Ah, Ad:tech San Fran, home of the original PPC.bz parties. It started with the debauchery at the acai berry jello wrestling party, followed the next year by a “classier” party with Dirt Nasty, sponsored by the E Dubble-U A.

If you haven’t been to Ad:tech, it’s a pretty good show. It offers a different perspective on online marketing because the show is dedicated to all online advertising, and you’ll find a healthier mix of traffic sources then you would at something like Affiliate Summit (usually filled with affiliate networks). It’s a large show (bigger than Affiliate Summit I believe)

Anyway, the PPC (Party Planning Committee) has retired from the game and passed the torch onto Darren at the Marketers Ball. Professional party thrower Darren aka D-money has far more experience (more importantly, patience) for throwing parties so I’m glad he’s taking it over.

FriendFinder Presents
the Marketer’s Ball
with Too Short and Digital Underground

Register for the Marketer’s Ball here!

The previous act was Dave Navarro and DJ Skribble. No offense, but I don’t really give a shit about either of these guys. So due to unforeseen circumstances, the new acts will be Too Short and Digital Underground. Fuck yeah!

The infamous DJ / Rapper / Scientist YTCracker will be in full effect, and Rob Hustle too! #Winning!!!

Shout out to ya’ll !!!!!

Register for the Marketer’s Ball here!

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e.e cumming’s on her face
now that’s poetry in motion

Surprisingly good rap from Donald Glover of Community fame, which is the funniest sitcom on TV now. Godamnit Troy you got verses.

I’ve always wanted to put into words how I felt about Wikileaks. The fact that the media has convinced some people that Wikileaks is a bad thing really has me shaking my head.

These two clips from Colbert Report have pretty much summed up exactly how I feel about Wikileaks and the brave work they do. Your corporate overlords and their government friends work in secret to fleece you, the people, on a grand scale, yet not many people appreciate that Wikileaks is one of few organizations doing something about it.

And no, I’m not a conspiracy theorist or anything. While I don’t believe in any new world order or secret societies trying to take over the world, the reality is that government and corporations do work in secret to give unfair advantages (tax breaks, favorable lawmaking, etc) to fuck over the general public and their tax dollars.

This is a 2 part clip- the first part is awesome if you’re nerdy. The second part is an interview.

As far as internet marketing forums go, you have your big three free ones (although I’m sure there are other popular ones I don’t care about) – DigitalPoint, Warrior Forum, and Wickedfire. The first two are reserved for mentally challenged people and foreigners. Then Wickedfire’s popularity has a been a problem though as it seems to attract schmucks at an alarming rate, faster than mods can ban them. While there are a lot of quality people there no one shares anything because its an open forum, and “I’ll be damned if I want 50 assholes doing the technique I’m about to write out…”

Anyway, you might have noticed an influx of paid private forums lately. You might be thinking, “Are any of these worth it?” There is one that’s worth it and its PPVPlaybook.

I’ve mentioned PPVPlaybook a number of times before, and I just want to make it clear that it really is a quality community. (Look, no affiliate links even!) So I am writing this post to give a shout out to David and the crew for keeping a quality forum going, setting up fun shit to do at the shows (next pending meet-up involves Speed-o’s I think), and other debauchery. And no it’s not just PPV; everything gets talked about.

I don’t know how much it costs because I don’t pay for it, but I know its worth it. David gives me a free account and I just post “quality” (debatable though) shit in exchange for said membership. People are much more willing to be open when the venue is closed. Yes there are plenty of newbs but enough quality members to keep it valuable. Even a lot of the “useful” stuff I’ve posted on ppc.bz lately was stuff I posted on PPVPlaybook weeks before.

The party of Affiliate Summit West, Vegas 2011 will be the Affiliate Ball.

If you want to get your company’s name out there, then you should definitely sponsor. If you want to spit on peasants from a distance, then you should definitely get your VIP tables (This will be a much larger party than anything we’ve done previously, so the guy-girl ratio will be even harder to defeat. Get your VIP on so you can woo the chicks from the main floor, leaving lesser men to fend for themselves with the scraps.)

Musical performances will include a headline artist (currently 3 6 Mafia as of writing this) and we will get performances by Rob Hustle, YTCracker, and maybe even some Von Doogan action?

Sponsorship Details

Keep in mind that Barman and the PPC (Party Planning Committee) is not organizing this event. I’m just pushing it because it should be epic, and also helping YTCracker’s boy out.

That responsibility is in the hands of Darren, who is a professional party-thrower extraordinaire and longtime friend of YTCracker. Here are Sponsorship Details and you can get even more information at AffiliateBall.com.

Darren has been in talks with a number of companies, some bigger than others, so if you are interested get on the phone with him before it’s too late (Contact details at the bottom of that PDF)

PPC.bz parties (and PPC.bz Approved parties) have helped many networks and companies build some of that street cred (whatever that means) in the affiliate space. It really does work for showing your affiliates a good time and getting new affiliates to work with you.

NickyCakes Approved

As far as parties go in the affiliate space, no one does it better than PPC.bz and Nickycakes. (Well, PPC.bz has been mostly responsible for organizing while Nickycakes just shows up with chicks and top affiliate friends.) Anyway, this party is NickyCakes® Approved. “Put my name on it, stamp it, whatever, I’m in.”

The illest shit to hit the streets ever. Fucking ever.

props to dully for the tip

The beat kind of reminded me of this classic. If you know what its from, then I love you.

shouts to dully for the tip

Lyrics:

They call me Young Zuck just a punk
Tryna be in finals clubs no girls showin’ me love
But I don’t give a fuck
I was made to be great facemashin’ all my dates
As I crash the network — college aged Bill Gates
Not really a creep — okay, maybe social geek
You can check out my blog I’m telling it when I speak
Programmin up in my sleep I don’t got many peeps
For friends — Eduardo he was one of them
I guess — yes, well lemme get this off my chest
I believe I’m the best when it comes to CS
Facebook — yo, that was my idea
Don’t let them Winklevosses tell you that I steal
For real. I got the Napster as my bro
And he knows that this thing is about to blow
So I’ma hop on a plane to Palo Alto
Call up Peter Thiel and well…you know

Chorus:
I’ll be C.E.O (yo!) x 2

Couple years go by I’m worth a couple of bill
And all these haters want a piece they jus need to chill
I look back on the site I was about to build
And never thought or dreamed that it could be this ill
I still got Asian groupies giving me brain
But now the phoenix is the name of my private plane
I abstain from doin’ drugs cuz I know cocaine
Can really cause some peeps to go kind of insane
But it’s kind of okay yea I’ve made mistakes
500 million friends ain’t that easy to make
I went from wiring in to be in Wired magazine
And there’s no AEPI when I fly Caribbean
Facebook — yo, it was meant to be
A social network expert or my destiny
jus a hacker turned legit a slacker and misfit
But my business cards say I’m C.E.O bitch

NSFW… or is it?

This is best viewed in Dolby Digital with the sound all the way up.

How many curious sounds can you spot?

Five touch themselves
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So yesterday I wrote about a little something something about this guru product called Affiliate Marketing.

Today, I see this email from this fellow, Ryan Moran (the so-called Affiliate God. Not to be confused with U-God from the Wu-Tang Clan), about my post. It wasn’t to me directly, but blasted to his list.

I got a piece of hate mail today, and I just felt like sharing.

The reason you’re getting this email is because your on one of my “personal” lists, which probably means you’ve been following me for awhile now… so I’m really just sharing this as a personal note…

Today, I got my first piece of “hate press”, and I’m kind of excited about it…

That’s because a year ago, this would have ruined my day. Now, it just lets me know that I’m making enough noise to be heard.

Well Mr. Moran, I’m glad I can get you excited about my writing. Not many do, unless there is porn or marijuana involved.

Warning: this guy curses A LOT, so don’t let your kids read it.

I gotta meet the people whose bedtime stories to their kids are guru email newsletters. Seriously, I can picture Wagenheim reading the latest email from Howie Schwartz as he puts his kids to bed L O L

Also, before I let you read his nasty blog post, I’m NOT asking you to leave comments defending me. In fact, DON’T do that… let him be angry. I’ll look like a total jerk if I sent my subscribers to my rescue. Please don’t do that… I’m just linking you to it for entertainment and to show what happens when you get burned one too many times.

(If you don’t know my story, I got taken for about $3500 when I first started out, so I feel for anybody who has been ripped off.)

The reason I’m showing you this is because this is a prime example of somebody who has probably been burned…over and over… and over again. And I feel sorry for the guy that he’s been burned so many times that he feels the need to attack me.

First order of business is telling your fan base to NOT leave comments and talk shit. This is some Tom Sawyer shit, and they’re going to do the exact opposite.

In fact, as I write this, people are leaving comments. I wouldn’t care except this one comment got on my nerves:

You probably have seen how much traffic the salty droid gets for bashing people, so I think you’re trying to be a “me too” angry anti-guru blogger just to get traffic. Makes me never want to read your blog again, so I probably won’t.

JUST FYI: PPC.bz was bashing gurus before it was fashionable (See Amit Mehta, Zac Johnson posts). I learned everything I know about guru bashing from NickyCakes.com, who was doing it months (maybe a year?) before PPC.bz.

Saltydroid don’t have shit on me! That motherfucker COPIED ME.

PROOF

The next order of business is this “prime example of somebody who has probably been burned…over and over… and over again. And I feel sorry for the guy that he’s been burned so many times that he feels the need to attack me” bullshit.

1. I have never been burned by any guru product. Ever.

Why? Because I have some fucking common sense. I don’t buy guru products. I know better and you should too. If there’s a guru product out there worth looking into, I use my internet powers to get it for free. Torrents bitch.

2. Frankly I’m offended you think an intelligent person such as myself would be burned over and over … and over. If I get burned once, fine. Twice, shame on me. But third and fourth times, and you’re comparing me to a Warrior Forum fanboy and I should fucking stab you.

3. I don’t feel the need to attack anyone. I just do it because its fun. Also sometimes I shed light on the fact that guru products are worthless, and every once in a while I’ll change someones mind and prevent them from spending money on guru nonsense.

Strangely, though, he ends up AGREEING with me.

Here’s his nasty, foul mouth post about how awful a person I am: http://www.ppc.bz/making-money-online/the-real-affiliate-marketing-god

Oh, and a reminder… The product that he’s bashing is my 6 Figures In 7 Days course, a part of TheAffiliateGod.com.

In case you haven’t heard, I’ve opened that up exclusively to my list, and spots are filling up. I’m going to pull it this weekend. I won’t link you to the sales page – you probably have already seen it… and if not, this foul-mouthed blogger linked to it in his nasty rant about me.

So I guess I should thank him?

You’re too kind sir. Too kind. Foul mouthed, indeed.

Just to Squash the Beef… or Cause More Drama?

To be clear, I posted the Affiliate God bashing right after the Ryan Deiss bashing. I legitimately think Deiss is a piece of shit guru. Then I saw the Affiliate God email come in, so I decided to bash that was well. I was on a roll. Can’t stop, won’t stop, bad boy for life.

I was told by a little birdie that Mr. Affiliate God does big number in the affiliate space. Like he actually does affiliate marketing. He doesn’t just launch guru products. He’s a good guy, I’m told.

Good guy or not, it pisses other affiliates off when experienced affiliates launch guru products.

There are Three Types of Product Launches

1. Product Launches from Non-Affiliates

What I mean here is people who don’t really know affiliate marketing. I mean real CPA Lead Gen etc affiliate marketing. This might be a person who doesn’t know shit, pretends he does, weasels his way into Guru circles, gets JV partnerships, etc etc

This kind of guru launch is generally shitty and targeted to unsuspecting newbies. These are the kinds of gurus that I like to make fun of. It’s all fun and games because they’re not really fucking with an affiliates’ money- they’re just taking from newbies who will end up wandering in circles anyway.

2. Product Launches from Failed Affiliates

Can’t hack it in affiliate marketing, but you know enough about it to create a product launch?

This ones easy. You spend 5 years reading blogs and forums. Month after month you can’t seem to get anything going in affiliate marketing. Maybe you had a hit here and there.

Finally, out of desperation, you launch a guru product. Those 5 years might have been a waste of time regarding your bank account, but you picked up enough information and met enough contacts where you could pose as some expert on the topic.

Not only do I find these types of product launches pretty fucking pathetic, many affiliates get a bit peeved about these types of product launches for a simple reason: Just because you can’t hack doesn’t mean you should blow the lid on something and ruin it for the people who are able to make it work.

You know who you are

3. Product Launches from Successful Affiliates

These are the worst kind of product launches. Why successful affiliates launch guru products is a mystery (its not a mystery really. Its money, plain and simple.) If they can make more money with their guru product than with their traffic source or current strategies, they will make the guru product. Sadly, most people in this position will.

Exhibit A: That CPA Ninja or Dogo clown that recently blew the lid on Plenty of Fish.

I will tell you that the affiliates I know fucking hate it when these people launch products. When you blow the lid on a traffic source or something, you are fucking everyone over who uses that traffic source successfully. Period.

All the affiliates getting fucked over by your product launch because of the flood of fucking ignorant people you’re bringing DON’T GIVE A FUCK HOW MUCH YOU’RE MAKING OFF YOUR PRODUCT LAUNCH. You are fucking with their money you twats.

My Final Thoughts

I am aware how much some gurus make. Don’t leave comments about me ‘hatin’ I’ll fucking stab you. I’m not jealous of how much some of them make (no I am). I’m just calling ‘em like I sees ‘em. If you think I lose sleep at night over guru products then you are sadly mistaken. I do it to entertain the readers, and make myself giggle.

I am aware of how much traffic there is out there. “Plenty for everybody yadda yadda yadda”. When people launch platform specific products, it really does fuck with peoples money (jacked up bids from the newbie influx). Most of the time, the “plenty of traffic” excuse for product launches is moot. MOOT!

I have to apologize to these guys haha. They gave me some free shit to give out at the EWA slash Circa Special at Ad:Tech SF 2010 with Dirt Nasty and Andre Legacy. In this bag were papers, matches, tips, and other paraphernalia related to smoking up. So I never gave them a shout out. Can you guess why?

Anyway, if you are in the market for this shit,

1 Percent features vaporizers, rolling papers, hemp, glass pipes and more. Secure and discreet ordering. Wholesale vaporizers and smoking accessories

(That’s right bitch linking to the Meta description)

Hit up 1Percent for vaporizer, glass pipes, rolling paper, iolites, hemp rolling papers, handblown, glass, wholesale smoking, dugouts, blunts, smoking, pipes, smoke, vapors, grinders, 1%.com, roll your own, iolite, cigarette bat, one hit, and vaporizers

(Those are the meta keywords)

Anyway – I guess they have an affiliate program so if you are looking for something to tie up dude traffic push some vaporizers I dunno? Im pretty sure they work with affiliates so do dirt. But really anyone who likes to smoke up would dig the site (certain states like CA and CO are very lax about it and definitely more smoke than in outlawed states)

I just found the bag lying around and I’m like ‘oh yeah…. ‘ So here is my shoutout- Thanks for your “sponsorship” I’m sure the product was used well by those you snagged one.

Other shit…

LOOK AT THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE —>

(well its up there a little bit)

Notice what I named the div. If you have something funnier than that, I would rotate it in.

Push buttan,
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