The image above, which looks like a broken Death Star, is actually a visual representation of my Social Graph (at least on Facebook).
Rather than explain what a Social Graph is, I’ll just tell you this. First, there’s a new kind of geek in the world now. I’ll call them the Social Geeks™. These are the people who are dubbed “social media gurus“. Second, the Social Geeks® have come up with a fancy sounding term (so they/we can charge more per hour) called a “Social Graph”. You know it as your “friends”.
Now, if I can stop using quotations for a minute, the real point of the Social Graph isn’t for the generic person who uses the internet. It’s an analytical tool so that those Social Geeks∞ can sell their souls to the devil (a.k.a. marketing departments), telling them how to get in touch with your friends so that you can be sold that 4th burrito you really shouldn’t have eaten at lunch (and then the 24 hour fitness membership you’ll use for 2 weeks).
Ok, it’s not all bad. Plenty of academics use Social Graphs to determine behavior, affinity, and other academic stuff. And, as we all know, 99% of what academics study don’t cross over into the business world where it becomes applicable to the generic public.
All that to say….
Pretty cool picture huh?
I’ve admitted I’m an affiliate marketer in the past, and other than the money this fact doesn’t give me warm fuzzies because of a few unscrupulous folks who give it a bad name. But, every now and then I run across a decent soul who I thank for inspiration. Jonathan Volk is [...]
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May
02
Posted by nate within Business
Amazing. Two days ago I had my biggest day ever for PPC affiliate marketing. The very next day my Google campaigns were slapped to oblivion. I thought I was playing the right way.
First, I saw my commissions drop to practically zilch. Then my stats program showed the same for traffic [...]
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Apr
30
Posted by nate within Business, Community, Ideas
My previous article titled Signal to Noise: Twitter, Blogging, and Your Other Crap sparked a few really great comments from folks. It seems many more people are now wrestling with the information overload. There’s now official terms even: “Email Bankruptcy“, “RSS Bankruptcy“, and “Twitter Bankruptcy” (not to mention actual financial bankruptcy because we [...]
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Apr
30
Posted by nate within Business, Projects
Eric Martin composed a brilliant question in a comment on my recent article titled “Finally Made a Profit on PPC Affiliate Marketing“:
Hi Nate,
I’m on the same road as you. I appreciate you sharing what you did as raising what advertisers pay makes a lot of sense.
I was wondering if you could share some insight buying [...]
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Mar
24
Posted by nate within Business, Projects
I do a lot of different things in business, web development, and non-profit work. Some have even called me a “loose cannon” because of all the things I have my hands on at any one time. I’m trying to take that as constructive criticism, but in between therapy sessions, I also try my [...]
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Feb
08
Posted by nate within Business
Now, I’m not one to complain too often about how companies do business, because I understand a lot of their issues and why they do things. But in this case, Clickbank, the affiliate company, is simply stealing my money, and that makes me very angry.
I’ve been both an affiliate for Clickbank as well [...]
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