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Mafia Wars addictive money maker

I’ve just started playing this game called mafia wars, its been floating around as a facebook app, which i had previously ignored, but when a version came out as a free iPhone app, i thought i’d tried it out. Its basically a turnbased resource management game with multiple levels and multiple resources to manage and [...]

How affiliate marketing should be (client side)

There’s a lot of money in affiliate marketing since its first inception by amazon some years ago. For affiliates we’re always looking for brand names as it makes the job of marketing so much easier. As an affiliate manager and head of affiliates for an agency, again, bigger is better, and the higher profile clients [...]

A Scottish Wedding and lots of business education

I went up to scotland for a wedding this weekend, in Avimore near Inverness, actually a town called carrbridge. It pretty remote and surrounded by scenic forrests, with much of the local trade being in outdoor pursuits, and bed and breakfast hotels, decidedly tourist oriented. Whilst it’s not a rich part of Scotland, or on [...]

My affiliate Setup

(photo to come soon) Affiliate marketing is totally flexible, after all, all you need is a laptop and an internet connection. My setup is a Black MacBook, its a little old now compared to the new macbook but its a power horse, its got firefox, filezilla, photoshop, and a few other programs on it, I’ve [...]

Useful Tools for affiliate marketers

Affiliate marketing is a fast paced game, you need to constantly be building up your sites with the most relevant content as quickly as possible and be trying to get your site to rank as high as possible in the search engines, I’ve always found the efficency is what makes all the difference, and the [...]

The Best part-time jobs as an affiliate

I’ve been thinking about my future move from being a part-time ‘hobby’ affiliate, to a part-time ‘professional’ affiliate- what i mean by this is at the moment, my affiliate commissions only trickle in and really don’t make me enough to sustain my lifestyle, at this point affiliate marketing for me is still very much a [...]

Things I hate as an affiliate

Being an affiliate isn’t always sunshine and tequilas. And whilst itsĀ  a great and convenient part time business there are things about affiliate marketing that drive me up the wall and have me shouting at my computer screen. so here’s my fantastic Affiliate list of pet peeves (its an affiliate list as I work as [...]

Why I love affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing isn’t just a career for me. It’s a hobby and ultimately a lifestyle and obsession, much to my family and girl friend’s annoyance. I see affiliate marketing as the banking sector of online advertising, it’s the business model that I’m most passionate about, being in affiliate marketing is like being a trader, it’s [...]

Why I got into affiliate marketing

I’ve always been entrepreneural even from a young age when i got caught selling baseball cards in school. Leaving Uni with not much of a degree in graphic design i was at a loss as to what to do with my life, it dawned on me i wasn’t much of a graphic designer and my [...]