I understand the need to push the apps back to the top of the charts but what happened to rewarding early adopters?

The early supporters who gave you money not knowing whether your app is really any good and choose to take a leap of faith?

Took a quick picture here of my workspace at home.

Nothing fanciful actually.

A dual monitor setup, with each monitor going to a separate CPU.

The smaller monitor is what I call my “automation station” which I use to run stuff like SENukeX and Scrapejet and which I plan to have my “stats gathering application” which is still in progress.

The larger monitor is where I do my Photoshop and WordPress stuff, a.k.a the workhorse.

The Macbook Air is for bringing around of course.

I’ve also got a 3-layered tray, GTD-style.

The chair is a Herman Miller Aeron which I got for a steal at something like $300.

The picture’s kind of dark so you can’t really see anything and I apologize for that lol, kind of lazy to edit the brightness and stuff.

The plant you see in the picture was bought from IKEA to liven up my room but alas it’s already dead now.

In fact it died and I bought another one, and the new one is also turning brown.

When you try to sign up to the PoF advertising platform, you might not be able to choose your country from the dropdown list.

What you need to do is to just choose a random country, and your application will get through fine.

Same thing when it comes time to add your credit card, the country just doesn’t matter.

Tested and proven by a handful of affiliates, and BenPOF has confirmed that it’s just that they haven’t got around to adding to the list since the majority of countries are on there.

Shows how significant we are, yo.

Hope this helps out some of the newer guys, as PoF is a great traffic source for getting started with buying traffic.

This includes blogs I’ve added on Reeder, Affdaily.com, Lifehacker.com, various categories related to biz, design and marketing on Zite, as well as the various marketing forums I’m a member of.

This marks the inaugural issue of the Reads of the Week feature, I hope you enjoy the posts!

There are only 3 this week but that’s sort of the whole point.

I try to filter out the best reads instead of copying and pasting large chunks of links.

http://www.jonathanleger.com/googles-out-of-business-are-you/
My SEO hero Jonathan Leger talks about the importance of building a really valuable site that will be timelessly important come what may; Panda, Penguin, Eagle, whatever.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/04/i-was-just-kidding.html
My marketing hero talks about a phenomenon I’ve come to appreciate in life. Long story short: If you’re an expert, people will respect whatever you say even if it doesn’t make sense. If you’re a newbie, nobody trusts you until you prove yourself.

http://lifehacker.com/5907104/force-quit-yourself-to-get-your-sleep-schedule-back-on-track-and-avoid-another-day-of-fatigue
I’m a late riser and work best at night. I’ve been trying to become a morning person since years ago without success and more or less came to the conclusion that I was probably just a “night person”. Thanks to this post, I’ve just downloaded the app “Math Alarm”, let’s see if this does help me get up easier  

I am feeling really productive today as I’ve finally put epicskillz.com at a stage I can declare “launch-able”.

There is still much space for improvement of course, but I’ve finally managed to put up something without missing pages, where everything’s formatted etc.

Finally!

I’ve also put a “like” button on the sidebar, so please feel free to show your support

In any case, I finally realize that maintaining a blog takes alot of time and effort, so I’ll be implementing a posting schedule for myself, and I need to revive the Epic Interviews series by making new interviews more frequent.

All in all I’m really excited about things to come for epicskillz.com, and I would really appreciate your feedback as to what could be improved at this point in time.

I’m trying my best not to focus too much on aesthetics at the moment though, and to put more attention into getting great content up and running for you guys.

I need to blog about a bunch of stuff I’ve wanted to blog about for the longest period of time; about my workspace, how I keep myself organized etc.

ADHD Summary:

1) epicskillz.com is back in action, and good stuff is coming.
2) Click “like” on the sidebar
3) Join my mailing list

That’s all folks!

Cheers!
-Kang

It’s a tragedy to note that the last of my profitable aff campaigns have gone up in smoke over the last few weeks and that my next aff pay check is less than 4 figures.

Such is what happens when you manage a day job, an agency, and an affiliate marketing business – as a one man show – the one leg which involves the least accountability (guess which?) would have to fall.

Fortunately, not all is lost.

The agency side of the business has been growing consistently, and I’ll be making another attempt at hiring an accounts executive in the next couple weeks. Hopefully things work out this time round.

At the day job, I’ve also been putting systems in place to make my personal intervention minimal. I have alot of freedom in deciding how things are done, which is a very good thing indeed.

Finally, I made one last attempt at getting a designer for EpicSkillz.com in December. And yes, it failed again. I thought hiring an American instead of my usual Filipinos and Indians would make a difference, but unfortunately the guy disappeared without a trace again and I thought I’d just save the hassle and really do it myself this time.

I’ve read a couple books from Smashing Magazine and brushed up a little on CSS, so I guess I can at least make the blog look presentable, and then I’ll just forget about the design and dive head in building campaigns and getting back to writing consistently!

As of this writing, this is how the blog looks.

R.I.P, old look.

I’m going to continue the site re-design by arming myself with this ghetto piece of sophistication.

Let’s see what damage I can do.

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Ahahah gotcha!

No I’m not giving up on teh internet monies yo, sorry to disappoint.

I’m just giving up on finding a full-time virtual assistant, for the time being at least.

Man, it just wasted so much of my time; hours upon hours of training and orientation and then they just disappear and I’m back at square one.

Take epicskillz.com for example.

3 guys have tried their hands on it now and all of them have left me hanging in mid-air and not one even completed the re-design.

I’m just so annoyed that I’ve decided to handle everything myself for now.

I just made a whole bunch of creatives for my new campaigns etc and it wasn’t that bad, guess I just need to get used to it.

As for epicskillz.com, I’m waaaaay under-achieving here, and I really need to bang out my final design once and for all, get something that doesn’t get shitted on by other affiliates, something that I would be proud to show the better half.

This CSS and formatting stuff is getting on my nerves though, I just need to tide it over once and for all.

Once we’re all set I intend to keep the design for a long long time while I keep producing excellent content for you guys who drop by occasionally.

Thanks for listening, kthxbye!

Fortunately there was an automatic backup done so I still had up to Day 25.

I wouldn’t consider the 30 Day Challenge a success for me as here I am on the 14th December, looking back and realizing that none of the campaigns I made in that period is still making a sustainable income, and I am still banking on my old campaigns.

It did motivate me to REALLY get started with mobile though, so I’d say that’s one plus point at least.

I’d say I really jumped into this challenge and in between the daily running of biz and my day job, together with my terrible self-management was what resulted in this un-spectacular challenge.

I would give it another shot for sure!

Made 2 Mobile Campaigns today.

I just realized that the Social campaigns I made yesterday didn’t seem to be going to the right links so I’ve wasted a couple hundred bux and I hate it when this happens

I’ve paused the campaigns, shall investigate further when I have the time.

Made 2 Mobile Campaigns.

Made 3 Social Campaigns.