Today is my 35th birthday. Which surprisingly was a relief because I for some reason thought I was turning 37… not sure why just one of those things I had stuck in my head. So yay me I got 2 years more to live.

I just want to say thank you to all the fans and company’s who have sent me cards and gifts over the last few days. Its just been amazing.

AzoogleAds started this whole thing many years ago when they sent me a Macbook Pro for my birthday. And the gifts have just gotten crazier.

I just want to again thank you all for everything. Not just the birthday gifts but just for being great business partners. I am so fortunate to be in the industry we are in the time we are in.

Here is to another great year!

Overnight Prints, one of the largest and most well respected business card and merchandising companies on the internet, is having a contest!

And knowing how much we love contests, they approached us to see what we could do together.

Since I’m not that thrilled with my current business card design and knew this was their specialty, I thought we could kill two birds with one stone!

How does the contest work? Simply design a new business card for me. If I pick your design as the winner, you will win a LIFETIME supply of free business cards!

Go here to enter!

Contest Rules:

* NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. To enter, complete the online entry form and submit a business card design. To be eligible, entries must be completed and received on or by the closing date of the contest. Incomplete entries will be disqualified. All entries shall become the property of OvernightPrints.com. OvernightPrints.com is not responsible for lost, misdirected or delayed entries. Entries received by telephone, fax, courier or personal delivery will not be accepted.
* Submit as many designs as you want using the online entry form.
* Lifetime supply is up to 1,000 single or double-sided business cards per year for 20 years, provided by OvernightPrints.com. Business cards must be ordered in quanities of at least 500 per order, for a total of 1,000 or fewer business cards in any calendar year. Up to two different designs may be submitted by the winner for an order in a given year. Business cards won through this contest are only eligible for use by the winner. Resale of business cards won through this contest is prohibited. Business cards found to be used for people or companies other than the winner will disqualify the winner from receiving any additional business cards won through this contest.
* Contest winner will be selected by Jeremy Schoemaker, Mr. ShoeMoney, on June 26, 2009.
* All entries need to be received by Thursday, June 25, 2009 at Noon PST in order to be considered.
* Contest is open to residents of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.

On today’s ShoeMoney show my guest was Aaron Wall.

On the show we first discussed Aarons most recent blog post about getting inside the Google Searcher, which was is a total must read for anyone.

Then we got into my recent Free 12 week course, how it got over 13,000 signups in 4 days, and the conversion value of twitter. During this segment I reveal that right now I feel twitter is the best advertising medium out there and its only a matter of time until people ruin twitter with paid tweets.

Aaron and I both talk about how we have changed some of our core advertising focused and have learned a lot since starting our own products.

After the break Aaron talks about his SEO Training program, what it is and how he has marketed it. I love to have smart people on who are selling their own products. And not really pitch the products so much as talk about our marketing efforts and what we have found that works and doesnt work. Aaron was very open about how he is marketing his product and I had lots of questions for him.

Later on in the program I asked Aaron how he felt about some of the “scam” marketing efforts some of these guys are doing out there.

Aaron talks about not only that but we quickly digress into lots of other various experiences in having our own affiliates and products.

The show is packed with some really interesting content and I hope to have Aaron on soon to take some q&a from you!

Everyone knows I love to razzz the black magic snake oil SEO industry but honestly out of the very small handful of guys that give a lot of value Aaron is at the top.

I HIGHLY recommend you check out his SEO training program.

Thanks Aaron for coming on the show. I hope to have him back on in a couple weeks!

You can download the show mp3 here, Listen to it on webmasterradio here

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I have been burned 3 times in last couple years trying to help promote free affiliate conferences. So far not one actually happened. The last being the Midwest un-Conference.

I was approached last year by Jon Fisher, owner of wickedfire.com, that he was going to have a conference that was free. He also told me Webmasterradio was involved and it was going to be awesome. Sounded good to me and I said I would be happy to help promote it.

Fast forward to now… Wickedfire is no longer involved but the conference is going to happen. Lots of details are still unclear but the site is up and the date is June 17th – 20th in Denver Colorado.

Webmasterradio has assured me that this conference IS going to happen. They have also published their attendee list which is kind of weird because it says only 60% of attendees are from the United States and only 70% speak english.

UPON further review a couple people have noticed its where they MARKET TO not where they are. Thanks for pointing this out as I have had numerous affiliate companies who wanted to sponsor the event think its only 60% english speaking.

NO MATTER!

I am booked and ready to go AND I know how to say “hi, thanks for reading my blog in 9 different languages”.

And no matter what happens we are working with affiliate.com and getads.com to throw one of the biggest, most amazing parties ever.

So if you haven’t yet go and register for the affiliate convention and book your trip to Denver. Its only a couple weeks away so get to it!

Anyone who has followed me for the last 6 years knows one of the core principals of ShoeMoney Media Group INC. is to find a service that is needed and fill that void.

Right now with tons of people out of jobs due to the economy and with the making money online niche being the new “cool thing” to do; tons of people ARE filling that void by selling informational products on the real *secrets* of making money online.

This all started because last fall I had a conversation with one of my childhood friends who recently lost his job. He called me up and was like “Hey man, I really want to get in to this making money online stuff and it seems so easy. I was checking out these online courses but they are like thousands of dollars. Also I saw your Elite Retreat conference and thought about going to it. I just want to know if I can handle it.”

The last thing in the world I would recommend to a person looking to see what internet marketing is all about is to buy a product. But unfortunately there is nothing I could recommend to him.

So we started cracking ass on a 100% FREE 12 week course that covers about every possible topic on internet marketing. I call it the ShoeMoney Xtreme course because that is what it is… it’s a massive crash course in the world of making money online complete with info, real life examples and weekly assignments.

I have also teamed up with MySpace, Facebook, and Microsoft. They’re going to give you free money to spend on their advertising platforms so you can test them out without spending your own money.

Why would I release this amazing content for free?

Giving away great content has always paid off massively for me. This blog is a prime example. Without it, neither my Elite Retreat conference or the ShoeMoney Marketing Tools would be successful.

Let me be VERY TRANSPARENT.

I want to teach you the basics of internet marketing and educate you on how the online marketing world works from my 13 years of experience.

This course is for the extreme newbie.

All this course requires is that someone works hard.

I am going to take you through the ins and outs of how all of this works and also give you free money to try some of the advertising venues.

If you feel making money online (or my course) is not right for you at anytime, simply hit the unsubscribe button. No cost to you.

My hope is that by the end of this course, you have found out whether or not this is the right industry for you. I also hope that you’re encouraged to take your ideas to the next level. Who knows – maybe you’ll even sign up for my marketing tools or internet marketing conference (of course, these things aren’t required ). So if you’re ready to dive into the Internet marketing world, I invite you to sign up the ShoeMoney Xtreme course.

To get started with the 12 week free training course, go here to sign up.

POSTSCRIPT: Many People have been kind enough to translate the content to serveral languages around the world.

Russian: http://altblog.ru/category/shoemoney/

All serious affiliate marketers doing substantial profit margins always have 1 major thing in common and that is a central “Dashboard” of all of their earnings among all the networks. Most marketers have several accounts, some even with the same company. And most of the affiliates doing 6-7 figures a month are 1 man shops.

So you can either build your own dashboard which shows you all of your earnings or you can purchase software to do it for you.

The guys at StatsJunky pinged me to check out their product and I gotta say it looks pretty sweet.

So what makes StatsJunky different from all the open source/hosted tracking applications?

Less Points Of Failure:
With hosted/open source tracking apps, you have to invest tons of time setting up your dashboard and generating tons of links for every campaign. Not only that, but running software like this can be risky. If the hosted server is down or delayed, this is going to drastically cut into your revenue – which is a HUGE point of failure.

Security:
If you use StatsJunky, all of the data stays on your computer. You don’t have to worry about a hosted application having all of your campaigns/keywords.

Plugins:
All major affiliate networks are compatible with StatsJunky and if there’s something you want – they will write a plugin for you.

Education They conduct DAILY webinars for StatsJunky users.

So StatsJunky sounds like something you need? Well, I’ve talked StatsJunky into giving away THREE FREE StatsJunky accounts with 1 year access. Want one?

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