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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th May 2015, 10:20 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 2,588
Posted By ronrule
Re: Affiliate marketing does NOT work well when you do this....

The largest, most successful companies in the world, sell physical products. No residual earnings, no ability to re-engage them down the road, etc. Most of them only make a few dollars per sale. To...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th May 2015, 10:05 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 1,408
Posted By ronrule
Re: Dead customer refund dilemma ...advice desperately needed

As others have said, this situation isn't covered by PayPal so you should be OK there, however a Terms of Service update may be in order to prevent a similar situation from happening again.
...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 10th April 2015, 01:47 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,595
Posted By ronrule
Re: Do you make more than $5000 a month from Google AdSense? How?

Yeah, but the freakin remarketing is killing me right now - it's part of why I stopped selling the Adsense course I wrote in 2013. It gets worse every year, and now it seems the remarketing ad...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th March 2015, 12:24 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 1,706
Posted By ronrule
Re: $100 a day should be the MINIMUM goal for first year IMer. MINIMUM.

Where I think most people go wrong isn't with what they're offering, it's due to a failure to reinvest their earnings.

When you're first starting out, you should be putting 0% of what you make in...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 24th March 2015, 09:40 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,074
Posted By ronrule
Re: I think advice to change passwords regularly is bad!

Haha, yes, crap like that is ridiculous. For certain things, a refresher is good - banks or anything finance-related for example.

But for other stuff, frankly it's just stupid. Take a forum for...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 17th March 2015, 09:13 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,206
Posted By ronrule
Re: Does It Matter? Yes! . . It's Dark Matter. And CERN Is Firing Up again This Week.

I just want to know the exact spot to stand so I can get super speed powers like The Flash.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 17th March 2015, 09:10 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 744
Posted By ronrule
Re: What are "e-liquids"?

Let me google that for you (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=e-liquid)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th March 2015, 06:59 AM
Replies: 283
Views: 30,748
Posted By ronrule
Re: How would you make $400,000 in one year online?

I would also add "Don't quit your day job right away" to my previous answer. In fact, dont put ANY of the business income in your own pocket just yet.

I see this way too often... as soon as people...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th March 2015, 02:57 PM
Replies: 283
Views: 30,748
Posted By ronrule
Re: How would you make $400,000 in one year online?

I'm surprised by how many people think $400k a year is such a difficult feat to achieve. For most affiliate offers I suppose I agree, but there's a whole world beyond clicks and CPA's where if you're...
Forum: Programming 4th December 2014, 02:58 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,052
Posted By ronrule
Re: Need For Website Speed

For a quick fix, try CloudFlare. Their caching engine will take a lot of the load off your server, and you don't have to make any configuration changes on your side. It's also free, prevents DoS...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 4th December 2014, 02:07 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,746
Posted By ronrule
Re: So I'm building my own electric car...

It's hydraulic. Originally I wired in an aftermarket keyless entry system to raise and lower the top (holding down the lock or unlock button on the keychain to raise/lower). I literally just finished...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 4th December 2014, 02:05 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,746
Posted By ronrule
Re: So I'm building my own electric car...

Electric motors produce their peak HP immediately, which is why they're so efficient. In a gas motor, the "power curve" is whatever RPM's that particular motor is producing the maximum amount of...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th December 2014, 12:43 PM
Replies: 60
Views: 1,945
Posted By ronrule
Re: G00gle destroyed my business

Google didn't destroy your business, they created it.Your business only existed because you found a way to manipulate theirs. You're only "out" because they fixed their error.

All I can offer is a...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 4th December 2014, 12:33 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,746
Posted By ronrule
So I'm building my own electric car...

Most of you guys who I've met at the Warrior or JVZoo events know I'm something of an auto geek and may have heard a little about this project I started in 2011, but some major progress was made last...
Forum: Offline Marketing 26th November 2014, 09:20 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,267
Posted By ronrule
Interesting technique from a Salesman this morning

Got an interesting call this morning... it was a sales guy, and the first thing he did was identify himself as a salesman. I forget the exact wording he used, but it was something along the lines of...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 24th November 2014, 02:57 PM
Replies: 65
Views: 3,081
Posted By ronrule
Re: You have $1,000,000. Invest it.

Ha, yeah what you're paying in HOA fees we're paying in insurance. No snow here, hail is a once every 20 year event, grass is green year round. But you know, a major hurricane happens like once every...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 24th November 2014, 02:19 PM
Replies: 65
Views: 3,081
Posted By ronrule
Re: You have $1,000,000. Invest it.

Yeah, the trade-off is the maintenance and taxes. I'm less concerned with resell value since there wouldn't be any debt against them and the primary goal would be income producing not to flip. If...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th November 2014, 12:55 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,171
Posted By ronrule
Re: Why am I not taking this amazing opportunity?

Highly likely they'll find you and go after you. In fact, I watch for guys like you... when I catch someone infringing on one of our brands (which happens almost immediately, by the way), I don't...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th November 2014, 11:50 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 767
Posted By ronrule
Re: Where to get paid support for server management ?

Because custom software configuration is a completely different animal than hardware management. It's one thing for maintaining a basic standard configuration like they do with their own servers, but...
Forum: Social Media 20th November 2014, 11:54 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,273
Posted By ronrule
Re: Has anyone purchased facebook fans? Did it help?

Not only is the practice of buying likes completely worthless, it actually works AGAINST you.

You have never come across a Facebook page and said โ€œWow, what a great Facebook page, but only 10...
Forum: Social Media 20th November 2014, 11:51 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,560
Posted By ronrule
Re: facebook locked

Someone reported you for using a fake name (doesn't mean you did, just that someone reported it). This happened to me once - there was a Fox news post and I made a "controversial" comment - the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th November 2014, 11:26 AM
Replies: 77
Views: 3,514
Posted By ronrule
Re: is it a realistic goal to build up to 10,000 visitors a day in 7 months

The answer to your question actually isn't about traffic generation, it's about quality of the traffic... I have sites that get over 30K visitors per day, so 10K a day is certainly doable. But the...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 20th November 2014, 08:50 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,648
Posted By ronrule
Re: Vape is Oxford Dictionaries' Word Of The Year

Some of these eCig's are getting pretty ridiculous.

http://photocdn.sohu.com/20131023/Img388737367.jpg
http://www.wallchan.com/images/mediums/30939.jpg
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th November 2014, 08:43 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,012
Posted By ronrule
Re: What is the best investment for me?

Start with your insight. You've worked on a cruise ship for 11 years - that means you know things other people don't, and that has value. You have insight on everything from great destinations and...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 18th November 2014, 10:24 AM
Replies: 86
Views: 2,462
Posted By ronrule
Re: Life On Other Planets. Claude's Rant

Claude Witacrepedia, do you think it's a coincidence that every other planet in the solar system could fit in between the earth and the moon?
...
Forum: Website Design 14th November 2014, 11:54 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 720
Posted By ronrule
Re: Websites that design themselves?

I heard the next generation of 3d printers will be able to print webmasters. Then what???
Forum: Email Marketing 14th November 2014, 11:37 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,485
Posted By ronrule
Re: Email list vs social media followers

Social media messages expire... an Inbox is forever.

If your audience isn't tuned in at the time you post, or within a reasonable amount of time thereafter, they'll never see your message. And...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th November 2014, 11:07 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 693
Posted By ronrule
Re: Prevent people from registering my domain under different extension?

^^ This

It costs $1,300 to file a UDRP (the process in which you recover a trademarked domain from a squatter). And unless there is direct INFRINGEMENT, you aren't guaranteed to win. Remember,...
Forum: Mind Warriors 13th November 2014, 11:43 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 1,828
Posted By ronrule
Re: The Danger Of Thinking Big

With all due respect, what a load of crap.

Your post implies you either don't understand the difference between "thinking big" and "being realistic", or are too much of an underachiever to set...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 31st October 2014, 06:09 AM
Replies: 752
Views: 22,629
Posted By ronrule
Re: CDC: First Ebola case confirmed in U.S

I'm going to make an Ebola costume and wear it to a Halloween party, maybe start a flash mob dance to Thriller with a bunch of people dressed as Zombies.That would be awesome.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 15th October 2014, 12:04 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 1,731
Posted By ronrule
Re: Goatees are Evil

Some goatees look like they went down on it and came up with it.
Forum: Social Media 10th October 2014, 11:10 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 676
Posted By ronrule
Re: What would a real Entrepreneur do?

My point is more about being realistic and being in the right mindset - you aren't ready to run a business. If your financial situation is such that you don't even have your own $300 to spare, and...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd October 2014, 02:37 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 590
Posted By ronrule
Re: Advice on best way to start with $50?

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l240/robo848/not_this_shit_again.jpg
Forum: Email Marketing 3rd October 2014, 02:24 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 781
Posted By ronrule
Re: How Would You Approach 1.6mil Unmarketed Email List?

First things first, clean the list (there are services out there that do this - I can recommend a few if you want). If your bounce rate is too high, your message will never make it to the rest of the...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 3rd October 2014, 02:18 PM
Replies: 752
Views: 22,629
Posted By ronrule
Re: CDC: First Ebola case confirmed in U.S

https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10646967_937842679570077_8201324849863297056_n.jpg?oh=e8972d7203ded6e8347a6486929effa2&oe=54CCFE61
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd October 2014, 11:31 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 905
Posted By ronrule
Re: 2 weeks until redundancy. What would you do?

I would find a job.

In your scenario - no cash, no programming skills, and can't sell = no ability to run a business.

You need at least two of the three. Either you need programming and...
Forum: Email Marketing 3rd October 2014, 09:45 AM
Replies: 82
Views: 4,998
Posted By ronrule
Re: Is Email Marketing still King ?

Made a Facebook post to an audience of 55,000 yesterday, got $1,300 in sales from it. Sent an email to a 70k targeted buyer segment of a 2 million customer database, made $18K. Yeah, email is still...
Forum: Pay Per Click/Search Engine Marketing (PPC/SEM) 3rd October 2014, 09:11 AM
Replies: 115
Views: 5,985
Posted By ronrule
Re: PPC or SEO ???

Everyone who thinks "PPC is expensive" is doing it wrong... it doesn't matter what the top bid is, you don't have to be the top bidder, you bid what you can afford/what works with how well your site...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th September 2014, 11:04 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 770
Posted By ronrule
Re: I cant figure out what to do, help me please.

Dude, you don't need a "special purpose" ... a job isn't a life. The "If you love your job, you'll never work a day" people are full of crap. Work isn't supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be work....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th September 2014, 09:48 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,999
Posted By ronrule
Re: Buy Now button Delay or NOT on Video Sales Letter?

If the customer is ready to give you money, take it. Why would you want to make them watch your entire pitch if they're ready to pay you right now?

This is especially true with affiliate...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th September 2014, 06:34 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 480
Posted By ronrule
Re: hot to protect WSOs from FREE distribution

I say work it into your strategy. I had no idea what to expect when I did my first WSO - I ended up selling about 1,000 copies and then discovered it had been downloaded another 1,000 times on...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 5th September 2014, 07:35 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,147
Posted By ronrule
Re: Established Site w/ 35,000 visitors a month, Only making $60/70 a month on Adsense

The ads you're showing are low paying - for these types of surfers you will trigger more remarketing ads than contextual and the contextual ones related to actors/acting will be low competition...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd September 2014, 08:22 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 1,431
Posted By ronrule
I found $10 on the street. How should I invest it?

Let's see if:

(1) This thread gets any responses, and
(2) If they're as ridiculous as the responses in every other "I have $X what should I do" thread.

:)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd September 2014, 02:58 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,298
Posted By ronrule
Re: Dieting Ebook Idea and the Diet Niche

The diet niche is huge, you're in the right place if you can do something that stands out.

Free eBook, make your money on affiliate meal plans and fitness products.

I have a bunch of premium...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 2nd September 2014, 02:44 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 2,182
Posted By ronrule
Re: Low conversion, little traffic, few sales, Help!

So... consultants like me?

Everything you're saying is the exact opposite of reality, man. You talk about going out of business, but don't want to spend money on advertising. You talk about...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd September 2014, 12:23 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 1,565
Posted By ronrule
Re: What to do with $8,000?

Pay off any personal debt. Don't invest it unless you're debt free.
Forum: Social Media 31st August 2014, 04:59 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 898
Posted By ronrule
Re: How to fight the increasing lack of facebook pages visibility ?

Clickbait is being cracked down on, but there's a difference between "clickbait" and an interesting headline; the content on the other side.

If your content is a one paragraph article that you...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 31st August 2014, 04:45 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,208
Posted By ronrule
Re: Pay Facebook fifty four cents for zero clicks (with proof)

Computers don't do math incorrectly, man... Facebook isn't ripping you off. You're only 3 hours into the campaign, the reporting isn't realtime. There are two possible reasons for this:

1....
Forum: Off Topic Forum 15th August 2014, 08:35 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,322
Posted By ronrule
Re: The best coach on the market...

Two reasons I can think of...

The first is that as a coach, your reputation is on the line. You developed a system that YOU know works. Some of those steps seem tedious, but they're there for a...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 14th August 2014, 03:21 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,322
Posted By ronrule
Re: The best coach on the market...

What? Yoda got the whole prophecy wrong... He thought "bring balance to the force" meant something completely different, when it literally meant balance - the same number of Sith as Jedi. If Yoda had...
Forum: Suggestion Forum 13th August 2014, 06:38 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,993
Posted By ronrule
Re: Bitcoin making forum

Bitcoin has nothing to do with Internet marketing, and frankly I don't see it surviving the decade unless the very thing that it opposes happens: centralization. Which would defeat the point.
...
Forum: Mind Warriors 8th August 2014, 11:25 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 963
Posted By ronrule
Re: You Failed? So What: Here's Top 10 Failed McDonalds Products

I wouldn't call their product food... :D
Forum: Offline Marketing 8th August 2014, 10:39 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,065
Posted By ronrule
Re: Illegal To Direct Market?

It depends on the offer ... offers for credit and insurance are regulated (and there is an "opt out list" run by the FTC that marketers of those products have to honor).

Everything else is fair...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 7th August 2014, 12:55 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,322
Posted By ronrule
Re: The best coach on the market...

I was going to argue that Obi Wan Kenobi was a better coach, but his only pupil ended up becoming the Dark Lord of the Sith, so in retrospect he wasn't really that good.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 7th August 2014, 08:17 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,322
Posted By ronrule
Re: The best coach on the market...

John Wooden according to ESPN. You learn something new every day, I'd have guessed Vince Lombardi.

ESPN.com - Page2 - The List: Best coaches (http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/topcoaches/010518.html)
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 7th August 2014, 08:14 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,349
Posted By ronrule
Re: Advice for new ecommerce business start up - how much product?

That mentality is fine for certain types of products, but keep in mind that the most stable and successful companies in the world tend to have significantly smaller margins. Around 8-17% for the top...
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