Wordcamp NYC 2009 Was A HUGE Success

Posted by Thatcher | Posted in Conferences, blogging | Posted on 17-11-2009

Wow with over 700 people attending Wordcamp NYC 2009, it was definitely the largest most successful Wordcamp to date! My first Wordcamp was last year 2008 NYC, at Sun Microsystems NYC offices, all in one small room with around 50 or so people, so to see the growth in just one year was truly impressive.

I need to get some sleep. Tomorrow; I will edit this post and add some photos.  :)

Google Has Launched an Official “Caffeine” Sandbox Search

Posted by Thatcher | Posted in Business Growth, affiliate marketing, first page google, performance marketing, search engine optimization, seo, sustainable traffic, web traffic, work-at-home | Posted on 22-08-2009

Here is the link to the Official “Caffeine” Search Sandbox – Go see how your sites perform.

For those of you who have been living under a rock… or maybe just got back from the islands!  Google has been doing some major tweaking of how their organic search algorithm produces the SERP’s “Search Engine Results Pages”

Official Google Announcement:

“For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.”

Google is now asking for developers to give feed back.

“The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of Google’s search engine, which means that most users won’t notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we’re opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback.”

I’m not going to go into any technical detail of what differences there may or may not be in this now seemingly seriously modified Google search algorithm. But If you would like to read some details to that extent I suggest that you checkout this post on ClickZ.com  It’s primarily about how Google’s Caffeine update might impact PPC… Enjoy.

If you use SEO and organic traffic in your affiliate business. Make a comment and tell me how you think this might affect your business.

My Affiliate Summit East 2009 Experience & Recap ASE09

Posted by Thatcher | Posted in Business Growth, Conferences, affiliate marketing, cpa, seo, work at home authority, work-at-home | Posted on 17-08-2009

Affiliate Summit East 2009 was at The Hilton in Midtown Manhattan August 9-11th, it was the largest ASE ever with over 3000 attendees! This conference was by far one of the most engaging and fun events I have ever attended as an Internet marketer. You know they ain’t messin when a one day “Gold Pass” is $499 full access “Platinum Pass” was $999 pre-order there were many late comers who paid more than that as it was a sold-out show.

I was super lucky to get hooked-up with a Gold Pass! Thank you sooo much to Eric Schechter ‘Social Media Manager’ for Clickbooth, you can Twitter follow him @EricSchechter also follow @Clickbooth

Note: this post turned into a much larger post than expected, I hope you can read the whole thing. I tried to keep it fun and informative.

Affiliate Summit East 2009 NYC

I arrived at the conference at around 10:30 Sunday morning, grabbed my badge and quickly entered the Meet Market. An area dedicated to networking; this is also offered to companies who are not yet ready to get a full tradeshow booth. Basically its just rows of tables and the room was packed with people chatting and making deals all day, it kinda felt like a tradeshow on crack. The energy in the room was Very High, I’m guessing that the bag full of “Healthy Energy Drinks” they handed out to every attendee, may have been the culprit. I jumped right in on the action and did some networking straight away, talking with some networks that I have worked with for a while and some networks that I have never even heard of. It was great to put some faces to those AIM SN’s.

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I Just Joined AffiliateClassroom 2.0 & Why You Should Also

Posted by Thatcher | Posted in affiliate marketing, cpa, work at home authority, work-at-home | Posted on 16-08-2009

It doesn’t matter if you’re a newbie or an experienced affiliate marketer, there is something for everyone in the new Affiliate Classroom 2.0. Anik Singal and his team have put together a world-class training system here. The training is presented in the most professional and organized fashion I have ever seen, it is structured like college classes and credits. Starting with introduction 100 level courses and then 200 level courses and 300 level courses.

Now that I have seen the inside of this course, I’m thoroughly convinced that when it comes to learning affiliate marketing Affiliate Classroom 2.0 is the MOST Bank For Your Buck Period.

As you go through the courses not only do you have to take and pass tests, you have to prove your worthiness by showing that your websites received the specific amounts of traffic and cash earnings necessary to be accredited the course class rank. The coolest thing about this is that Anik’s company Lurn, Inc is acting as a third-party verification source for you, showing others in the industry that you know your stuff and that you’re serious about making money with affiliate marketing.

Affiliate Classroom 2.0 also comes packed with all the software tools that you MUST have in order to be successful in the performance marketing industry online. People have told me they joined just to get access to these tools!

  • PPC ROI CalculatorPPC is a numbers game… and the numbers need to work out in order for you to win!
  • Adwords Ad Writing Tool – Quickly draft effective Google Adwords Ads, Just enter a keyword, select your ad elements and the Ad Display box shows you a draft of your ad.
  • Google Match Type Tools - Broaden your keywords with other words that are close or the exact opposite of your phrases.
  • Geo Keyword Generator - Our Geo Keyword Generator will rapidly expand your keyword list based upon geographical location.
  • Misspelled Keyword Creator – This tool allows you to create a very large and complete keyword list for your Pay Per Click campaigns! Within just a few clicks, you can create a large list of misspelled keywords – something that would manually take you days!
  • Site Rank – Enter any website and you can find its Google PageRank and its Alexa ranking. This is a good way to see how you stack up against your competition and others in your field.
  • Little Tracked Link - this will help you by shortening all of your affiliate links. Just type them into the box, click the button and the tool will create a nice, short URL for you to use.

Listen here is the deal. Anik is giving a 10 day full access trial for only $1 but it ends tomorrow Monday. He might pull the plug on this tonight, so go sign-up now it’s only one measly dollar!

P.S. Anik is giving a special bonus to those that signup today. A little known YouTube Trick that has made him a confirmed $352,789 with just 20 hours of work. This is stupid simple once you see how he does this you are going to be so stoked. Even if you only make 1% of what he has with this technique, you will still have a >3000% ROI on your measly $1

Go Now > what are you waiting for? click here!

P.P.S – I almost forgot my bonus! For those who sign up with my link (and remain a member) I’m offering 3 hours of on the phone consultation to help you get your first niche or new niche setup right so that you know you will be banking it right away. So make sure you clear your cookies and then click my link again.  See you at the top!

Ten Tips for Attending Affiliate Summit Networking Conference

Posted by Thatcher | Posted in affiliate marketing, cpa, performance marketing, work at home authority, work-at-home | Posted on 14-08-2009

Time Management -

  1. Network before the conference.  A lot is going to be going on, and it’s going to be hard to fit in other people’s schedules if you don’t plan the time first.  PM people from forums and Twitter that you’d like to talk to at the conference.
  2. Stay near the conference hotel & take a taxi’s.  Other hotels may have added, features such as free wifi that the conference hotel does not.  At ASE09 “Affiliate Summit East 2009″, the Hilton did not have free wireless Internet but other, less expensive hotels in the area did.
  3. Book your hotel in advance.  For ASW10, I’m looking at booking very early.  The closer you get to the day, the more expensive it will be.  Even think about renting a place for a week, the cost per day may be cheaper.
  4. Make time for the gym. Also, pack some healthy food to eat in your room.
  5. Book your daytime leisure in advance; look for events in the host city to attend at night.  Sure there will be marketing parties and private functions, but everyone isn’t going to be invited to everything.  In the event that you aren’t invited you’ll have a backup plan.

Conference Tips -

  1. Consider which pass is best for you.  Read the descriptions of the sessions available for each pass and determine if they are sessions you’re interested in attending.
  2. Prepare your “opener”.   Note: This is different from the elevator speech.  The opener is simply something you can say to talk to people you are interested in meeting without straight up trying to drill them for information.
  3. Don’t follow the herd.  Some things are not spoken about publicly for a reason. (Some things are also badmouthed publicly for a reason….) Listen to every one’s pitches no matter what your perception of them/their network is.  Sign up and test them out for yourself.
  4. Offer value/be a person.  Don’t just dig for information.  Don’t always be so quick to talk money at these things.  Sometimes try just hanging out and seeing what happens.
  5. When talking strategy with other affiliates don’t be afraid to share some things that worked.  You don’t have to give your baby away but don’t be afraid to share.  Everyone wins this way!

Note: This was a guest post by D. Washington. Twitter Follow him @Cash37 www.Twitter.com/Cash37 Please thank him by following. 

Directly Reach 200 Million Customers Who Want Your Products

Posted by Thatcher | Posted in Business Growth, web sales, work at home authority, work-at-home | Posted on 09-07-2009

Would you like to start a business on the Internet, and potentially earn THOUSANDS of dollars each MONTH ? Even BEFORE you have a website! And in a RED HOT Untapped market that is already exploding!

Read this article very carefully…

You see most online businesses are fighting all the wild competition to position their websites at the top of Google, and all the while, there’s a huge marketplace that doesn’t even require a website to sell content and with over 200 million users, it’s sadly being largely ignored.

Surprisingly, this marketplace requires…

  • no hosting fees
  • no merchant account
  • no PayPal account
  • no customer service
  • no search engine and no Google to fight competition
  • no advertising required
  • no worry about bandwidth and servers crashing
  • little to no start up costs!!!
  • And MUCH more

And this is not about eBay…

So how big is this place?

Honestly it’s HUGE there are well over 200 million users that want to get their hands on your content.

iTunes Exposed is written by Scott Paton, the Dean of Blogonomics and Podology. For over 5 years Scott has been teaching people how to use iTunes to build huge audiences. He has over 300,000 subscribers and almost a million downloads of his content in different niches.

The past six months, he has devoted every waking moment to cracking the code on getting into iTunes and he reveals everything in iTunes Exposed.

PLUS… he’s giving away a top secret interview he did with a company that paid-out >$100 million to people like you and me who created content for them to sell on iTunes and Amazon!  As far as I’m concerned, “iTunes Exposed” is a perfect 10, and I recommend you take a look at it right away.

And Scott’s currently backing “iTunes Exposed” with an iron-clad  money back guarantee, so you can try out the profitable strategies for 60 days — and prove to yourself that they really DO work — WITHOUT risk!

To find out how, click here now…

Affiliate Marketing Has Been Keeping Me Busy

Posted by Thatcher | Posted in affiliate marketing, cpa, performance marketing, work at home authority | Posted on 28-05-2009

I have not posted many updates in a long while and I apologize about that!

I have been very busy over the past few months. Basically what happened is that I went on the Internet Marketers Cruise in January and that trip lead to so many opportunities that I have been extremely busy just keeping up with all the amazing Internet Marketing Projects. Primarily what I have been working on is very much under the radar marketing, meaning it is not your typical glitz and glam Internet Marketing product launch stuff.

Primarily what I have been spending my time on is affiliate marketing or what we like to call “Performance Marketing” I have been fortunate enough to learn this industry from the very top players in the game. These guys are very seriously earning $50,000 to $100,000 Per DAY on the Internet, not per year… you read that right; Per Day! Now I am not at that level yet! but someday I will be and my goal is to help show you how you too can do this!  Imagine even $1000 per day or even just $100 per day, how much that kind of consistent automated cash money income could change your life.

Here is a list of the training programs I have been through and have learned soo much from > ArbitrageConspiracy,  Affiliate Payload by Alex Goad, PPCclassroom, Affiliate Classroom

My current favorite CPA Networks are > Clickbooth, AzoogleAds, Neverblue and MarketLeverage

Here are a list of the tools and resources I use in order to make money with Performance Marketing Online. SpeedPPC, ContentBully, PPCBully, SpyFu, HexaTrack, MarketSamaria, Shoemoney Tools, Adwords, Yahoo, MSN, Adwords Editor, Tracking202Pro

People that I follow in the industry - Aymen, Gauher Chaundry, Alex Goad, Zac Johnson, JohnCow “Jason Katzenback”

In the first few months of 2009 I also went to StomperNet Live 7 Event – this was fantastic. I have stories and photos I will post I promise. I also went to Brendon Burchard’s Partnership Seminar, this was truly life changing, I can see why Tony Robins is working so closely with this man. Keep your eye on Brendon. Additionally I have attended countless Internet Marketing and business networking events in the NYC area. Specifically I can highly recommend the meetup202 this is a meetup.com networking group dedicated to performance marketing using the Tracking202 system.  I will make some future posts about this meetup group and more specifically the functions and benefits of software like Tracking202 and why you need to be using it.

Looking forward to sharing more with you all and hearing your feedback. Are you currently involved in Affiliate Marketing? Are you thinking about getting involved? Or is this your first exposure to this world of online money making opportunity? Please post your comments below!

Clickbooth Has A New Blog & They Are Giving Prizes With A Feedback Contest

Posted by Thatcher | Posted in affiliate marketing, cpa, cpa network, performance marketing | Posted on 16-05-2009

Hey all my work-at-home peeps! Sorry that I have not posted in a looong time! I will make another post telling you what happened to me, no I didn’t fall of the face of the earth. But my world sure has changed so much that I may have just as well!

I am making this post first before my update post because; Clickbooth has launched a new affiliate “performance marketing” blog you can check it out at http://blog.clickbooth.com they are hosting a Feedback Contest with some really great prizes, its easy to enter so read on.

Now if you are saying to your self “who is Clickbooth and what the heck is performance marketing” don’t worry my next post will explain everything. If you already know what performance marketing is and you have heard of Clickbooth you probably understand why I am excited enough about their new blog to make this post about it.  Clickbooth as a leading affiliate marketing network and they often sponsor some of the most exciting contests with the best prizes.

For example to enter this contest for your chance to win an Ipod Touch or a Flip MinoHD all you have to do is visit their new blog http://blog.clickbooth.com read the post titled “Clickbooth Launches New Blog Design and Feedback Contest” make a comment with your feedback about their new blog design, follow @clickbooth on twitter and tweet about the contest!  SO Simple! it will take you like less than 5 minutes. That is unless you have a lot to say about webdesign like I do. To see what I said look for my comment on that post at http://blog.clickbooth.com/2009/05/blogcontest/

Oh yeah – almost forgot – this contest ends tomorrow Sunday May 17th so go enter now don’t delay :)   Good luck! and enjoy their new blog design it is beautiful.

Review of Formula5 by StomperNet – Business Growth System

Posted by Thatcher | Posted in Business Growth, work at home authority, work-at-home | Posted on 03-01-2009

My advance copy of Stomper F5 arrived at my door a couple days after Christmas, but you know what, this was my favorite present of 2008… I am very excited about this and let me tell you why!

StomperNet sent an advance copy of this amazing Business Growth System to me so that I could review it and share it with you. My goal is to help you decide if this product is right for you.  So let me tell you what this IS NOT and what it IS.

Formula5 – F5 IS NOT – A Business Opportunity nor is it a Get Rich Quick system.

Formula5- F5 IS – A “Brilliant Business Growth System” with the slogan “The System Is Brilliant – So That You Don’t Have To Be”

With that said this is for people who already have an operating business, and are looking for help with dramatically expanding their business and at the same time freeing up time for their personal life.

As a small business owner I could bet that from time to time you feel frustrated when you think about the dreams you had when you started your business have not yet materialized. Remember those dreams of free time, travel, hanging on the beach and all the while pulling in massive profits…  yet in reality your time and your life is getting sucked into your small business. In this situation you find yourself wondering what you can do now to snap out of the mediocre results and really drive your business forward to eventually achieve those incredible results

Good News! Stomper Formula5 is the answer.  This Business Growth System is designed specifically to help established businesses increase their revenue and profits dramatically. As you could guess this system is made up of 5 specific modules, the model is that they will drip the content to you one module ever 3 weeks.  You start with the Module 1 “Margin Magnifier” you have 3 weeks to focus on this and implement the changes; then next comes Module 2 “Sales Stackers” and Module 3 “Lead Landslide” and Module 4 “Conversion Control” and finally Module 5 “Turbo Thruster”

Each one of these Modules is jam packed with actionable instructions and very proven and powerful business growth processes. If you implement the information from the Formula5 system your business will grow dramatically.

The Formula5 Business Growth System was developed and refined by super-consultant Paul Lemberg. Paul’s clients have recently increased their businesses over $300,000,000 using these techniques.

Paul has partnered with StomperNet to create this unique program combining distance learning, pod coaching, masterminds and teleseminars along with a home-study set of DVD’s and Transcripts in the mail to deliver the power of his methods to the Internet Marketing Community.

To sign-up for a Free 90 Minute video of Paul Lemberg giving a fully detailed explanation of the entire system.  Click on this link now watch the exciting F5 video and put your name and email in the opt-in box on the right column.  This video will launch on Monday the 5th so hurry up and signup now so that you are guaranteed to get this incredibly powerful free video!

http://www.richagent.com/blog/recommends/Formula5-Business-Growth-System/

Please comment on the blog and let me know if you have any questions.  Check back soon, as I will be giving a more indepth review of the Formula5 F5 Business Growth System by StomperNet. I will be sharing some golden nuggets of things that I learn from this Formula5 system, with details on how it has affected my businesses.







Turbo Tagger

Traffic Fusion has seriously blown my mind I already got it did you get it yet?

Posted by Thatcher | Posted in conversions, integration marketing, web sales, web traffic, work at home authority, work-at-home | Posted on 16-09-2008

  Yeah this is another last minute promotion review, but hey I helped a few people out with the last one… it went well and was fun. So I decided to put the shovel down for a minute and pickup the keyboard for you.  Plus this TrafficFusion product by Mike Filsaime is so incredible that you owe it to yourself to at least go check it out. You could learn a huge amount of marketing tips and tactics just by watching the review videos!  Its THAT powerful.    

  OK this is going to be a quick post because I have been working on the computer non-stop for the past 36+ hrs.  Yeah this working for your self thing is fun and you can create freedom in your life; but don’t let anyone convince you that it is easy or that you can do it with only 2 or 3hrs a day that is just not realistic…..   

  BUT when you use software like TrafficFusion it very well may be possible. You know why? Well because it is so automated and so powerful that you can be doing JV deals left and right with very little work and all action.  Even if you don’t have it in your budget right now to go buy this again you owe it to yourself to at least go check it out.   As you probably know Mike is only selling 2000 copies and then that’s it, never will it be sold again. 

  BTW you get TONS of extras as in  over $20,000 worth of Mike Filsaime’s products and software all in instant digital delivery! Really astounding stuff, you can tell that Mike put his heart, soul and Brain Power into this baby.   Oh and check this out. Mike is going to pay the $300 for you to attend Mark Joyners ”Integration Marketing” online training, just because he really wants you to do it! How incredible is that? I have met Mike Filsaime a couple times and I am still blown away by how much nicer and more generous he gets every time he does something!  

  Hey, wow I almost forgot. I am going to offer you a Bonus on top of all of this.  If you buy TrafficFusion with my link and confirm doing so by emailing me the receipt, then I will give you 4+ hrs of hands on marketing and technical support. Which is more than enough to help you find your focus or help build on the focus that you have already found… and help lead you down the road to work-at-home money making success!  *note just make sure that the affiliate label ‘fine print on bottom of checkout page’  says [affiliate = theowners]

Rock on and keep up the great work!