Once again PokerStars is hosting one of the better Affiliate Tournaments called the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker. Its a fun event with great prizes. If you have a blog make sure you sign up.
Prank War 8: The Skydiving Prank
If you haven’t heard of Prank Wars between Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld on College Humor, you are missing out. There are 8 pranks now each topping the last. The last Prank War can be seen here: College Humor Prank War 7 The Half Million Dollar Shot. Read the rest of this entry »
If you haven’t had a chance to watch the Google Wave video on youtube, you really should. Google Wave is a brand new browser based email/IM/Social Messaging/onstop everything application that Google is set to release this year. Although it is still in the early stages, they have committed to keeping this open source to let the worlds developers further this product into its full potential (which is endless). Google Wave is a webmasters dream. Read the rest of this entry »
Been a bit since my last post as I have been extremely busy lately. One of the things I have been busy with the last couple weeks is helping my friends over at BluefirePoker.com build their Affiliate Program.
A little background on Bluefire:
BluefirePoker.com is a leading Poker Training Video site. Headed by their main pro Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond, Bluefire has established themselves as the best Poker Training site in the world. Phil Galfond is known best for his 2008 WSOP bracelet and for crushing the highest nose bleed games in the world. He has won MILLIONS online at FullTilt under the screen name OMGClayAiken. Don’t let his screename full you, the guy is a killer at the tables.
The guys over at Bluefire asked me to help them build an Affiliate Program for them, and being that I am an Affiliate Program Consultant, it was an easy decision. These guys are great, and REALLY care about their affiliate program. No other Poker Training site has a well rounded affiliate program, if they even have one at all. Bluefire came out of the box with a commitment to Affiliates and a strong understanding of their value.
Make sure you give the guys at Bluefire and their Affiliate Program a shot, you will not be disappointed.
Sign up now at the bluefire affiliate program
There is a great thread running at PAL with the same title. I started writing a response, then thought it would be better to move my rant over here.
Jeremy and I have had this conversation many times before. We differ slightly in opinion, but I do agree with his points. Here are my thoughts.
I got a degree in Business Management and am extremely happy and proud of it. I would not change it at all. I was an entrepreneur all throughout college, so I guess I differ as I had a great experience doing both at the same time.
I grew up a lot in college in terms of my overall understanding of business and what it takes. I learned many things that I use daily. I learned a bunch of useless shit as well though.
I differ a bit being on the operations side, but in my mind, affiliating is one of the few sectors under the entrepreneurial umbrella that a college degree is basically useless. But going with a more 10,000 view of what it is to be an entrepreneur, I think that my degree is extremely helpful.
The goal is to create your own business right? Well having the right ideas for a new product for example, does not mean success. There is a lot more that you have to know behind the scenes in order to run or even create a successful business.
I think if done right, a college education replaces the void of experience. If you give your daughter $100,000 to start a business, the odds of her pissing a way the money on a failed venture is just as high as her pissing it away on a useless college education, probably even higher. There are so many useless Majors, that it is far to easy to do this now a days.
There is a lot of money in what we do, but what worries me is the uncertainty of the future of affiliating. It has only been around for 10 years, so who can predict what it will be like in another 10. IMO the key is to keep this in mind and have an exit strategy. If you found out tomorrow that everything came crashing down in our industry, or even if there is a major shakeup in affiliating in general, what would you do? How would you manage?
My goal is to always know what the next step could be if shit truly hit the fan.
Ill try to dig deeper into this another time. There are a lot of points in here that I feel stronhly about that I would be happy to discuss further.
I am a diehard baseball fan. Always have been, always will. So I figured it would be fun to make my 2009 Major League Baseball Predictions. These predictions have the standings with records for every division. Pennant winners, and World Series Champion. They also have MVP’s, CY Youngs, Batting Average and Homerun leaders, for each division. Well, with no further ado, my 2009 MLB Predictions. Read the rest of this entry »
I will be attending CAC Amsterdam 2009 later on this week and am pretty damn excited about it. Its been awhile since I have been to one of the conferences, and am looking forward to seeing everyone again! I leave on Friday the 26th and arrive the 27th in the morning.
I will be there until the 1st of April, just in time to get back for my birthday.
I will be staying in an apartment with Jeremy Enke, Kyle Healey, John Holloway, and Steve Cook. It should be a pretty crazy week!
Anyone that is attending and wants to meet up or grab a beer, drop me an email or leave a comment on this post.
Will be giving live updates on http://twitter.com/acedcom and http://twitter.com/brandonberndt if you are interested.
Yesterday there was a post to announce a meeting in Amsterdam that will take place during CAC Amsterdam to bring together all Gambling Affiliate Programs to discuss the industry as a whole, and move forward with an initiative to create a resource for Affiliates and Affiliate programs. 65 Operators have confirmed that they will be attending said meeting.
“Our motive on this collaboration initiative is to simply ensure that operators, gaming affiliate programs and the affiliates themselves have a resource in place that best represents our needs and those of our affiliates and business partners. Accordingly, the goal is to support an entity that is aligned with our interests and will help cultivate our community in a fair and impartial manner including developing business relationships as well as optimizing networking opportunities.” One operator representative had to say.
Been a bit since I had time to add to my blog, but I definitely suggest you watch this. It is the newest prank in College Humors Prank War between Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld. Its a half court shot for $500,000 (Yes Five hundred thousand/ half a million). Or is it… Read the rest of this entry »
I am extremely happy to announce that we have indeed signed Jamie Gold. After speaking with Jamie for the last couple weeks, it was apparent how strong our values and visions coincided, and it it became clear how perfect of a fit this is. Jamie will be playing online exclusively at Aced.com, and will be playing under the handle JamieGold.
This last weekend we flew out to Vegas to meet up and do a photoshoot with Jamie in his brand new Aced gear. It was a great trip and very productive. We worked along side Lisa Wheeler (Greasywheels.com) to help set up our press release and media blitzes. So far it has gone very well! Read the rest of this entry »
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