Well I’ve been noticing this a lot lately. Now that the holidays are nearly amongst us, a few niches have tanked recently. Over the last two weeks Acai has been dropping steadily. Sure there are those who are still hitting combined caps, but caps at 2k leads a day for each offer are pretty easy to hit when you have hundreds of affiliates all hitting the same type of traffic sources, using the same damn landing page for the same damn offer. The big and lucky few have even reported large drops in revenue and profit and many have decided to get out altogether or wait until the holidays are over (diet typically sucks during the holiday because people like to gorge themselves with food). After New Years (good ‘ol New Years resolutions to lose weight) it should pick up, but I’m still wary about it all.

Reasons to be wary are because our typical traffic watering holes are drying up. Recently Facebook decided to nuke all ads pertaining to diet and Google is bitch slapping the shit out of those blog landing pages for Acai too. You can try to cloak but so far everyone doing so claims to be getting hit, and hard too, faster and faster so they are just giving up and looking for greener pastures elsewhere. But where do you go? Those are two of the three best places for diet traffic. Myspace is still the only one left, but bids have been on a steady increase since other niches like Grants have taken in bidders that are half retarded by bidding pretty damn high (some say high enough so that margins are reduced to 10% and less!).

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The Comeback to Super Affiliate Marketing Status

Just wanted to write a quick affiliate marketing blog post here about my comeback over the last 30 days. Between three different Acai Berry campaigns and one Free Credit Report campaign, I’ve pulled in over $660,000 in profits over from utilizing traffic sources mostly from social media.

I’m completely floored by the results, its pretty unreal. A month ago I was scrounging around for information because after taking a 2 year hiatus from the industry, a lot has changed and left me feeling very newbie’ish. Total revenue, especially from the Free Credit Report offer put me at a little over the $2.2M mark. If those damn keywords weren’t so goddamn expensive to bid on, even on the content networks, my profit would have been well over the $1M mark, but I’m definitely not going to complain, because I never thought in a million years I would comeback so strong within the first 30 days alone. Two powerful niches, with great traffic sources, and even better friends around me for support and advice make me truly happy and glad I didn’t quit and just leave.

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This is so much easier than just posting regular blog posts…

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To all those curious about what seemed to be a never ending lawsuit between me, WickedFire and ClickBooth, John Lemp, we finally acted as maturely as we could and agreed to settle. No one side won more than the other that’s for sure.

Its not something I’m comfortable addressing just yet, so read about it here in a statement I posted shortly afterwards:

http://www.wickedfire.com/industry-news/40514-cb-wf-settlement.html

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Well, I’d like to start off this post by saying that for once, in a very long time, I’ve had one hell of a successful week. Both in work and personal related topics. Hell, I can’t even remember the last time I was so productive and satisfied with the way everything has gone. I kept telling myself all week long “man, I should have done this a year ago” over and over again. But alas, I’m just glad that I finally got my mojo back and actually did what I was thinking of, instead of putting it off to handle shit that doesn’t do any good for me.

So lets get rolling…

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