200 Affiliates
I posted here on May 24th that I had reached 100 affiliates in
Traffic Swarm. This has been mostly due to the
Google AdWords campaigns I have run.
The AdWords campaign has been working well for the last 10 days. I have had a 3.24% CTR, $0.158 CPC and have run a $2.36 efficiency in Traffic Swarm. That means every dollar I spent in the last 10 days on my AdWords campaign was worth $2.36 in Traffic Swarm credits. And this does not count the additional credits earned when my downline clicks on their start page or clicks on any of the links in their start page. I have received over 20,000 referral credits with a value of over $200.00!
If you haven't tried this you are missing out on a couple of great marketing tools:
Traffic Swarm and
Google AdWords.
Dada Mail
I posted a month ago that I was signing up for Submit Your Article. This was due to my re-emphasis on submitting articles as a main part of my marketing plan. I think that SYA is generally a good service but I had problems. I received failure notices from several of the article announcement lists. I sent an email to SYA but the response only said to make sure that I was signed up on the announcement lists with the correct email. All of them were set up with the same address so why some worked and others didn't I never found out.
So I decided that I would distribute the articles myself. Based on a reply to Stone's marketing journal I looked for a free mailing list program I could install on my hosting account. After some research I found Dada Mail by Justin Simoni. Dada Mail is a cgi script that runs on most hosting accounts that run cgi. It is quite powerful. It allows creation of multiple lists with opt-in, double opt-in and opt out.
I have now distributed three articles using Dada Mail without a problem. Needless to say I cancelled my SYA subscription. I can use the $37 a month elsewhere. I have also started to use Dada Mail to send messages to my affiliate downlines. It works great for that too. You can ceate opt-in and opt-out messages for both text & HTML.
If you want to give it a try check it out at:
http://mojo.skazat.com
p.s. I am writing an article on installation of Dada Mail on your hosting account and a planning more for how to set it up for distribution of your articles.
Jimbo In The News
Do you remember James "Jimbo" Patterson, the scam artist that offered guaranteed signups for a price, collected the money, and then dissapeared? Well, it appears that he is in the news again. Jimbo and his cronies from New Leaf Associates have now been charged with violating Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. Thier main scam was so called "debt termination". They claimed that for a fee they would eliminate your debt and fix your credit scores. Jimbo and his buddies bilked 2,200 people out of more than $8,000,000. You can read more from the
Florida Attorney General, the
St. Petersburg Times and the
Tampa Bay Business Journal.
