Jun 1 2008
Taking Sunday Questions Round 8
By Jeremy Schoemaker
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In terms of making money by blogging, what do you think the greatest source of income is? AdSense, Amazon, Yahoo, Banner ads or indirect sources such as speaking engagements and consulting fees?
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What music do you have on your iPod???
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What do you feel about the Elite XC mma fight going prime time last night on CBS? Good for the sport or a joke with Kimbo Slice being the headliner?
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“There are an extraordinary amount of opportunities to make 100$ per day. I mean I can think of probably 50 off the top of my head.” - (http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/05/16/as-success-grows-opportunities-shrink/)
How would you mind sharing these ideas on your blog since you won’t be using them?
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Are there really 1932 “current users online” on fighters.com
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Right now, what is your biggest income from the web and what type of work are you doing to promote this?
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When starting a new website idea, what are the important steps to take, starting from the initial idea and all the way to the official launch of the website.
The answer I’m seeking would be similar to something like:
1. think of the idea 2.define the purpose of the site 3. write a list of all the features 4. determine target audience 5. draw a draft layout 6. think of marketing ideas 7. who will design it (if not yourself) 8. where to host 9. write 30 days worth of content to make sure you don’t run out…. ETC ETC.
So in other words, is there a general system you use or know is the best for constructing a website from start to finish?
Kind regards,
James.
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Do you follow WEC? Faber or Pulver?
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What do you think is the best (free?) tool for tracking affiliate sales/leads? Do you think a (part-time/small fry) blogger trying to monetize with affiliate links should get into the stats (what pages converted, bounce rate, etc) very heavily, or do you think it is really only PPC people that should worry about it?
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Hey Shoe,
Got a couple of questions, hope you don’t mind:
1) I spend half my life looking through analytics reports. How do you gather stats? Do you have any automation techinuqes for pulling reports from GA, since they don’t have an API?
2) What movies get you pumped for work? just finished Wall St, Boiler Room and Glengerry Glen Ross… wondered if I’d missed anything…
3) Same for books.. I know you did a post on this a while back, but I wondered if you’d read (or heard) anything good lately?
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As I understand from your previous posts you also had MFA sites (arbitrage). Well, I did and of course I got the letter from AdSense last year and got kicked out of adsense (I wonder if they would allow me back now that one year has passed). My question is, have you ever been banned from AdSense or AdWords? How did you get back in?
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Did you ask Dellanave to stop blogging about the business?
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What area of Des Moines did you live in?
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are you coming to any uk affiliate events?
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Where do you see Google heading or at in the next 5 years?
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Any networks you know that buy and sell leads for anything else other than finance, e.g. niche businesses like home construction, dentists, accountants etc
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which field should i focus more on..? Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, or E-commerce ?
which one do you think will make more money?
let me know thanks
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of these 5 Producer Beat makers who is your favorite? Please list them in order of your favorite on down….. Dr Dre, Pete Rcok, Just Blaze , 9th wonder , or Timbaland?
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Can we get a video tour of the shoemoney offices and shoemoney estate?
What are your plans for monetizing Fighters.com? Will you be sponsoring any MMA fighters?
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On your last Shoemoney show you were talking about subscriptions and you mentioned something about a book. I’m in the process of creating a site that deals with subscriptions and I would like to know; what book(s) do you recommend to learn more about subscriptions?
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Are there any networks that buy business leads for non-financial products, e.g. someone looking for an accountant, looking for a building contractor etc
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Given a newbie with a $100 budget and a goal to make $1000/month, how would you suggest they start?
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Do you like a h ands on approach (do it yourself) or are you more inclined to let your employees do it now that you have them?
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What are your opinions regarding the pros cons of lead generation CPA offers with fixed payouts vs pay per sale percentage of commission? Which do you favor (do you even favor one over the other??) and why?
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How many vBulletin powered forums do you own? Also, any chance of having them all listed, too? Just curious!
Steve
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Does having your keyword in the URL help at all with SEO and if so is it significant enough to justify doing it?
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Someone told me they might have saw your pool logo while flying out of LNK.. I will try to get a picture.. but was that a ploy to get a place mark on Google earth?
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What ad platform do you currently use on your site and how did you decide upon what banner sizes to offer?
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Why do you have your blogs logo at the bottom of your pool?
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Movies that motivate Shoemoney: http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/07/13/movies-that-motivate-me/
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Do you have a formula or a system of when to drop a project? I mean, have you ever worked on something you thought was going to be a windfall and it turn out to not even be worth the effort? Most of us are one man shows and we can’t keep dumping good money and time after bad. How do you know when to cut and run?
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Have you ever thought of doing a Shoemoney membership site that would teach aff marketing, arbitrage, etc?
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Do you prefer to buy websites with traffic & revenue or almost dead websites for domain & Search Engine authority?
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Haven’t you tried Entrecard yet? Or tried and didn’t like it?
What would be the best applications that i should use in my mac?
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Does Commission Junction suck, and if so, why?
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I have Adsense on my sites and it does well - but still only pays pennies a click. But cause of my big traffic numbers it adds up and i do nicely. I cant seem to get anything else to pay higher though.
What would you test instead of adsense, if you were me? What ad networks do you recommend? I heard you say some sites charge $15/cpm for banner ads - id be happy with $10/cpm?
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did you sell nextpimp? and if not how much would you sell it for.
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Is it now ok to forget about users with 800×600 monitors, and just design sites for 1024+ ???
Cheers.
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Why do you think fighters.com has so much traffic already? Any marketing secrets? Or just a great interactive website?
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Give any more thought to your paintball and petrol idea? you have a bit more capital nowadays, perhaps it’s time to give it a go
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How do I make money online? J/K =P What do you dislike about blogging? (besides people asking that question)
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For a media business (i.e. internet marketing, etc) will any CPA do? Is it important for a CPA to have specific knowledge about your industry? Any specific questions that should be asked when interviewing a CPA for your media/internet company? Any pointers are appreciated.
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you mentioned in a recent post that you’ve run the same offer through different networks with very different results. i’ve had this happen to me as well. same offer, same keywords, same search engine - 40%+ difference in conversion rates. do you think this is due to a crappy pixel or is it deliberate? it’s interesting that the network with the highest payout for an offer is usually the one with the lowest conversion rate….
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How do you scale a $1000/profit day affiliate business to $10,000-$30,000/day?
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In the above I meant Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Not to be confused with click per action, lol. Thanks.
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Why do you keep posting about how much you hate SEO? Do you keep retrying because you never make a convincing case?
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