The #1 Reason I Love Marketing
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Today I realized what my favorite part of SEO/marketing. While I love making my own hours, working in my boxers, the challenge, and the competition of it all, none of those take the proud title of my #1 reason.
My number one reason is that money can magically appear.
I’m miserable at accounting. But I rather enjoy that fact up until tax time. I end up promoting SO many affiliate programs, I end up forgetting about them. And then someday I just get checks. It’s awesome! If I don’t have cash on me or lose my debit card(which happens relatively frequently; my room is a pit), I go check my mailbox. And voila. Dinner at a decent restaurant? Paid for(the niches I don’t remember are normally small producers, but nice surprises).
Someday, I’m going to create a wall with copies of checks. Not for vanity(many are not large), but just so I can remember the weird things I’ve ended up selling at some point or another.
“Oh yeah, I sold trash cans. It’s right in between the “My Little Pony” check and the one for industrial meat lockers(those niches are made up).
That’s really all I have to say.
You already got a content entry today. What do you expect?
-XMCP
February 26th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Got to agree with you on that one! Its always fun whenever unexpected money bumps in..
February 26th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I have hundreds of ticket websites from years ago - and amazing - I still receive ticket affiliate checks in the mail every month. Its the gift that just keeps giving.
February 27th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Nice idea.
I’ve just started out in the make-monies-online business, and I’ll definately be making copies of all the checks I recieve in the future.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:14 am
A fun thought.
So here I am with another quick irrelevant question, since you kindly answered my last one. You know how on backlink checkers, Google will only find a fraction of your links respectable enough to list? Well, I went from 283 to 9 such in a week. As far as I can tell, the only change I made in my SEO strategy was to take someone’s advice to answer questions at Yahoo and leave links when it was in my field of expertise. Would that make me seem so shady that Google would knock off all my respectable link points?
February 27th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Nope. The links you had were probably all from one or two locations. They may have been relocated or removed(a site architecture change perhaps). But more than that, never ever trust Google’s link: command. Either use Google’s Webmaster tools, or go to Yahoo and search for linkdomain:yourdomain.com
Google in reality has many more backlinks for your site than they choose to show you.
February 27th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Thanks!
February 28th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Since you are so full of yourself…
Please list your top affiliate
programs.
Please explain why an affiliate program
has a 45 day cookie…a 60 day cookie
etc. Why cheat the web site out of
“return” customers after the cookie runs
out…?
Watercolorman
February 28th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
@Will:
I’ll try and get back to your e-mails today. Midterm week.
1)I’m not full of myself. Just 2 entries or so back I admitted that I’m a newbie at PPC. Beyond that, there are people out there who exceed my income several times over. I’m not the best by a long shot. I’m learning though.
2)I’ve listed some of my favorites before, but my bread and butter are the tiny ones not on any major network that I will not list since it gives away my niche.
3)It’s not “cheating” the site out of anything. Affiliates spend a lot of money in many cases to get the site a customer they would not have gotten otherwise. And many customers go home to check with their significant other, or shop around for a bit before coming back for the buy. Especially when they’re at work. The 30-45 day cookie is the acknowledgment that it was the affiliate that introduced the person to the site, and that that customer would probably not have bought was it not for the work of the affiliate.
March 21st, 2008 at 4:31 am
it’s interesting that very often we can talk about what does not work, or the biggest mistakes.
Writing about what you love is a great way to re-frame your situation and also be thankful for what it has provided for you.
April 5th, 2008 at 7:04 am
XHTML, Hi
I’m still trying to get started at the whole making-money-online thing, so not yet had a single check, but if/when I do then if I was the affiliate to get someone to target site then I should get something for it… I just don’t see what Will’s griping about!
stacks of good content on your site by the way, so thanks for that (some of it over my head yet though!)
Cheers,
Gregg Thurby