{"id":757,"date":"2009-03-27T23:13:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/?p=757"},"modified":"2009-03-27T23:13:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:13:37","slug":"friday-podcast-affiliate-strategies-ruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/podcasts\/friday-podcast-affiliate-strategies-ruck\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Podcast: Affiliate Strategies With Ruck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran affiliate marketer Ralph Ruckman, better known as &#8220;Ruck&#8221; has gone full circle, from operating as an affiliate using blackhat\/grayhat\/whitehat techniques to founding his own CPA\/affiliate network, Convert2Media with 3 other co-founders.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0903\/ruck.jpg\" alt=\"ruck\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\" \/>A presence on multiple internet marketing and affiliate marketing forums, Ruck is a warehouse of knowledge, having been in the affiliate marketing trenches and having seen the good and bad parts of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Ruck&#8217;s known for his brutally frank, no-BS approach to speaking his mind. You either love his honesty, or in the same breath, hate him for showing the ugly side of things.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been looking forward to talking to Ruck for some time and got him to share his thoughts during our call.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How he got started in internet marketing<\/li>\n<li>His role in participating in forums and starting the CashTactics blog (now operated by Kris Trujillo)<\/li>\n<li>His views on the affiliate industry, especially on the recent FTC press conference<\/li>\n<li>How to look for hot niches to promote in affiliate marketing<\/li>\n<li>How to build your affiliate business<\/li>\n<li>Convert2Media&#8217;s recent adjustment in sub-affiliate recruitment incentives<\/li>\n<li>Important facts every affiliate needs to know about scrubbing and shaving<\/li>\n<li>Convert2Media&#8217;s upcoming coaching programs for affiliates<\/li>\n<li>C2M&#8217;s next evolution as a full service internet marketing agency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out the podcast below:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"convert2media\" href=\"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/convert2media\" target=\"_blank\">Convert2Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"convert2media twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/convert2media\" target=\"_blank\">Convert2Media on twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"convert2media blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.convert2media.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Convert2Media blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran affiliate marketer Ralph Ruckman, better known as &#8220;Ruck&#8221; has gone full circle, from operating as an affiliate using blackhat\/grayhat\/whitehat techniques to founding his own CPA\/affiliate network, Convert2Media with 3 other co-founders. A presence on multiple internet marketing and affiliate marketing forums, Ruck is a warehouse of knowledge, having been in the affiliate marketing trenches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88],"tags":[1769,1627,1511,1114,94,1510,1033],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}