As most of you know, I do attend high school like other kids my age. Although i do act like a kid; hang out with friends, text message, and talk in class I still keep my eye out for anything noticeable when it comes to my fields of expertise.
Yesterday at lunch i was sitting at a Mexican restaurant (we can leave for lunch :D) when i heard a kid in the booth behind me and my friend Nick talking about ring tones. He was really angry because he signed up for this ring tone plan thinking he would get free ring tones (which turned out to be false). His mother got the T-mobile bill and saw 22.00 in ring tone charges and his mother made him pay the $22.00. Personally i would just pay the $22.00 because a complaining mother is like a flailing whale (It will hit you). But, some people do consider $22.00 a lot of money and they refuse to pay it. These ring tone companies are trying to become sneaker and sneaker when inserting their terms of service. Now a days they are always sure to insert a “< small >” tag before they insert their legal jargon.
I have never had much success in the ring tone industry and i think that all those offers are simply a scam. Sure they pay high, but high payouts are not always the most important thing. Regardless of how you market ring tone offers there is an ethical factor in my book. Personally i feel unethical marketing ring tones through Adwords because teenagers search the internet for free ring tones ALL THE TIME. People tend to make stereo-types about my age group and they have every right in the world to do this. Teenagers need to learn to read the fine print and not fall for Scams which say “Totally Free” in the header and Automatically check the terms of service.
I know i rambled on and on about the ring tone scams in the industry but all i am really trying to say is Kids my age have no clue what they are doing on the internet. If its signing up to win a “free i-phone” or signing up for “free ring tones” they do not know how to read simple TOS’s and AUP’s on these landing pages. Most ring tone marketers who market offers through SEM probably do not care but personally i feel that it is unethical to market these ring tone offers which use the word “complimentary” but not “free” etc etc.
Post your thoughts,
Harrison
On Monday i checked my e-mails like i do every day and i noticed a newsletter from a network which i joined but never had much activity. Since times have changed since i applied i was interested in the networks specialties so i decided to call the network and have a chat with my affiliate manager. I was calling around 4pm and i had called RIGHT when all the affiliate managers were going in for there 4pm meeting. My rep didn’t quite believe that i was fourteen years old and decided to put me on speaker-phone in the conference room. I had a great call with the affiliate managers of Eadvertising.com and have become very fond of that network. I would like to share what we discussed as it is VERY interested in my opinion.
We jumped around topics but i believed the most interesting topic which we discussed was about the experience of Affiliate managers. One of the AM’s was new and i asked him if he believed he would be a more efficient affiliate manager if he actually had an Affiliate account and was able to do search marketing to become more aware of what affiliates actually do. He agreed and i believed even though the affiliate managers had not been veterans of CPA marketing for a long time. I could tell that the affiliate managers who were in the meeting: Brandon, Natalie, And Evan cared about there affiliates which motivated me to write a thread about our extremely interesting conversation.
I am looking forward to doing future business with them and am happy i came across a network which such HIGH ZIP submit payout offers. They currently have an auto insurance offer which converts on a ZIP SUBMIT at $2.00 per lead. They have numerous offers like that which are directly their offers (They are the advertiser). So check out www.eadvertising.com 
-Harrison
I ask myself this question on a daily basis due to the fact that i see affiliate links, offer links, and more on a daily basis. ALL networks claim to have “Highest Payouts” “Best Offers” in addition to being the “Best Network”. I honestly don’t know which networks are the “Best” and which networks are 110% bullshit…
On the blogs of the internet marketing “Gods” (personally im not all that impressed with them but who gives a shit) such as shoemoney.com and leedodd.com they have had polls asking which network is your favorite etc. Personally i believe that question is extremely vague due to the fact that cpa networks can suck in one specific offer category in be amazing in another offer category. I believe a more appropriate poll question would be “What is your favorite CPA Network for ring tone offers.” vs. “Whats the best CPA network”.
So when people place there votes what are they putting into there consideration? Honestly, do they vote due to the fact that they earn more money with a specific network or because there brothers sisters dogs ex-owner works for that network?
Whats Makes a network Good or Great?
Most of you probably know that i am members of all the various webmaster forums and i waist time on all of them on a daily basis. A few weeks ago i saw a thread about the Alexa toolbar. It claimed that downloading the toolbar and viewing your websites a few times per day can increase your alexa ranking A LOT!
I have tried it out and have come to the conclusion that the alexa toolbar is INCREDIBLE!!!! My site keeps going up and up. Regardless of traffic. I think all webmasters should download the toolbar just to see if there rankings go up. My personal expirience was a triple yes!!
http://download.alexa.com/index.cgi Heres the download link!