September 24, 2010 – 12:11 pm | No Comment

Update 9.24.2010
It’s been a year since I posted the original entry documenting my experience with AKMG.  Long story short, it’s water under the bridge.

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Case Study: Using Twitter to Profit from Breaking News
July 28, 2009 – 10:08 am | 5 Comments

On July 26th, 2009, Internet Service Provider AT&T ‘blackholed’ traffic to/from some of the popular boards at 4Chan.org.  This was a surprising move for 2 reasons.

AT&T decidedly censored it’s customer base
4Chan.org is made up of …

Migrating from one Godaddy VPS to another and getting Plesk to play nicely
July 10, 2009 – 9:46 am | 8 Comments

Here’s the situation: You have two godaddy Virtual Private Server (VPS) accounts (or any Plesk-based hosting VPS)  and you need to migrate client accounts and domains between them.  Only problem is Plesk is being a …

How to get EPN to Approve Your Application
June 22, 2009 – 8:54 am | No Comment

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 …

Affiliate Convention Denver Review
June 18, 2009 – 8:07 pm | 19 Comments

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.  …

Testing Real Life Copy and Why Stealing Works – Part 1
June 15, 2009 – 10:49 am | 2 Comments

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 …

Why I sold WFReview, The Best Damn WordPress Review Plugin
May 12, 2009 – 6:38 am | 2 Comments

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 …

Why Twitter is Here to Stay
April 30, 2009 – 8:43 am | One Comment

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 …

My First Media Buying Experience – Part 1
April 18, 2009 – 10:44 am | 3 Comments

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 …

Managing Twitter: The After-Conference Follow-Blitz
April 14, 2009 – 11:31 am | One Comment

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 …

Tech Training In A Sour Economy: the truth about paid education
April 2, 2009 – 7:29 am | One Comment

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 …