I have been traveling around a lot and not pulling questions from posts so if you had a direct question you want me to address on the “monday questions” post it here.
Please don’t ask for details of the AuctionAds sale cause they will not be disclosed. Otherwise feel free to ask whatever.
About the author...
Jeremy Schoemaker – who has written 2415 posts on ShoeMoney.com.
Hi I am Jeremy Schoemaker and ShoeMoney.com is my blog. 99% of the post here are done by me but you will see others occasionally make guest posts. This blog is fun to write but for my day job I run several online companies.
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I am in the process of starting a blog I have probably 20 draft posts up but Im curious do you think the location of the blogger is important? Im from Dubuque IA which is like a 45 min drive from where you are from. Do you think someone from California will have a better chance or do you think content could still pull a kid out of the cornfield into internet stardom?
Many would like to ask you about what is your daily time table of working? And how do you manage so many things?
Mong
delegate to others.
Do you golf?
Who do you think is the hottest girl on LOST? I swing between Alex and Claire.
Where do you do keyword research for your PPC campaigns?
Can you tell us how you upload 100,000+ Keywords into your google accounts for PPC quickly? What tools do you use along with adwords editor?
I’ve got 150,000 keywords I am trying to upload, but the time consuming process is organizing them effectively and avoiding the campaign limits I keep running into on Google.
Any advice you can give is appreciated!
Thanks!
I know your daughter is a bit young but are you planning on building any kid safe sites in the future for her to play on? My daughter is 4 years old and loves the internet but there is no kid safe sites around where they can just click and play without ending up on some advert and taking them to another site all together.
What blogs/sites/forums do you read on a daily basis?
How can web newbies make $100 a day via affiliate marketing?
Beware of using the n-word 2kaday !
i would like to ask, who’s your daddy!?
Do you use any tools other than the Google AdWords Keyword Tool to generate your keywords?
How much work, and what type of work does it take to launch an internet company and then be able to sell it a few months down the road?
Whats next or are you taking a big break after a sale like that?
check out the girl on my lastest post! i think she is the hottest too bad they killed her off!
Do you use any software/tools for managing your time and resources?
How and where did you meet Dave Dellanave and can you give us a hint on some of the new things you guys are working on?
Oh and sorry whens your new ACS blog design going to be going up? I remember seeing the trial and it looked awesome, was a few months ago though…
Wordtracker or keyword discovery? or any other?
If someone had a really cool idea for a site and was looking for some help (and maybe some investment!) from an internet expert such as yourself, how would one go about doing that?
if a business is right, would you take a percentage on it in return for access to your contacts and leverage of your name.
Thank you shoemoney…
Hi, here’s a question!
What are your favorite conferences from the recent past?
There are so many, and with a limited budget many of us could use reading your thoughts on which are the best for networking, and obviously for the conference lineup itself.
SHoe congrats on the sale and see you in SANFRAN
Shoe, have you contributed to other blog’s success?
Shoe, have you contributed to other blog’s success besides your own?
You mentioned you had lots of different jobs, and stayed at most of them for less than a year I believe.
From the vantage point of somebody who has “made it”, how did you know that what you are doing now was right for you?
I can’t speak for others but I know I pursue one thing, only take it so far, and then move on. Should we man up and just complete something no matter what, or should we just trust that the “right thing” will come along eventually?
Don’t mean to go all self help on you, but there’s lots of lame b.s. advice on the topic.
Thanks Jeremy.
how much did auctionads sell for?
jk jk… haha
okay serious question… would you recommend building websites from scratch and concentrating on building value and long term income, or something that’s quick but has no long term security like advertising affiliate programs through ppc…
Do bloggers/marketers usually make more money selling their own products than with affiliate programs or PPC? And why?
1) How often is your head shaved.
2) Is it shaved with the same frequency as your shave your face.
3) Have you ever waxed your head
4) Have you ever put a shopping bag on your head and poked people of the oppisite sex yelling “Im a big condom”
These are the questions everyone wants to know.
And how valuable is keyword grouping?
Once you put together this list, how many keywords do you put in a single keyword group?
I’m trying to really get into affiliate marketing and curious would you consider a decent conversion for testing. I know you have to trial and error products but from your experiance what is a realistic conversion. 1% 2/ less then 1?
What are your favorite PPL companies and which offers do you see being the next big thing? The market is so saturated and it’s tough to find a good entry niche for an intermediate marketer.
How do you deal with google’s quality score when promoting your landing page?! I cant seem to coerce that beast. Got any tips?!
Ha, I had a hair question too. Even on the old pics you are bald. What do you have against hair?
What’s the best way to start a career in web development without much capital?
Yea and how do you do it, I always cut my back of my head when I do it have you just been doing it so long you are good at it?
Could you maybe do a little bit on your development equipment, hardware and software? I know you are a mac guy but I would like to hear more about the tools you use.
There’s a room with three light bulbs in three individual fixtures.
OUTSIDE the room are three switches.
Each switch operates exactly one of the three bulbs.
Given the stipulation that you may enter the room only one time, how can you be sure which switch operates which bulb?
Shoe-
I run a few different ecommerce stores that do pretty well, enough for me to do full-time with but I still keep the 9-5 job. Anyways, seems like you are pretty solid with programming and then you brought Dillsmack in who helped bring everything to the next level. Do you think finding a good programmer should be the first step in growing your internet empire? Also, if I don’t know ANYTHING about programming, should I either learn just enough to be dangerous (is so, which languages and so on) or should I just tell them what I want to do and let them figure out how to get it done?
Congrats on the sale by the way,
Dave
When are you getting liposuction on that neck?
I figured id ask you a stupid? haha
Have you made enough $$$ to retire and live comfortably for the rest of your life?
If so – then why do you still work?
It’s the internet, location is irrelevant!
heat
he’s a hustla… you only understand it if you’re one… if you’re not then you ask the question
I just started a blog and I’m wondering how to change how my posts are shown on the main page. It shows the full post, but I would like to only show an excerpt, and to have “continue reading…” at the bottom of the post on main page. I’m using wordpress and can’t figure it out thanks
My biggest question would be “did your friends and family members have as much faith in your efforts when you first started ‘working for yourself’” – if not, how long till you won their trust? And what was it that won it??? I’m sure I’ll have a few more..
Q.
What, beyond your blog, did you do to reach critical mass with AuctionAds so quickly, and why do you think so many people have confidence in your platform/product ?
Cheers,
JL
I know you like them short and sweet so i left the question above that way.
Just wanted to say CONGRATS on the sale. I hope at some time you’ll break it all down for us as you did with the 10/40K experiment.
If you had limited capital (less than $1000) and did not have the industry contacts that you have today, would you be able to build a successful blog/company in todays market?
I was always wondering if you have to pay income TAX for earnings from your blog (Donations, selling ad space, ads, …) I mean in general if it is only hobby which turns in bigger site making few thousands per month does generaly owner of this blog pay TAX?
If you know how it is with TAX in EU you can also answer.
And what happends if you dont pay even you should.
Cool post! I love bloggers that will actually answer questions. Since I am new here I never saw you do this before, but I am glad that you do!
you would have to ask your accountant
i wish I could but I cant =(
Hey Jeremy!
Love your blog. =) Do you still do arbitrage these days? If so, what’re your favorite traffic sources?
David
Hey Shoemoney!
Love your blog.
Are you still doing arbitrage these days? If so, what’re your favorite search engines for traffic source?
David
I just wanted to tell you I think is it nice of you to take the time to answer all the questions, and with thought and honesty.
I agree. Thanks Jeremy
Shoe, is there a reason you don’t have a search feature on here? I’m always coming to your site when im looking for info about a topic but it is not that easy to find old post.
I wanted to ask you since I dont have big earnings and you might have experience. When did you actualy start making money and when did you let TAX them?
Great blog, just came across it, from Review Me. My question is: would you still blog, if you didn’t get any income from it?
Would an arabic cooking course, in an english, german, and arabic language for tourists in jordan be successful? the course will be a one day course for about 5 hours, learning arabic cuisine soups, appetizers, main dishes and desserts.