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Last week I was in New York for Adtech and right now I’m in my hotel room in Las Vegas (Treasure Island) after the second day of Pubcon. I haven’t been able to enjoy New York or Las Vegas as one might usually do because i’ve been “under the weather” since the start of Adtech and still haven’t been able to shake whatever bug I have. Nonetheless, the conferences are suceeding like always in giving me so many new ideas that my head spins and I don’t know where to begin. One of the companies who seems to be getting a lot of pub at both these conferences is pay per post (Pay Per Post). I think the idea behind it is spectacular and will definitely be “buying some links” from these guys in the near future. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s session titled Forums and Communties / Building and Optimization. Ryan McCoy and I began a NBA Basketball forum (NBA Basketball Forum) several years ago and have kept it going as a hobby site while doing our real internet marketing jobs on the side. The site has now grown to over 10,000 registered members and approx. 40,000 page views per day. However, even with the nice organic traffic and loyal return users we have had a very difficult time monetizing the site relative to it’s strong traffic. We are anxiously making plans to turn the site completely web 2.0 with all sorts of great new tools to keep it fresh and up to date and see if we can finally justify all the time we’ve put into it.

We’ve kicked the idea around (writing a blog) for over two years now. He (Ryan Williams) first suggested it, and I (Ryan McCoy) thought it would be a great idea. The problem is work has kept us so busy that we haven’t hardly had time to do anything else..that and we tried it once and couldn’t get the previous blog to archive posts correctly and we got frustrated and scrapped the idea. We’ve tested out Word Press and it has worked great, so I think we are finally ready to go. So…we’ve decided things are never going to slow down and that it is time to just join the rest of the blogosphere in commenting on things that are important or interesting to us. This blog is more of a personal blog, and we’ll launch a business blog focused on affiliate marketing in the coming weeks where we’ll share some of our experiences and advice, interview top affiliates about various topics and chat up some of the top affiliate program managers. So without further delay here is blogryan.com