Biting The Hand That Feeds Me! A Critical look at the world of Online Money Making. Follow along with me on this treterous journey...we both will learn something.

Two years ago I started online. I joined The Challenge (well…it was called the 30 day challenge then), failed to complete it, and the rest is history.

Funny thing is…The Challenge is starting up again but in a vastly different format (more about that later in this post)

Today kinda marks my 2 year anniversary.  So about time for this update dont you think?

“So Whats Your Progress?”

Life is good….

Not sure I am on track with all my goals though!

I did manage to escape the dreaded cubicles (or in my case the M4/M5 motorways) In February of this year.

Shortly after, we packed up and moved over to Phuket for 4 months. Fantastic time, and all of us, even my 5 year old daughter, has caught the travel bug.

Any recommendations where we should go next?

And before you suggest it, yes I have seen Finch’s list of top countries to travel to as an affiliate. And yes – he decided to head out to thailand before I even thought about quiting my dayjob.

So to avoid any rumours that I might be stalking him…..alternatives that are not on his list please

Stack That Money

Apart from grinding out & optimising campaigns i’ve spend a fair bit of time helping folk out at the stack that money forum.

From simple beginners guides, to more advanced video tutorials. Im sure there is something there that takes your interest.

Here is just a flavour of some of my in-depth posts:

• iFraming CPA Offer Landing Pages within Facebook
• Full walkthrough of a $30 per day PPV campaign (great for beginners)
• Building Landing Pages On Speed
• Rapid Offer Testing With High V0lume Targets
• Super Sneaky Adplanner Trick
• WARNING: Build Your Own Scraper With Google Docs

Long Term Projects

I love the chase of CPA marketing with paid traffic. But….It aint a sustainable business really unless you build systems, process and offshore teams to run it all.

And to be honest I do get fed up sometime of the daily grind of churning out more and more quality campaigns.

So as a way of offering some variety, and building some long term assets, im making good progress with a bunch of projects:

• this blog (are you freakin kiddin me -> need to show it some more love
• spy killer webservice to protect your campaigns from copycats
• RunItWhere (more info to follow soon….its all about traffic)
• Scraping toolset
• TabEdit
• Sweepstake/contest apps for Facebook

“What About The Challenge?”

Yeah i promised to talk about this years Challenge.

Whether your a newbie or experienced, I suggest you check it out for a number of reasons:

• Ed has consistently over the last 7 years identified major shifts in online marketing and I have no doubt he will do it again this year. The Challenge is where all of this comes together with clear actionable steps!

• Getting Stuff Done, Shipping, Focus finders, CFTs ~ Whatever your poison ~ The Challenge always offers a good dose of advice for streamlining your workflow and overcoming procrastination

• All content will be available from Day 1

I failed to complete 2 challenges Got behind and lost the passion for it quit quickly. 3rd time lucky this year!!

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