I’m Officially a Code Monkey
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Corey the Code Monkey
Last week I received this from Yahoo and laughed my ass off at the job title, “Code Monkey”.
From what I can recall and dig up in Google, I am only described with this title in two places. Twitter and my ol’ buddy David Ford used it in my avatar caption at PPV Playbook forum. Now granted I didn’t dig too deeply in google but I can’t really recall where else I have used this as my job description which makes you wonder where Yahoo is scraping to get their mailing list? I checked my Yahoo profile and no where is “code monkey” included.
This brings me to another point about mailing lists… A few months back I received a mailing for something in the biz op realm or life insurance addressed to “princess pearl sourslam”. Interesting name eh? There’s an even better source. When my daughter was 7, about 5 years ago she was super into disney.com’s virtual world “Toon Town”. This is an awesome online gaming world where you design a character and race around this world battling the evil cogs and interacting with various other toon town members.
Princess Pearl Sourslam was my daughters first character. I know for a fact that this is the only place we used that name as it was auto generated by the toon town program. Now, how a mailing company got a hold of my home address and put that together with “Princess Pearl Sourslam” as a hot biz op or life insurance lead is beyond me.
Was Disney’s database compromised and they didn’t know? Did they know but failed to notify anyone about the hack? I have no answer to these questions but these are the “things that make you say hmmmmm”.
$1 to Master Email List Building on the cheap
By · CommentsRyan just emailed me and said his 10 minute marketing course is open and he’s letting people have access to all 27 videos for a dollar.
Here’s what you should use this course to do:
Free Baby Stuff offers!
I took my free baby stuff list from 950 members to over 2300 in 4 weeks using his 10 minute marketing tactics. The best way to take advantage of these offers are with an email list full of desperate users looking for free baby stuff.
Watch the videos and take notes so you can have a plan at the end. Pull about 5 free baby stuff offers from your affiliate networks.
Target new moms looking for free baby stuff. Use keywords like wic, wic (state), wic (city), woman infants and children, free baby stuff, free diapers, free formula, diaper samples, free baby samples.
Let me know if you want me to pull a list of “wic (city)” for every city with over 10000 people for you to use from affportal. Write me at affportal@gmail.com if you want me to send you a list after you go through 10 minute marketing.
I took an old stale list, doubled the size of it and now it’s banking again in a few weeks time b/c of Ryan’s program.
click here to check out 10 minute marketing
Email me if you want the “wic (city)” list sent out to you.
Corey
10 Minute Marketing
By · CommentsA friend of mine was telling me this idea last month to keep yourself productive. I think it came from 7 Highly Effective Habits and it’s the idea of classifying your most important tasks as “Big Rocks”. The idea is that if you have sand, water and rocks and try to fit them in a glass there’s a right way and wrong way.
If you fill the glass in this order, water, sand then big rocks they won’t all fit in there. BUT, if you put in your big rocks first, then sand and finally water, you can fit it all in.
This is where 10 minute marketing fits in. If you concentrate on your Big Rocks and fitting them into your week, then pack your smaller tasks around and finally fill it in with water you will accomplish much more. The bonus is the idea of 10 minute marketing being the sand and the water. Using 10 minute marketing, after you concentrate on your big rocks you have your left over time that you can check off an item in your 10 free minutes and it will get you much closer to your final goal of being profitable online.
I wrote more about 10 minute marketing in this free pdf I put together last week.
I have been using this to fill in my extra time and diversify my traffic for AffPortal and getting my other seo projects indexed quickly. Eventually it will lead to steady organic traffic. Paid traffic campaigns are my big rocks, 10 minute marketing is the sand and water surrounding my paid traffic campaigns.
What are your Big Rocks and how do you fill in the gaps when you pile them up?
Simple subID tracking for PrePop email submits
By · CommentsOn last night’s webinar there were a few questions about tracking with prepop pages. It is a little tricky but I put together an example of how to do it along with a downloadable package with all the example php code.
http://www.ppv123.com/php/prepop/prepop.zip
There’s instructions on how to use it in the .zip as well but I’ll go over it briefly here as well.
With this example you pass through your keyword/url to the “sub” query string variable. This form saves it in a session and presents the user your landing page. Once the user enters their email address and submits the form, the php builds the rest of the affiliate link with the subid and email address included and forwards the user to the prepopped page.
I tried to make this as easy as possible. This example uses a market leverage home depot offer and ML’s email variable is conveniently named “email”. Change this in the top of the PHP if your network uses a different email variable name.
Here’s a working example of the code included in the download prepop.zip
http://www.ppv123.com/php/prepop/prepopWithSubIdTracking.php?sub=123456789
Hope this helps you guys. Let me know if you have any questions.
~ Corey
Time Square Weeds at 3:45 am
By · CommentsIt was 3:45 am this Sunday morning and had a skull crushing headache. We were visiting NY City and the Blue Moon drafts from dinner at ESPN zone along with some dehydration from walking our asses off left me with quite a headache that hit full swing at that early hour.
I called the front desk and the only source of Excedrin was a block away from Times Square. Screw it, there was no sleeping with this brain cramp so I threw on my sneakers, left my baggy kind of pajamas on and trudged out into the city. 20 steps from the hotel lobby were the working ladies and their man asking me what I was looking for. “Excedrin” I mumbled and on my way I went. I finally found Excedrin at a news stand and stepped out to munch them down.
On the corner was a guy slinging weed and casting a pretty wide net as he marketed his product. Literally saying “coke and marijuana” to every one that passed by. I was pretty amazed being a marketer watching this guy. Mr Sling took a look at me standing there in my pajamas and two days worth of beard and asked if I was OK. Told him I had a headache and was munching on an Excedrin. He took the opportunity to tell me he has something that will take care of my headache. I laughed and appreciated his “concern” for my migraine.
When I got back to my room, still squinting from this head thumper I’ll be damned if I wasn’t running through scenarios and if in fact a fattie wouldn’t take care of this unrelenting headache.
I like to listen to my inner voice that want’s to buy stuff. I always try to see what it is that is making me think about converting on someone’s pitch. It’s pretty cool that a lot of what we need to know about marketing is happening inside and around us every day.
Now I just need to know what it was that made me buy this damn $600 iPad from the uber shiny NYC apple store. Apparently Apple is peddling something even more attractive to me than “teh sticky”.