So, I got hit by the H1N1 I believe. I started getting a head cold sometime during the day on Friday. I was completely congested in my head, nose, etc. Started getting flu symptoms like the shivers, muscles ached, felt extremely week, etc. The flu symptoms didn’t really come on strong till Saturday evening.

Anyways, I’ve always been the type of person that when I do get sick, I can normally go to sleep that night and by the time I wake up the next day, I’m good! However, when I woke up Sunday morning it only got worse… I told myself that if I was still sick Monday I’d go to the doctors to get checked out cause of this whole swine flu thing…

Monday, I woke up and I was actually feeling a little better, so I decided I didn’t need to go, however, by Monday evening it hit me again, and to add on to everything else, my chest was extremely congested and I was wheezing when I’d breathe. Oh No! I figured I’d definitely go in now, cause it’s never good when you’re not breathing correctly! Of course, since it was Monday night, I decided that I might as well wait until Tuesday morning! LOL!

Tuesday morning I woke up and all my flu symptoms were gone, however, I was still having a rough time with my chest and being congested. However, being the great person I am (actually I just hate hospitals/doctors) I decided since all the rest of my symptoms was gone, I’d see what happened…

Anyways, It’s now Thursday, my chest is still a little congested, but it’s definitely getting better.

The whole reason for this post was to simply say this lol…I’m a little behind now because of this flu, so if I haven’t contacted you back yet I apologize. If you sent me an email, facebook message, twitter message, etc please be patient as I get caught back up!

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Hey guys, quick update.  I started publicly doing one-on-one consultations last month, when I wrote a post and added a link to the top of this blog.  I also offered monthly specials depending on the amount of my work load and how many consultations I was doing for the month.

I offered three packages last month, all of them were filled within a couple hours.  Out of the 3 people that signed up for the packages, two of them are already making a profit in affiliate marketing starting with nothing!

This month, I only have 1 spot available, however, I decided to split it in to two smaller packages this month for those not looking for soo many hours.

Instead of the normal $200 dollars an hour rate, you can get my one on one consultations at the rate of $100 dollars an hour if you purchase the package.

There are two packages each at two and a half hours for $250 dollars.  That’s a rate of only $100 dollars an hour, it saves you 50% off the normal price.

Again, these normally go fast, so if you’re interested you need to let me know as soon as possible as there are only two of these packages this month, and going in to the holidays, I’m doubting that they’ll be any during November or December at the discounted rate.  If there are, again, there will only be maybe 1 or 2 spots.

You can use the contact form listed at the top of this blog to contact me by email, I’ll email you back and you’ll need to submit payment within an hour of getting an email back from me else, I’ll move on to the next person in line in order to give everyone equal opportunity.

If you have any questions, you can email me using the contact form, or you can leave a comment, I’ll answer as soon as possible in order to give you ample time to make a decision before someone else buys up the spots!

PS:  If you are interested in buying the full 5 hours for $500 dollars, let me know in the email you send.  I’ll consider it depending on how quickly others shoot me an email, but if possible I’d like to keep it at two spots to help more people.

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A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the content network and how if you weren’t using it, you are missing out on a ton of potentially great (and cheap) traffic.

A question I received a lot after writing that blog post was how you could tell what sites your ads were showing up on while running on the content network.  The reason so many people are curious about this, is because if there is a certain site that your ad is showing up like crazy on, yet you aren’t receiving any conversions, it will suck your account dry!

Now personally, I only mess with the content network with Google, so I’m only familiar with how to get to it from within their interface, however, I’m sure the basic procedure is the same on most networks if they offer the feature.

First, you need to log in to your Google Adwords account.  After you have logged in, you need to click on the Reporting Tab, then click on Reports.

Next, click on Create a New Report.

Going off subject for a minute, this next screen will allow you to select from a ton of a different reports that you can run, each on has a small description as to the info you’ll receive.  I’d definitely recommend checking out some of the other reports, but since this post is specifically about finding sites your ads are running on when using the content network, lets move on…

If you scroll down just a touch, you’ll notice that one of the radio buttons says Placement Performance.  Click on the radio button next to Placement Performance.

There are a ton of options now that you can select like level of detail, date range, etc.  Pretty self explanatory stuff, so I won’t go in to detail on all the settings.  If you want more details on all the different settings and stuff you can visit Google’s page about Placement Performance Report Help.

Once you finish editing the settings, you’ll come to the last section which is called Templates, Scheduling, and Email.  This place simply allows you to name your report, save the report as a template for running it again later, setting the report to run automatically every so often, etc.

Once you finish that last section, click on Create Report and voila your done!

After you click on Create Report, it will take you back to the Reports Tab Section within your account.  If can take several minutes for your report to be processed.  You can either wait or feel free to move around your account till it’s finished.  It won’t affect it if you leave the page.

After it’s finished the name of the report (whatever you named it in the last section) will become a link and you simply click on the link and you’ll see all the domains/urls that your ads have appeared on.

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The following is a paid review and is completely of my own opinion. If you’re interested in having me review your site or product, please view my advertising page.

It seems like every day new affiliate networks are popping up.  It becomes almost impossible  to weed your way through the overload of networks in order to find those that truly stand out.  I’ve worked with countless networks throughout my career as an affiliate marketer and most times I find that smaller networks can actually be better than some of the bigger networks if they run their network correctly.  The reason for this is because they normally don’t have as many crap offers in each niche as the big networks sometimes have. Instead, if they are a smart network, they keep the number down to a good few select offers in each niche that they know converts through testing that they themselves have done.  This doesn’t mean that they don’t have loads of niches and plenty of offers within these niches, it just means that they cut out the crap stuff!  This is where Profit Kings Media comes in..

Profit Kings Media is a small network in terms of the number of actual affiliates they have compared to some networks like Market Leverage or AzoogleAds, however, this is not a reason to dismiss them and not try them out.  In fact, it’s quite the opposite.  Profit Kings Media does a phenomenal job at treating all their affiliates like super affiliates even if their not!  There are a couple ways that they do this…

• They Pay Weekly!  Whether you’re making $3 dollars a week or $300,000 dollars a week!
• They Offer Cheap Wires ($12 US, $20 International) and also offer free ACH’s or Checks

Another reason that I believe sets Profit Kings Media apart from the competition is that several of the affiliate managers have been or currently are affiliate marketers as well and they’ll work with you to rip apart your ad copy, landing pages, work with you on scaling and testing new traffic sources, and pretty much everything else that comes with being a successful affiliate.  The guys at Profit Kings Media actually know what the heck they are talking about unlike most affiliate networks you work with.  Again, it’s another benefit of working with a smaller network versus a larger network.  Unfortunately larger networks can’t always give you the same amount of help, because honestly, most of the affiliate managers at larger networks have never run a single affiliate campaign in their entire life!

There are a couple other points that I should mention but instead of writing a huge post that most of you won’t finish, I’ll list some of the major points in a bullet list!

• Most of their normal payouts beat what most other networks bump affiliates up to!
• They have a diverse range of offers within just about every vertical that you’d want to run as an affiliate!
• They don’t send you tons of crap offers begging you to promote them…anyone know a network that sends you a daily list of top converting offers…please!
• They are extremely personable and it’s not uncommon to even talk to the owner about an offer or campaign your running and get special treatment!

Some Things That Could Be Improved

There are a couple things that I think the network could improve, mainly with their main website.  The overall design is okay, but there is a lot of information missing that I believe should be on every serious network’s website!

First, I believe they need to have a privacy policy linked to from all the pages in the footer.  Believe it or not, a lot of people (especially affiliates cause we know how this stuff works) wants to know how their personal information is and can be used.  At least I know I do.

I’d mentioned on the homepage under the publisher section that Profit Kings pays weekly, that’s a huge benefit for most affiliates and I only noticed it after searching through the site for a minute.

Also, you should not only have the join now button on the homepage, but also under the publisher page.  A lot of affiliates may click the Publisher link to get more information or whatever, and then in order to sign up, they have to go back to the main page…

Again, overall Profit Kings Media seems like a great smaller network that has a ton of potential to grow if they keep up the hard work.  It’s definitely worth looking into them for your needs as a publisher.

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So  I recently upgraded to the new iPhone 3GS since my two year contract with AT&T was up.  I had the original iPhone and I have loved it, so it was a no brainer for me to upgrade to the new one.  Now first off, let me say that I’m not an apple fan boy so please don’t turn my comments in to how much apple sucks and that I’m just an apple fan boy and that’s the only reason I like the iPhone.  Because I don’t even own anything else apple besides the iPhone, I’m a PC!

Anyways, it really is a great phone and I’m enjoying it so much.  One of the biggest reasons I decided to upgrade to the 3GS is because I was still on the edge network (super slow) and also I do a ton of video recording and use a flip ultra cause of it being so small and lightweight.  The new iphone 3GS does video and the quality of it seems just as good as the flip ultra, so that’s a huge plus for me!  One less thing to carry…

Anyways, so I’m not really writing this post to sell the iPhone, but you should check it out!  I’m actually writing it because I thought I’d share some of my favorite apps that I found, some are only for the new iphone, some can be used on any of them!

If you have any favorite apps that you can’t live with, I’d love to hear about them in the comments!  I’m always looking for new apps and honestly apples app store kinda sucks at showcasing good apps!  They are in no particular order!

1. ColorSplash – Price $1.99 – This app allows you to take any picture in your library and make a certain part of it black and white or color.  So you could have the background and everything in black and white and then the main object in color or vice versa.  That’s all it does, but it can make for some great shots and really can spice up a boring image.
2. PocketGod – Price $0.99 – This app is like a mini game.  The cool thing about it though is that the developer released small updates constantly which adds new aspects to the game each time.  Basically you have some little islanders that your the god over and you can make good or bad things happen to them.  When the developer releases an update it allows you to do something new to them!
3. TapDefense – Price Free – This is your basic tower defense game that most of you may have played online.  It’s free and is pretty good, there are some paid ones on the app store, but I think this one does a great job and it’s free!  Can’t beat that!
4. Zenonia – Price $2.99 – This is a game that is kinda like Zelda (the old snes one) but it’s also like an rpg in the fact that you can level up and get new skills, magic, etc.  It’s a really cool game and it works great on the iphone.  If you’re into rpgs you definitely need to check this one out, it’s definitely one of the best on the iPhone.
5. Waze – Price Free – This is a GPS unit for the iPhone and the great thing about it, is that it’s 100% free.  Also, the maps and everything are user generated.  It also adds a social aspect to the gps as well, it allows users to report traffic conditions, accidents, police, speedtraps, etc.  It’s a really neat concept, however, there is one downside to it.  If enough people don’t use it, it kinda sucks!  So you definitely need to check out this app and use it!

Anyways, so that’s a couple of my favorite apps, I’d love to hear some of the ones other iPhone users are using on their phones!  Post them in the comments below!

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