http://thadroe.com/blog My Affiliate Marketing Journey: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:42:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I've been up all night working and got a bug up my rear to share some quick thoughts that I felt would be helpful about how improve your effectiveness with affiliate marketing or internet marketing in general... Self Observation is One of the Best Learning Tools You Have! When I think ... http://thadroe.com/blog/2007/08/28/become-a-better-affiliate-through-self-observation/ Well, it's been a while since I updated this sucker, but my good ole' redneck marketer buddy Travis at www.bummarketingmethod.com showed my blog in a fantastic video he did today about Onlywire, which you can check out here: Travis Sago's OnlyWire Video So I figured it's a good time to do an ... http://thadroe.com/blog/2007/08/14/update-finally-quit-my-crappy-day-job/ Sooo, it's been quite a while since I posted here. Been a little busy. Thought I would make a post about the Google Adwords Slap today, which heavily relates to overcoming obstacles as an Internet Marketer. So anyway....another Google bitchslap today. Although part of the slap people are feeling may be a ... http://thadroe.com/blog/2007/02/16/google-adwords-bitchslap/ Wealthy Affiliate Video Tour I feel I owe most of my profitability breakthrough with affiliate marketing to the fact that I joined Wealthy Affiliate back in August. It was such an amazing turnaround for me after signing up and getting involved in the forums. Being somewhat new to affiliate marketing, the ... http://thadroe.com/blog/2006/11/22/my-wealthy-affiliate-review-and-video-tour/ I've been waaay behind the 8 ball on tracking my campaigns properly. I've been doing some all along, but not throroughly. What I've learned through the tracking that I've done though, is that it's such an important key to boosting your profits. In just a few days of setting up some ... http://thadroe.com/blog/2006/11/19/are-you-tracking-your-affiliate-campaigns/ There's one thing I've noticed which is a huge mistake by most new affiliate marketers out there...and I made this same mistake myself at first. It's failing to target people in the late stages of the buying cycle. Too often, new marketers will target keywords and build ads around general ... http://thadroe.com/blog/2006/11/12/biggest-mistake-by-new-affiliate-marketers/ If you run pay per click ads on Google, you may have noticed some problems with your keywords the last few days. Google went through another round of changes in their relevancy algorithm which caused a lot of keywords to go inactive. I love when things like this happen because it ... http://thadroe.com/blog/2006/11/12/how-to-deal-the-the-google-slap/ Mike Filsamine just launched a viral marketing campaign with a free report titled "The Death of Internet Marketing". You may have seen a few emails yourself with people trying to get you to download this. What is it all about? First of all, even though he pays people $1-$2 for referring people ... http://thadroe.com/blog/2006/11/12/death-of-internet-marketing/ Since I've started to actually generate profits with Affiliate Marketing, I can easily zero in on a few key concepts that anyone just getting started should take note of. I would not be making a dime without following these tips: 1. Research, research, research. Most of your time should be spent ... http://thadroe.com/blog/2006/11/07/10-tips-to-shorten-your-affiliate-marketing-learning-curve/ Over the past year, I've been searching for ways to break away from being employed. Well, I guess that search has been going on longer than that, but it's really just been this past year that I've begun to take some real action. I had been waiting too many years ... http://thadroe.com/blog/2006/11/07/how-i-got-started-with-affiliate-marketing/