Free Geo-Targeting Database
Here is the link to the free geo-targeting database that It talked about in my session. http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity. As far as running the demo program, use F5 or hit the green play button on the toolbar.
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Links And Code From My Affiliate Summit West 2009 Presentation
Wow, what a crazy session. First my laptop display would not get off of dual monitors.. (mostly because my mac keyboard drivers for windows are borked and FN+F7 doesn’t work– couldn’t find a work around in time). So I had to flip everything around and give the demo with my back to the audience while trying to view the actual screen. Things kinda went down hill… PowerPoint wanted to display the sideshow on the primary display (not the big display hooked up to the projector)… So it was slow going. So we skipped most of the slides and went right to the live demo. My laptop froze… luckily it didn’t freeze till people had seen the actual demo.. whew.. But on reboot it was still dead, so no more slides. The rest of the session was me doing Q&A and the rest of the slides from memory. To make matters even crazier, several people started to leave throughout the beginning of the presentation…. But, those that stayed “got it,” and were very zoned in to what we were talking about regarding automation.
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Considering how bad things started I think it ended very well. People we asking good questions and I could tell a lot of people were excited about what was available to them as far as automating their daily stat downloads and ppc campaign creation.
ASW09 Gold Pass Prize (Winner Hasn’t Responded)
Well, “Sunny” was picked, but they havent responded. Sunny, check your yahoo email account for a message from me. If you don’t respond by 7am MST Tomorrow, I’ll be forced to pick somebody else.
Free Affiliate Summit West 2009 Gold Pass Contest Ending Soon
The contest for a free affiliate summit west 2009 gold pass ends soon. Winner will be chosen December 1st. So make sure you enter 
SocialMedia.com.. Not scammers but are they serious?
I started playing around with SocialMedia.com again. A few weeks ago I was seeing some good results. Then my conversions stopped. Then I get obviously bogus clicks/data….. here… read this and tell me what you think. The [REMOVED.... ] are my editing. everything else is a direct copy from their support site. Now granted it is less then $50 but still they are being a pain about it.
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Ok, so I *am* hiring. But local only.
What I am looking for. A smart, honest and loyal person who can help run things over here. Knowing the internet, how to manage files on a computer and a couple of things like that are pluses. Most anything else I can teach you. You would be learning PPC management, basic programing and database skills. I suppose it would feel like an admin assistant position for the first few days/week while you learned how we are doing things. But then as you started to manage some of the campaigns, etc. and were doing a good job (ie, helping us make more then we are spending on a campaign) you would start to make more money. As things grow you can expect to be moving into a managerial/mentor position as we bring in new people. The office is in my house on the first floor. Warning you about that now. I have toyed with getting an outside office and I might do that in the future, but for now it is here. Sometimes it will be boring and repetitive, othertimes it will be super exciting. As far as pay, expect lousy pay ($8+ an hour lousy) at first. This will be almost an apprentice like role. As you learn and show how awesome you are, we will be able to pay you more. Hours? We don’t do weekend here. (Well I do, but I don’t expect you too) I’d guess 8ish hours a day, sometimes more and sometimes less. Location, Lehi, UT.
So in a nutshell that is what I am looking for. Questions? Do you fit this bill? You want to risk it? Contact me.
Strep Sucks
The joys of parenthood include sharing in their illnesses. My kids were fine in a day, I was not. Got to see the Dr again for the first time in about 2-3 years. They gave me a choice of a penicillin shot or pills for my strep. I opted for the shot for 2 reasons. 1) Didn’t want to have to do another co-pay @ the pharmacy. 2) Shot was easier then swallowing a bunch of pills for a week or two.– my throat is still hurting like crazy.
So now I am just weak, hurts to talk, *really* hurts to swallow, amazingly sore all over, etc. (I don’t usually get sick so it is an interesting experience for me)
Luckily I early voted, so no worries there. I was going to volunteer as a poll worker today but that got canceled since there is no way I can do that w/ strep. Just a few minor campaign tweaks and stats monitoring then back to bed for me.
How To Blow $984.25 on 39 Clicks
This happened a few weeks ago, I have gotten over it so I’ll share.
Here I am attacking myspace with bunches of ads and so on. I am going back and updatin bids, etc. I was going kinda fast and updated an ad to $27.00 per click instead of 0.27 per click. Sadly I wasn’t totally zoned into MySpace’s ad interface. I would have caught it if the ad hadn’t been the only one on a very non-obvious page 2….
Soooo glad I have a $1,000 limit on that campaign.
Look Ma, No Conversions!
I send a nice email to Myspace asking if they can credit me or something.
Hello,
Unfortunately, we do not currently offer the option for a refund. However, at your discrection you are able to stop the ad campaign.
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I think they were laughing at me… Really, I can stop it myself? Thanks for the awesome support.
But here is what is weird. Since that screwup my myspace ad account has gotten zero clicks on ANY of the 20+ campaigns I have there. With all the stories about myspace ad accounts “freezing” up I’ll probably start a new account too and just toss this account since it doesn’t seem to be working anymore.
PS. Zero Conversions on that campaign.
Finally figred out what free PPC software I am gonna give you all
A really simple “keyword exploder.” Essentially you have a small list of keywords and add various modifiers to them (some optional, some not) and suddenly you go from just a few keywords to a few hundred plus. For grins I might even throw something in there for autogrouping them…
Right now I am fixing my fubar’ed XP partition (Parallels, Bootcamp, SP3 and VMWare makes for a screwed up day). So I probably won’t bother starting till this weekend.
I’ll Wear Your SWAG @ ASE
Want me to wear your shirt/cap/pants/whatever when I am speaking at affiliate summit east in a few weeks? Contact me and let me know what you have in mind. As long as it is not too ridiculous and you can get it to me fast enough I’ll be sure to wear it that Sunday. In fact, if you like I can wear something every day.
I’ll be there 8/10 -> 8/12 (but I do have to leave early to catch my flight home — babysitter starts school 8/13)
I am 6′6″ 230 lbs and stick out in a crowd pretty bad (in a good way). People will definitely see your swag. I’d go for golf shirts over t-shirts but I can be flexible. Blinking LED’s are acceptable as well.
Contact me for shipping details and what you would like.
Shirt Size: XXL (XL in T-Shirts will do)
Pant Size: 36 38 waist and 36 length
Am I charging for this? Not this year. If it is really successful I would consider donating to a worthy cause in return.
Edit: I changed my waist size. Aparently I am getting fat. 
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