top-image

LATEST ARTICLES

ASW Vegas Coupons

14
Dec
posted by Datarecall               filed under News

Hey Guys,

I cam across a couple deals for MGM this one isnt that great usually its $59/night but this week its up a bit.

Its a bit early for wynn to release their deals should have a couple more next month, as always the Excalibur is $22/night. So for the guys just getting started and are broke its not that bad of a hotel. You should never be in your hotel room anyways.
1) Hesitation Can Wait.
72-Hour Sale From MGM Grand.

Rooms $87 per night

Offer includes these benefits daily:
Complimentary Wi-Fi
Complimentary access to MGM Grand Fitness Center
Complimentary Admission to Studio 54 or Tabú
Complimentary Local Calls
Click here for the offer.

https://reservations.mgmmirage.com/bookingengine.aspx?pid=001&host=promo&code=INB310C
Tags: , ,
Comments (59)

ASW – Affiliate Summit West

24
Nov
posted by Datarecall               filed under Affiliate Stuff, News

aswNow that adtech NY is done time to get the hotels booked for ASW. To be totally honest I have never gone to a an ASE/ASW meetup, I have not really seen the need to as I normally don’t get along well with others. However in taking things in a new direction I will be attending this years meeting. If you have never heard of ASE / ASW before it is a meetup where affiliate markets get together and after they are all done about bragging about how much money they make they start sharing tactics etc… A list of speakers can be found here : http://www.affiliatesummit.com/10w-speakers/.

For the guys that are just getting started a silver pass will do just fine:
Silver Pass
Admission to Affiliate Meet Market and Exhibit Hall, Keynotes; and access to the Affiliate Summit Social Network.

The key thing to this business is mingling, you need to mingle with other like minded individuals and share ideas. There is no secret to this business but everyone does it differently. Going through all the business’s attending this even and talking to the reps you might go home with a brand new startup that will blow the socks off the internet.

On a side note I did not like the RIO at all when I stayed there in Sept the dealers were very bitchy and all in all it was just a crappy hotel ($19/day for fucking internet). That being said I will definatly drop by to talk to you guys that are at the RIO. If this is your first time going to vegas spring for the WYNN it is by far the nicest hotel in vegas. I should have some coupon codes here for the summit start of december I will post them here.

Take Care
Datarecall

Comments (5)

The Freelance Drama

3
Nov
posted by Datarecall               filed under News

I know its been a while since I posted and I promise to get back on topic by the next post. This came up the past couple days and I figured I would tell you how to deal with the situation. I removed his company name because this matter was resolved in the end of it all.

I ordered a design like usual from this individual 29 days in the design that was produced was not to my liking so I asked tried to get ahold of him before my 30 day paypal period was up. I ended up putting it into mediation just to cover my ass in case I needed to escalate it.

2 Hours later he lost his wig about the claim and said he was not finishing the project nor giving me a refund. So I escalated the claim with paypal, it seemed like it was cut and dry and paypal would file in my favor however he ended up calling paypal and immediately it was filed in his favor. So now what I was pretty much out the loot so now the only recourse was revenge and bully him into the refund on my terms.

So how do you pick apart a company and drill them to the ground ? Use SEO :)

There are quite a few avenues that you can take to do this, this is exactly what I did.

Find out how he makes his income, in this case it was graphics design. Now where does he get his clients ? This was easy to find out a quick google search found out that he gets a majority of his clients from webmaster forums, IE: WHT, digitalpoint, wickedfire etc.

Now that we have the recon done its pretty easy to figure out what to do next. Goto ripoff report and consumer report and file a claim against them. IMPORTANT: Only say what you can back up truth is not slander. Now these sites alone are very vicious in rankings and sometimes alone they will outrank the domain name. This time they did not since he does web design/graphics he had some quality links that kept his domain on top. Keep in mind that this took me 15 minutes so far so its not alot of work.

Once you got these domains ranking for his first/last name, company name, girlfriends/wife name show him the results, alot of smart individuals will cave and file a refund then and there. However this individual did not, he was quite upset about the situation but refused to back down.

I dont deal with much grey/black hat but I do have blog farms etc setup in case I need them with my automated control panel I dropped another 1500 links to these pages to outrank his domain name, this worked very nicely. Still did not budge on the refund which I did not really understand. Risking your company brand something that can take years to do over a measly design fee. So I kept going.

Earlier I mentioned about finding where the user was getting the business from, time to do some heavy hitting here enough fucking around. This user posted quite a bit on WHT with 3k posts or so. He made this easy for me to bring into the forum as he posted a warning about me to WHT , fine with me since I don’t take clients but for other individuals it might hurt their reputation a bit. I went through the logs and took out the worst information I can find a rebutted his claim. A DOS threat would probably not go over on WHT very well so I posted it.  I also reported his post to the moderators including the DOS attack threat, which I am sure did nothing.

Now if doing it again I would deal with paypal a bit different:

1) File the claim with paypal and escalate it, as soon as its escalated call paypal to get a verdict right away. Its alot harder for paypal to say no when your talking to the manager of the call center and tell them the phone call is being recorded (thanks flewid for the pbx)

Now all said and done this took me 25 minutes to accomplish – the hours i wasted talking to this person via IM.

So what did I learn from this situation ?

I have always given my freelancers free reign of my projects, they are the experts, they know what looks good and what doesn’t. I also do not give them a due date this is very bad on my end because freelancers that do not have a due date become lazy and procrastinate

So that’s it, destroy their reputation and they will cave so the final # was $140 back into my paypal account. WTF $140 you are reading its not the number that is really the issue its the point of the matter if this happened to you 10 times and have not learned anything from it thats $1400. Now takign this to legal would be a waste of time but 20 minutes of your day to at least get even with the company is well worth it.

Take Care
Datarecall

Comments (12)

The start of your empire

6
Oct
posted by Datarecall               filed under seo

Ok so the first 2 posts were a bit dry I admit but there is a point to them and if you have not read the procrastination post I would like you to go back and give it a quick read. So lets get started, I am going to dumb this right down the older guys in the business this post will be quite boring for you. I have something in the works for a later post that will change the way you run your day to day seo/ppc forever, but for now lets get the new guys off the ground.

So step by step from turning on your computer this is what you need to do.

Get A Host

So for the purpose of being quick and getting things setup goto Hostgator and grab an account, grab the baby or business account. Now the guys that have been around for a while are probbly saying “WHY THE FUCK IS HE RECOMENDING HOSTGATOR”, well this is what I will be explaining later. There is a point to using them which I will explain in the coming articles. You will only be setting up a couple domains on this server so spend the $7.99 and grab the account.

Set up your todo’s

Now with every site I do as I said in the previous article you need to setup your Basecamp to keep track of where all your time is going. When I create a project I set the basic tasks as:

  1. Write Articles
  2. Offsite Optimization
  3. Onsite Optimization
  4. Post Articles
  5. Install Wordpress

Very basic wordpress site but that will get us started on tracking.

Register Your Domain

I used to use godaddy for years and now I moved all my domains to namecheap, godaddy loves to hold your domains hostage util you pay $150 for admin fees etc. Once I got into some crazy operations with my domains they spaz right out and they wont release a domain until you pay the admin fee and they make you move it as well. IE: if your are going after a niche that has a bunch of whiners in it get ready to pay that $150 so go with name cheap and you get free WHOIS guard. Not much else to say about that if you go with someone else dont say i didnt warn you.

Time tracking

This is the most important part of the article and I cant go over it enough, what we are doing here is calculating what costs you the most money. Every person has a worth they have to give themselves on an hourly basis. If the time calculated / your hourly worth > what you would pay someone else to do it. Its time out outsource that work.

For the longest time I tried to penny pinch and save money, do EVERYTHING myself. What I didn’t realize is that I was actually loosing money trying to do this.

So what I want you to do is do everything on that list, if you suck at graphics I really dont care still do it. We will look at the times in the next article on outsourcing.

  • Write your own articles 10-12 to start
  • Install wordpress (cpanel is a snap)
  • Grab a theme off wordpress.com
  • Change the header, get the image dimensions and then open up photoshop and make yourself a new one

We are going to use this site for nothing really…. Right about now you might be thinking “why the hell did I do all this work if I am not going to use it?”. The short and sweet of it is, I am trying to help you avoid the biggest mistake I have ever made in this business. If we can figure out where you are wasting the majority of your time we can capitilize on it and try to figure out how to fix it. The site wont be a total loss I will show you how to monetize it enough where the domain/hosting pays for itself.

That’s it for now once you have that all setup I will show you guys how to monetize this, grab onto an outsourcing partner that works so you can spend more time on what your good at then the bs of web development. Give me some comments so I know that I am not wasting my time on these articles, the key to this article is basecamp and hostgator the site you build is meaningless in the global scale of things.

Good luck
Datarecall

Comments (169)

Procrastination…. The business killer

4
Oct
posted by Datarecall               filed under Business

Not the most interesting topic however this is the basis on how I run my entire online business. I have seen hundreds of people go in and out of this business due to pure laziness and procrastination, your are your own boss no one is going to tell you what to do, so it is up to you to whether you are successful or not. Treat this as a real job, if you are using this to supplement your income treat it as a part time job until you are able to quit your full-time position.

The problem is that working online is “not a real job“, you need to clear this mindset RIGHT NOW if anything this is harder then any other job you will have in your life. However you get exactly what you put into this, if you put 150% in you will get 150% back, rather then typical employment where you put 150%  and only receive 10% back.

Getting a little off topic here, I am not selling you on this you have already been sold. Back to procrastination, I have seen many self starters fail because they fail to due their due diligence, whether it be keyword research or just not split testing their affiliates. Simple things like this overlooking other things, and putting things off to the next day will kill any business especially this one. Stay on top of your daily activities, and you will do nothing but move forward.

Here is a breakdown of what I do on a daily basis:

  1. Goto Basecamp and look at my to do list (Basecamp is important and I will explain later in the article managing employees)
  2. Once I have my todo list I will prioritize what I have to do.
  3. I track all my time when I finish a task I enter how long it took me to do that particular task, this can be good if you are doing payroll for yourself ( I prefer to collect divedends)
  4. Set Milestones of when you need to complete items, say for example you want to launch a new blog on dog breeding set the milestone for the site launch, Basecamp will give you reminders on a daily basis. This really helps me stay on top of goals.
  5. Your tasks should all be done if not save them for tomorow and keep going down the list. Remember prioritize your list accordingly. Fixing a code bug would be more important then ordering articles from your favorite Indian.

That’s it in a nut shell, seems simple but procrastination can kill your business in a hurry. Everyone is guilty even myself, hell this blog was a procrastination, but it wasnt loosing me money and I have been swamped this past 1.5 years. So other things took a priority, come up with your own daily routine and stick with it.

Take Care
Datarecall

Comments (5)

The introduction

3
Oct
posted by Datarecall               filed under News

For those that don’t know me… you guessed it my name is datarecall, I could use my real name but then I would have had to buy another domain. I frequent a couple irc channels Freenode: #affiliateseh Efnet: #seo #ppc stop by I am usually kicking around

My first affiliate page was roughly 13 years ago simple lander that got them to put their email address into a box and I got paid a whole $1.50. Didn’t know seo or ppc at the time it was all about spamming irc those days.

13 years later I consider myself to be somewhat successful, operating several sites in many different niche’s. To be fair this is the very first blog I have personally written so if you dont like it hit the back button and go somewhere else. The goal for this blog is to help/teach seo ppc and some basic business fundamentals that I have learned throughout the course of working online. I am not going to spoon feed you, nor walk you step by step on how to do anything, but I will try to get your mindset in the right place and show you the tools you need to be successful in this business. Now I am not claiming I am the all knowing, I consider myself average in this business. Yes there are guru’s out there some know it all and a lot claim to know it all.

I don’t really have a point to this article but I figured I would tell you where I am coming from and what you can expect from this blog, so lets go onto it and enough with the bullshit. Tomorrow will be a much better post and it will give you the most important rule that every successful business owner knows.

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Comments (1)
bottom-img