Nickycakes HDTV Contest Stats (so far)
Stats Last Updated May 13, around 4pm pst.
Well, the contest has been pretty sweet so far. If you have not joined the contest, please do so here. It is incredibly easy to join, and only requires that you sign up to twitter (if you haven’t already) and send out 1 message. Completely free and takes about 2 minutes total. There have already been over 300 entries, and some people have referred a lot of people to the contest. Cakes has whipped up a little stats page that should be updated daily. You can view it here: Nickycakes Contest Stats. There is even a column that shows your current chances of winning with the number of points you have. The rows marked in red mean that the person is not following @nickycakes on twitter and therefore will not be in the drawing for the TV unless they are following @nickycakes on the day of the drawing.
Some people have been getting creative with the contest, making blog posts about it and such. Jonathan Volk has the 2nd most points (currently with about 5% chance of winning) mostly because he made a blog post about the contest. The guy with the most points is some random dude, and shoemoney copied his link and tweeted it, so the guy got like 26 entries just from that. Pretty easy though, just throw your link on facebook and beg a couple friends to join the contest and you have a very nice shot of winning a sweet 40″ hdtv. Also keep in mind that your twitter followers may be on different timezones, and it wont hurt to re-send your link so the people who have missed it may see it.
Keep it real.
what’s with the red no rows?
learn to read
Srsly how did you find this blog?
NickyCakes,
After nine months of building relationships with ‘marketing guru’s’, joining Affiliate networks (over 20!) and attending BlogWorld Expo 2008, Affiliate Summit West 2009 and reading every .PDF and eBook on the subject of web marketing, taking PPC courseware, Online Profits Courseware, reading membership site blogs, reading “how to blog in your pajama’s” etc ad naseum I have come to one conclusion.
Without a mentor, web-administrator, copywriter, and / or someone who can help you navigate the endless computer-programmer level tasks associated with an online business, you are not going to make a living on the internet.
Requirement to learn all of the following:
.CSS
.PHP
.html
cPanel
WordPress
Writing good content on your blog
Learning CPA, CPM, PPC, SEO (not sure about SEO..)
Landing page design
Social Media relationship-building
Oh and watching to see if your campaign profits are being siphoned-off by an Affiliate Network insider!
The challenges for an unemployed, ex- Sony senior systems design engineer are insurmountable.
I’m no stranger to complexity, but I do not have the time to learn all of these web-disciplines and try to continue in this business.
In other fields, engineering for example the classes actually teach hard facts applicable to a job in the field.
Web marketing by it’s very nature is ’secretive’ and no one will reveal the truth behind the marketing success, that it took years of 16-hour days, and large sums of $$ spent grinding it out.
Successful web marketing requires an individual with plenty of time, the skills and attributes listed above and a stable source of income to ‘finance’ the click-budget’ expenses which can quickly max-out a credit card.
After nine months of attempts to breakthrough to success online have ended in near bankruptcy for me and my family.
While individuals such as yourself ‘get it’ for the rest of us newbies the success rate has to be astronomically low.
Respectfully,
Nicholas Chase
http://www.twitter.com/nachase
Sorry but that’s simply not true. The reason you fail is that you spend all your time reading shit instead of trying shit. Stop reading e-books and go out and build landing pages and campaigns. The info in my newbie guide should be all you need to make money unless you have zero work ethic or you’re too stupid to tie your own shoes. Which you may be, considering which post you put this comment in. Who knows. Maybe you need to stick to your dayjob.
Wow. Nice reply to THAT comment. In the meantime, I am about to promote the crap out of my link, so I hope your bots can keep up.
Above loser’s post also pasted verbatim to Volk’s blog.
Wahoo 2nd most amount… That’s cool. I’ll have to exert more influence to get more people so that my Pastor can have a TV again.
Hahaha
DIRECTED AT NICHOLAS
Alright Nicholas Chase, no offense, but I’m only 15 years old and I know everything you mentioned, none of which is hard. I’m also in highschool and have way less time then you with AP and honors classes, along with extra curriculara and rowing. Stop being a whiny biyatch, and start doing shit. Affiliate marketing is a fucking joke.
I’ll go through the whole list.
Requirement to learn all of the following:
.CSS – fuck css, this is for webdesigners, not affiliate marketers
.PHP – i’m not going to lie, it’s very useful, but although it’s on my todo list of things I wanna learn, it is not a requirement at all and I make 65+(steadily increasing) grand a year without it.
.html – are you kidding me? first of all html is a joke, and personally although i know it, a complete noob could learn how to use dreamweaver (which is what I use)
cPanel – okay man, this is a navigation platform, not fucking rocket science, read the manuals, will take you 2 minutes
WordPress – again, everything in this software is self explanatory, and there are millions of free guides, which unless your retarded you shouldn’t need to read
Writing good content on your blog – first of all, blogs are shit. your not going to make fuck with a blog, the only writing skills you need is a good understanding of the english language so you can make a fricking langing page and by that I mean what you are going to write to sell the user, which you in many cases will not even need to do.
Learning CPA, CPM, PPC, SEO (not sure about SEO..) – CPA = cost per action. All you do is go to an affiliate network, get an offer, build a landing page, find free google credits (until your profitable/ for noobs), and keep it going monitoring it daily so you don’t lose what you made. CPM is irrelivent for the most part, PPC = is pay per click, meaning you pay for each click, which is for the most part how you are going to advertise on Facebook, Myspace, Google, Msn, Yahoo, what the fuck ever elsem, and SEO is basically just bookmarking and getting wordpress plugins that make google like you(which isn’t again nearly as important as just getting backlinks which you do through directories, forums, and social networks like digg).
Landing page design = if you are not good at design, which a 15 year old like me is amazingly good at, then pay someone to do it. But networks provide these.
Social Media relationship-building – I don’t even know what you are talking about.
Again, this shows you haven’t tried shit. What the fuck have you spent 9 months doing. Fuck ebooks. Fuck them. Those retards make money by selling ebooks to you, they don’t know shit about affiliate marketing.
Here’s what you are going to do since you are a complete noobie who doesn’t take any initiative. Let me remind you that I’ve been in this whole industry less than you have, and almost a forth of it was wasted doing stupid shit (aka, more adsense than affiliate marketing)
1. Go to NickyCakes newbie guide.
2. Read it.
3. Apply it.
4. Ask your manager what products are good.
5. Don’t spend your own money till you are profitable, use free credits.
6. Make as many accounts as you want with these credits for practice.
7. Track!!!!!
8. TWEAK!!! ALWAYS TWEAK. Many many many times over. This is how you take an unprofitable campaign (many are) and make it profitable. Split testing, ad copy, everything man. Nicky has a great, probably all you need, but again, this is all widely available.
9. DON”T SPEND A FUCKING CENT ON INFORMATION. ANY INFORMATION WORTH PAYING FOR, IS FREE. ANY INFORMATION THAT COSTS MONEY, IS SHIT.
10. Make money.
There you go.
I’m 15(4 months till 16), in highschool, have less than an hour a day. But walla, I did it. Stop being a pussy.
looks like someone got schooled by a 15yr old. good shit
lmao, great comment Jake.
As for the contest…good luck bros.
Nicholas said “While individuals such as yourself ‘get it’ for the rest of us newbies the success rate has to be astronomically low.”
I totally agree with that statement and I’m glad it’s the case. You either “get it” or you don’t. Nicholas obviously doesn’t get it, while Jake does (you can just tell by his frustrated 15 year old ‘why don’t you get it’ tirade against Nicholas).
I’m also glad that ebookers like Mike Filsaime and bloggers like John Chow exist, they make it easier for those that just dont ‘get it’ to stay that way, meaning less annoying competition for the rest of us.
w00t i have a 0.67% chance to win
(futile attempt to get the comments back on track)
As much as I hate pasting an URL that doesn’t have the potential to make me any money, this zenhabits post seems pretty relevant vis a vis “reading and not doing”:
http://zenhabits.net/2009/05/stop-reading-about-it-and-do-it/
I only have a 0.17% chance of winning
Hey Nicky-
When is the next stats update coming out?
prolly monday. busy this wknd
Changed my twitter name from lvelasco to finalscoreB3G2…. i dont know if that makes a difference for the stats….
don’t worry lisa, your 1 point is safe
NickyCakes,
Let me echo the sentiment of Nicholas Chase. After thirteen months of also building relationships with ‘marketing guru’s’, also joining Affiliate networks (over 87!) and reading and reading Jason Calacanis’ emails on his private email list, I have been forced to declare bankruptcy. I’ve lost my car, my home, and my livelihood because of your absurd claims that money grows on trees in this industry. You have singlehandedly ruined my life. I am now an empty carcass, roaming the Earth.
There is a gun sitting in the drawer next to me. He’s been waiting for this very moment. I am going to shoot myself. First in the kneecaps, then in the buttocks, and then in booth armpits. I will then wait here in incredible pain until someone either finds me by chance, or the pain causes me to pass out and die. YOU will be responsible for my death, and YOU will have to live with that for the rest of your natural life. I hope you enjoy having blood on your hands.
Respectfully,
Frank Swirly
http://www.twitter.com/swirlywurly
Just make sure you don’t have any kids first and I’ll be happy.
That’s great nicky…only thing is that i need a 42″ HDTV..LOL
Something funny seems to have happened with the last stats update…My entry and all of my friends that I referred seem to have disappeared!
gee, how did that happen? better keep sending them to inflate my twitter stats =P
What!!??!?
Can I help it if the Chinese dissidents and Iranian porn lovers of my proxy network feel compelled to help me in my endeavors?
Technically, there is a unique user behind each of my referrals. They just needed a little help.
Plus it’ll make for a great guest blog post.
Hey bro… It looks like my link isn’t being tracked?
http://twitter.com/kid_disco/status/1729007251
@kid_disco: you’ll show up in the next run of stats.
@cd_1: i cant give you the tv, but i would love a guest post, please msn me (see my contact page)
Hi!
Update ur stats, plz, kthxbai