So I wanted to update you all on what i have been up too. I wrote a great E-Book which you can see on this website. I’ll let the video tell you more about it, but I think it can really help you out in your journey with CPA marketing

     Well it has been a few weeks since I last wrote a post and I was thinking… IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT!!! HAHA … I’m Kiddinggggg, I promise. I have been a little bit wusy starting up my last year of college. Trying to get into all my classes and get settled. I haven’t been doing too much marketing, but I haven’t totally ignored it. I have kept up with the Twitter stuff. I now have 10 accounts and a total of 25,000 to 30,000 followers. Making about 3 bucks a day with that only promoting RevTwit and gettiong like 30 clicks a day or something like that. Not a lot of money by any means, but it’s posting the ads for me so there isnt much work involved.


     I began writing this post as an update to what io have been up to. I wanted to make sure that all 9 of my faithful readers didn’t feel like i forgot about this and forgot about them. I realized a lesson I learned as i was about to write down the next thing that I had been doing the last few weeks. I bought an E-Book a few days ago ( I KNOW! I said don’t waste your money on E-Books, but it was 10 bucks and promised it wasn’t a blown out method) and well it was a good Idea. I went with it for a few days and I actually made a few bucks without putting any money into the method at all. I was only testing it, but i made $27 in 2 1/2 days. I thought I found something to hold me over for the next few weeks which was nieve of me to think. After 2 1/2 days it seems that the website that had the loophole that I exploited FIXED THE LOOPHOLE and rendered the method useless. I am not giving too much detail to the method for a few reasons. I bought the book and don’t have permission to give information about it, it is very blackhat, and it doesn’t work anymore so why bother LOL. The point I am trying to make is that affiliate marketing is not stable or steady. You may find a method that will always work and not get saturated, BUT you will always have to adjust the niche or the lead in order to keep your conversions up and the money the same. Always moving on to the next best thing and keeping up on what is popular now. Don’t get comfortable and don’t be satisfied with anything that makes you a couple of bucks at the start because it will most likely become saturated and non-profitable in the long run.


     I hope that isn’t being interpreted as me saying there is no method that will ever work for long periods of time. That is not what I am saying. For example, PPC/keyword advertising is something that will always be popular and be a money source. What i am saying is that those people who do PPC for ResV ( Diet Pill ) will fail in time when the ad has been out there for a while. Those people need to take advantage of the method with that niche for a while and then use that same method and find a new hot lead in order to make good money. See the method is good, but the product gets old. There are methods that are long term, most are not, but either way you must not become satisfied. Try to remember how long it took for you to find the current method you are using and then imagine if it became totally non-profitable and you had to look for another method. Get the start on it when you are making money. This will allow you to do more research and more experimenting rather than waiting till you don’t have a method or money and not having the funds to find a new method to go with.


     Ok I am done rambling on. I really try to make these posts entertaining for my readers. I have a feeling this one may be one of the less entertaining, but I think it is one of the more important lessons I have learned in all the years I have been in the internet business.

Here is a little video getting you caught up with the things I am working on right now. AdWords giving me headaches, Adcenter making me pull my hair out, and I refuse to say anything bad about Twitter anymore.

     It has been a few days since I have written anything, but is to be expected from now on because it is impossible for someone to continuously pull topics out their butt and have a lot to say about them. However, I have had some bad luck with a topic I covered a few posts ago and it has really been bothering me. Im not a very big fan of the actual usage of Twitter and how popular it is these days. I am pretty sure I stated this in my previous post when I talked about making money off Twitter [ Freak the Tweet Post ]. I think that was a mistake because I have been failing miserably to get people to follow my account. I mean I was rolling for a week or 2 and i was getting like 300 new followers a day to my Twitter account. STOP RIGHT THERE!!!!! Twitter has put up a speed bump and my Porsche is an inch off the ground. I don’t get what is going on. I didn’t change my method and i haven’t been banned. I just can not gain a follower if my life depended on it.
BUM WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME THIS!?
     Karma is a b**ch and I’m payin’ for my comments about Twitter. SO I HAVE TO FIX THIS. I am going to try to let you all know about a good program that may make you a little bit of money with your Twitter account. Don’t be mad if you know this because it is not a big secret, but I feel like I have to share ANYTHING with my readers in order to turn my Twitter luck around.
     RevTwit.com Is a website that allows you to profit from your Twitter accounts. I was just turned to it a few weeks ago and I was immediately interested in the system. They allow you to sync about 10 accounts to their system and you can actually pick from categories of ads you would like them to AUTOMATICALLY submit as posts on your account. Yep, they will automatically post up to 2 ads on each account per day and you will be paid per click. I was probably thinking the same thing you are thinking. DIRT CHEAP CLICKS RIGHT? Well no. I actually saw ads that paid from $.05-$.13 per click. Get a few accounts with a TON of followers and you can make a pretty penny with payouts like that. It just all depends on what type of ads you want to run as well. The banner below will allow you to sign up to the site. They payout with Paypal which I am a big fan of. Well I am hoping this is something you all can use. Might be played out, but it is a little extra income.

THE BUM EXTRA!!
     Okay. I haven’t don’t this for you all in a while, but I am sharing an idea I had. I am sure I am not the only person thinking about this, but maybe someone who is smart can hook some people up. I have not done this idea, but I am still sharing it.
     WordPress is a wonderful tool and I encourage all webmasters to do something with a blog. Keeping with the theme of this post I was thinking that it would be nice to take advantage of RevTwit’s shortURL system. You put in a URL to the short URL generator on RevTwit and it will spit out a short URL that will pay you money every time it is clicked. Cool huh? NOT IT!!! I want to take it a step further and incorporate that with WordPress plugins that do bookmarking. The Tweet This button is a big one for me. If someone can find the API for that and code a plugin for WordPress that will allow you to put a Tweet This button on your blog that will automatically post on Twitter using a Short URL from RevTwit, then you may be able to make a little bit of money from that. If it’s already possible then tell me how, but if not then get to work because that’s a frickin’ gold mine.

     Well I was just letting you guys know what I have been up to lately with all the stuff i have been trying out. Twitter is working ok and I can see the advantages of creating these accounts. I don’t have many followers yet and the sites have seen a rise in traffic. This is good since I am able to target the people I am following.

     Well it is Saturday and you know what I realized. I need a life. I’m kidding though. I am just frustrated with Affiliate Marketing right now because I am having trouble finding my niche and my method. I realize that I am going to need many different methods to be successful in the future, but when you are starting with no seed money, you need to take it one step at a time….and I’m tripping!

     This brings me to a little motivation or advice for people who are in my current position. Frustration is a big part of the process. We are going to fail a lot before we get to something that works. The important thing for us to remember is that you pay attention to what fails and what works. Don’t look at it as you failed, but look at it like “why did this fail”. When you can do this sort of thing, you will be able to take positive things that did convert well, continue with them, and put a twist on the things that failed to see if you can make them work. I am currently failing a lot and not finding things that I am willing to do. I have a few morals and at the time being I can’t afford to be sued – HA! So I am sticking to things that are legit and not “scams”. Of course I do feel there is a difference between scams and tricking people. I’m not trying to E-Whore or tell people on Craigslist that they have a job waiting for them.

     I guess the real point of this post is to encourage people to keep going and not give up. The start is the hardest point, but once you are able to generate money with one method then you can start scaling it and make tons more. It gets easier once you have an idea of what direction you are going. It also allows you to take more risks when you have something steady going. Your method will be bringing you cash while you are out trying other methods that may or may not work. Unlike when you started, if something fails then you won’t be so pressed to make something happen with it. You will already be generating money with your first method and all the are purely extra money revenues. Sounds nice doesn’t? NO? Well think of it this way then… Ever have a girl you know really likes you, but you are able to keep her around without committing to her. Friends with benefits I would say. It’s just like that. Go play the field with other girls to find a girl you really like and if you hit a dry spell with the ladies then you got that one girl you can always call up and chill with. Always nice isn’t it. Get a method and make it steady. Go out and gamble on other bigger methods that may end up bringing you twice as much money. You will lose some cash in the process, but you won’t worry about it because you know you have a steady method running every day.

     Well I am sure that you are all aware of of the freak of nature we call Twitter. Ugh, its taking over our lives. I am sorry, but I can really care less to hear when your taking a dump or what Ashton Kutcher has to say about life. I mean, dont get me wrong at all, That 70′s Show and Kelso are priceless. I just don’t care what he has to say post-1979. To me, Twitter is just glorified “Reply to All” text messaging.

     Now that I have said all that, why the HELL aren’t you using this crap already!! I mean seriously it can be a great marketing tool and will be filled with tons of targeted, yes TARGETED, traffic. There are tons of tools that will allow you utilize Twitter in a way that can help you and your affiliate marketing campaigns.

     I recently saw a method that will turn Twitter traffic into profitable traffic for your blogs. It will take a couple programs in which I will cover in a few short sentences, but the main jist of it is that you will be able to follow targeting users and get them to go to your website. I plan on using this idea on this site and if it works then try it with affiliate campaigns. Oh, and yes, I will be sharing with your what I found.

What will I need and Why:

•      You will need a program that automatically adds followers. You can go one of 2 ways with this… 1) Used a web-based application like Tweepular.com which is free and will follow and unfollow friends. It will allow you to add up to 200 friends at a time which is nice, but won’t let you target who you add. It is just random people. 2) you can buy a program like HummingBird or Tweet Adder. These run anywhere from $50-$200 and will do much more than the web-based models. You will be able to put in keywords and target people who follow those words which is obviously a plus when you want to advertise to people who are interested in what you have to say. PLEASE NOTE: Twitter only allows for 500 people followed per day . I am writing this now knowing that this max number may change by the time you read this post, but just be aware that there is a limit to how many people you can follow in a day. I have definitely made this mistake… twice… OK 4 times. These programs will add the followers to your account automatically and you can set it up for multiple accounts to do it at the same time. At the bottom of the post I will suggest places that MAY have these programs for free…

•      The next thing you will need is a program that will auto respond to followers. With Twitter you are able to talk to people by typing an “@” sign before their user name ( ex: @bumblogs ). There are programs out there that will pick 4 people and send little messages to them (Tweep.net ). This is good because people pay attention to that sort of thing and if you put a link to something on your blog then they may be more likely to click it and go to your website.

     So, that’s just one way you can drive traffic from Twitter to your websites where you have your leads.

     I am gonna try it out and let you all know how it goes for me. If I can turn that traffic into conversions and lots of good money. Who knows, it may end up being something profitable and it may get me to My 1st Goal.

THE BUM EXTRA:
TIP:

Twitter has a feature that ranks the top things talked about. These “trends” are are a good tool and EVERYONE has access too them ( they are located on the right column on Twitter). Use them… Write tweets with your link in it and include the trend word. Take a look at my Retweet button for My First Goal : V-Blog #1. 73 retweets or visits and I put that Phillip DeFranco died and here is the story, ONCE! Sorry, to the Philly D fans, but I doubt he is actually dead. Great way to improve traffic.

As Promised:

BlackHatWorlds Download section (Must Sign Up To view or DL these programs)

Where I got this method:

Part 1: TwitterProdigy.com: Tweet Adder
Part 2: TwitterProdigy.com: Mass Twitter Marketing Software

Tweet this Alright?!!?

“Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.“( imdb.com )

     Yes… I am being serious. This is my Affiliate Movie of the week. I was up at about 4 a.m. this morning and this movie came on showtime. I watched it because I hadn’t seen it in a while and Helen Hunt was strangely attractive as an ex-drunk single mother (don’t ask). As I was sitting in bed fighting off sleep deprivation, I for some reason thought of affiliate marketing and making money in general. It was because of the boys Idea to change the world by doing 3 nice things for three random people then have those people do three nice things for three random people. This trend would go on and on until the world has been changed by good deed, theoretically.

     You might be asking where I am going with this or you have already figure it out. The Tier System people. Yep referral programs at their most complex. You refer someone to something and earn a percentage, then the people that person refers earns you a smaller percentage. It works in levels and each level will bring you money at a lower price than the previous. This is kind of cool if you can get it rolling and get people to sign up that are interested in getting other people to sign up as well. It will only work to your advantage if you can get dedicated people to sign up and follow through. So, don’t tell your buddies to sign up and leave it to die. It might be some extra commision for you, but nothing to make a living off of unless you find a quality program and you have a great avenue to get people to sign up. Otherwise you can send your referral link out and just hop it catches on.

     In conclusion, you should watch Pay it Forward. its a pretty decent movie and you might even shed a tear at the end. But while you are snuggled up on the couch alone with you ice cream and Victoria Secret magazines (because you like the articles,right?), pay attention to what is going on and you will see that his method can apply to you and your marketing journey.

Here Are Some Sites That Run This System:

• BigCrumbs
• Hits4Pay

A WHOLE 75 Bucks. I need A Job… NOTTTTT So Much!