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News and views about affiliate marketing in the 21st century written by John Dilbeck.
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How much is enough?
I hope the subject of this post didn’t mislead you. If it did, I apologize right now. I just didn’t have room to ask the real question I’m pondering this morning… How much do you have to earn from something in order for it to ...
Some thoughts about affiliate marketing
I was reading several blogs and forums where people were talking about how much money they earned (or didn’t earn) from affiliate marketing in October. The more I read, the more I realized that I’m not doing as badly as I have been feelin...
Why do I accept or delete comments?
Even though I have had little to say on this blog for the last month or so, I’ve been here reading the comments that have been submitted, and I’m sad to say that the great majority of them have been deleted. Some have been submitted to As...
Keep on trying
For the last few weeks, I admit that I’ve been feeling sorry for myself because I’ve had to face so many obstacles and make so many changes in my marketing business. All of that comes to an end right now. No more. It’s time to face ...
What do you do when something you love becomes a chore?
For years, I’ve loved affiliate marketing, but lately it has felt more like a chore than a passion and I regret that. It seems that I find more that I don’t like about it than I love about it, at least lately. I have been recommending pro...
Thank you, Mitch
I want to take a moment and thank my friend, Mitch, for the very kind words about me on his Blog Day 2009 post. I also want to thank him for introducing me to the Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online. I have a feeling that reading what Marelisa has to s...
I no longer open email with subjects that include certain words
I was going through several hundred emails this morning and the more I looked at the subjects, the more I got annoyed by some of them. Now, this has taken years to start bothering me, but today, I think I reached my limit. I posted a tweet on Twitter...
Deleting old bookmarks on Delicious.com
For the last several days, I have been diligently working to update and rebuild all of my Act On Your Dream! website. This is one of my favorite sites and I was dismayed to see how much I’ve neglected updating and adding new information to the ...
Making progress by going backwards
The last six weeks have seen a very interesting change in my affiliate marketing strategy — well, interesting to me and possibly to you. Part of this was not part of my ongoing plan — getting canceled by Amazon.com, for instance. Part of ...
Who is tracking you?
I am not one of those people who is obsessed with privacy. In fact, my life is pretty much an open book since I started building websites and blogging. Still, I was annoyed when I discovered some time back that Google was tracking my browsing on any ...
Happy Thanksgiving!
I want to wish a very Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends around the world, even if you live in a country that doesn’t celebrate today as a holiday. Today, I’m thankful for a loving family, great friends, and hot chocolate on a cold morn...
In Memory of Mattie Lee Dilbeck
Today, instead of affiliate marketing, I’m going to talk about Mattie Lee Dilbeck, my Mom. In memory of Mattie Lee Dilbeck Mom died on Friday evening, November 21, 2008, and it was a difficult day for several reasons. Before I talk about her de...
Tip Jars Part Two
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about tip jars since I wrote What do you think about tip jars on websites? back in September. As I wrote in my last comment on that thread, I leave tips on some very useful sites, such as thefluffanutta’s...
Help Save the Boobies
For a few moments, I’m going to turn my attention away from affiliate marketing and towards something I find just as interesting and certainly more important. The people who know me the best know that two of the things I appreciate most in this...
An affiliate program I chose not to join
In general, I like to maintain a positive outlook on life and I rarely write posts that contain negative comments about companies and people I don’t know and with whom I have no personal experience. However, in this case, I’m going to mak...
BlogCatalog accepted 21st Century Affiliate Marketing
This morning, I reapplied to BlogCatalog to include this blog in its directory. This time whoever reviewed the application approved it. Here’s the message I received: Your blog (21st Century Affiliate Marketing) has been reviewed and your upd...
Why did BlogCatalog decline my blog?
Yesterday morning, I spent some time sprucing up this blog and added it to my blogs on BlogCatalog. While there, I joined SezWho, added BlogCatalog widgets and links, and - as far as I can see - did everything required to be accepted into their catal...
