Opening up for questions again. Im stuck in last vegas today catching up on work and can bust out some answers. Please keep in mind I answer for speed and so some maybe be very short and to the point. Also ask a dumb question you probably get a dumb answer.
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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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how much did you pay for the fighters.com domain?
How can we jump to the top commentators area and whay profiles are disablied in the comments area ?
how long is the free shirt friday queue?
Didn’t get an invite to Google’s new ad management platform. Would you suggest running OpenX (phpAdsNew) for a niche network of sites or go with some other alternative?
How excited are you about the iphone sdk? Do you plan on developing any apps for mobile?
Would you actually suggest using the Build A niche site program or did you only promote it for the $$$>?
When will the shoemoney playbook be available?
any tips on How to earn using twitter followers, or the tweets itself.. any idea ?
How many visitors are many visitors? (I am pretty sure Mediadonis knows the answer.
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What are your latest Lost conspiracy theories
Jumping on an emerging technology / product / topic in it’s infancy can give you a huge advantage when developing blogs and forums – much like you did with NextPimp. What are some resources you utilize to determine what will be a hot market next year or 2-3 years down the road?
I’ve just got a mac pro – what are the top programs you use daily that I need to install?
Also, how much do you use automator and/or applescript? In your opinion, is it worth learning applescript?
What is the history of Fireboy?
When you say that SEO is dying, do you mean that tricks like using nofollow to distribute google juice on the site, optimizing titles & meta descriptions, etc. are bound to become inefficient? Or it only relates to ‘spamming’ = massive link building, anchor-keyword spamming?
Do you have any tattoo’s? If not do you plan on getting any?
What are some of your top traffic affiliates on shoemoney
What is the biggest referrer for fighters.com?
Who made shoemoney playbook ebook graphic….can you open source photoshop/graphics program file?
Do you visit mobile web sites? If so which are your favorites and are they worth time to create and try to monetize?
1. How much is fighters making you? how much has it cost so far?
2. Once you have a gastric bypass, are you limited to the amount of water you can drink after exercise? (Can you rehydrate quickly?)
Cheers.
Are you promoting fighters.com via ppc or is the traffic surge organic, word of mouth and from this site? The traffic graph is impressive for such a new site. Would love to know what you used to get that surge.
how you you market my site: womopo.com ?
Thanks!
Are all your projects self funded, or have you ever gone out looking for start up capital? What do you recommend for a small biz looking for start or expansion capital? For attracting great employees, do you recommend giving equity, rev sharing, or base salary or combo of these?
When you look at offers on CPA networks, how much weight do you put into the EPC numbers your affiliate manager gives you? Have you ever run offers when you knew there was a network low EPC on the offer?
Do you use doubleclick performics or cj in any of your ventures? Also, i checked fighters.com and using alexa.com, I noticed that its traffic is dying. any ideas why?
What do you do for hosting (vps?, dedicated?,colocated?,etc?) all your sites? What is your monthly hosting bill?
In a previous post about Success growing, opportunity shrinking, you spoke about how much you have grown and the staffing requirements you now need etc.
For myself, having a previous for sales… Affiliate Marketing is fun! I love the thrill of attracting the search engine rankings (ie: beating out competition) and making the sale, so to speak. I have no doubt the rewards from your growth are tremendous in more ways that just monetary.
My question… Has the “Fun Factor” that makes a sales/affiliate marketing juices flow, faded with the added responsibities of running your growing business?
I know that surrounding yourself with the right people is key, so you can focus on what YOU do best, but how much has the business ops cut into the creative process that enabled you to get where you are?
OK, it was 2 questions… enjoy Vegas, I just spent a week there 2 weeks ago, great fun, very costly! LOL
Mark
shoemoney,
are you going to buy an iphone 2.0 in june?
Do you outsource any of the work / tasks you need to do, or does it mostly go to the Shoemoney employees?
what is the best way to obtain mydomain.com when i now only have mydomain***.com?
the people who have mydomain.com are not talking to me and i think the are holding out for $10,000 or some crazy number! :rolleyes:
Have you seen Redbelt yet (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10008741-redbelt/#synopsis) ? If yes, what did you think?
how can “seos” charge so much with google constantly tweeking how they rank sites?
Where do you see the future of the MMA industry in the next 5 years? More specifically, do you see it continually dominated by the UFC, or do you think other promoters will overcome their current financial struggles to share some of spotlight? Along with fighters.com do you see your own role in the industry growing?
I’ve had this bugbite for a while now, it wasnt really a problem at first but than it started gowing. It was never really painful just kind of annoying anyway last night the damn bump started pulsating and eggs falling out. I have just been burning them as they fall out but dont want to do anything else as to anger the mother. What would you do?
What are your impressions of Powerset.com? How can a brand new search engine possibly compete in this climate?
I noticed that ProBlogger just released a book. Will you be following suit?
You always say that the best thing to do to make money online is to write good content. Could you elaborate a little by what you consider “good” content? What do you think makes some articles stand out from others more and gain more backlinks / popularity?
How many bedrooms does your house have?
Kinda Serious Question Would You Ever Run For President Or Vice President Of America? ~Nick~
Do you spend a lot of time using social media for marketing your projects and does it convert in the end?
How do you feel about deceptive marketing practices such as the ones frequently used in “free ringtone” deals or ads that offer “free samples” only to automatically enroll you in a membership program? What are the best ad networks in your opinion that have profitable ads/companies that aren’t scams? Do you have any advice (other than huge volume of traffic) for getting big Adsense checks like the one in your photo?
I’ve betted on Wanderlei Silva and BJ Penn in their upcoming fights at ufc84 – have I lost my money?
I noticed on Shoemoney and Fighters, you serve Google ads but they do not have branding PLUS open in a new window. Excuse my ignorance but do you have a high-level account with them or are you bending the rules? I am jealous.
Often making money online is about the bottom line and making profit; but what basic attributes would you say any successful entrepreneur needs in order to be a success?
Can you describe a normal day ? From AM to PM ?
What is your favorite way to market a new project? (SEO? PPC? Social Media? etc)
What’s the best way to monetize the mobile market today? And where do you see the future of mobile marketing going?
Are you replying to these questions via the emails, or publicly?
What do you look for in a new project as a way of telling if it’s worth it to invest in?
If you were to look past Web 2.0 into the near future (Web 3.0?), what kinds of marketing, technology, and services do you see emerging?
How can we use our influence and income to help people in need?
What is your best advice to sell advertising on a new blog?
You you were a nut, why kind nut would you be?