Business

If you’re a long time follower, you probably remember my review of WFReview on my old site, Optimizing Advertising. I’ve since got rid of that god awful domain and have moved on to this wicked cool one. I’ve been using WFReview since pretty much the minute it came out. I’m running a bunch of local directory sites using it, and while I haven’t seen a million dollars in profit yet, I’ve been steadily ranking higher and higher for my niches and getting lots of legit comments to the sites and traffic is steadily increasing....

So, as you can see from my diary entry, a lot was accomplished at Affiliate Summit 2009 in New York City. While it may look like all we did was drink, which is probably pretty true, there was a lot of business conducted at the same time. And not to mention a helluva lot of networking opportunities. I met with a number of people from Wicked Fire, and a bunch of other network owners, affiliates, other people in related industries and a whole tonne of affiliate managers....

Instead of writing some long and complicated post about what my experience at ASE 2009 was like, I thought I would present it in a simple diary format to make reading easier. I’ll be following this post up with an overall summary of my experiences, this is meant more as a timeline of what my time was like and also as a travelogue for myself; Saturday August 08 – 2009 Woke up and left for the Airport to catch my flight to Toronto....

So, you’ve probably heard of this crazy thing called Affiliate Summit before, but maybe you haven’t gone. Great, neither have I. As far as I know, it’s a huge gathering of internet nerds that like to talk about marketing both offline and online. There’s also supposed to be a huge expo floor where all the companies entice you to sell their products using pretty much any method you can. Like I said, I’ve never actually been to one of these meetings before but I have been to conferences....

A little while ago we posted an article on configuring STunnel to use with Kayako because SSL over POP3 with Google Mail/Google Applications wasn’t working properly. Today we finally had some time to sit down and think about this and worked out a much better solution that doesn’t require STunnel to be involved in the mix. In the Kayako cron script, they have hard-set a “notls” option when trying to connect to the IMAP or POP3 email servers....