Affiliate Marketing Cribs

While going through my email today, I came across the latest newsletter from "Affiliate Summit", one of their "Real Deal" mailings. They usually have pretty good mailings with some useful information and industry updates in them. (You can subscribe at
http://www.affiliatesummit.com) Today Shawn has listed a new video that he had made, called "Affiliate Marketing Cribs". I knew Shawn had been doing a lot more video lately, so I was looking forward to see what he had come up with this time. For some reason, the video would not play off this blog, so click here to view the video.

I sent an email to Shawn letting him know how much I liked the video. He said he would love to see one of my own, so I’ll do my best to get one of these made and up for you next week sometime.

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Dow Hits Record High, Yahoo Tumbles

While the Dow Market hits a new high, the tech sector gets hit hard… especially Yahoo, which reported some lower numbers than expected. I own a bunch of stock and a large portion of them are of internet companies. Today I thought it might be useful to list some of the main internet stocks out there, what their current prices are and maybe some new companies you haven’t seen yet.

It can be a lot of fun owning and watching stocks of companies that you know or work with online. Especially with all the buying out activity that happens. Just last week Google purchased DoubleClick for $3.1 billion… is ValueClick next on the block for a big buyout? If you come across any stocks that you like and would like to start trading or owning shares of a company, feel free to refer to my last post on "Make Money with High Yield Savings Accounts". You can easily setup a new account with Ameritrade or eTrade and start trading almost immediately.

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Make Money with High Yield Savings Accounts

It’s been about a week since my last post. This has been mainly due to me not being around as much, and very busy working on some new sites and updates. The blog is also going to get a bit of a facelift as well, some navigational improvements and more! So I’ll do my best to keep this blog updated almost daily!

Tax day has just passed us by and I’m sure everyone is thrilled about how much they had to send to Uncle Sam. In today’s post I’m going to let you know about some of the highest paying online bank accounts. (mostly ones that I currently use) This way you can stash away some of your hard earned webmaster/blogging/marketing money and earn a cool yield on it as well!

Today I signed up the "HSBC Direct Online Savings Account". HSBC is having a promotion through the end of the month where they are paying a nice 6% on all "new money". Anyone can signup and you only need $1 to setup the account. You can take a look at their site for full terms and sign up application.

Here are a few more online savings accounts I currently use:

- ING DIRECT
4.50%%
Online Banking made easy with IND Direct… one of my favorite online banks to use.
No Minimums and No Account Fees.

- ETRADE FINANCIAL
5.05%
In addition to being a stock trading web site, you can also setup a savings account as well.
No Minimums and No Account Fees.

- TDAMERITRADE
0.10% to 2.90%%
Another stock trading web site, but also pays interest on money sitting in the account.
Most accounts require a $2000 deposit.
Interest Rates vary.

This was just a quick over view of what’s available online (there are many more!) and where to earn better interest rates on your money than letting it sit in your local bank… which most pay around 1%!

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Digg Traffic vs. Google Traffic

Chitika is holding their own "Blog Bash" which has 30 Experts Blogging over 30 Days. Today’s blog was on Digg traffic vs. Google traffic. Everyone loves getting the massive flow of traffic once they are listed on the main page of Digg.com, but you usually hear how it was a ton of traffic without the usual revenue or sales. Not only does this make sense, but it also proves true from the study done in the Chitika Analysis report. In short, with over a billion page views recorded, Digg traffic is more than three times less likely to click on an advertisement than Google traffic. Personally, I feel this makes perfect sense. I would think Digg users are more web savvy and can recognize an advertisement (contextual bases/adsense/ypn), over a regular less web savvy Google user. Read over the report, its a good read.

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I’m Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman!

Business is business… but make sure you are also enjoying life too. We are already living the life by doing business online and working for ourselves… remember not to take everything too seriously. Forget the emails, forget the marketing, forget the search engine positions… imagine being Spiderman for a day!

SPIDERMAN, COMING AT YA!

As mentioned in an earlier post, I love comics and marvel heroes… so much that I have my own expensive Spiderman costume I purchased for Halloween. This morning I woke up and decided to watch a few episodes of "The Amazing Spiderman" (the 60’s collection)… they are so simple, but so funny. It then gave the inspiration to have some fun! I called up my friend Jay today and said we should go out and have some fun… as Spiderman! So we did…

First we went to Comic Relief, an awesome comic book store in my area. I have been going there for years, they have changed location several times, but always have been a great source for comics and memorabilia. A few years ago I went in looking to get some new Marvel statues for my collections. They had a huge showcase and I liked everything inside. I ended up making a deal with them for $2000 for the whole setup. So Comic Relief was my first stop as Spiderman. At first the guy that runs the store looked pretty confused (as expected). I headed right to the Spiderman comics and picked one out. He already had some customers in line, so they were wondering about the costume as well. Once they left I went up and paid for the comic, he then asked if I would like to come back next week when they are having a comic book show at the store. Before leaving I asked if he would like to take a picture, he gladly said yes.

Shopping at Steve’s Comic Relief

Next was the big plan! Jay and I were headed for the mall where I was planning on purchasing some Spiderman action figures from KB Toys and even get my picture taken with the Easter Bunny. Right when I got out of the car and headed for the mall, I was getting stares and laughs. People were even taking out their cell phones to get pictures with me. Once inside the excitement grew even more, all the kids were loving it and thought it was the coolest thing in the world. I’m now in line to see the Easter Bunny, then not even two minutes go by that I am in the mall, these two rent-a-cops come up and tell me I need to leave the mall. Their reasoning was the mask…. and they told me I needed to take it off. My response was I could not let anyone know my true identity! So they kept insisting that I leave… and told me to take the mask off right now and walk out. So I said I can’t do that… and ran out the mall waving to everyone… with the mask still on! Even after leaving the mall, they had a rent-a-cop car follow me to make sure I left. (The highlight of these guys days are pushing around young teenagers and thinking they have some power!)

Disappointed by not having some fun in the mall, I said we should go to castle park, a local playground. Usually this place is packed, but it was a bit cold today, so not too busy. The kids that were there found a lot of joy in chasing me and telling me I couldn’t catch them… one was nice enough to tell me I was making a mockery of Spiderman! All in all, it was a good day. I’ll be sure to hit the boardwalk as Spiderman when it gets a little warmer, and make sure to show the rent-a-cops a little of my Dark Side!

Yes, I am King of the Castle!

Showing off my Web-Swinging Skills

Another Day in the Life of a Super Affiliate…

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