Saturday, June 27, 2009

My first affiliate check - and I am not too proud

I've got something funny today in my mailbox, but I knew it was coming: my first affiliate check! I was waiting for this for so long! But this is not exactly what I was hoping for. Let me explain:

I've hit my first affiliate conversion with a Linkshare network publisher at the end of May, and I wasn't supposed to get any check at this point: Affiliate programs' payment threshold minimum are always $50, even $100. But what I didn't knew is that Linkshare didn't have any payment threshold minimum, and I didn't set one either! So on June 18, I saw in my account that they send me my first affiliate check ever, but this was for only one conversion! So yeah, how much, lol? US $11.39! Haha! My first idea was to put my first affiliate check on my wall for motivation, but now I think I will deposit that first one discretly and wait until next month for my first true affiliate checks - I've got some conversions on all networks I use at this point: LinkShare.com, Clickbank, Commission Junction and Amazon!

I'm still happy with that check because now I can apply to Direct Deposit already! You have to give this to Linkshare: they are the fastest to pay! It just may not be the paycheck you were hoping for lol!

P.S. Same thing about scanning that check and posting it here: I'll wait until next month, if you don't mind ;)

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Monday, June 22, 2009

Twitter is my best source of income :S - June 2009 update

Well, three months later, with lot of "hard" work, I am making some affiliate money and will get my first checks in the next weeks, will try to post them here if I can (have to check the TOS policies). I have conversions with Amazon, Clickbank, Commission Junction and Linkshare, and I am making almost $100/week at this point, which is far from enough! But people around me seems to freak out and want to jump in the train even if they knew nothing about Internet! I can do nothing for them!!

Anyway, I've become a Twitter freak in the last weeks and I was thinking on a way to make money on Twitter, and I found this Twitter system on Clickbank. I don't know I decide to give it a try, I set up a new account and two days later I have 250 followers - without doing the follow you maybe you'll follow me s**t! - and money was already starting to flow! (Take a look at this new Twitter account - check the number of RTs I got in 2 dayz!) Now I don't believe this, I am making more money with it than all my other websites! Almost frustrating loll!

Well, at least I could show this to my cousin, maybe he'll stop begging me for money! This is so easy even him can do it! ;D

Monday, June 1, 2009

Bing - Google war: Stock markets reaction on Nasdaq

So, who was the real winners and losers of that first day of Bing? Microsoft, Google? What are the stock markets reaction?

Well, I'd take a look at Nasdaq stock quotes today:

Microsoft was rising all day, going from 21.04 to 21.40, a gain of 2.39%. Nothing spectacular here.

Google? Same thing! From 419.0 to 426.56, a 2.28% gain! Hummm, I think we may have to wait a little longer to see significant results.

Then I thought Yahoo may had take a big hit, considering last year Microsoft offer. So, what happened to Yahoo stock today? After going down from 9h30 to 11h00 AM, action rise from 16.18 to 16.58, a 4.48% gain!!

So, who wins the Bing-Google war first act? Yahoo?!?