Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7: ....so eventually I pulled the plug on this little experiment (it ran for roughly 5 weeks) even though I was still making some money. One of the negative parts about affiliate marketing I mentioned was the price of P ... Read the ... Read more

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6: At this point in my little experiment I've made some money and learned a few pro's and con's about this affiliate marketing industry (at least the low-end type): Pro's of simple affiliate marketing: It's possible to start ... Read the ... Read more

At the beginning of this month one of my goals was to make a blog post every 2 days on this blog...well my last one was THREE days ago, so I need to make up ( Carnaval in Austin  definitely got in the way)! I have 12 minutes to write/edit/publish this post before the security guard&n ... Read more

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5: ...so now I had a very simple yet profitable affiliate campaign running.  The next step was to try out some of the other e-cigarette companies with affiliate programs.  I found another seemingly good e-cig company called Green ... Read ... Read more

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4: So for the first part of this experiment I decided to try something really simple that could just be a proof of concept ....just to if it could work. I wanted to do a simple campaign where I promote an affiliate link over Google Adwords. When someone ... Re ... Read more

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3: My favorite method of learning something is jumping into it. I'll usually start by reading all I can about a subject, then quickly try a real life version of something simple, then something more advanced....an "experiment" so to say. So I wanted to try an aff ... R ... Read more

Part 1 Part 2: ....so the first thing I did was research the term "Affiliate Marketing" and printed out all the articles I could find. I read them all and took notes on a plane ride somewhere. I read the Wikipedia article and a bunch of other search results, and the most basic idea behind Af ... Read more

Spending a lot of time online I run across the term "Affiliate Marketing" all the time. I even go to an "internet marketing" event once a month here in Austin to meet other entrepreneurs, but always found some of the people doing affiliate marketing a little perplexing (and sort of shady). When pr ... Read more

For Christmas my brother bought me a Samson C01U Studio Condenser Microphone. That's basically fancy talk for a high quality microphone I can hookup to my computer: I always wanted a nice mic but never got around to buying one, and now I realize all the fun things I can do with it. For example ... Read more

I stopped making monthly goals a while ago because I rarely followed up on them. They always get stuck on a sheet of paper somewhere which I promptly forget about on day 2 of the month. I wrote my goals for February recently and snapped a pic on my iPhone....then had a brilliant moment where I SE ... Read more