How to get EPN to Approve Your Application

Straight from the top guy EPN:

Better Quality Direct link: http://nickmattern.com/EPNQuestion.mp3
Steve Hartman, Sr. Director of EPN was the gentleman answering the question. You can actually feel the chatter in the room from the MP3, lots of folks want to know this stuff!

Affiliate Convention Denver Review

Today I had the opportunity to attend the inaugural Affiliate Convention conference in Denver, Colorado.  I wanted to come for a few reasons. First, it was close to home as I live in South Dakota.  Second, it had a few familiar names, such as Jeremy “Shoemoney” Shoemaker, David Snyder from Search and Social, and Tim [...]

Testing Real Life Copy and Why Stealing Works - Part 1

Today I went to my dermatologist for my 3-month refill for Enbrel.  While waiting in the office for 20 fucking minutes, I found no less than 8 different skin care brochures, ranging from injectible Botox to creams that help erase wrinkles.  Hmm, I know a little something something about wrinkle cream sales, so I started [...]

Premium Placement Plugin and More!

So it’s been a week since I’ve been out from the WFReview shadow and I can tell you IT FEELS GOOD. Not because the product was a pain (it wasn’t) or because the user base was a pain (99% weren’t) but mainly because I’m not stuck to a PC each minute of every day doing [...]

Why I sold WFReview, The Best Damn Wordpress Review Plugin

First, a little backstory on why WFReview even exists. Back in August 2008, I got into a pissing match with a guy named Dan on WickedFire.com. He had a simplistic plugin for wordpress that allowed you to add Amazon.com style rating stars to Wordpress posts. This would be pretty pimp for guys [...]

Why Twitter is Here to Stay

I love it when authors try to get in on the Twitter debate. They almost exclusively tie in Twitter’s rapid growth with their take on it’s eventual downfall or shortcomings, yet in the end, encourage you to follow their Twitter account! (Example)
I think the thing most authors miss is that Twitter is a conversational platform, [...]

My First Media Buying Experience - Part 1

I had a great campaign on Adwords from January to March 09. It was a poker email submit offer.  Now gaming, gambling, and wagering is against the adwords TOS, but the campaign snuck by the reviewers and I had some pretty amazing results.  I had a 500%+ ROI and an amazing .07 average cost per [...]

Managing Twitter: The After-Conference Follow-Blitz

The old standard of organizing 200+ business cards after a conference or event is officially dead.  People these days have taken to adding you to social media sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook in lieu of cramming another few dozen biz cards into an overly pregnant Rolodex.  The problem I’ve always faced is who to [...]

Tech Training In A Sour Economy: the truth about paid education

I wrote this in response to a forum question regarding what to do with money a military guy got for his education…  Unrefined, will work on it later.
Almost all training organizations and colleges offer online training now. Find a technical school in your area that offers online courses is my recommendation.
Here is the truth about [...]

Display Your Blog On Mobile Devices Automatically

I follow a guy on Twitter named WPLimits and he recently had this kick ass tweet about a Wordpress plugin that automatically checks if the user is on a mobile browser, and if they are, it displays this really slick theme so the end user can view your blog posts easily, without downloading your main [...]