
See? Simple really. It is all common sense. Grab a book on project management and read it (I will dig up a recommended one, can’t find it right now). You will learn a lot.
But the most important thing is not to learn a lot, but to see where you can use all those clever ideas.
On your business of course, where else could it be?
Learn the basics, and make PROJECTS. No, those scribbles on the napkin are not projects. Projects are well thought out, start-middle-end ideas, with a timeline (google it), projected budgets, outsourcing partners, a deadline, and well written specifications (check out the listings on elance for an idea).
Dont go the other way, to plan for a stupid website for five months! No, that is wrong too. Do the exact amount of planning required. Just give it some thought, and make it happen. A project outline is not an excuse to delay the start of a project, its a step by step map to completion of the project.
I know, it is not easy for the first timers (I also assumed there are no first timers on this blog, I tried to shoo them all away with my cheesy attitude). Once you actually complete a few projects, once you know what you need exactly, and can imagine a project in your head from start to finish without anything solid (or digitized, whatever) then you will be able to chourn out projects like a Quake 3 Nailgun spits lead.
I will let you do some research and reading, while waiting for my upcoming post. It will feature an example project management of the creation of a site, from start to finish, and the whole philosophy behind it.
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I am going to do an experiment. Don’t worry, I will explain everything once it is over.
The next post will be a little prize (or maybe big). The next post will be something I stumbled on, a technique that makes money. It is not exactly noob material, but a regular affiliate should figure it out.
Only thing is, the next post will not be posted here.
It will only be posted on my RSS feed.
Grab it or miss it 
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Things are really changing these last few weeks in the affiliate marketing world.
Google has systematically began to shoot down bizopps, bing rejects rebills. Ebay has switched to ppc and QS (Quality Screw) and what used to be a great way for a noob to get into internet marketing is now vaporized. Facebook has started slapping campaigns that worked for 14+ months, and ringtones will not get approved on Adwords no matter how much you bleed.
Yes, sure, all of this sounds bad. All the profitable ways are getting shot down, and you have to keep digging to find something that makes money.
But you need to understand something. Being an affiliate, means being an external partner, a non-employee.
It means being a mercenary.
Mercenaries don’t care who they work for, as long as they get paid. Mercenaries are professional and efficient. Mercenaries will not pause and think for a second to drop a partnership that went south. Mercenaries are in it for the money, if there is none, they go elsewhere.
We, affiliates, are mercenaries. We are not bound to anything, neither country nor company. We can host our sites wherever we want, buy our traffic from wherever we want, and send it to whoever we want.
If a network doesn’t pay, drop it and find someone who does. If an advertising platform rejects your ads, go spend your money somewhere else. If a host does not want your bytes, tell them to byte it.
There is always somewhere else to work and get paid. I see newbie affiliates crying over banned adsense accounts and slapped campaigns and shitted-on phpbay sites.
Don’t do that.
Once you have the know-how, the knowledge that is of how to make money, just dig up some different system and work on that. Getting shitted on by some business is no big deal, there are dozens more who will happily accept your work. If some stupid employee at some company decides that your business model does not suit their TOS, abandon them and go somewhere where they know what “PPC” is.
I am not trying to brag, I am just trying to set an example. I have been repeatedly banned by adsense, eBay, slapped by Google, dissaproved by facebook interns, rejected by affiliate networks and got C&D letters from trademark idiots. Yet I still make more money than some people ever dream of making in any given month.
There are other ways to profit online. Yes, ebay used to be a dead-easy moneymaker, yes, adsense can really make some nice change, yes, rebills are a cashcow.
But there are a million more stuff out there.
We are mercenaries, and we are bound to no-one.
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