Aminology

It’s been almost a month since I last posted, so I thought I would keep the small readership that I already have updated with what I’ve been up to since:

1) Been fucked over (once again) by Facebook: My last profitable campaign got killed by the Facebook nazis mods after they decided (after two weeks) that it did not meet their ‘advertising guidelines’. As a result, a daily $600-$1000 stream of income disappeared overnight. I haven’t had much success getting another profitable campaign up and running, and after the amounts of ads I’ve had rejected, I don’t think I will be making any further attempts any time soon. Lesson learned: Screw Facebook (for now).

2) Finally launched my latest product, which should have been released earlier this year. It took me MONTHS to finally get my designer to deliver me the final goods, when it should have quite literally taken less than a week to do. Their incompetence made me complacent, as a result the project was delayed by months, which equates to months of LOST REVENUE. Lesson learned: Keep to deadlines and don’t delay an entire project because of incompetent freelancers.

3) Contacted by an established company within one of my niches, requesting regional selling rights to one of my products. Downside: The deal would mean I wouldn’t be allowed to sell my own product in the country they would like to have complete selling rights in. Upside: The sales I already make in that country are negligable. In addition, they are extremely well placed in the market, and would potentially generate me an extra $80k profit in sales this year alone. Lesson learned: Hurry up and secure the deal.

4) Ah yes, I almost forgot. I got my hands on a copy of Xrumer , a software application that automatically posts your messages to forums, guestbooks and bulletin boards (yeah, it’s a link spammer). The purpose of this tool is to increase your position in the SERPs, and while I haven’t experienced any significant changes in my rankings, it has boosted the positions of the few sites I have been experimenting it with. At $450 it’s not exactly cheap, but it does its job suprisingly well, and is quite easy to use. Definitely something to look into (unless of course you shy away from Black Hat tactics).