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I’m at JosephTinsley.com

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:45:17 +0000

I guess I kind of sort of moved. I’ve been blogging lately at Joseph Tinsley. JosephTinsley.com lives on a homemade CMS system that I built to be light weight.Â I don’t know if it was my server or the Word Press template that I was using but the BlogJoeBlog site was incredibly heavy. So sorry for the troubles
If interested here are some of my recent projects Online Store Coupons, Motocross Patches & Handheld Cordless Vacuums

Need a new theme

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:00:06 +0000

I guess I’m officially tired of this word press theme. So I’m now searching for something new. Something simple but lightweight, but also sexy. Believe it or not this has come to be sort of a task. There are tons of themes peppered across the internet.Â Some included the most incredible features, but not many of them are bare knuckle themes, funny. Its been a while since I shopped for a word press theme, and it amazing how much things have changed. You can tell word press themes are big business now, I ran across a couple of site that where offering memberships, that’s pretty cool.Â Thumbs up to graphic designers for having another means of revenue.

WordPress Plugin

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:28:49 +0000

Trying to figure out how to write my first Wordpress plugin. I have a couple of days off and I plan to make something happen.

Just upgraded WordPress to 2.8

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:09:46 +0000

Yea its been a while since I’ve been on this blog. I’m sure WordPress 2.8 has been around for awhile and I’m just getting around to it now.. Nice.

Affiliate Marketing â€“ Dude where’s my Campaign.

joetinsley — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:30:46 +0000

Well Iâ€™m back with another minor status update. I have to say things have been quite interesting since the last time I posted. A couple of days ago I received my first EPN check, it was incredible small but hopefully only the first to many more.
I finally jumped out of my safe zone of running email and zip campaigns and ventured off to sale kitchen appliances. I must say I think I did fairly well. On this particular appliance I was selling the payout for a conversion was $11.25. I carefully selected a hand full of keywords and setup about 4 ads to rotate between. I try to make it a habit to create my campaigns and ads the night before so that all I have to do before leaving for work is un-pause everything. Well the morning I surprisingly had conversion within the first hour of running the campaign, my spend hadnâ€™t reached $0.35 yet, sweet! I thought hell I must have finally done something right because the day had just started. Well that was the only conversion I had that day for that appliance but my zips and email campaigns continued to sale, so overall it was a pleasant day.The second day, the exact same thing happened, I had an early morning conversion before my spend reached $0.25. What the hell, whoâ€™s behind the curtain pulling the levers.

Big smiles where on my face, I was excited and was anxious to get home so that I could try and figure out how in the heck could I increase my traffic volume? Well later on that day I received a notice that they where pulling the kitchen appliance campaign, G-Wiz!
Lesson learned, donâ€™t get too cozy with the campaigns your running thing can change at anytime.

Well here are my numbers for March 23, 2009

MTD Revenue: $88.40
MTD Spend: $28.01
MTD Profits: $60.39

Crazy query in server log

joetinsley — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:04:32 +0000

I was checking one of my sites server logs & found this crazy query
“?q=would you get a jail sentence if your 5 year old was missing and found by a river?” WTF

Consumer gets Screwed

joetinsley — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:22:47 +0000

Itâ€™s like the consumer gets screwed all the time, Interesting article about blowing your credit limit without spending it.
http://tinyurl.com/aa8orr

This is surely going under the Rant category.

OMG this is tooooo funny

joetinsley — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:16:46 +0000

OMG this is tooooo funny.

http://tinyurl.com/cnav7h

FNBO Direct – Drops Rates Again

joetinsley — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:22:23 +0000

I just received a email from my FNBO Direct Rate saving account, Rate drops again.. I swear this happens every month.. stop the pain!

Affiliate Marketing – Catch Up

joetinsley — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:30:28 +0000

A couple of days have gone by now. I have been pretty busy with some other projects. I’m finally getting around to finding a web designer to work on one of my websites that I have had for more than 4 years now. Needless to say I’m pretty happy about this. We haven’t talked about pricing yet so this could all take a turn for the worst. Wish me luck.

My numbers below includes the dates from the March 5^th through March 8^th. I basically let my campaign run none stop over the weekend to see what kind of profit I could produce. Friday was actually good Saturdays was ok, and Sunday and Monday was pretty painful. I’m not sure if that’s a standard trend for the weekend or not, it would be nice to know. A marketer could run campaigns from Tuesday through Friday if these days have been tested and proven to be good converting days.

MTD Revenue: $36.05
MTD Spend: $14.40
MTD Profits: $21.65

So according to my calculations I’m behind. If my goal is to produce $3.30 a day then by the 8^th day of the month I should be up to $26.40. I’m actually behind $4.75