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Ok, I never post on this blog. Between ministry and work, this blog really takes a back seat. This is the third post this year. But I saw a couple of posts I wanted to respond to.

So Jim Kukral had a free flip video contest during the Super Bowl and I won! I made a little video to say thanks. I took the cam out of the box, put in the batteries and made this video. This thing is really that easy.

Now I had a really hard time uploading the video to my computer because of a firmware issue but they had a notice on their website and after a firmware update all was well.

I need to sign up with JoeBucks and a Credit Card offer company.

If you are an RSS subscriber, use the link on the bottom to contact me and I will use your affiliate ID.

edit - only accepting credit card offer referrals now.  did a contest for the jb referral. 

About six months ago I wrote a post about desiring fellowship with Christian affiliate marketers

Other than the youth in my youth group, there may be a handful of people on this planet that know my sites. That plain sucks. So I am hoping for fellowship with other Christian internet marketers.

If you are a Christian internet marketer (and by that I mean 1. You are saved, and live like you are saved 2. You actually make money online) and you are seeking fellowship with others that understand what it is like to spend 16 hours straight staring at your monitor in the hopes of eaking out a living on line, drop me a line.

Recently my friend Wade made a post challenging Christians in this business to go a step further and help Christian owned business in launching.

And just today, Shawn Collins posted an article about tithing your marketing time. Though from a secular perspective Shawn is looking for a community of like minded individuals who will partake in some charity to help the larger body politik.

I’d imagine that silent majority among networks, affiliates, and merchants has some great feedback and advice, but they’re all “too busy.”

Well listen here - if you care about the industry, invest in it with your insight. It doesn’t take so much time to contribute.

There are some folks that share a lot - they info tithe, meaning they spend a good 10% of their week helping, sharing, informing, correcting, and generally growing the industry.

There is good news and bad news in this. For those who hate God and are skeptical of those who don’t, there is very little to worry about here. We as the called out ones are not doing any better that the rest of the industry. The bad news is that I would really like to be part of something that will change that.

So why the failure?

When a business venture starts you have the visionary who raises capital to launch the venture. We have visionaries, we just have not had the capital raised. For business ventures that capital is financial. In kingdom work that capital is prayer.

Will you agree with me in prayer today? Please pray to the Father that we can have some sort of meaningful fellowship of believers who can bridge the gap between their faith and their business. A place of trusting relationships based on integreity where we can multiply our resources.

One can put a thousand to flight, two can put ten thousand.

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Now playing: Israel & New Breed - Another Breakthrough

One of my sites gets a couple million page views a month, a fairly loyal usergroup with 10+ pageviews per visitor. I have had the site for a while and it is clean, without any adult material. But it is a Christian community.

I have been looking for a CPM company to fill the 728 x 90 banner at the head so I thought I would give Doubleclick a try. Here was the response I got:

Thank you for your interest in Performics. At this time we cannot approve your application. Your site may have been declined for one or more of the following reasons:

1. We were unable to access and review your site based on the URL provided.
2. Your site was under construction.
3. The information provided doesn’t match registered domain information.
4. Submitting unsolicited commercial email (Spam) or trademark infringement.
5. Contains gambling information.
6. Publishing libel or defamation.
7. Promoting illegal substances.
8. Uses violence or hate-oriented speech.
9. Has extensive religious commentary or attempts to preach or solicit members for a particular church or faith.
10. Contains adult, obscene, or offensive content.

Please feel free to contact us for additional information or after you have made the necessary adjustments to your site. We are more than happy to review again.

Sincerely,

Performics Affiliate Network…powered by ConnectCommerce
www . performics . com

Christianity is now in the same category as spam, porn, violence, and illegal substances.

Way to distinguish yourselves doubleclick.

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Now playing: Misty Edwards - My Soul Longs For You

John Chow dot Com is holding another evil blog contest. He’s giving away a 24? wide screen LCD monitor and a signed copy of the best selling book, The 4-Hour Workweek! Find out how to enter here. The contest is being sponsored by The Million Dollar Wiki. Use coupon code JohnChow to save $10 on a page.

No, I am willing to give this guy a whole post on my blog just for the possibility of winning a contest.  I don’t know how much these monitors cost but I bet they are less than the cost of all these backlinks!

You know what AuctionAds is, the Ebay feed thingy that Jeremy Shoemaker built and sold.

Well, if you have tried it you most certainly found out that it is not a very good product. While if you have a site that is based on a niche product it may be an income producer but short of that it is almost worthless.

But the one thing it had going for it was the ease of use and its founder who was constantly trumpeting its value.

Enter the MediaWhiz buyout. Since then things have gone from bad to worse for the technical side of things. Then this morning I was checking Jeremy’s blog when I realized that even he does not run AuctionAds anymore! I don’t know if the technical problems were to much for him or the awful returns but he went back to running Adsense of all things! (check out the ads google is serving. Even ads for Alden shoes are better than Auction Ads)

To all those who stuck with this product in the hopes of the “snowball effect” there it is. His bankroll snowballed on the back of your publishing.

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Now playing: Hillsong United - My Future Decided

I signed up for Microsoft’s Affiliate program.  First impression:  Are they serious?

One product.  $0.50 CPA .  Why exactly would someone want this?

	The new Windows Live OneCare offer is now available for promotion. The payout rate for this offer is $.50 per unique, valid download originating from US or Canadian IP addresses. Please review the terms listed here: http://microsoftaffiliates.net/forms/onecareaddendum080807.pdf If you are currently running the original OneCare offer, your existing links will work for the new offer.  Continuing to run this offer after 4:00 p.m. EST 8/8/2007 will be considered acceptance of these terms. If you want to start promoting this new offer, please log into your Affiliate Account Center, click the Offers link and choose the banners or text links you’d like to use. Thank you for promoting Windows Live OneCare. If there is anything we can do to help you succeed, please let us know.

I am working on a social media project and am pretty sure I am going with handshakes.  I need the functionality of using myspace layouts without major modifications or a 15 step process for the user.

If you have a handshakes license for sale please let me know.  It has to be upgraded to the latest version which I think is 3.3.  I don’t need your user database.  A layout mod would be nice but not absolutely necessary.