I invited top affiliate Zac Johnson on the Friday Podcast earlier this year (listen to the earlier podcast) and had the chance to invite him on again.

During our conversation, Zac spoke about:

• How he comes up with ideas for his marketing campaigns
• The facts and reality of the Internet marketing industry
• His most successful website venture to date
• Current projects he’s in the process of launching
• His upcoming presentation at Affiliate Summit West 2009

Tune in to this week’s Friday Podcast below:

Friday Podcast: Zac Johnson [ 32:34 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (382)

Links:

• Zac Johnson
• Earlier Friday Podcast episode (May 2008)

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I first got to know Kris when he took over the mantles of the Cash Tactics blog from it’s fonder Ralph “Ruck” Ruckman earlier this year. (Ruck went on to focus on his Convert2Media affiliate network).

From the Cash Tactics site, Kris describes himself as a “PPC and CPA Marketer but I also deal in retail affiliate marketing and I’m a product owner with my own affiliate program. I own a PPC search engine, several smaller search engines, a couple drop shipping stores, and a few other random sites.”

During our Friday Podcast discussion, we talked about:

• How Kris got started in internet marketing
• Changes and development in search engine optimization for your website
• How to optimize your website structure
• How to get started with a directory or search engine-based business
• The difference between a “thick” directory and “thin” directory

Listen to the Friday Podcast:

Friday Podcast: Kris Trujillo [ 31:50 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4136)

Check out:

• The Cash Tactics blog
• Kris’ ISearchEbook training

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The “4 Hour Workweek” is a popular time management/motivational/personal development book by author Tim Ferriss which advocates many of the principles in Thomas Friedman’s “The World Is Flat”.

Using the power of outsourcing and delegating, and creating a system/framework to better run your business and personal life, the ultimate goal of the 4 hour workweek is to work just 4 hours a week.

Top affiliate Jeremy Palmer had written that he had been (more…)

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I met Mike Peters in person at Affiliate Summit West last year, having talked to him a number of times before that.

With a colorful lifetime of experience, Mike:

• Was born and raised in Israel
• Started his first company at 14
• Made more money than his dad at 15
• Dropped out of school at 16
• Said no to Microsoft’s offer of a 6-figure income job because he wanted to run his own businesses
• Started 4 companies, closed them down or had them fail, accumulated $150,000 in credit card debt before hitting it big

And now serves as Florida General Manager for Software Projects, a full service internet marketing and web development firm.

In our discussion, we talked about:

• How you can get started on planning and building your internet business
• How you can effectively deal with challenges and failure in your business
• Lessons Mike learned, especially with raising $6 million in funding for one of his businesses which ultimately failed
• Which billionaire business owner Mike recommends as a role model to learn from
• The truth and reality checks about owning your own business

Check out the Friday Podcast:

Friday Podcast: Business Building with Mike Peteres [ 58:23 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (789)

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I’ve been invited to speak at a branding and marketing event this Thursday in Singapore organized by the NUS OC (National University of Singapore Overseas Colleges) and supported by the Entrepeneur 27 Singapore chapter.

I’ll be focusing on how startups and SMBs can leverage the power of the internet to generate leads, grow their business and increase revenue and profits.

If you’re in the neighbourhood, check out the event.

They have a facebook event page up.

If you come for the event, be sure to come up and say hi.

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I was a little shocked to see sections of my blog missing this morning:

The right sidebar completely disappeared, and the footer appeared to be displayed there.

Rather than take the extreme measure of overwriting my customized template with the default installs, I looked at the code that had been generated with Google Chrome the day earlier as I was using the new browser to publish the web page.

For whatever reason, Chrome inserted extra (more…)

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