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I’ll be honest here. The thing that pisses me off the most is when people (seemingly) all the time post about how my blog contains no information, how I’m just like Shoemoney now, I don’t post useful information at all, etc. The majority of it comes in emails and comments on blogs.

If you’re a person that says my blog doesn’t contain any good information…you’re simply wrong. I try to not be conceited at all, but my blog probably pushes the limits the most when it comes to giving out information about affiliate marketing. This post was inspired from how the last 7 days have gone. In this past week, I have had 3 individuals IM me saying they’ve been following my blog religiously and implementing every bit of advice I give. These three individuals are now making over $2,000/day, and they attribute almost all of it to the tips they read here. That was an awesome thing to hear and I enjoyed hearing the whole story. One chap even had a 300-400% ROI and will be at $5,000/day by the end of the month. No lies at all, I’m sure each one of the guys would come here and comment to confirm that I’m not lying.

Seriously though, how much do you think one person can write about affiliate marketing? You complain that I have off-topic posts (this is my blog, so deal with it), but do you want me to repeat what I’ve already said before? Let’s think here…what is affiliate marketing…

Building Landing Pages

Landing Page Keys To Success
Landing Page Tips

Keyword Research

Uber Keyword Research

Quality Score and PPC

How I Do Quality Score
What PPC Engine To Start With
Adwords Mistakes

Scaling/Managing Campaigns

How To Scale A Campaign
How Much To Invest In A Campaign
Mistakes in Affiliate Marketing
5 Super Affiliate Strategies To Boost Profits

Case Studies

Diet Pills – How I Ran It

Philosophy/Motivation

The Mindset Of A Millionaire
Act Like A Super Affiliate
Diversification or Domination?
Earnings Screenshot

Not to mention the affiliate marketing guide I put together, as well as the 100+ questions I’m in the middle of answering covering all aspects of affiliate marketing. There’s a ton of other helpful articles that I just don’t feel like posting because none of this is worth my time for the idiots who think there’s nothing to gain from this blog and what I write.

So you’re going to unsubscribe because you disagree with an off-topic post or because you got rick rolled? Awesome I’ll laugh as I still watch my reader count jump up 50-100/day. I post more affiliate marketing information than 99% of the other blogs out there, so have a nice day and the others that are banking on my information will laugh at you too.

P.S. If you have a success story, email it to me paul [at] uberaffiliate [dot] com. I love hearing about them all the time and if you write up a little paragraph I’ll post it on the blog.

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That last post was a doozie now, wasn’t it? Ok time for me to admit a couple things :

1) I’m not the ignorant a-hole you all think I am. I wrote that post the way I did on purpose, I wanted to get your attention and get you posting replies. And hey it worked, this was my first 100+ comment post.

2) I still do hate taxes and the post wasn’t to complain about having to pay them, I’m actually paying them legit this time around as I don’t want to get audited in my first year paying taxes hah.

3) I’d like to say I’m very impressed with a lot of the responses and conversations you guys started. It proves to me and everyone out there that I have some smart chaps following this blog and I’m proud of you all ::tear::.

4) I do not associate poor people with doing drugs, that seemed to piss people off the most. I’m well aware that there’s many hard working families out there doing their best to put food on the table, and this $600 could help them pay a missed mortgage payment or something like that.

In these spirits, I did get some solid laughter out of some of the comments. Here’s my favorite one :

Comment by Daniel
Greedy fucking pig. I’ve been meaning to prune my rss reading list for a while. Thanks for reminding me to get started. Unsubscribed.

Hahahaha. I don’t know why but this one made me laugh. This has happened before in comments, people disagree with one of my posts so they unsubscribe to the whole blog and disregard any tips that would actually help them make more money? I guarantee that guy will either not unsubscribe, or keep reading my blog in some way. Another funny one…

Comment by Adam
One of the most ignorant, disgusting and egoistic posts ever. Unsubscribing.

Anyways, I applaud those who made an objective response to my post and made some good conversation/debate about it. I enjoyed reading all the comments and I’m sure everyone else that participated did as well. I apologize and I’ll have to crank out some nice tips now ;).

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In the mail yesterday I received a letter from the IRS, regarding the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008. Here is a quote of the first paragraph of this letter :

Dear Taxpayer,
We are please to inform you that the United States Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, which provides for economic stimulus payments to be made to over 130 million American households. Under this new law, you may be entitled to a payment of up to $600 ($1,00 if filing a joint return), plus additional amounts for each qualifying child.

That sounds pretty cool, right? An extra $600 isn’t really going to stimulate me to make any purchases, but I’m definitely not going to say no to it. Oh wait, maybe I have to. Here’s a quote from the bottom of the letter :

For taxpayers with adjusted gross income (AGI) of more than $75,000 (or more than $150,000 if married filing jointly), the payment will be reduced or phased out completely).

They might as well have replaced that line with :

If you’re successful at all, you don’t deserve anything. We’d rather give it to individuals that make $3,000 a year and would stimulate our economy by spending the $600 on drug money.

Honestly…what is it with the U.S. government hating on successful people? I understand that those who have a much lower income could use the money to pay off debt or whatever, and $600 isn’t enough to save me; maybe pay off 0.01% of my taxes. Really though, it seems like our government does a swell job at trying to reward those who haven’t accomplished much in their life. Maybe it’s not that, maybe it just seems like the government does a swell job at penalizing wealthy individuals for their success.

It is absolutely absurd how much of a higher percentage the rich pay in taxes. People look down upon the saying “the rich will get richer”. That quote is completely true, and that’s what should happen. If someone has the drive, motivation, and guts to take a risk and start their own company, then more power to them when they succeed. People shouldn’t cry because they chose to go to college and chose to work a 9-5 job in a cubicle for the rest of their life.

The argument against this is “well how many rich people out there are rich from just scamming and lying?” Ok, how many in the middle/lower class scam/cheat/lie/sell drugs just to put food on the table and nothing more? Plenty. There’s rotten fruit on every tree, that doesn’t mean you should chop down the entire tree.

This “economic stimulus” plan is just more icing on the cake. Let’s give money to those making less than $75,000 gross per year, and to the successful let’s just keep taxing the hell out of them. For those of you who are uninformed or are just getting into the world of self-employment, here are what federal tax rates look like :

A person who has a highly successful business ($349,700 income) is paying 25% more in taxes than somebody with an unsuccessful business. The government punishes the successful by taking over 1/3 of their profits. This isn’t even counting state tax, so let’s jack it up even higher.

ABSOLUTELY ABSURD.

Every single time I think about it, I get sick to my stomach. If a person is paying more, they’re naturally going to be paying a lot more in taxes even with a fixed percentage. Someone making $10,000 would pay $1,500 in taxes, while someone making $500,000 would pay $75,000. That’s still 50x as much. But the government likes to take advantage of the successful and jack the metric up to 116x as much, $175,000 in taxes. I would say that’s the biggest negative when entering into the lucrative world of online business.

All in all, this post was one big rant about the government, and if you’re anything like me (pretty much if you’re making money online in the US), you can understand my feelings on the subject.

Let’s go lose some money fellas, we’ll get $600 for it.

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So I figured since everybody likes posting their blog income report, I’ll start doing that too.

Private Ad Sales - $62,900
Affiliate Commission - $55,238.23
Paid Reviews - $27,345
Advertising Costs - $0

Total January Profit – $145,483.23

I think it’s just a great way to show you guys what I’m making through this blog…

…NOT. Note to newbs who emailed me asking how I made that much off my blog : the above stats are a display of what is called SARCASM. I don’t even know how much I make from this blog.

Seriously, why do people want to see a blog income report on a “Super Affiliate” marketing blog? I don’t want to name names, but John Chow and Zac Johnson come to mind. I’m not talkin’ smack or anything because I haven’t personally met either, but they’re both super affiliates who post blog income reports instead of affiliate income reports.

I mean, these people say they post blog income reports because “readers think it’s interesting to see what they make”…but what do you think would really interest readers more? Posting your blogging income, or posting the income that you’re proclaiming you’re an “expert” in? I’d surely be more interested in seeing some affiliate checks/screenshots.

Breaking New Gossip

Just heard about this a second ago. A lot of you probably know the drama thread posted by Jon of Wickedfire. If you don’t it basically was a rant thread about Shoemoney, John Chow, and Amit Mehta. I won’t go into detail, but it was a pretty lengthy rant. What I just found out was, this pissed off Shoemoney to the point where he sent Jon a Cease and Desist from his lawyer about the thread. Can’t really post who told me, or even if this rumor is true, but I did hear it. Not that it’s something that’s going to shatter the industry, but the whole situation is just funny. On a more serious note, being a person who seems pretty confident in his stature in this industry and that he doesn’t really take anything “personally” – was busting out a C & D a childish way of taking out his anger?

I never thought so much drama could happen amongst grown men.

Anyways, even though I don’t intend to piss anybody off with this post, I’m sure it will happen. This isn’t really even a rant of my own, nor am I upset or accusing anybody in this industry of being something they may not be. I just figured it was a good ‘ol time for some UberHonesty, so I posted my blog income.

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