by Nick Throlson | May 20, 2009 | Off Topic
It comes to a point in life where you have to make that life changing decision. Sometimes you have to go with the flow. But sometimes you have to make that life altering decision. Don?t worry guys I?m not quitting affiliate marketing. But I am more focused on my life & going to be moving to make sure my financial state stays a float which will allow me to go to school part time to get my education & do affiliate marketing full time. I recommend everyone plans for the future. I always do! That?s just how I have been my whole life stay positive be truthful & you will prosper.?
Change Quotations"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.""Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.""Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.""Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.""Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is?inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."
by Nick Throlson | May 13, 2009 | Off Topic
Google is allowing advertisers utilize trademarks. June 4th, 2009 Google will allow the use of trademarks but the trademark cannot be in the ad copy. So for instance, if a user is searching for Nike, Reebok will be allowed to put a competing ad and try to direct users to their website. I think this is a great step in affiliate marketing. What are your thoughts on this?Original Article:?Business Week?
"Starting June 4, marketers in about 200 countries will be allowed to purchase rival trademarks as keywords to trigger display of ?sponsored search? ads on Google. Honda, for instance, could bid to have one of its ads displayed when a consumer searches the term ?Toyota.? In recent years some companies have sued Google or the competing company, saying the practice is a form of trademark infringement.The decision to implement the strategy more widely suggests that Google is confident it is operating on sound legal footing."
by Nick Throlson | May 8, 2009 | Web Design
AffBuzz is a great way to keep yourself up to date on the latest trends & news that's going on in the affiliate marketing industry for some of the top bloggers to well known affiliate marketers such as NickyCakes,NerdyAffiliate,MsDanielle. You need to set AffBuzz.com as your home page.
by Nick Throlson | May 4, 2009 | Web Design
Facebook is no stranger to the public eye. You?ve probably heard of Facebook, touted as perhaps the best social networking available today. With over 200 million active users worldwide, Facebook not only provides the perfect platform for socializing, but also to do a little bit of something called advertising.
Creating an advertisement in Facebook is simple. Users can customize the advertisement to give more focus on a specific age group, region, or other demographic or psychographic elements. Users can add images to the already rich information displayed. The two methods of payment are through either CPM (Cost Per thousand) or CPC (Cost per Click).
In CPM or better known as CPI (Cost Per Impression), the user pays the advertiser, i.e. Facebook, based on every 1000 times the advertisement is displayed on a Facebook page. For CPC on the other hand, the user pays based on every single click made on the advertising banner or link which leads to the loading of the advertiser?s page.
Facebook also offers a certain feature called Pages which are customized profiles designed to provide info for celebrities, bands, businesses, and many more. In contrast to regular advertising banners on Facebook, Pages allow much more interaction between the product and the user with users being able to follow a News Feed, view photos, post comments, as well as create or join discussion boards. Through news feed users are updated on the latest stories and friends on Facebook are able to track other friends? activities on the page which drives the word-of-mouth capability on Facebook. Like normal Facebook advertising banners Pages can be set to target a specific demographic or psychographic group. In short Facebook Pages are likened to online blogs. Plus, unlike normal advertising banners Facebook Pages advertisements are somewhat modified into Social Ads where users are able to see that their friends have actually become a member or in this case ?fan? of the Page in question below the Social Ad.
Due to its high and ever-growing popularity Facebook is ranked high amongst search engines. This provides a benefit for advertisers who advertise on Facebook as their links which are posted on Facebook will also show high on the search engines. This helps boost the credibility of the product or business. Facebook has come a long way from a site simply created for people especially college students to swap photos and communicate to a multi-billion dollar site for people around the world to socialize and advertise freely.
by Nick Throlson | Apr 30, 2009 | Off Topic
Do you have what it takes to win? You have from May 1st to June 30th to prove it!
DirectAgents has a great contest going on for bidz.com offer my last affiliate referral got 3rd place: CD6462? $300.00 cash not to bad lets see what your made of sure most of my readers can get 10,000 leads in 30 days.Last Months Contest Winners Post: Click Here1st prize:?(5,000 leads) The first prize package will consist of:? Round Trip Tickets to Affiliate Summit East for four days, three nights.
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? Three night hotel stay at Hilton N.Y.
2nd prize: (1,500 lead minimum)? Gold Pass to Affiliate Summit East
? Dinner for two at NYC restaurant of?choice.
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*Contest applies to all Bidz Short Form Lead campaigns. See Terms and Conditions.
It comes to a point in life where you have to make that life changing decision. Sometimes you have to go with the flow. But sometimes you have to make that life altering decision. Don?t worry guys I?m not quitting affiliate marketing. But I am more focused on my life & going to be moving to make sure my financial state stays a float which will allow me to go to school part time to get my education & do affiliate marketing full time. I recommend everyone plans for the future. I always do! That?s just how I have been my whole life stay positive be truthful & you will prosper.
Google is allowing advertisers utilize trademarks. June 4th, 2009 Google will allow the use of trademarks but the trademark cannot be in the ad copy. So for instance, if a user is searching for Nike, Reebok will be allowed to put a competing ad and try to direct users to their website. I think this is a great step in 
DirectAgents has a great contest going on for bidz.com offer my last 
*Contest applies to all Bidz Short Form Lead campaigns. See Terms and Conditions.
