TJ Gamble

Category: Porch Talk

Facebook Ads: Past Performance Used In Determining Recommended Bids.

Lately, I’ve been trying to use facebook ads to drive some affilliate marketing re-bill offers. Well, most re-bill affiliate marketing opportunities do not come close to meeting the Facebook advertising guidelines so getting one approved is proving difficult. Initially, I thought this was going to be easier.  I built my landing page promoting several offers [...]

Facebook Takes All The Fun Out Of Advertising

I consider myself a fairly patient person, at least in most cases.  However, when I’m excited about a project or something I am doing I like to jump on it and go while the adrenaline is still pumping. Recently, I have been trying to get back to spending considerable time and resources on affiliate marketing.  [...]

Figuring Out What You Suck At Is Important In Business

I have strengths and things that come natural to me that allow me to be successful in what I do.  However, I also have weaknesses that I struggle to overcome everyday that hold my business back.  You can’t do it all, and the sooner you find out what you suck at the sooner you can [...]

Launching My First Magento Site – WalkingCanes.com

We have been experimenting and toying with the open source shopping cart platform Magento Commerce for some time.  If you read this blog, you’ll see the issues that we have encountered while testing the system.  However, we have decided to give it a full production run and have just completed our first Magento shopping cart.  [...]

Hosting At The Planet, Considering Other Options

I have been about as loyal to The Planet as I can be.  I’m not all that unhappy, but not particular thrilled by them either.  I started leasing my first dedicated server back years ago with Rack Shack.  Rack Shack was eventually bought out by EV1 Servers which was then taken over by The Planet.  [...]

Friday Website Reviews – Monday Morning Gold

I’ve been around the block more than a few times.  I’ve designed and developed hundreds if not thousands of websites. If you find this useful and want some tips and pointers on your website and how it could be more successful email me your url and I’ll try to make this a regular segment. Today, [...]

Struggling Getting Your Internet Business Going? Help Is Here.

So, you work hard at your internet business.  You are doing everything right.  You are close to a breakthrough and you know it.  There are so many people out there like you with the skills and work ethic it takes to make it in this business but are just not quite getting it done.  Maybe [...]

Review Of TwitterFollower.com, A Creation By John Chow @johnchow

I follow quite a few internet marketers on twitter, including John Chow (@johnchow).  Recently he posted a tweet about his new service TwitterFollower.com that was basically a list of people who would return a follow if you followed them.  I’ve been interested recently in increasing my follower base in an attempt to try and socialize [...]

Living The Self-Employment, Work From Home Lifestyle – Breaking The Myth

Contrary to popular belief, the self-employment lifestyle is not about leisure, sleeping all day, and barely working.  Quite the opposite, especially in my experiences.  As with many self-employed people I work hard, too hard sometimes.  I am an entrepreneur at heart.  I have too many ideas and not enough time to chase them all.  Client [...]

I knew it was too good to be true – the first serious Magento Commerce snag

If you follow this blog, you know that I have been experimenting with the open source shopping cart Magento Commerce as an updated replacement for the OSCommerce/CRELoaded websites that I have been building. It has a lot of advantages and event though it has a learning curve, I was really enjoying the software. That was [...]