Rick Ong

Wish I’ve seen this Facebook Advertising presentation by Shoemoney, I would have saved some money back when I was doing Facebook ads on dating. It’s almost a year old but there’s a lot to learn from and that you can still apply today. Key factors for high CTR ads: 70% for the Image 20% for [...]

As of March 2011, these are Facebook’s estimates of the Single Male, Over 25, Looking for Women population. United States – 4,000,000 United Kingdom – 834,000 Canada – 535,000 France – 278,000 Australia – 257,000 South Africa – 101,000 Ireland – 40,000 New Zealand – 33,000

I was surprised that $0.0035 bids still existed in LeadImpact, it was on AU traffic though. I decided to look into minimum bids further on countries where LeadImpact has the most reach. PPV Domination has a post on LeadImpact’s Audience and Demographic numbers. I gathered these bids within the Lifestyle > Dating category. US – [...]

Mike Collela came from a display network background. He is famous for being one of the top affiliates for Truth About Abs and as such, has extensive experience in the Google Display Network. With his work, he needed to constantly look at what other people were doing on the display networks and so he thought [...]

Robert Cialdini’s “The Science of Influence” was a recommended reading by some internet marketers and so I downloaded a video of his talk. I had no idea what to expect, but after watching for 10 minutes, I was hooked. According to Cialdini, people’s preferences and actions can be influenced by using the following 6 principles: [...]

Following Mike Colella’s webinar, I wanted to see how much of Google’s revenues was derived from the Content Network. Mike said that from what he gathered based on talking to friends, the top 50 Google Content Network advertisers are spending upwards of $10,000 a day. This got me curious into digging in to Google’s financial [...]

When it comes to making money online, there are snake oil salesmen and there are people who silently build multi million dollar business without peddling ebooks and boasting about their successes around the affiliate marketing community. One such is Mike Colella, and he is the real deal. I first heard about Mike from Andrew Warner’s [...]

After 3 weeks of learning, testing and doing, I finally made profit on Facebook running an affiliate dating offer and got the formula down. Things like this don’t last forever though. Facebook could ban you, offer could get pulled out, among other things. So it’s obviously necessary to diversify your income sources. So here’s a [...]

It’s been 18 days since I started my first campaign on Facebook. The past two weeks I spent learning all that I can about running ads on Facebook from forums, blogs and ran campaigns. Over time, as I was doing things right, I had a feeling I’d get to profitability soon and that day is [...]

WickedFire has a lot of link building vendors who do different seo techniques. Some go as far as claiming to have guaranteed results. I decided to test them for a recent project of mine. For this project, I bought 39 domains in the travel niche. All are exact match domains (EMDs) for their respective keywords [...]