Inspirational Stuff

Uncategorized written by Doug Scott

I am always a great beliver in that work and effort does more than any talent or skill…..and when I came across the story of how Billy Bragg got him break in music I thought wow.

Here we go how simple things work:

Bragg decided to act the part of a TV repair man so as to get in front of Peter Jenner a well known person in the record industry.

Bragg whilst listening to the radio heard John Peel say he was starving whilst live on air, so Bragg took a mushroon biryani to the BBC studio and Peel in return played a song from Lifes A Riot.

Anyway jibberish over

Doug

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Gone Down

Uncategorized written by Doug Scott

16 yeas and gone….hopefully someone will now decide to sort the shambles out.

Doug

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Eerie music

Uncategorized written by Doug Scott

Eerie

Anyone care to gues what it was from?

Doug

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Affmeter awesome tool

Uncategorized written by Doug Scott

If you want to track all your affiliate sales via one simple tool this is brill and I sadly sit there each day looking at our affmeter tool:) It allows you to track clicks, sales in one tool on the desktop. It covers the following companies:

Advaliant
Affili.net
Affiliate Future
Affiliate Window
Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
AvantLink
Buy.at
CPA Empire
Canadian Sponsors
Clickbank
Clixgalore
Commission Junction
Copeac
DGM-UK Affiliates
DGM-AU Affiliates
Forex Affiliate
GlobalDirectMedia
Google Adsense
Google Adwords
Hydra
Kolimbo
LinkConnector
LinkMo
Linkshare
Linktrust
Market Health
Market Leverage
Offerforge
OnenetworkDirect
OMG
Paid on Results
PepperJam Network
Performics
Reporting.net
Share Results
Silvertap
Tradedoubler
Trienta
Webgains
Zanox
Zzounds

Click here if you want to know more :)

I sit watching it all day:)

Doug

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Super Cookies for Super Affiliates

Uncategorized written by Doug Scott

Did you know that certain affiliate cookies have so much power that even if your cookie is dropped last it will not count?

Bet you did not know that:)

So who is the owner of such super cookies, ask the networks or the merchants as they both know they just forgot to mention it.

Doug

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Adfero News – good or bad?

Uncategorized written by Doug Scott

There has been some debate over at a4u, so I thought I would let adfero and anyone add there thoughts.

We have never used them so I can’t comment.

Comments?

Doug

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ID Cards Fact and Fiction

Uncategorized written by Doug Scott

ID Cards Fact and Fiction

ID cards are touted as being the answer to the fight against terrorism. So once we get ID cards, with the appropriate biometric tests to ensure that we are who we claim to be, life will be great, no more terrorism! Then we can all settle down to life without the risk of a terrorist attack? This is a fact, or is it?

The reality is that this is more of a fiction based fantasy than a factual reality. Indeed the truth about ID cards is quite spooky and we should all be aware of this truth, because some day it could affect all our lives.

Spain, China (which is hardly the promoter of civil liberties) and indeed the US, have all come out and publicly declared that national ID cards have been found to be relatively ineffective in terms of fighting the war against terror. In a way this makes logical sense. Simply because someone does or does not have an ID card hardly makes a difference to whether or not they engage in terrorist activities. In addition, people can already be stopped and asked to produce identity. So what is the problem? Why do we need ID cards?

The truth is that we don’t and they are going to cost around £2 billion, according to the government. This too is a flight of fancy as the costs have already escalated and the figure is now estimated to be over 3.3 billion. This may not be the end of the matter. The Tories have already carried out their own assessment of the costs and they reckon that it will be in the region of £14.5 billion. Many experts concur that this is actually a much more realistic assessment of the true costs: and we would probably still end up having to pay to get one!

So, we are going to pay around £14.5 billion pound for ID cards when they have been shown to have limited value in the fight against terror? That really doesn’t seem smart, particularly when the credit crunch is hitting almost everyone and the price of fuel is going through the roof. Why spend money on a scheme that has been shown to be ineffective and at the same time cannot find money to help people survive the credit crunch.

Those in favour of ID cards should consider that the Home Office (official) IT systems have actually been hacked into 5 times in 5 years. So if that is the level of security they offer us, then why should we trust that they will keep our details safe?

Actually the government’s record with regard to the handling of sensitive data is not bad it is abysmal. In 2007, they lost the personal details of the 25 million people who are in receipt of child benefit. So what they would do with ID information is simply too frightening to imagine. Indeed perhaps the government should just cut out the ‘middle man’ and post all our details on the internet! After all they can’t even look after sensitive ‘top secret’ information and twice have left it on a train. Or in the case of Hazel Blears, you breach official rules and load your own laptop with secret data and then leave it in your home. Then when it gets stolen you shriek hysterically and act like it isn’t your fault.

The government also has a very poor record with regard to IT. Yet they want to link the ID card scheme to a database which would ‘read’ the details presented if you are stopped by the police or you want to travel overseas. Look at the mess that the government has had with the CSA, which was the organisation set up to recover child support payments. Repeatedly this database has failed. Yet what will happen and it is very likely to happen) when the ID card database fails?

People could be stuck abroad or unable to travel outside of the UK? People suspected of being terrorists could languish in prison or holding cells, until the database established their identity. Thousands of innocent people could potentially be jailed for days, if not weeks.

If all that is scary, then there is a final fact about ID cards that everyone should know. The results of a government appointed panel of security experts and leaders in the field of national security found that ID cards would be prone to fraud being committed by the people who were appointed to run the system. So the result would be that the people running the ID system would make a lot of money by potentially selling your data to criminals. This is not just a conspiracy theory, but the results of a government appointed review of the scheme. So what does the government do? It just ignores the findings and continues on with ID cards.

So to sum up, people really need to make a decision based on the facts. The ID scheme has been proven not to reduce terrorist activity in other countries. The scheme could cost £14.5 billion. The government has a truly bad record at establishing databases and handling security. The scheme would also be liable to those running it committing fraud and selling personal details.

And who would be at the helm of this brave new scheme? Well Mr Brown of course, described by Vincent Cable as ‘Mr Bean’. What more needs to be said? It really is a no-brainer!

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Domain parking from google – bye bye sedo

Uncategorized written by Doug Scott

Earn revenue on your parked pages with Google AdSense for domains.

Obvious things to happen:

1. Google will become a domain auction company
2. Joe Punter will start buying domains to make money, hence increasing the value of some existing portfolios
3. Google share price will increase
4. Sedo’s revenue will plummet as domain parkers will move to park directly with Google
5. Sedo will massively shrink
6. Many more domains will be traded
7. Domains will get values similar to any other shares/assets based on revenue income
8. Google will become a true domain registrar meaning Joe Punter will think it is easy to buy domains
9. Google will buy Worpress to allow Joe Punter to have a established open source cms

Doug has a decent portfolio:)

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5 Ways to Make More Affiliate Profit

Uncategorized written by Doug Scott

5 Ways to Make More Affiliate Profit

So you have your affiliate business up and running and it’s doing ok. So how can you actually maximise your success and make more profit within a relatively short period of time? Well here are five ways that you can maximise your profits:

#1: Use testimonials.

Your website will seem much more friendly and trustworthy if you can use a testimonial or several, where people give a (relatively) honest appraisal of the product that you want others to buy. They can give information about why it is useful, why it is needed and the difference it makes. If it is a luxury product then you can have an endorsement of just what the special offer is.

People like testimonials and even if they suspect that they may be slightly biased they will still, even on a subconscious level, feel that they have been told something by a friend or someone they can trust and so they are more likely to buy it.

# 2: Maximise your links to other sites.

The more you can link to other sites the more you increase your chances of being seen by the search engines, and the better your search engine rating the more likely you are to achieve sales; so always maximise your links. Don’t think that just because you did this last week you don’t have to do it this week; this is a continuous process. If you just sit back other people will have established those links and they are going to be the ones that get the sales.

#3: Try to offer customers ‘something else’.

That’s right, have some kind of promotion. When your customers buy something from you they will either get a free e-book on a relatively similar topic or a free set of articles etc. There is so much free material out there that you will easily be able to locate it, so the promotion doesn’t have to cost you anything. If people think they are getting ‘more’ for their money they are more likely to buy something.

#4: Send out a press release.

Online press releases have recently been shown to be quite effective ways of increasing the number of links that you have, since you can link to as many sites as possible using your release. Again, this can help to establish your profile on the internet and attract the attention of those vital search engine spiders.

#5: Offer an email instruction course on something relevant to your product.

The lessons that form this course should be quite informative and also have a relevance to your product or service. The lessons should be over a 7 day period so by that time you have established a trusting relationship with your ‘students’, and then they are more likely to make a purchase at the end of it. However, for this to be successful there has to be some effort put into crafting lessons that are actually valuable.

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Slow days….

Uncategorized written by Doug Scott

Other than the ongoing arguements about Voucher Codes is anything else happening in the world….all quiet on the Western Front.

Coem on tell me something that is happening:)

Doug

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