One of my friends I have known for a LONG time hit me up last night saying they were going to launch a game based around Twitter. When I checked it out I was totally blown away….

The game is called SNODS and if you want to skip through my review you can just check it out here.

What is SNODS? Imagine a real time strategy game based around twitter. You kidnap people based on their value (followers) to collect money. You can also complete missions to earn cash and even steal from other players:

Once you have cash you can use it to buy upgrades like guards and stuff to defend your captured twitters:

Pretty fun and addictive without spamming the crap out of your twitter feed. (you can control what gets sent to your twitter feed in the communication settings)

Checkout SNOD

POSTSCRIPT: Hey assholes quit capturing me.

I was talking with a friend the other day who was telling me how cool it would be to work for one of these web celebrities. Then I peed in their cheerios telling them I don’t know of many celebrities who have ever done many successful businesses.

There have been many successful business people who turn into a web celebrity and then their business sense goes in the shitter.

The truth is its VERY rare that any celebrity has much business sense including former successful people who turn into celebrities.

The only exception I can think of is Donald Trump. He has managed to go on to do even bigger things after becoming a celebrity.

I am not going to call out certain people but search a round a bit for .com zillionaires who became famous then have not done anything since…

At some point being a celebrity becomes your business… that scares me.

Took my wife up to Minneapolis for the weekend to hang out with Dave and his girlfriend. We eat some incredible food and on Saturday it was all rainy so we went and saw The Hangover

This movie is instantly one of the top 10 funniest movies I have ever seen. Go see it now. Before your friends ruin it for you.

You can thank me later.

If you haven’t noticed yet affiliate networks are seeing huge returns by having publisher contests. Just check out the Motive Interactive contest we announced earlier this week.

With the rise of all these contests obviously it opens up a great business opportunity for someone to jump in and take the reigns and run these contests taking some of the friction off of both the publisher and advertiser.

twitthis started hosting twitter contests last week and they have become a huge success getting thousands of entries per day!  Another successful site hosting contests is PublisherChallenge.com.  The site is ran by Tyler Cruz and starting to really pick up steam.

PublisherChallenge.com has been running competitions for various affiliate networks for quite a while now.  So basically they run the competition, on a per-network basis and each affiliate network essentially gives them a set of prizes to give away.  Most of the competitions are run on a monthly basis, and require registering to the corresponding affiliate network under PublisherChallenge’s referral URL.  After you register with each affiliate network, you start earning money as you would normally, but you are also competing for some great stuff.  To date, they have given away $20,000 in prizes!

They do all of the tracking without asking for your username or password, and no code to implement either.

I mean making money is great, but making money and winning prizes like: a ZERO-G Weightless Experience or an Epic VIP Vegas Trip for Two for a full week is awesome!

Currently, CPARev, running a great contest through PublisherChallenge.com with prizes ranging from  a 52-Inch 1080p Plasma HDTV, MacBook Pro, 10.1MP Digital SLR Camera, and a VIP trip to Vegas to name but a few.  Peerfly.com is also running a contest right now, and have already given away $8,000 in prizes so far.  Prizes range from trips to scooters to tvs!

Sign up now and make some money and win some cool stuff.

I have received a ton of douplicate questions about the new FREE  12 week internet marketing program I started last week.    Its been pretty wild and one of the first things I have ever done.  So here is a list of frequently asked questions and answers about the program.

Question:  Why did you make this program?

Answer:  I made the program because I felt like there was a HUGE need for a newbie guide to internet marketing.  One of the most common questions I always get is “Where do I start”.  Now I have some place to point them.

Question:  Who is this program designed for?

Answer:  The program is designed for people completely new to internet marketing.  There is a good chance your parents are a better fit for this program then you are .

Question:  There is some really good stuff in there.  Obviously you spent a lot of time on it.  Why did you make it free?

Answer:  I have always done well giving away good content.  This blog is a great example.  I wrote it for years without ever making a dime.  Now it is a excellent source of revenue for me from advertisers and also a great launching pad for our other ventures.  Giving away this course has already increased my RSS readership by about 30% in only the 2nd week.

Question:  I am really skeptical about joining your program.  I have been burned in the past by other make money online guru’s and its cost me thousands of dollars.  How do I know you are legit?

Answer: You are very smart to be skeptical.   I can’t speak for these programs you have been burnt on but I can speak for myself.  I have spent over 12 years working on the ShoeMoney brand building successful companies (not being a online guru).  I plan on continueing that.  I would advise you to do some quick research on any person behind the program, paid or not, before you sign up.

Question:  Why do you make people wait 7 days between chapters?  I want it all now!

Answer:  Internet marketing is not something you can learn over night.   I give out a tremendous amount of information in these chapters and then assign you action items that I want you to do.

Question: Do you have any plans to translate it to other languages?

Answer: YES!  So far we have had volunteers translate the course to Mandarin Chinese and Russian.  If you would like to translate the course to your native language then use the contact us form and let us know!

Question: I heard some of the “gurus” were really upset that you put this out.

Answer:  Well…  I think it was more like people who paid thousands of dollars for many gurus programs were complaining my free course was much better and free.

Question: Why do your banners say 11 week course but its really a 12 week course?

Answer:  Originally it was going to be a 7 week course…. then 8 then 9 then 11 and we had banners made… then when we launched I expanded it to 12 weeks.  To be honest it could end up being longer then 12 weeks.  I have thought of a lot more topics I want to cover.

Question:  I heard you are not going to allow signups much longer.  Is this true?

Answer:  We will keep it open for registration for another week or so.. I really dont want to keep it open much longer.  The reason being that people who started at the begining are almost on week 3 and while I can answer emails between weeks 1-3 it will be REALLY hard to do weeks 1-12!

Thanks and please let me know if you have more questions!

If you have not yet signed up for the course go here and signup now!

Motive Interactive contacted me today and said they wanted to have a huge contest with the ShoeMoney readers for June!  And instead of just having one way of winning, they said they were willing to do three!  So you have 3x the chances of winning some awesome stuff.  Twitter, blogs and network earnings.  So first off, here is the prize list:

Twitter Prizes
iPod Shuffle – 1 prize weekly given out at random.

Blogger Prize
XBOX 360 ELITE – 1 prize only given out at random at the completion of the contest.

Network Earnings Prizes
$500,000+ Tier – Vegas VIP Prize
.       1st Class flight for two to Las Vegas
.       Fairway Villa for two nights
.       $5,000 in cash

$200,000 – $499,999 Tier
.       1st Class flight for one to Las Vegas
.       Wynn – The Suite Life Package : Parlor Suite 2 nights

$100,000 – $199,999 Tier
.       $4,000 in cash

$50,000 – $99,999 Tier
.       2 tickets to UFC 100 with accommodations and flight for 2 for 2 nights

$25,000 – $49,999 Tier
.       Sony Plasma TV

$10,000 – $24,999 Tier
.       Xbox 360 Elite plus Halo 3 and NEWEST UFC XBOX GAME

$3,000 – $9,999 Tier
.       iPod Touch 32GB

$1,000 – $2,999 Tier
.       Best Buy Gift Card

Three Ways to Win:

1.) Join Motive Interactive and earn within any of the Commission Levels above during the month of June. Contest tier prizes only awarded to new Motive affiliates signed up through this blog during June 2009.  YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP THROUGH THIS LINK TO BE ELIGIBLE

2.) Follow @Motive and Tweet this contest on Twitter. Just “tweet” the following from your Twitter account and you are automatically entered to win a new iPod Shuffle each week.

“Follow @motive and join Top Rated CPA Affiliate Network Motive Interactive to make money and win big prizes! http://xr.com/s1g RT 2 WIN! “

3.) Blog about this contest promotion. If you have a blog, simply link back to ShoeMoney’s contest blog page and talk about this contest. Then you will be entered to win a new Xbox 360 Elite plus two games.

So sign up now with Motive, and start winning some great prizes!

Motive Interactive Contest Rules & Conditions:
For international publishers (residing outside of the US), in the event that we cannot find a company that ships the prize internationally to your country, Motive Interactive will compensate by sending a PayPal payment or bank wire payment (depending on the prize value) for the value of the prize.  In order to be eligible for the competition, publishers must be new referrals who sign up under our Motive Interactive referral link during June.
No exceptions. Any publisher caught doing illegal measures such as fraud or being in violation of the Motive Interactive’s Terms of Service will not be eligible for a prize. Prizes for the tiered prizes will be sent out after final numbers are confirmed for June. If departing outside of continental US/Canada, the flight will be coach instead Subject to Wynn’s package terms and conditions.
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