Internet Marketing with a Helmet.

Happy New Year! The new year is here and it's time for me to get crackin' on projects that've been on the back burner. AdCALC is one of those projects. A few months back, while goofing around with the jQuery UI library, I got the idea to make a simple marketing calculator. Once I got rolling, it was hard to stop ;-) The site sat at about 90% completion for the past 3 months until this week when I decided to get it finished. I think it ...

You just knew it was too good to be true. As of yesterday, Shoemoney posted that his fight with Barman is off. Citing an injury he wrote the following: “Call me a pussy or whatever but my knee is not worth re-injuring and my doctor said it would be really stupid for me to get in a mma fight” PUSSY! Moving right along. My first thought was to find another opponent for Barman, who I’m sure, has been following a rigorous ...

This script is designed to help you track clicks from Jumptap, one of the more popular mobile ad networks. It grabs tracking variables passed by Jumptap and turns them into c variables used by Prosper202. This allows you to see exactly what publisher, keyword/category, handset, and carrier are converting. The script will also rotate offers if you add more than one link. Code [php firstline="1"] <?php /** * Jumptap Offer ...

The long awaited new release of Prosper 202 1.7 is available for download today. Nana has put quite a bit of work into this new version and it looks like it's a real winner. This new version has some changes to the UI/design as well as some changes under the hood. Here's your executive summary: UI The UI has been relabeled here and there to make more sense. For example in the Setup tab, "PPC Accounts" has been replaced with "Traffic ...

QUESTION: Name 3 things you need to make bank on payday loans. The combination of a shaky job market and large payouts on payday loan offers is making some affiliates rich. I saw this story on the CBS Evening News last night. I don't think the shadiness will surprise any affiliates, but I thought it was interesting nevertheless. (Full transcript and docs) Read More This article was published back in Feb of this year and goes ...

Using DKI (Dynamic Keyword Insertion) is helpful to increase CTR on your landing pages. Normally this is a fairly simple task. If you're using Prosper202 and you've got your campaign and tracking setup correctly, 202 should pass your keyword in the URL to your landing page. So you're landing page URL will look something like this: http://mydomain.com/landingpage.php?t202kw=walmart.com To "grab" this keyword and use it in your page, you ...

So there other day, while getting a burst of PPV traffic, I tried to load my landing page and it crapped out. More specifically, the page sort of half loaded then stopped. It turns out, the free maxmind javascript code that I was so fond of was hanging up my whole page. The maxmind server was out to lunch (or throttling my greedy PPV pop traffic) and I was losing coin. What to do? Well, Maxmind was nice enough to offer a couple of more ...

There a bunch of marketers who live in San Diego, and that makes it even more sad that our Meetup202's are almost non-existent. Hopefully, things are turning around for the better. This is the second meetup being organized by Internet Dynamix. They are a San Diego based affiliate network and have been around for awhile. Last year, they organized the first 202 meetup. It was really small and held in a little yogurt shop downtown. But like ...

David & Corey from PPV Playbook Forum hosted a webinar with Dani Neighbors from TrafficVance last night.    Here are some highlights: Account Approval As an affiliate, you need 1 referral from an active advertiser.  We've all heard this before, but some people seem to think you need 2 referrals.  Not so. The interesting bit is when Dani spoke about web site owners advertising their own online business.  In these  circumstances, ...

So I was checking out Affbuzz tonight and I saw an ad for a law firm branding itself as "Internet Lawyers".  Click on the image to see it in all of its irony-dripping glory... This firm is marketing itself as specializing in things like intellectual property rights. And I quote: The [law firm] is an established authority in helping you set the proper policies in place to: reduce your business' liability, protect you and your company ...