Ad HustlerConfessions Of A Serial Internet Entrepreneur

This has been spoken about time and time again.  Just because it’s a bad economy out there, doesn’t meen that as an advertiser you just close up shop.  There are plenty of industries/products that still need advertising and that the general public is still “buying.”  I will throw out some ideas, if any readers can contribute, please do so in the comments:

Weight Loss – People are always going to be overweight and overweight people are always looking for a magic bullet.  Sell them some weight loss pills.

Dating – Guys are always going to be horny.  Play on that male need/fantasy and get them to sign up for dating websites.

Mobile Offers – Let’s face it.  These are just about the sketchiest offers on the net.  Since most people don’t even realize they are subscribing to these services, the economy doesn’t effect it.

Email & Zip Submits – Everyone loves free.  Getting someone to enter an email address or a zip code is really not hard.  Also, if you think there’s no money in these because the payout is only $1-$2, think again.

Insurance – Although insurance is a financial product, it’s a needed product.  If you drive, you NEED auto insurance and if you have a home, you NEED homeowners insurance.  Fill that need and make some bank in the process.

Debt Relief – After these retards buy their weight loss pills, subscribe to adult friend finder and get duped into a mobile offer, they will find out they don’t have the money to pay their credit card bills.  Not a problem, get them to sign up for debt relief offers.  These usually pay out really good and its just a short form.  Just make sure you get them at least 10k in debt first since thats the minimum on most of the offers.

Any other ideas?  Please share…

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Barmans Hot Dog Story

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When you work for yourself or have your own businesses, some people (myself included) begin to take on the attitude that they don’t NEED anyone else.  You get so used to working alone on your own projects that the only one you ever depend on is yourself.  This can stifle you in many ways.  Imagine your having a problem with an important script on your web server.  The script keeps crashing and now it’s taking the entire server down with it.  If you have the same mentality as me, you jump in and try to sort out the problem.  You spend 6 hours tweaking and fiddling and it’s finally fixed.  Go you!

In the 6 hours you fiddled with your script what else could you have done?  How many campaigns could you have launched?  How many ideas could you have come up with?  Time is money in this business.  Having someone you can rely on or just an associate to bounce ideas off of can sometimes save you from wasting huge amounts of time on stupid ideas or time consuming projects.

Just last week I had one of my oscommerce based sites go completely whacky.  I have no idea what caused the problem.  Rather then trying to fiddle with it I emailed someone I have worked with on OsCommerce sites; Lauren Billings.  Lauren is an OsCommerce expert, took a look at it, and in minutes had it fixed.  This same fix could have cost me lots of time.  This is a great example of a postitive business relationship.

If your currently a loner, find some people who know what they are doing and get to know them a bit.  It may save your butt down the line.

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Failure…

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I was a little apprehensive about starting this blog.  I didn’t know if I could actually add anything to the whole affiliate marketing, internet marketing and make money online community because there are SO MANY of these types of blogs out there already.  I’ve heard a lot of positive things so far.

I was surfing through WickedFire and noticed I had a private message.  I checked it out and saw a message from a young chap in Sweden:

“Your post about the content network actually inspired me to try PPC for the x:th time.. Never had any luck with it before but I threw up a campaign based on your ideas last week and it actually turned a profit.”

For some reason this little compliment made me feel good so I share it with you.

What does this comment teach you?
Just because you tried something and failed does not mean you shouldn’t try it again.  Look for good information and different ways to make something work and you WILL succeed.  Tenacity pays off.

That is all.

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