The Rocky Story Behind Rocky
Did you know that Sylvester Stallone was dirt broke, with barely $100 to spare, and down for the count, before he rose to international stardom in Rocky? March 1975, Sly watched the Mohammed Ali vs Chuck Wepner fight. Chuck was a nobody club fighter who went the distance with Ali – sound familiar? Sly spends [...]
Fisherman vs Businessman story
I read a great story some random blog that I can’t remember (I’ll insert link here if I find it again). I’ll summarise it anyway: A businessman sees a fisherman at a small Mexican village coming in from sea with a small catch of fish. The businessman asks, ‘Why didn’t you stay out longer and [...]
Popular Polls and High Converting Zip / Email Submits
When I first started affiliate marketing, the first thing I noticed was all these freebie programs that paid out for giving free stuff to people. How easy’s that! All you need to do is enter an email or a zip code. I thought I’d be a gazillionaire a gazillion times over but being the newbie [...]
Make Money Online
There are so many ways to make money online, it’s like a bottomless pit. Every day millions of new people come online and the market just keeps growing. Whilst it isn’t for everybody, I recommend it to all my friends to give it a go and see if they like it. The best thing about [...]
Interview with Sam The Link Spammer
Here’s a really old article from The Register: Interview with a Link Spammer It’s from 2005 but it’s still really relevant. A few points of note: ‘Sam’ is a link spammer. He spams websites and blogs with text to pump up the search engine rankings of sites pushing PPC. He’s not some 16 year old [...]