Chris Barclay at Work

Everyday you hear about someone copying or stealing someone else’ work. It happens in Affiliate marketing and every other industry.

What would you do if you were copied? How would you feel?

I found out first hand this week, one of my landing pages was copied word for word, as well as my images. The weird thing is it gave me the drive to try to find what I can improve, when I saw my wording on someone else’ page it made me realize what I could and should change. After the changes I made my CTR went up.

While people copying your work can be annoying and frustrating, it can help you work harder. You always need to put in the extra work to stay ahead of the competition. It keeps you on your toes.

So when you wake up one morning and find your landing page(s) have been stolen – don’t freak out or get worried. Just take a look at it and try to think of what you can do to improve your page.

If your lucky they might even have left their contact information if you do a domain whois, but don’t count on it!

It’s coming and it’s coming soon. This is very off topic but I am excited so I must share!

December 1st is my move date. As many of you know I am moving to a new condo – it will be a home and home office. I am very excited about this one as it has 2 pools (an indoor and an outdoor), exercise room, sauna and a hot tub.

I’m hoping that this new place with all the amenities it has will help me relax more and in turn help me work more and harder. Stay tuned for pictures.

So a day in the life of Chris took an interesting twist the other day. Many of you know I like to network with other affiliate marketers and people in similar industries.

Just a few days ago I was contacted by a member of Facebook who has seen my site as well as comments of mine on Blogs and he wanted to help me with my ads in getting them approved and just helping me in general.

This came as a huge surprise as I have always understood Facebook to have limited contact with their advertisers and for them to reach out was unexpected.

So kudos to the Facebook (and any other company who’s) reps who go the extra mile to help people out.

You don’t update it enough

To have a successful blog you need to update it often, once or twice a day or at least once every other day. There is nothing more annoying than someone who does not update their blog often enough. Yes I am aware of the irony as I have not updated this site in a while But you need to get new posts up and running as quickly as possible.

You update it too much

Yes it is possible to have too much of a good thing. If you update your page too much visitors could get bored and have a hard time keeping up with the new content. Also having a 1 or 2 line post every few hours is garbage. Come up with some nice rich content.

You don’t promote it

Guess what kiddies – your blog or website isn’t going to get visitors on it’s own. You need to get out there and promote it. Get out on other blogs and websites and promote yourself – DON’T SPAM, just promote.

Over Advertising

Some people think their readers are morons (some blog readers are morons) – you shouldn’t over do the ads. I know I have a few banners but that’s as far as I want to go. I’m back and forth on them right now. I only have them in case I help someone out they might want to give me a referral

Your posts SUCK

Writing posts on irrelevant topics don’t get you any brownie points with your audience. Except maybe in John Chows case where he posts pictures of what he eats. Most of the time that crap won’t fly. Writing repetitive posts are just as bad, if your readers already read it a month ago, why would they want to read it again just reworded?

My apologies go out to Shoemoney regarding his newsletter and his Facebook code not working. Turns out I made the common mistake and selectively read information on this.

Thanks to Bryn – We found out that our comments were broken. Meaning noone was able to comment. It was due to a plug-in. Sorry for the inconvenience, it looks like it is working now!

Recently Shoemoney released a newsletter, one of the main “selling points” for signing up was a free $50 Facebook coupon. I signed up for the newsletter in hopes of getting the Facebook coupon. I received an e-mail today of the newsletter and it had a facebook coupon code in it.

So to make a long story short, the coupon did not work. It’s not a new marketing technique to promise something for a sign up but not deliver.

Was this just a mistake or was it just a false promise marketing gimmick? We’ll soon see

I’ve sent Shoemoney a few messages to inquire about this so we should have the answer shortly.

Finally after a few tries I’ve gotten some Facebook ads approved!

How you may ask?

I tried several different products/services and just tried simple things like changing the ads and pictures. I’m still shocked at how inconsistant Facebook is. You can submit the exact same ad that’s already there, same picture too and it will get declined.

Is anyone else still playing around with Facebook?

So it’s been a while since I did anything with Facebook so I thought I’d give it a try again. Damn I forgot how inconsistant their reviewers were and how hard it is to get some campaigns/ads approved. Sending in the 3rd wave of ads to see if I can get them by now

If your like me and several other people, sometimes updating your blog/website doesn’t happen as often as it should. One quick easy way to add a new post/new content is to just add a video and let it do the work for you! Shoemoney has been doing this for a while and I’ve noticed that Jon Fisher has started as well (I think Jon does it more of a joke than anything but none the less..)

I mean check out this video, is this not entertaining?