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One of my close friends who I owe a lot to, has recently launched a new company that I am very excited about it. It is called Foundit and it is a revolutionary Lost and Found company.

Basically, the premise behind Foundit is that you create an account, and order Foundit stickers that you place on your phones, laptops, MP3 players, etc so that when any of them get lost, who ever Foundit (see, its clever) can go to Foundit and get a reward for turning it in. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone you know has already created their 2009 goals, just like they have year after year. Everyone is optimistic, and everyone wants to make this year to be THEIR year. Well I have done the same, and I will share with you my 2009 goals, and how I plan to achieve them.

Now before I list my goals, I will explain my strategy with my goals system. Its not as complicated as the BCS, so it should be easy to follow.
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As most of you have already heard, we recently took a select few Affiliates out to Vegas for the ultimate get together. It was truly an incredible weekend. I will go into it more next week, but here are some great recaps for you to read about it.

Poker Affiliate Listings

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Paid the Cost

RakeVip

Since I have been working as a Affiliate Program Consultant, I figured I would dive into a hot topic. How to contact an Affiliate. This is directed towards Affiliate Managers of course.

When contacting Affiliates, its best to KISS (that’s Keep It Simple Stupid in case you have been living under a rock for ever). You never want to be to pushy, and never want to seem uneducated. Its important to remember that you won’t land them as an affiliate with your first contact email, but you can DEFINITELY lose them.

Keep in mind these emails are unsolicited. This is why when I am sending the first email out to a possible Affiliate I will make a statement like “Hope you don’t mind the email” or “Sorry for the disturbance”.

I always make sure to get the point across and put the ball in their court. I don’t talk about what type of deals I can give them, and I don’t lay out all that my Affiliate Program has to offer. I would rather talk to them personally and explain my program to them on Skype or over the phone. This way I can A. Sell my product and show how much I truly believe in it, and B. Answer any questions they have. Read the rest of this entry »

Aced Rakeback is open for business!

Our Rakeback program at Aced is now open for business. If you are looking for Aced Rakeback, please follow this link to sign up. Aced Rakeback.

If you are an affiliate and want to promote Aced Poker Rakeback on your site please contact me. Its really easy to get going, and since its new, its a great time to be the first to offer Aced Rakeback.

Aced Rakeback is one of the best rakeback programs in our industry as its 30% paid into the players account every night. Not to mention rakeback Affiliates still get their MGR on casino games as well.

If you have any questions at all about the Aced Affiliate Program or Aced Rakeback system, please do not hesitate to ask me.

As many of you know, Jeremy Enke and I have been close friends since I entered into this industry, and have worked on countless projects together. Well I am excited to announce one that tops them all IMO. We will be co-hosting a new radio show called Affiliate Life Radio. This show will be based partially on whats going on in our industry, but mostly based on the lives of Affiliates off the computer. Read the rest of this entry »

From the wtf file, here is a youtube clip from the LSU at USC (the shitty one). Referee clearly gets in the way, and makes a tackle. You have to ask how much money he has on this game…

NCAA College Football Parlay Odds

Almost everyone has received an email with funny motivational posters, but I figured I would put some of the best all in one page. If you have any funny motivational posters that you think should be added to this page, just leave a comment with the link and Ill post it. Click on any of the motivational posters to see them in full size. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most talked about topics for online poker rooms and casinos has been mobile gaming. There have been multiple speeches and articles on the topic of mobile gaming, but really no results. Its never been a real focus for online poker rooms because the technology just isn’t there yet. I am shocked that online casino and sportbooks have not moved forward with this though.

For online poker rooms, its really hard to believe that poker players will spend hours at a time logged in via their mobile phone to get their fix. There are multiple reasons why it is just not feasible for poker players to utilize mobile gaming. 
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Most of you now know, Kentucky is in the middle of seizing online poker and online gambling domains from many of the top companies in the gaming industry. It all started on Tuesday Septenber 23rd, when it was releasted that a court in Kentucky ordered the seizure of 141 poker and gambling domain names (list below).

Since then, a couple of smaller casinos have handed over their domains in fear of prosecution. Golden Casino handed over their domain, and Playshare emailed their affiliates warning that they might have to change their domain. ClubUSACasino also changed their domain.

I spoke to a couple of employees from the bigger sites on the list, their overall feel was if a state court can ever get a multinational company to give up their domain, then hell must have frozen over. I complete agree with this statement.

Today Kentucky announced that they were asking for these sites to shut down access to Kentucky users, not to shut down the sites all together. Why the hell try to take the domains then? Its sad that its so easy to see through their bullshit, yet they get away with it. Two words sum up the reasoning for all of this…Kentucky Derby.

“Our endgame is to block access within Kentucky,” Jennifer Brislin said. “But our mode to do that is to capture those domain names and, if need be — if that’s not an option that those users take — then we will at the end of the day shut down a site.”
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