I been meaning to do a post like this for a while but just did a video.
Here at Ad:Tech and next week at Pubcon thought I would make a brief vid:
Can We Talk For A Minute
Post written by Jeremy Schoemaker
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.
More about Jeremy at http://www.shoemoney.com!
November 4, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I agree with you. There are way too many people that are full of shit at conferences.
The people that tend to make the real money, never talk about how much money they are making. Why? Because they don’t want others to catch on.
November 4, 2009 at 10:14 pm
the real money maker never show up or talk much…. networks make sure no one see them …. they don’t don’t want to share that high quality traffic…..
November 5, 2009 at 9:01 am
SO TRUE. Well, that’s what I’d do! :}
November 4, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Exactly Neal, I couldnt have said better!
November 5, 2009 at 10:04 pm
I agree with Neil; the people making the real money wont tell their secrets and it’s a shame to see so many people taken in by the posers. Glad you got the friendly affiliate managers issue out; too many disillusioned hopefuls.:).Great video Jeremy. Good luck with your speech.
January 14, 2010 at 10:21 am
Interesting, so why does your blog have pics of you with you black card? You, Shoe, Chow, and Zac, all brag about the amount of money you’ve made, does this post mean you’re all full of shit too? Are all your pics photo shopped as well?
November 4, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Can we taaaalk for a minute….girl i want to know your naaaaammme….can we taaalllk for a minute…girl i want to know your naaaammme.
~Tevin Cambell
November 4, 2009 at 8:22 pm
LOL Such good stuff in this video. All points = true.
November 4, 2009 at 10:16 pm
By your experience which network don’t talk BS…. or we have to deal with their crap all the time?
November 4, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Ohh yes, sure!
Can we talk for a minute!!
~Digaao
November 4, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Shoemeister, you look strung out and irritated! I love it, even though you banned me from your site! You are still the man…
November 4, 2009 at 8:31 pm
She DOES want to…stop wreckin my dreams!
November 4, 2009 at 8:47 pm
LOL.
November 4, 2009 at 10:11 pm
the slow and sexy voice was BS… my dream fall down LOOL
November 4, 2009 at 8:34 pm
So true, especially about the games the networks will play
November 4, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Hmmm, yeah, sounds about right. I like the video post. Keep em coming.
Whoa, that was going to be my comment until I realized that I sound like a blog comment spammer, but I was serious.
November 4, 2009 at 8:57 pm
lol.. nice video…this is what i thought after watch it for the second time
November 4, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I want to know what you’re going to talk about at Loren’s conference.
November 4, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Love the no bullshit info. Thanks.
November 4, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Every bit of what you said is completely true!!
November 4, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Telling it like it is Shoe, nice!
November 4, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Shoe your the man; now i dont know if you are wasted or tired but ladies want to sleep with you cuz of traffic
that blows me!!
November 4, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Never been to a conference yet. Hope to go if there is one ever around my location. Some good points to know when the time does come though.
November 4, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Looking forward to hearing you speak at CRS.
November 5, 2009 at 8:41 am
As of Sept 2009, they have over 65 Million mobile users.
November 4, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Doesn’t Facebook have 300+ million users?
November 5, 2009 at 2:47 pm
That’s how he get caught … lollzzz
November 6, 2009 at 2:43 am
No it doesn’t, it’s full of fake profiles. Wadda ya think Facebook is made on legit traffic, think again how they got so “big”. Zuckerberg & co. also did “fake it till you make it” like slew of other “social networks”. Pumping up fake traffic is not easy but it’s not hard either.
November 4, 2009 at 11:21 pm
I love your no bullshit approach. I’ve been approached by alot of the scam-ass losers that make 2 million a month.
Dude, 2 million a month. I would VERY quietly milk that cash cow for 6 to 12 months and bam… cold beer, Caribbean sand a new hookah. Life would be good!
Selling you my 2 million a month plan for $39.00 PLUS $27,000 in FREE bonus material? BULLSHIT. You’re hoping 60 suckers buy your shit cuz you’re low on ramen and park rent for your double wide is due next week.
Keep telling like it is!
November 5, 2009 at 8:59 am
PSML, “Selling you my 2 million a month plan for $39.00 PLUS $27,000 in FREE bonus material? BULLSHIT.” Love that, think I’m going to quote that from now on.
The sad matter of the fact is, people buy in to that kinda shit. I’ll hold my hands up, I have too when I was younger! Not that I thought I’d make millions, but because I thought perhaps SOME income.
November 5, 2009 at 1:38 pm
yeah you right, i love it to. shoe have unique approach
November 5, 2009 at 12:14 am
awesome video shoe, simple yet effective.
November 5, 2009 at 2:21 am
i’m watching
November 5, 2009 at 5:16 am
Straight down and to the point, got a little humor out of this video! Yes you are right there sure a lot of bullshitters out there, more than we’ll ever know!
November 5, 2009 at 6:33 am
Another great video shoe. Keep them coming. Thanks Greg Ellison
November 5, 2009 at 9:27 am
Great post. Ive been to a lot of conferences and every one of these points is 115% true!
November 5, 2009 at 9:52 am
Great video, unfortunate video thumb.
November 5, 2009 at 10:49 am
This is probably the best post/video I’ve seen on here. Hopefully it will make people realize to stop saying “so how much you bank” within the first 5 minutes you talk to them
November 5, 2009 at 11:07 am
Hahahaha this video is awesome
November 5, 2009 at 11:55 am
You mean everything the “gurus” say isn’t true? I’m crushed.
Thanks for the breath of fresh air.
November 5, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Best. Post. Ever.
November 5, 2009 at 1:06 pm
You should really do more of these video posts
November 5, 2009 at 1:34 pm
i’m very love the video, that’s just like you shoe.
i’m very love your blog
November 5, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Is there anyone who isn’t full of shit that makes conferences worth going to?
.. Or is this video more for “that guy”?
November 7, 2009 at 12:29 am
I love “that guy.” What if “that guy” wants to sleep with you instead of the cute affiliate? lol
November 9, 2009 at 11:48 am
This is the exact reason I never go to these kind of conferences, well at least not yet anyway!
Half the people are not action takers, they are just talk and never do!
November 5, 2009 at 2:12 pm
No man, she really does wanna sleep with me.
November 5, 2009 at 2:45 pm
One thing which likes about your talking is you do not want to act to represent yourself a nice fellow.
If you want to use word sex than you used it … and yes one more thing … like your double chin … lollzz
November 5, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Thank you for this valuable post. It changed my way
November 5, 2009 at 4:41 pm
I totally agree – they all talk the talk and say whatever is necessary to get you sucked in!! Then when you leave the conference you look back and realise most of it was crap…
November 5, 2009 at 4:42 pm
90,000 leads a day on Facebook with nothing. I can do that with my eyes closed. Oh, and I slept with that affiliate manager you are talking about. Twice.
November 5, 2009 at 4:43 pm
and by “with” I mean “is”
November 5, 2009 at 5:41 pm
I bet there’s lots of disillusioned affs after hearing the reality abt the cute, friendly aff mgrs (hopefully female) who touch you all over the place and laugh at your (stupid) jokes….
Nice feldman-ish vid.
Have a blast at the audienceconf!
November 5, 2009 at 5:43 pm
This post has taken me one step closer to taking you out of the same class as john chow and zac johnson.
Great work shoe, but just for the record, she does want to sleep with me
November 5, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Haha I love it. Didn’t see you around at AdTech surprisingly, so true about a lot of the crap people talk.
November 5, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Great stuff! And I would love to see more video posts. There is a touch of Steven Wright to your deliver . . . and that’s a good thing.
In my offline business I deal with some very successful clients who have incomes in the $5M to $20M a year range. What is interesting is that none of them talk about the money they are making. The clients who like to brag about their income are the $150K guys who think they are $10M a year players.
November 5, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Hahaha you hit everything right on the money with that one. Good stuff!
November 6, 2009 at 12:15 am
I never commented here before but I feel like you hit the nail in the head with this one. great vid post. keeping it real.
November 7, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Great Video! I love the straight talk! Had you had a couple of beers by any chance?
Just went through the ShoemoneyX Course as well. Really helpful getting my first few sites off the ground.
November 6, 2009 at 5:04 am
9000 leads a day is pretty average from facebook.
November 6, 2009 at 7:47 am
Facebook has …
More than 300 million active users ..
But those guys are still full of shit, cause that would be a conversion rate 20% yearly and that is simply insane.
Al.
November 6, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Actually the site has 300 million users…. world wide… but there are less then 15 million status udpates. So USA based users active facebook estimates its about 40-50m
November 11, 2009 at 7:25 am
It’s theoretically possible to get more leads than users because you can get more than one lead per person. For instance, you may have a game that requires a user provide leads to 10 different companies during the course of the game. That’s 1 user, and 10 leads.
I’m sure that guy was blowing smoke, but you guys are really missing the point with the math because your concept of a lead is flawed. Each user can be a paid lead hundreds of times.
November 6, 2009 at 10:54 am
Wow, this post is a classic and so true. I think this should be required viewing for everyone before going to a conference.
November 6, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Raise your hand if you though MLDina was going to sleep with you?
November 6, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Some good stuff there… definitely lots of B.S. to sort through in the affiliate industry.
But just to add one thing, I do know an affiliate who did end up taking his affiliate manager back to his room at another conference earlier this year. Wasn’t even a big affiliate either, just a newbie, but perhaps she did really like him. lol
November 6, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I thought my pimp game was super nice with the AM ladies, FML
November 6, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Well I agree on payout part and people running around collecting business cards. It annoying. I tell people I don’t have a business card.
I still suck at getting traffic, but I do get decent enough leads from facebook. hehehehe.
November 6, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Have you ever seen that movie Grumpy Old Men? I just watched the 5 minute version of it on your site. Ha!
November 7, 2009 at 12:26 am
The truth is never easy to hear . . . .
November 7, 2009 at 12:30 am
Hell, I just want to make 10K a month . . . .
November 7, 2009 at 4:45 am
I actually just came by to check your alexa because I was still pissed about that post you wrote way back when TY had a felony thingy,but as I watched I saw you in a new light and realized this dude may not be so bad after all so I’m Good.
As far as affiliate mgr’s I want to know why they all suck unless your “somebody:” special they blow you off well that has only caused me to study harder and work faster now I don’t need their help but I do have ONE that has my back and no we aren’t F*cking they just do their job and can handle it I guess. When I apply I asked the person right off the bat are you going to help me etc they all say the same thing YES and then you don’t hear nothing it’s all good because like I said I don’t need their help now
Enjoy the conferences when I get some real money I will step up and shake your hand at one.Peace
November 7, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Actually what’s wrong with having ladies want you for your traffic? If they want you for everything else, it could be a refreshing change to build a harem out of women who lust for your trrrrrrrrraffic. yowza yowza yowza
November 7, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Actually, that aff manager might sleep with you if you join, give shitloads of traffic, and then threaten to leave unless she sleeps with you.
November 8, 2009 at 9:01 am
This guy have lot of attitude, can you smell it through the video above?
November 9, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Yes you have a lot of attitude, but a lot of common sense is coming through, and that is what i value.
I mean if you go into any business, you want to learn from those who went before you…some will say the truth, some won’t and most are some wildly changing percentage of that lol.
Have fun.
November 9, 2009 at 2:21 am
I agree with the sentiment that true affiliate titans and even networks don’t need to start every conversation off with how much of a baller they are. If you really want to set yourself up, ask all the questions and let the other party give up all the information, they will leave the conversation thinking your swell because you’re a great listener and you will leave the talk that much smarter.
November 9, 2009 at 11:18 am
Dead on, everyone’s out for themselves, it’s a greedy world we live in!
November 10, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Wow, that kind of stuff really goes on at these conferences?
I like the guy with the 90′000 fb leads per day. What’s he doing at a conference? Wouldn’t he be chilling on his private Island, more likely?
November 11, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Dude, you look exhausted in that video…….wearing yourself out with the conferences?
November 15, 2009 at 2:21 pm
LOL @ the cute affy managers. Someone sounds a little spurned. xD
November 16, 2009 at 8:58 am
Well, just like in different industries, sex sells and if you get some unsocial affiliate that is pushing good traffic, some attractive AM would probably sway their decision a great deal in selecting who they deal with.
I have had my fair share of AM’s that tried to “get me with their attractiveness” but you have to realize at the end of the day for the affiliate marketer, it is all about business and getting paid, not getting laid. That is another topic altogether.