Leave it up to those creeper, seat-smelling Germans to come up with something like this. I can’t imagine who would want to smell like sweaty vagina, mixed in with a little bit of rectum juice. I guess this guy… VAGI-GOOOO!
I wanted to follow up on my previous post of an affiliate network that was taking for EVER to get my motherfucking money. Good new – they finally got their shit together and got me my long over-due payment.
I still don’t know what the deal was, just inept accounting I guess. I don’t really give a shit, as long as they pay me and it doesn’t happen again. I’ve decided to give this network another chance, and we’ll see how it goes. I have another payment coming up, so it’s make it or break it time.
Honestly, with the number of affiliate networks out there and the competition among them, networks really need to compete for affiliates loyalty. Not paying on time is a quick way to fuck your network over and lose out on some good traffic.
I’m glad to be running offers again, and I can finally pickup my campaigns where I left off over a month ago. Tweaking one campaign in particular and finding some ads and demographics that are starting to pay off. Once I get dialed in, it’s scale time and hopefully I’ll start to see the monies rolling in.
Keep it gangster…
Have you ever had a network that didn’t pay you or made you jump through hoops just to receive a payment for leads/sales that you generated? I think most of have or will at some point in our lives. This is less of an informative post and more of a rant.
I’m not going to name names, but I recently started running traffic with one of the better known affiliate networks. Things were working out great at first, and I really enjoy working with these guys since they really seem to ‘get it’. Anyway, over the course of a few weeks I generated about $800 worth of leads with a particular campaign that I was breaking even with. Not too bad to start off with, it was a fairly mainstream offer and I was only tapping one traffic source for initial testing.
So, time came for me to get paid and I discovered that I hadn’t submitted a piece of information for payment. No sweat, I sent the information to my AM and the accounting dept and away we go – or so I thought.
A week or two goes by, no check in the mail. I take a look at my account, and it still hasn’t been updated with the piece of information I had provided. I contacted my AM, he looked into it, and got that fixed. Ok, now it’s payment time…
Needless to say, it’s 4 weeks later and I’ve been ‘promised’ the check has gone out about 2 or 3 times. What the fuck man?
My AM is a cool guy and I don’t necessarily think he’s to blame. He seems to be doing everything to get my payment going. The problem seems to be in the accounting department. All of my e-mails to them have gone unanswered and it seems like they either don’t have their shit together or they just don’t give a shit.
Hopefully they get it together because I’d really like to continue working with this network. Since all this went down, I’ve suspended all my traffic to this network. No sense in sending them leads/sales when they don’t pay me shit, right? At this point, even if I do get payment, I’m going to be weary running any large amounts of traffic to this network if it’s going to take 6 weeks to get my fucking money. Grrr…
I do quite a bit of advertising on Facebook, and if you’ve ever done any yourself you know it’s a complete bitch to get ads approved. Not only do they falsely disapprove ads recently submitted, they will often disapprove ads after they’ve been running for weeks/months. I’d say 85% of my ads that I submit are rejected and require me to whine to the advertising dept. to get them approved. Got consistency?
They often claim my pics are ‘inappropriate’ , which usually means too sexual or too much skin. But in my case, all my pic models are fully clothed, no nip-slips, nothing…
The other day I was logged into my personal FB account and noticed the following ad pic. Are you fucking kidding me? How do people slip shit like this through while I can’t even get a pic of a model in a V-neck sweater approved the first time around? This broad is getting naked, and someone is getting paid.
If this is your ad pic, sorry for busting you out. However, you are the man and you need to teach me your seekretz…
As my business endeavors begin getting more serious, I’ve been considering forming an LLC to protect personal assets and establish a business entity. There’s a number of benefits of forming an LLC other than liability reasons, but that’s pretty much the main reason. Even though I don’t promote any rebills, all the big corporations (Google, Ophrah, etc..) coming after the little affiliate marketers makes me a little nervous. After all, I don’t want that bitch Oprah taking my ’89 Honda Accord, right?
Fuck you California
Anyway, I started doing some research on forming my LLC and found some great resources for making it happen (filing forms, registered agents to accept business documents, etc..). Apparently it’s pretty common for people to form LLC’s outside of their resident state for tax purposes – great news.
However, after digging a little deeper, I discovered that California has an outrageous annual franchise tax of $800. Are they fucking joking? My posse isn’t on broadway yet, and the thought of having to pay over $66/mo just to have a business is fucking insane. The kicker to this is that if you register your LLC in a more tax-friendly state (Delaware, Nevada, Wyoming, etc..), California still sticks you for the $800 since you’re a resident. Doesn’t matter if your business pulls in $10 or $1,000,000 annually, you still pay the $800.
I love the sunshine state and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else… I know were hurting for money, but Arnold needs to buck up and get back to his republican roots and start cutting these types of fees and taxes down. At least pro-rate that shit on how much your business makes. aiiiight?
If you’re anything like me, you have about 3 or 4 computers that you conduct business from. It’s damned frustrating to be in one location and not have the spreadsheet or graphics that you need to get a job done. I hated having to constantly write and re-write data to a thumbdrive and have to carry that bitch around with me everywhere I went.
A few months ago, I discovered a paid service from RackSpace called JungleDisk. It’s basically a client app you install on all your computers, and it creates a network drive that connects you to RackSpace’s cloud for data storage. This means you can access any data saved here from any computer you have the app installed.
I’ve been using that for the past few months, and it’s worked out well, but today I discovered Glide OS. Taking this shit to a ‘whole nutha level’, Glide OS allows you to have access to a cloud desktop where you can not only store shit, but you can create, modify, and share data with other people. A 30GB account is free, and should be plenty for most users. The only requirements are you have to have a browser with Flash v10 installed (they recommend Firefox).
They also have an app available for your mobile phone which gives you access into your cloud desktop. But it looks like it’s only available for Android and Blackberry devices right now (no iPhone, what the fuck?).
Check it out and thanks me later…
