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Ads4Dough Meetup Wrapup

Over this past weekend was the Ads4Dough Meetup in San Diego, CA.  The actual event was on Saturday from around noon until around 6pm, and there was stuff going on Friday and Saturday night as well. Nickycakes decided to make the drive from Vegas this time instead of flying, since he hates having to wake [...]

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Roll Your Own Datafeed Site

Back in early November, Nickycakes did a post about using a cool wordpress plugin to generate product sites using datafeeds from networks like Shareasale, Linkshare, and Commission Junction. Well, the guy who made the plugin in that post has since sold it, and the pricing has been changed around some other stuff, so who knows [...]

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Affiliate Network Downtime Alerts

One potential problem with running traffic to an affiliate network is relying on their tracking system.  All traffic must pass through their tracking links, which means if their servers fail, then all the customers you’re sending will not reach their destination, which means you don’t get paid.  If you’ve been in the affiliate marketing game [...]

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Hydra For Sale?

Just when you thought Nickycakes’ last post on Hydra Network wasn’t fun enough, it seems a giant can of gasoline has been chucked into the fire. As per usual, a little backstory (it would help if you first read the link above, which will fill you in on even more backstory): At the beginning of [...]

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Nickycakes on “Both Sides of the Tracks” Podcast

Nickycakes just got finished recording a podcast interview with Eric Nagel and Jason Rubacky.  You may remember Eric as one of the nominees Nicky was up against in the running for Affiliate of the Year at Affiliate Summit this year.  Jason, if you don’t know him, is a graffiti artist slash gamer slash some kind [...]

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