I have been talking with Shawn Collins quite a bit lately and we have come to an agreement on a partnership of sorts that will allow Earners Forum to help promote his conference (which I will be speaking at) and give away quite a few FREE PASSES! Over the next 3 months or so, Earners Forum will be doing a variety of contests / competitions in order to give away our alloted 10 Full Passes (valued at $1,449) and 100 Exhibit Only Passes (valued at $299).

The next few months will be exciting times around here as we give away over $40,000 worth of tickets to the coming Affiliate Summit West conference in Miami, Florida.

While at the conference, you will have to sit in on the best Q&A panel there, where Jeremy (shoemoney) and I will be discussing how to monetize online communities with affiliate programs. Hot stuff!

Look for more updates soon!

I recently completed an interview with Matt Coddington who has developed an interesting resource in the world of forums called Forum Rank. You can read the interview here, but beyond that I encourage you to check out this original concept of rankings for forums only. I have a few of my forums in the list and one of which, Admin Fusion, that has already been reviewed. Let me know your thoughts on this neat site that Matt has built!

I just visited a few of my sites to see that YPN is down and my revenue figures haven’t updated in some time. Just thought I would let you all know in case you wanted to switch adsense in the place of YPN for the time being.

UPDATE: It is now back online as are all the ads on my sites as of about 7:00pm CST.
 
 
 
 
 
 

My heart sank this evening when I heard the news about my friend and Azoogle account manager passing away over the holiday weekend. I am in shock and feel like I really lost a friend. He was a good guy that made me smile and laugh, he was always up beat and helpful, and always looking for ways for me to increase profits. I had the pleasure of working with him for the past 14-15 months or so, and one of the last calls I had with him he offered to pay for me to drive up to NYC from Baltimore in a limo to take me out to a nice dinner so we could hang out and chat. This is really crushing and I imagine this is far reaching. My condolences and best wishes go out to his family and co-workers and other affiliates he was blessing to.