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Here we go again. An internetbusinessdaily.net reader was kind enough to show me this Facebook ads coupon for $71.88. I know it is a weird amount, but that’s because it is converted from another currency. Here are the steps to receive this coupon:

• 1. Go to qapacity.com/promote/facebook and sign up for an account.
• 2. Wait for the confirmation email and confirm your account.
• 3. Log in and goto the promote tab.
• 4. Click the “read more” button in the middle of the page.
• 5. Redeem your code.

That’s it! Have fun.

For Christmas, one of the gifts I received was Apple’s new magic mouse, which you can buy here. I absolutely love this thing. The Magic Mouse is the total revamp of Apple’s previous Mighty Mouse. Apple has take multi touch technology and placed it in this mouse. The entire top of the mouse is one big touch pad that can accept multiple gestures.

There is one glaring problem with the new Magic Mouse, which is the fact that Apple decided to not build any extended functionality into the multi touch surface. The only thing it allows you to do is flick up and down, which represents scrolling and two finger swipe right and left which cycles forward and backward in your browser. With such a powerful piece of hardware, I wonder why they made the software so limited.

Alas, all is not lost. Some awesome developers came up with Magic Prefs. Magic Prefs allows all the functionality that the Magic Mouse was built for. Pinch to zoom, three finger click for expose, and much more is now available if you install Magic Prefs (shown below). With this software, the Magic Mouse has become the best mouse on the market. It has become the standard for all other mouse makers to be compared to, just like the iPhone did to the mobile phone market. If you don’t already have the Magic Mouse, I definitely suggest getting it.

It’s a new year and it’s time to get to business. I am continuing to consult for some clients for SEO and PPC marketing but have started researching new affiliate marketing products to promote as well. My goal for the first few months of 2010 is to build up a nice amount of passive income through a few steady affiliate marketing campaigns.

Last year, all of my affiliate marketing campaigns were very volatile. One month I would make 5 figures and another month I would make nothing. Although this is exciting and has the potential to make more overall money, having consistent income is more important to me right now. I will update IBD with my progress when I start.

I couldn’t think of an image to add to this post, so here is a picture of my new puppy.

Do the Facebook developers have no shame? They just up and decided to steal one of Twitter’s most original features…

@tagging just like Twitter

and AJAX style friends dropdown…

When you tag someone they get a notice immediately that they have been tagged in a status update. They are now subscribed to that update just like if they had replied to it.

This post is a review of the Wall Street Journal discount site, requested by the owner.

The Wall Street Journal has been around since 1889 and is a well respected investment related newspaper and online site. WSJ not only covers money news though, they also cover world, U.S., markets, technology, personal finance, life & style, opinion, careers, real estate, small business, politics, sports, fashion health, market data and much more. I have read articles from the WSJ over the years and there is always very good insight into many current money-related topics. Over the years, the Wall Street Journal has accumulated 33 Pulitzer Prizes for multiple topics. This is no small feat.

Recently, the Wall Street Journal asked me to review their new discount site for people who would like to sign up for this great publication. They are offering 75% off subscription if you sign up through this link. Additionally, they are offering 80% off if you sign up for both the written publication and online version. It does not seem like the website WSJPrimerate.us has anything to do with the actual Wall Street Journal publication but they are an affiliate. Regardless, this is a great price for anyone looking to sign up for this excellent publication. One suggestion for my readers would be to get affiliate marketing ideas from articles that WSJ produces. Take the current issues in the world and turn them into profit! Enjoy.

Took this pic today around my neighborhood.

Guest Post by Evan Orenstein

I recently received a Flip MinoHD hand held camera to review, and let me tell you, I haven’t left my apartment without it in over a week. I’m usually not one to bring a camera out with me to dinner or the bars, but this thing really does a killer job. The quality, although not true 1080P HD quality, is amazing when compared to a digital camera or your cell phone. It’s super compact, fits in your pocket and looks really sleek.

My only complaint is the unusually small screen. Instead of having a tiny screen and a set of buttons below, it would have been awesome to have a touch screen that took up the entire side of the camera. Below is a video I took during pre-game warm-ups for college basketball game. Sorry for the shakiness, I guess I should have bought a mini tri-pod!

Specs:
4GB Internal Memory, records 60 minutes of HD quality video
1.5” Screen
Customizable (which is really cool)
MSRP: $229

I have been doing a lot of affiliate marketing lately and one of my biggest concerns is always protecting my landing page from competitors. Since I’m tracking every visitor that comes to my landing page, I can get a good idea of how many of those visits are competitors looking for ideas for their sites. I can’t really blame them, I check up on my competitors as well. This doesn’t mean I don’t attempt to protect myself.

With the help of Ben from WickedFire.com I put together a short script that will cloak your site from anyone not coming from the exact sources you specify. You can even white list IP addresses to make sure no direct traffic comes to the site that doesn’t belong there. Be careful with that one since you might be sending away actual customers. I always redirect to the offer page just to be certain.

So, here is the script:

<?php

if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) {
 $referer = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);

 preg_match('/[^.]+\.[^.]+$/', $referer['host'], $match);

  if ($match[0] != 'trafficsource.com') {
   header("Location: http://www.offerpage.com"); //redirect all traffic that comes from any source except the one listed above
   exit;
  }
}

if(empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) {
 $visitor = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

 if (!(preg_match("/xx.xxx.xxx.xx/",$visitor)) && !(preg_match("/yy.yyy.yyy.yy/",$visitor))) {
 header('Location: http://www.offerpage.com?subid=directTraffic'); //redirect all IP addresses to this that are not the IP addresses listed above
  exit;
 }
}

?>

This should do the trick. Remember to fill out the correct information in the script, it won’t “just work.” One last thing to remember is that when you enter a traffic source, it should be the root domain (myspace.com, google.com, facebook.com) and nothing else. The script will parse the referring source down to just the root domain. You can add as many IP addresses as you want just by adding another AND (&&) operator. You can also tweak this code to cloak your site anyway you want. Hope you enjoy!

Well, it’s not really a guest post but a list of beginner’s tips I wrote in a post on WickedFire that Jon enjoyed and decided to post on his blog. Here’s the link to the beginner’s Facebook tips.

The very next day after I wrote that a lot of things changed on Facebook. They started accepting pretty much any type of advertising, as opposed to before when they were very restrictive. One thing I would like to append to that article is that Facebook is now approving ads at all hours it seems. I had a group of ads approved at 2pm PST. The prime time to get ads approved is still middle day though.

I’ll be posting an article to this blog soon, so come back soon!

Yes…I am still alive. I haven’t had much time to post recently but I just wanted to make sure everyone knew I was here and still cared about this blog very much. I will try to post soon with what I’ve been doing lately. I’ve been killing affiliate marketing so maybe I’ll share some of my secrets:)….or maybe not.