Recent content by majorbta

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    Charlotte 202 Meetup

    For people in the Charlotte area, a friend of mine organized a 202 meetup. The first one is this Friday, downtown. I'm going to try and be there Meetup202: Charlotte (Charlotte, NC) - Meetup.com
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    Berry slangers make little kids starve

    ?Superfood? Promoted on Oprah?s Site Robs Amazon Poor of Staple - Bloomberg.com
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    Some Financial Tips for Affiliates

    Here are some financial tips and pieces of advice that have saved/made me a lot of money over the last few months so I thought I would share. - Get a CPA, don't be cheap. You get what you pay for and a good one will pay for it's self very quickly. - Stop using a debit card immediately. Get a...
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    Most Badass Youtube Video Ever

    YouTube - Carolina Camera: The Sling Shot Man This is absolutely nuts, i'm sure that dude could kill people with a slingshot
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    GrantsForYouNow Down

    I just checked, but apparently GrantsForYouNow.com is down. I'm not sure how long, but it appears it has been the majority of the night. grrrr, off to catch my flight.
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    How to get ~10% of your leads back

    I debated about posting this, but since I posted this on the P202 feedback I figured I would post here. DirectTrack, which most networks use is cookie based and your leads are counted only if the user has cookies enabled. There are tracking platforms, such as Hitpatch, which Eads uses, maybe...
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    Heads up to Amex Cardholders

    Just as a heads up to any Amex cardholders, they are freezing a lot of accounts lately (mine plus a lot of other people i know), especially this past week. They have recently applied for fed funding and are having a tough time financially. They have really tightened credit lines, especially on...
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    WickedFire Xbox Live Gamer Tag Thread

    Aight I didn't see this anywhere so I thought I would make a thread for it. We all know that when we're not making internet monies, we're playing xbox live. It's tough to find decent people to play with in the middle of the day, so maybe some of you aren't terrible my tag: majorbta Hit me up...
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    Selling Anime Domain - japani.me

    I am selling an easily brandable anime domain, japani.me The domain is currently up for auction at sitepoint - Premium Anime Domain
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    Meta Refresh Issue with Adwords

    Normally I make landing pages, so I have run into this issue before. I am helping a friend out and he wants to direct link to the offer, but he wants his domain name in the display URL. I set him up with a meta refresh to offer, but Google is disallowing the ads because the display URL doesn't...
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    Cloaking based on geographic region

    I am running a landing page for a dating offer that gets a lot of direct traffic. The offer I am promoting accepts US only. I would like to cloak based on IP address(I think) and send UK & Other Countries to a different page for an offer that will accept them. Does anyone know how to cloak...
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    Quit My Job - AM fulltime

    I have been working a cushy corporate job, managing the search marketing program at a fortune 50 retailer until today. I put in my notice and I have to say it feels good. It always bothered me making someone else money, when I knew I could be making more on my own. I had always viewed AM as a...
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    Yahoo Upping Min Bids in Dating

    I just got a notice today that everyone of my keywords in a dating campaign had new min bids. Some were drastically different. I know they're rolling out the raises by category, did anyone else just get hit on dating keyword? PS their "lowering" min bids is absolutely shit, just an excuse to...
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    MSN Adcenter Bulk Uploads

    Just had a call with my MSN rep (for my in-house job), and was griping about how when I bulk upload campaigns my destination URLs get fooked, and copied across multiple ad groups. He told me that this is a known bug on their end, and in bulk upload, if any two ads are written the same...
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    Hydra Down?

    Anyone else having problems with Hydra this morning/last night? Their site and offer URLs are down for me.