Log and Experiment

People like to say that the key is hard work. While hard work is certainly necessary for a successful venture in anything, I find there are two keys to success that many people fail to do, and thus fail overall. These two keys are: experimentation and tracking data.

No matter what your endeavor, it's always important to experiment and try new approaches. Constant and consistent tweaking will take your project both forward and backwards in tiny baby steps.

Then comes tracking data. With this, you can 95% ensure yourself which tweaks are taking you backwards, and which tweaks are taking you forward. Cut the bad tweaks, keep the good ones.

Such common sense right? Yet when's the last time you've seen more than a couple people do this at the gym? People don't like to do these steps because they require more hard work. And so we come full circle.  Also note that each practice is pretty useless without the other.

End of the Weekend

Good night week. Next week is my birthday week. Hopefully it's a great week. It starts off with a holiday so I'm sure I will be happy.


I flyered hard today. For those that are curious, I flyer for my website which links scholarships for students. Unfortunately because tomorrow is a holiday, I:'m not expecting much traffic. I should've just flyered tomorrow, but tomorrow is my bday celebration :). Will post again tomorrow, gnite.

Sunday

It is Sunday, aka flyer day. It's been raining so hard the last few days I was worried I wouldn't be able to flyer, but alas, fate has given me a wonderfully sunny day. I got a few thousand printed up, and off we go!

I tried out Minecraft last night. Spelunking is awesome, haven't even had a chance to really build anything yet.

All Star Le Weekend

It's the NBA All Star weekend, and it's taking place right here in LA. Despite being a huge  NBA fan, I've never been into the All Star festivities. Yesterday watching the rookies vs sophomores game, I remembered why. They don't try at all. Still, this year's line up is the best it's been in many years, so I'll try to check it out tomorrow.

I'm predicting Durant wins the All Star MVP award with around 20 points. The NBA is really pushing Durant to become a star, although I don't think he has the charisma necessary yet to do it. His "nice guy" act gets good press, but personally I find it a little boring.

I predict a Blake Griffin victory for the dunk contest. The dunk contest has been so lame in recent years, thanks to Nate Robinson and a lack of star power. Blake Griffin is in need of a huge public push to really get his name out there to casual fans, and I'm sure they won't fuck up this chance.

No marketing entry today, and I plan to sprinkle in a lot of these random posts into my blog.

Campus Marketing

One of my key moneymakers is marketing on college campuses. I live around a dozen of them, so I spend my weekends flyering and passing out handouts. Here are some tips:

1. Stay legal. Put your flyers in properly designated areas. This isn't because I have some great respect for the law, but because the flyer won't last 6 hours if it's somewhere it shouldn't be.

2. Despite what I just said, put them all over bathrooms. Bathrooms own for grabbing people's attention.

3. Try to get everything in on Sunday. That way, all the students that are coming back to campus on Monday will see your ads.

I felt inclined to add some tips about making great flyers, but I'll save that for another post.  Till next time,

Online Marketing

Welcome to my blog. Cute girls and my thoughts on internet  marketing. As a bit of background, I've done CPA Affiliate marketing for about a year now with moderate success. I am still studying SEO and other traffic generating methods heavily, and am even working on some offline marketing ideas also. I'll post my thoughts and maybe even some tips on effective online marketing. Till next time...