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Alright lets get right into this shiz, On Saturday I had a 2 1/2 hour drive from Idaho Falls, Idaho to Salt Lake City, Utard. I then left from SLC to Las Vegas where I had a connecting flight to Boston, Massachusetts. Let me remind you that I had to get caught up on a ton of shit before I left so I woke up at 3:00 am on Saturday morning. Anywho, the flight was 5 hours long, and I probably only got about 3 hours of sleep on that flight to Boston, and at this point I would like to add that I will be taking JetBlue from now on, they are awesome.

So I get to Boston at around 8 am on Sunday morning. With only 3 hours of sleep that night. I waited for my lazy fucking friends to wake up so we could go to the summit and the meet market thingy. At the meet marked I met a TON of people from the interwebs, it was really great putting all those faces behind the names. John Chow, seocracy, AoJon, Wes, and the list goes on and on.

Boston at dusk:

After the meet market Advaliant treated us to a great dinner at KO Prime, which I will be talking about later. After that and few buddies and me got smashed and played some poker.

Then, after 6 hours of sleep we get our Monday started off right with some sick ass shit food from Dunkin Donuts. After that we head over to the expo to talk to our favorite affiliate companies and meet some new people. At the summit I guess that I probably made about 5-10 NEW contacts at which I will be working with over the next little while. But I probably met at least 40 plus people all together at the conference.

Anyways, later that day we headed over to go fishing with our buddy Lazar. Our fucking fishing trip got canceled so we decided to do snagging off the bridge. For those of you that don’t know what snagging is, its where you cast into the water then jerk up and hope to snag a fish. I’m not sure if its legal or not. But anyways, none of us have licenses and we certainly don’t have a Massachusetts licenses. So we cast off the bridge a few times, then the cops show up and start asking for people’s licenses. Our buddy lazar starts walking over to his truck and the cops ask him to come over there, he takes off running down the street, gets into his truck, turns his highbeams on, and then gets out of there. We take off walking down the street and meet up with him later. Thats our running away from the cops story

Chinatown:

So after our awesome fishing trip we head over to the Bunker Hill monument. Its this monument they made on top of bunker hill that looks like the Washington monument. Its pretty big, but when we went up it we found out it was pretty huge. The thing has like 400 stairs. Thats a ton of stairs, all 3 of us that went up where out of breath by the time we got up. My calf’s are still sore, but it was worth it.

Bunker Hill:

Top Of Bunker Hill:

After that we headed back and just chilled in the hotel room. Then on Tuesday I headed home, leaving from Boston to NYC, then from there to Salt Lake City. Then drive 2 1/2 hours back home. It was a fun time. And I’m glad I got to go.

I also got a few more blog posts about the summit still coming, I will post those later.

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Affiliate Summit East has been awesome. I have been putting a bunch of faces behind the names. I have a ton of shit to talk about and tons of pictures to post including running from the cops, walking up 400 stairs, spending ton of money on beer, plus lots more. But right now I’m tired and don’t really feel like working too hard tonight, but my buddies wanted to watch me blog live so I’m going to post what I had for lunch. In true John Chow style.

We headed off to China Town in Boston to some sushi place called Ginza. It was pretty good, but nothing compared to KO Prime which I will talk about that heaven later. I had everyone take pics of their meals so I can post them John Chow style. It was also good too meet John Chow in person, I’ve known him for 3-4 years now so it was finally good to meet him in person.

John Chow and me.

This is what I had which is called Kiji-don, it was pretty good.

Bombay Roll

Spicy Tuna Roll (Left) & Philadelphia Roll (Right)

Another Philadelphia Roll

Alaskan Roll & Spicy Tuna Roll

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Its 1 day till D-day. Tomorrow night at 7:00 pm my plane leaves from Salt Lake City, Utah. I then fly to Las Vegas, NV. Then from there I go to Boston at which I get there at 7:00 am the next morning. But I’m flying JetBlue which I am totally stocked for, I have heard nothing but good things with them.

On Sunday I should be at the conference most of the day. John Hasson will be having running the class
“Which PPC Engines Work And How?” which I will be attending. Most I will probably be walking around networking with everyone. Then on Monday I will probably be exploring Boston. And Tuesday I am back on the plane for another fun filled 8 hours.

If you would like to meet me during those 2 days shoot me and email and we will exchange info. I will be attending the summit to network with people and maybe learn some new tricks. So if you would like to meet just send me a email.

If you don’t feel like sending me an email then feel free to come up to me at the summit to say hi. If you don’t know what I look like then here is a picture of me:

See ya at the summit

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If your keeping up with the blog world you will know that The Next Web found a “evil” way to trick your feedburner count into thinking that thousands of people are reading your blog. Most readers will only subscribe to a blog if there are a bunch of people that have also subscribed. They have the mind set of “well if 4,000 other people reader this blog everyday, then I will subscribe too”. So people are always thinking up clever ways to trick the feedburner stats. Just like the guy above.

Now I would never tell you to go do what he is doing with the widgets thing. That will have the ban hammer as soon as feedburner reads Mr. Chows blog post. If you know simple php and how to run a macros program then I have a better solution for you.

What we will be doing is setting up tons of emails and having a macro program accept them. I’m almost 100% sure that to get RSS updates via email all you have to do is sign up under the blog and then accept the confirm email once you get it, then you will get sent an email every time the bloggers writes a new post. And the blogger will get 1 new reader for every email submitted. I dont have a ton of time to research how it works, but Im 100% sure thats how it works. And if it works like that, let get started spamming it…

First Step
You need email addresses! And I’m taking about a lot! You can either buy them (you have to find your own source) or you can make them, or you can even set up your server so all emails like 1@domain.com, 2@domain.com all forward to some main account like main@domain.com. I would suggest using cpanel and having emails forward to a main email. Does making thousdands of email sound hard? Well its not, simply use Imarcos. You will get the hand of it, and it wont take too long either, dont be lazy.

Second Step
This is probably the hardest part, but its still pretty easy. You need a way to have your thousands of emails sign up under the blog. I would personaly use cron jobs to do that, but you can also use Imacros to copy and paste the emails into feedburners web form. You would probably want to use proxys and only do a few a day. Maybe 20 emails from 1 proxy a day? Its your choice…

Third Step
This is easy. I do it all the time to mass accept emails. Simple use Imacros and have it go though your email account and accept X number or emails every X number of minutes. I would probably do something like 10 emails every 30 minutes or something. It will take you some time to figure out how to set it up, but it works trust me… like I said I use it all the time.

So there you do, a decent way to get thousands of rss readers over night that won’t get your feedburner account banned or the method of obtaining the readers banned. With this method you can have your Hanna Montana blog with 3000 RSS readers created in a matter of days. Good luck and feel free to link me if you like this blog post.

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I thought this was really interested. John Hasson posted this earlier today. He pulled his CTR stats from Google, Yahoo, and MSN’s paid search. It shows that the number 1 result gets double the % in Yahoo, but Google is pretty much the same for the top 3. I would have thought that result #4 in Google would be almost the same as #1 because it breaks off after the top 3 for popular searches. See what I’m talking about here.

As the other John mention, he likes looking at data. I love looking at data also, so this really interests me. Anyways, I will definable be checking out his class at ASE. I hope he posts lots more data like this

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As you all know by now I run Buy Blog Comments. Customers buy a certain amount of comments from us and we post them on other blogs to help gain there rankings. I need to build up a page with examples, so I am looking for a lot of blogs to do these example comments on. We are also thinking of offering this service though Buy Blog Comments too. So we need to test this aswell.

If you are interested in getting more blog comments on your blog then please email me using this page. You must be willing to give me feedback (good or bad) and maybe even a testimonial (good or bad), you also must be willing to have a link to your blog from buyblogcomments.com on the examples page. Under those 3 terms will you get blog comments on your blog… for free.

It dosent matter the size of your blog, if you except those terms then please submit your site here. I need at least 20 different blogs to test this with.

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Yesterday Monday July 27th, a brand new search engine developed by a husband and wife team called Cuil launched. Instead of ranking sites based on Google’s current “voting” algorithm (Pagerank). Cuil analyzes the content of web pages to divine their relevance to a search query.

Upon first impression the design looks great. It took me a little time to get used to the three column results display that Cuil uses, but after a while I started liking it more and more. The search engine seems really smart. I searched for “dane cook” and it pulled up “dane cook tickets” in the top navbar. It also pulled up “Stand up comedians” in the “explore by category”. Seems like some pretty intense programming to have it crawl pages and find what category a website. This must be one of the benfits of actually looking at the content of the site rather then focusing on inbound links.

After searching a while I was getting more and more errors saying “we didn’t find any results”. But those kinked will be worked out as time goes on. I really enjoy this new search engine. I wish it luck and hope it gets the attention of non-tech geeks like us. Im doing my part by blogging about them right meow.

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I am sitting here working at beautiful Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Its awesome to go anywhere in the world and still be able to work. However it does takes me longer to actually get work done because I don’t have my dual monitors and my Buy Blog Comments and Buy Answer Links computers set up (I have a computer in my office for each one that handles orders and support stuff).

I just got done wakeboarding for like 3 hours, I’m all sore and red from the sun. The water is perfect, its nice and warm. Feels a lot better then Idaho’s ice cold water. Im not sure what we are doing tomorrow, but on sunday we are renting Jet Skis and then after that I will be headed back to good old Idaho Falls. I drove my F-150 out here and I will be spending about $350-$400 on gas round trip!!! Fucking gas prices! I can probably get the spendage down a lot if I wasn’t going 85 mph plus on the freeway with my AC cranked up all the way. Oh well.

Anyways I will be back working my 60 hour weeks on Monday. Survivorman will be redesigned next week. I will also be finishing with the backend update for the Buy Blog Comments and Buy Answers Links backend. For those of you that have ordered from me expect monthly newsletters :p Dont worry you will be able to opt-out. I will also be switching servers so I can get new nameservers and Ip’s because of the whole google ban. All that plus the normal marketing, PPC stuff, and support emails/phone calls means another 60 hour week. But I enjoy it.

Oh and my cousin has one of those 3g iphone, I got to play with it for a long ass time. And that thing was sick. I will def be getting one when I get back home.

And here are few a pictures of Lake Tahoe:

Im pretty sure this is sand Harbor, where we wakeboard:

Source Flickr

This is how clear the water is:

Source Flickr

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So where has Jon been? Well thanks to a lot of hard work I am killing this offer. Been working my ass off on it. This offer plus BuyBlogComments and BuyAnswersLinks has kept me very very busy. Infact I probably have 60 hours plus of work under my belt since Sunday, and I still have 4 more days of work left. No big deal, this is what I enjoy doing.

I have also been spending tons of time coding whatever I can think of. Im still learning php so it takes me 3x times the usually to code something. The way I learn is to just drive right it and get my hands wet (giggity giggity). I have never read a book or anything on coding, what I do is take a bunch off different tutorials and put them all together to get the code I need. I don’t even read the tutorials, I just steal the code from them. Right now I am starting to code from scratch, but I still use tutorials a lot.

I do have some good blog posts I will be doing, but I need your guys help for ideas for future blog posts. What do you guys want from me? When you subscribed to this blog…what did you want to take in from it? Let me know in the comments please.

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With BuyBlogComments.com being over 1 year old and the launch of 2 other e-commerce sites since then I have learned a lot of lessons from e-commerce sites. If done right, you don’t have to spend too much time working on your e-commerce site. The trick is to find the best way to make your business as automated as possible, so you can spend your time finding buyers, working on support, and working on your other projects.

The main reason I started my own e-commerce sites was because I wouldn’t have to rely on anyone else anymore. Rely on something else for your money is a bad business model. Such as making your money with Adsense, or relying 100% on SEO traffic, or even working for someone else. What if your adsense account got banned, or Google penalized your site, or you got fired? You would be screwed! And those things happen all the time!

Here are 5 things I have learned from my e-stores:

1. Automate - The more time you spend getting buyers and less time with filling orders…the more money you will make. This is basic rule of any e-commerce store, but its very important! If you are a drop shipping store you need to find a way to automated the order process so you wont have to fill the orders and send them to the drop shipper, just like any other store. I spent a 3 days (14 hour plus days) last week building this totally remade backend for buyblogcomments.com and Buyanswerslinks.com. Now I can spend my time on getting more orders and working on support. Which leads me to my next lesson…

2. Support - A lot of people want to feel like they have someone devoted 110% to just there order. If they get great support from you, then they will order again and again. Finding a way to give them great support is hard, who has time to spend answering support emails or taking support calls all day? But you have to find a way too. Its pretty easy to make support as pretty automated, you can have all support tickets emailed to you so all you have to do is reply back to the email. But whatever you do, make sure that your clients can easily get ahold of you. The great support will increase your orders big time… trust me

3. Marketing - This was the hardest part for me, finding a way to market my sites with min. money and time. *Cough* adwords. This is how I want to spend my time online. I dont want to be doing support and filling orders, so I automated those as much as I can so I can spend the good part of my time finding new ways to sell sell sell. I mostly use adwords and private advertising to get my products sold, however I am seriously looking into hiring someone based off commission to cold call people to get more products sold.

4. Your Store Needs An Identity Behind it - When Wendy’s’ owner Dave Thomas died and they replaced the commercials with that one creapy guy a few years ago… there sales went down like 50%. Have you ever noticed that all the top companys have people who represent there companys. Apple = Steve Jobs. Microsoft = Bill Gates. Allstate = Dennis Haysbert. Progressive = Creapy emo slut chick (Stephanie Courtney). That is why I have the developer hut toolbar on all my sites. People feel better that they are ordering from a company with an identity behind it, not just some random website.

5. Five hour energy is great - I had to throw this one in there. Haha. But 5 hour energy works great. Without 5 hour energy I wouldn’t be able to work so much and make my e-stores sucessful. My liver disagrees though.