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Time to make a post kind of detailing the huge change that I posted a week or two back about “moving to Twitter”. First I had a small message in place of this blog, but after realizing that was stupid, a pop up will suffice. I just took that down too, most people should have seen it by now anyway.

As a preface, just go sign up for Twitter and follow me. You may think Twitter is stupid and you want no part of it, but I’ll be sharing tips there so you might as well at least join to follow me and some of the other guys that post useful information.

So. I started uberaffiliate a while back when I actually started seeing success with affiliate marketing. I wanted to share my success and experiences so others could learn from it, while also building a name for myself. Both of those things worked out great I think. Good name, bad name, sellout, good advice, fake advice, whatever anybody wants to call it…this blog has been great for me and for most people.

Over time though, you do start seeing the people claiming “bad advice, sellout, etc.” more…it’s natural. And this post isn’t to bitch and moan, it’s to explain. After a certain point in time, blogging just got repetitive. And that was natural, a person can only write about so much before they start to go over what they’ve already talked about. So instead of my long articles on how I have a good Adwords quality score every other day, every other post turned into something not so significant (knowledge wise). People start moaning about that, blogging loses it’s lacquer, posts become infrequent as well as partially useless (aside from a few good posts I’ve had lately).

I wind up talking to Dr. Ngo at 1am a couple weeks ago just talking about whatever, and one of us brought up how I haven’t really been blogging at all anymore. That’s when he said “You should just start Twittering instead of blogging”. I started thinking about that, and it seemed like a good solution. Nothing good was coming from my blog frequently anyway, and Twitter was really easy to use. It kind of provides a more “real” feel too, as I could talk about my campaigns and projects as they’re actually happening. That’s when I thanked Ngo for the idea, and the next day is when I put that page up in place of uberaffiliate.com.

Fast forward to now. Taking uberaffiliate down in general was stupid, I’d have to move the archives and lose my SEO and whatnot…newb idea my bad. I’m tweeting a lot now and I’ll admit, I do like it a lot. It’s a lot more social than the blog which I like, and if you really dig into it you can get some decent tips from people.

About blogging? DoshDosh has the idea. One kickass post every month or so. No pressure to blog every day, no pressure to always find something new to write about, just one major topic every month to really cover. I already have an idea about my first post I’d do like that, so maybe we’ll see something like that soon.

As a wrap up, I’ll be tweeting every day still and I’ll be there more than here, but I will still be blogging every now and then., just understand the posts will be spread out a pretty decent amount. Going to save all the off-topic talk for Twitter.

That is all.

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Finally, 21.

I can now attend Affiliate Summit and after parties with a clean conscience, woo.

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So as you can see, there have been some pretty huge changes to the blog! I wanted something with an actual “portal” type homepage with a bunch of information that’s constantly updated for people to see. First I’d like to thank Unique Blog Designs for doing an AWESOME job. Now onto the changes :

New Homepage

This is the biggest change. Now on the homepage you can see recent posts, recent forum posts, a Twitter feed (which I’ll be updating a lot more now), a featured posts section, and the blog’s categories.

You can still check the blog that looks just like the old one (almost) at UberAffiliate.com/blog/.

A Forum

I wanted a place where my UberAffiliate readers could go and directly ask questions and talk about things. So it makes perfect sense to have a forum at UberAffiliate. Right now the default theme is just thrown up there and the forum looks like trash, but within the next couple days UBD will be skinning it to match the blog. I just wanted to get it up and running so you guys can all register and start talking.

Many people wondered where UberCamp went and the forums there. Right now I’m not going to say anything about what happened, other than I had to close it down. It has nothing to do with any of the members, memberships, or what happened. It just had to go. I like the idea of a forum on this domain anyways.

More Activity By Me

I’ve started to make a comeback this past month or so, but before that my posts were few and far between. I want to really start getting involved again, not because I have to for my business (things are still going great), but just because I started to feel really disconnected with things. It’s hard enough not interacting with people on a daily basis in real life, but this blog was the “social” aspect of my work.

So anyways, more posts and whatnot, new theme, forum, enjoy.

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I just realized today how absent I’ve been from this blog. I don’t really know what’s going to come out in the post, as usual I’m just doing it on the fly. So I guess I’ll try and explain what I’ve been up to lately.

ASW Vegas/Early January

I did not attend ASW Vegas for a couple reasons. One being that I’m not 21 and just watching everybody gamble would make me want to cry. Second being I wouldn’t be allowed into the actual conference, which I have described about 1,000 times how RETARDED that is. I also felt like I needed a break from affiliate marketing and life in general.

So I decided to go on a road trip. Me and 4 of my friends drove straight from NY to Disney World in Florida, I was able to hook us up with a suite with Amex points so they were able to cut down on a lot of their costs. We had a total blast and every single day was nothing but fun. Except for the fact that…

Affiliate Marketing Meltdown

All I had been hoping for that was when I went on the road trip, everything with AM would be going fine. I wasn’t going to spend a minute doing work – and I didn’t. But a part of me just laughed and knew something would go wrong.

So in a nutshell, I have a personal bank account and a business bank account. All my affiliate revenue goes into my business bank account, and I just put what I need into my personal bank account (so it doesn’t have that much). Well for some reason I had my old personal Amex Platinum on one of my advertising accounts, and it racked up $75k in like a week and a half. I needed to go to the bank and shift 75k to my personal account, but obviously being in Florida didn’t allow that to happen and I didn’t want to have to try to find a bank in Florida and deal with it. I was on vacation and I was NOT going to work.

So I just shrugged it off and Amex froze my account. Which wasn’t a big deal either because the very next day both of my advertising accounts got slapped. Google got slapped, and Facebook disabled my whole account. The FB thing didn’t make any sense and I got it turned back on today, but the Google slap I had coming. Basically EVERYTHING got shut down, and surprisingly I didn’t let that affect my vacation at all. I got back home and got on the grind, and I’m about halfway to where I currently was. My employee put together a graph for us to laugh at, so I figured I’d share it haha. This is January :

Today I think will be 6k profit about, so the climb back to 10k is en route.

Google Updates

Just to kind of share my experiences with Google, nothing has really changed at all for me over the past few months. Go to the Adwords category of my blog and not much has changed from that information.

You can still use the destination URL trick. They still slap you out of nowhere. You still have to bid high to start and then lower bids.

Facebook Updates

Facebook has been a changing beast, in bad ways. ANYTHING diet related they know to disapprove instantly. Even if you want to cloak your ads, getting decent adcopy through will be hard because they can sniff it out. You can cloak in other verticals though and still get it through, but eventually they’re probably going to catch and disapprove it.

The trick to Facebook traffic is just volume of ads. You can make 50 ads with a $500 budget. If you delete 45 of the ads, the remaining 5 won’t spend $500 (assuming you’re just maxing out your volume). So when I have Matt make a Facebook campaign, he usually makes around 50-100 ads per campaign. That’s how you get volume. Getting things approved helps too, lol.

Employees Rock

Seriously, go out and hire one. Find a smart Chinese kid at your local college and pay him $8/hr and tell him he gets to work out of your house and gets to come to work naked if he wants. It’s worth it.

Matt is now to the point where he can create new campaigns, run, and manage them without my help. I usually have to get initial things going, make the right landing page, and give him some ad copy. But other than that, he can replicate and manage things which is REALLY nice. It gives me more time to talk to my contacts and set up better deals. And gives me more time to play Xbox.

Secret Plans

I’ve been working a lot recently on some secret plans which I’m not going to talk about right now. Maybe in a month I can speak more about it, but it’s been taking up a good portion of time recently.

Referrals Kickin’ Ass Seabass

I usually get about 95% noob referrals that never make me money (due to the nature of this blog I guess), but this month I’ve actually brought in some nice change from referrals. Here’s roughly what each network has made me this month :

CX Digital (92 referrals) : $1,300
Hydra (68 referrals) : $1,200
Neverblue (223 referrals) : $800
Azoogle (40 referrals) : $200

Judging from the crappy 2% I get (5% of the profit they make from Hydra which is even crappier), my referrals have done around $175,000 revenue in January. Not bad guys! Most of it came from a few affiliates, so more power to them.

The Future

What’s in my future? Ermmmmm…probably a checklist :

-Keep doing what I’m doing
-Secret plans
-More road trips and crazy fun stuff
-Trip to Cali next month to meet with a business partner
-ad:tech San Fran in April
-ASE this summer WHERE I WILL BE 21
-Hopefully blogging more

LOST is on soon, so see ya!

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