Marketing, Speedsolving, and My Summer

June 27th, 2009

The summer has been great so far.  I started putting in a lot of time into my campaigns right after finals in early May.  In early June I went to Albuquerque, New Mexico for a wedding.  Between June 1 and June 13, I drove to Denver (about 4 hours from where I am this summer) about 5 times.  A week ago I flew to Dallas, Texas for another wedding.  It was a great time.  While I was there, my affiliate campaigns took off.  I was on pace to do well over $10,000 in revenue for the month of June, but I have paused them for the time being to setup some optimizations and prepare to expand.  I plan for July to be a huge month for me.

I plan to sell a house in July, and then I will move back to Denver just before the end of the month (at the latest) so I can move all my stuff out of a house I am renting and also attend a Speedsolving Competition in Aurora on the 18th.  The lease on the house expires July 30th.

In August I will fly to San Fransisco, California for the US Nationals Rubik’s Competition.  When I get back home from that, I will start preparing to head over to England for 10 months to study my Junior year of college over there in Leeds (Electrical Engineering).   I will leave early-mid September. In October I will head over to Düsseldorf, Germany for the World Rubik’s Cube Championship 2009.

So, that is my summer in a shell.  Aside from that, I plan to do some fishing, climb some fourteeners, play some ice hockey, board down the Great Sand Dunes, and expand my affiliate campaigns.  It should be fun.

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My Top 5 Best Google Products

May 28th, 2009

Here is my list of the top 5 Google products that I use all the time.

Google Analytics

Provides high quality stats about website traffic.  Absolutely amazing, and 100% free.

Google Adsense/Adwords

Google advertising and it is enornmous.  The program alone brought Google over $21 billion in revenue in 2008, Google main source of revenue.  And it is only growing.

Google Checkout

Awesome service by Google for managing buying/selling products online.  Has small transaction fees, similar to Paypal.

Gmail

Google email - big, fast, efficient, easy, and free!

Google Maps

Find where you need to go; anywhere in the world.  Street view is just icing on the cake, it is absolutely amazing.

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Landing Page Clickthroughs in Prosper202

May 15th, 2009

If you want to know the clickthrough rate of your landing page, here is a basic way to analyze it using Prosper202.  It can be a bit hard to find if you aren’t familiar with Prosper202 or Tracking202.  The clickthrough rate of your landing page is basically the amount of people who show up to your landing page and click through to the actual offer from your landing page.  So say you have 100 people show up to your landing page, and 25 click on the “call-to-action” button to get the actual offer,  your landing page clickthrough rate will be 25% (25% of the people clickthrough to the offer).

Once you have your landing page setup with all the Prosper202 code on it (the outbound link [cloaked or uncloaked], and the javascript), you will then be able to receive data on Prosper202.  To view the clickthrough rate, go to your Prosper202 > Click on Analyze > Click on Landing Pages.  This will pull up data for each of your landing pages, including the clicks, the clickthrough rate, leads, etc.  Below is an image that shows you exactly where this data is located (click on image for larger views):

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mIRC for Mac OSX : Conversation

May 12th, 2009

If you have a Mac and want to connect to an internet chat relay like you would with mIRC on Windows, you can use a free program called Conversion.  It works great, and IMO is even better than mIRC.

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MySpace Ads: Image Upload Failing

May 11th, 2009

This is an update to an older post found here.

I’m on Mac OSX Leopard, and have tried in Firefox 3 and Safari to resolve this problem with no luck. When I click Upload A New Ad, and then it says “Please be patient. Your ad is being uploaded”, it stays at 0%, even after 5 minutes. To get around this, I’ve tried building an ad and just uploading the image ad I want to use, but it freezes at 50% there. I don’t have problem when I upload small images like 50×50 px. The ad I am trying to upload is the correct size both by dimension and by size.

I emailed MySpace about this again, and here is the reply I got:

Thank you for contacting MySpace support. We are aware there are compatibility issues when using a Mac to access, update and edit MySpace profiles, unfortunately, at this time we are unable to provide full support for Mac users. Future plans do include resolving these compatibility issues, so be on the lookout for a future announcement regarding when these issues have been resolved.

So basically if you want to get around this problem, for now you will need to upload your ads on a PC.

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Creating an Affiliate Network

May 11th, 2009

I found out today about a new service called Has Offers.  It is basically software that builds an affiliate network for you.  For a limited time, it is free to signup.  You can check out my affiliate network I just created here:

http://pjk.hasoffers.com

Feel free to signup and check it out.  It is quite an amazing piece of software for free right now, so take advantage of it!

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You can’t open “Limewire” because of Java 1.5

April 30th, 2009

Have a Mac and experience this error when running Limewire 5.0?:

You can’t open “Limewire” because it requires a version of Java that is not available. This application requires a 1.6+ version of Java. The available version 1.5 may be able to open this application, but it may not work correctly”
The options are to use 1.5 or Quit

This appears to be a bug in the latest version of Limewire, because your computer can be completely updated with the latest Java, and Limewire still will not run because of the above error.

How to Fix this Problem

First thing to do is to remove any existing version of Limewire you may have installed.  Simply go to your Applications folder, fine the folder/icon called Limewire, and put it in the trash.

In order to use Limewire, simply download an older version, version 4.16.7 works perfectly fine and it just as good if not better than Limewire 5.  Once downloaded, install it, and open it up.  You should now have a working version of Limewire on your computer.

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The Facebook Open Stream API

April 28th, 2009

Check this out… a pretty huge step for Facebook.  It is going to change the way Facebook works:

Today we are excited to announce an important step toward greater openness through Facebook Platform. For the first time, we’re opening the core Facebook product experience — the stream — with the new Facebook Open Stream API.

The home page design centralizes the stream of information that tells you what’s going on right now in the world around you. With the Facebook Open Stream API users will be able to use applications to read and interact with their stream. As a Facebook developer you’ll also be able to access the posts you’ve published into the stream and display them in your application, whether it’s on a mobile device, Web site or desktop.

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Similar Images in Google Search

April 20th, 2009

Check it out here:

http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/

Google can now help you find similar images based off appearance, instead of words.

Refine your image search with visual similarity

Similar Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words. Click the “Similar images” link under an image to find other images that look like it. Try a search of your own or click on an example below.

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The Shoemoney Story

April 16th, 2009

Yaro Starak did an interview with Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker.  You can find the interview here:

http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/1067/shoemoney-jeremy-schoemaker/

It is a pretty good insight into Jeremy’s life.  I have been reading his blog since it basically started, and it is amazing to see how much he has progressed since I’ve been reading his blog.  It is a 77 minute podcast, I’d recommend listening to it, you can learn a lot.

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