ShoeMoney q&a round 18

If your website suffer extensive targeted attacks from hackers and half of your database is totally destroyed and unrecoverable, what would you do?

I run an online tuxedo store and have the financial resources to hire 2.5 employees. What roles should I fill and in what order?

When marketing products have you ever found yourself with an ethical dilemma? Is it ok to market a product that you know is a poor quality product or scam?

2 part question regarding PPC marketing: 1. What do you look for when selecting an affiliate product to promote via a PPC campaign? 2. Once you've found said product, what's your first step to getting your PPC campaign and running (& profitable)?

Do you have any stats which correlate visits to ad revenue? I know it's not as simple as all that but I was curious about it. I mean, is there a point where you can say 'X number of visits may net you Y revenue and Z number of visits may net you... etc'? Sorry, I'm not a SEO guy - just enjoy your blog :)

Would you build a big site around a good affiliate offer? For instance, say you make good $ on some mp3 selling offer via a landing page. Would you invest in a 3-4 months project and spend lower $XX,XXX to build a really great site that is built around that offer that would have a ton of usefull features, but wouldn't really make money if an affiliate program wouldn't be there? Why or why not? What's your thoughts behind it? Another question: what do you think about cj? I never saw you talking about them, even though they do have the same offers as azoogle with different commissions.

How come you haven't been posting about MMA lately? You used to offer your picks and discuss the matches.

I recently wrote an article on Amazon's new way to make money for bloggers by selling subscriptions to the blogs via the Kindle Store. I would love to know your opinion on the subject. Do you think this is a good idea for a new stream of revenue for bloggers? Jeremy Read the article here about Amazon Kindle Publishing for Blogs: http://www.abiztechnews.com/?p=371

Is the book officially canceled? Somebody said when they signed up for your 12 week training that it says it is replacing the book or something like that.

What do you believe is the best way to promote a new iPhone application? Obviously, with 40,000+ apps in the app store, it's going to take some kind of breaking point to get noticed.

How would you best monetize http://anyluckyday.com. I get companies to donate products that they make and I provide them with an alternate source of advertising via social networks and blogs. Right now I've started using amazon affiliates, but what other ways would you monetize it? Eventually when it gets large enough I can charge companies to sponsor, but other than that?

What's a big personal goal (not financial/biz related) that you HAVEN'T obtained yet?

How do you manage all of your social network profiles, in addition to your blog, your businesses, speaking, etc? What kind of back end support do you have to pull this all off?

Ketchup or mustard?

what is the best way to pitch an idea? power point to email with phone follow up elevator pitch at event with follow up phone call or ?

Have you ever considered putting your biggest lessons on tape or dvd and selling those as an info product? With all the people familiar with you and your success, it seems like you could turn on a camera..or recorder - talk and make money. You don't seem shy, and people definitely need the info, insight, and encourage - so what's holding you back?

What would be the best way other than PPC to get traffic to a site like mine? Thanks for your input. R

I'm friggin stuck with CPA on my mobile news site. I have tons of traffic (about 500K uniques a month), about 50% coming from google search for a specific phone. I do pretty well with CPC (adsense) and CPM adverts. But when it comes to CPA... sh... I'm lucky if I sell a phone/plan a month. I tried everything - links to the phones below content, geotargeted CPA deal ads, Amazon and other widgets... I've even got booted from Shopzilla CPC program because my links did not give them a single conversion in 3 months... Ringtones do not work as well, I tried. Any ideas how to get that frigin CPA work on this kind of site?

What question do you wish, just once, someone would ask? ;-)

Why Lincoln Nebraska? Seriously.

What did you think of LOST season 5? and last nights finale?

I'm looking to hire a developer to finish one of the sites that i'm working on. How do you go about finding the right guy. I am a professional software engineer myself, but am struggling with this question. Having worked with both US and Indian overseas developers at work... I find the Indian guys need to be held by the hand and only do what u tell them, and don't think for themselves. If u tell them 1 through 9 and 10 is obvious, they won't do it or even try to figure it out. Not to mention the time zone and communication problems.

If you had a product or script that ensured or helped social marketing success and had the results to prove it how would you market and sell it? Would you create a monthly membership that people subscribed to or sell it through affiliates as a one time purchase? Thanks!

Sorry, Shoe, another question. Do you think a site can be too niche to market and monetize from ad revenue? Does the subject material need to have a certain amount of Internet traffic before it's viable? Thanks

Your show on webmaster radio occurs at a time when I can't listen or participate live so I usually listen to the podcast afterwards. What's the best way to submit a question for your show?

When testing a PPC campaign what number of visitors would you consider to be the minimum to obtain accurate numbers. For example, would you trust the stats on a campaign with 10 visitors/ day, 50, 100, etc.? Thanks.

Money or Women?

Would you start another content site like Fighters ever again? What would you do differently? Is it possible to create a very profitable sports content site?

How many servers do you guys have :)