Day Job Killer - What a Crock!

Remember what I said about the scoundrels being more interesting than the good guys?

Well, in this case maybe the scoundrel and the good guy are wrapped into one.

The product is the Day Job Killer and you can read my full review here.

Fun with Internet Marketing

I have given a lot of thought over the years since I bought the domain MyOpinion.com what I wanted to do with it, from a fancy site that lets people set up their own site so they can give their opinion about all sorts of things to a database of products like Epinions.com.

In the end, I have decided to give my opinion, and pledge to turn out at least 500 words daily here. The idea is to develop a discipline for writing and to make money at the same time by writing on Internet marketing products.

If you are looking to be entertained, your first thought on Internet Marketing is that it can’t be made fun because Internet Marketing is for greedy, money grubbing people who just want to make a quick buck. That used to be my take on the subject as well, back when I desperately wanted to make big money, but now I want to enjoy myself and practice writing first and leverage those skills to make money online. Now the money is secondary to the writing.

The characters in the world of Internet marketing are very colorful. Many are very skilled, some of them even ethical. I plan to give my opinion on many of those characters and their products. Do you think I will praise the rich and successful and condemn the scoundrels? Stay tuned. Scoundrels make for good material. Their products may be substandard, but oh, the humanity!

Shakespeare isn’t Shakespeare because he wrote about good people. Not that I am comparing myself to Shakespeare, but he is well read and I am sure his opinion would bring many readers to his Internet Marketing blog if he had written one. Think about his Adsense revenues -- perhaps surpassing those of even Joel Comm.

The point is that people haven’t been reading Shakespeare for several hundred years because he wrote plays and expressed his opinion about the boy scouts or other do-gooders of society. He wrote about the scoundrels. The Internet marketing trees are filled with rotten, but highly entertaining fruit cases. Therein lies the comedy and the tragedy of Internet marketing.

Get rich quick but laugh first and keep laughing, ‘cause it ain’t so easy to make money online as it seems. But laughter here won’t cost you $97 for a few pdf pages. It’s free.

And if you laugh, you won’t get frustrated and give up on your pre-sales page or wake up in a sweat in the middle of the night thinking, “Oh, my God, I forgot the daily budget on that Adwords campaign and the Chinese are awake and clicking! Better pause that campaign before my savings have been sucked away by a click farm full of hungry Chinamen trying to make me bankrupt!”

You can rest easy. Laugh your way to success. Keep reading my opinion daily and you will soon be that super affiliate that you have been promised you will become by all those Internet Marketing, make money online, get rich quick ebooks.

Google Tests Pay-Per-Call Ads

You got to love those Google guys. They just never quit innovating. In a PC World article, Google is said to be offering pay-per-call ads, in which a user and an advertiser are connected via a Google telephone service. When a user clicks on a phone icon within an ad, a popup box appears into which the user is instructed to type his or her phone number. Google then connects the user to the advertiser through their phone service.

Similar to pay-per-click ads, the advertiser bids for the best placement of the pay-per-call ads, and just like in the pay-per-click model, the advertiser only pays when Google them with a user.

Adsense Goes Live With Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up

Google announced Friday on their Adsense blog that publishers will have the ability to sign up advertisers directly from their own pages. With this feature, called Onsite Advertiser Sign-up, publisher ad units will display an ‘Advertise on this site’ link that takes interested advertisers to a landing page where they can quickly create an Adwords account and ad targeting that site. The ad created though this channel would automatically target only that publisher’s site.

Did Your Chitika Ad Revenue Drop?

Mine did, what little there is of it. Chitika announced yesterday that they “updated the eMinimalls units to drive qualified clicks, “ and that publishers could therefore expect to see decreased revenue.

In an attempt to reduce the backlash due to the drop in earnings, they state that they will give a 10% bonus to publishers till the end of November.

If you are interested in possibly recouping some or all of your losses, check out Daren Rowse’s article Chitika eMiniMalls - How to Increase CTR.

Google Adword Antics

What’s with Google suddenly de-activating words that were just running in another campaign for 5 cents per click and saying I need to raise my bid to $1 to activate them in a second campaign that has an entirely different landing URL?

I used Ad Words Analyzer, a great little tool, to refine the words for the second campaign, thinking I had done a much better job with this campaign, and that the clicks were about to begin to whirr in, but when I got to the point of estimating traffic in the Adwords tool, I noticed my prize word was marked inactive and that to activate it, I needed to raise my bid to $1. I checked the old campaign and it was still active at a nickel. Goo figure.

Off and Running and Still Running

Things have moved very rapidly in the last couple days since I set off on a journey to discover the potential of Internet marketing.

From Adsense to Overture, Clickbank to Commission Junction, minisites to landing pages and a myriad of blogs explaining every facet of how to make money fast, I am overwhelmed.

But true to my promise, I am launching this blog on Internet Marketing and will have at least six campaigns (well, listings, I should say) started coming from CB. You can see them at stuff-that-sells.com. The site is in its infancy, just a few hours old, but it will improve greatly SOON.

Also lots of work to do to optimize my old friend freegreetingcards.com. But more about that a little later.