This past March for my birthday I wanted an iPOD touch.  My wife bought me an iPhone instead!!  Needless to say it was a great birthday and a great birthday gift from my very special lady!

Well today Josh Spaulding just announced that he is giving away an iPOD touch for FREE!  I can’t believe it!  No strings attached just enter your name to win!  Check it out here — http://www.5dollarformula.com/giveaway/

Those little gadgets have got to be the coolest things ever invented in this century. They are the only ones who have the whole touch screen stuff down.  You can listen to your favorite songs, videos, play some of the coolest games — all in one very cool device.

Have you ever played with an Apple iPOD Touch?  How about an iPhone?  What do you think?

Leave a comment below and let me know what you think and dont forget to enter to win a FREE iPOD Touch from Josh!

The GiveAway is Over – but check out Josh’s great ebook – $5 dollar formula!

If you have ever heard me talk about Josh Spaulding‘s eBook $5 Dollar Formula, or better yet if you have ever read $5 Dollar Formula, you know how powerful the information in this ebook really is.

Well Mark Mason as taken this one step further and has just released a new video based on the $5 formula!  Its called 5 Dollar Mini-Site Formula Video.com.  I just finished watching it and it is truly great stuff!  Its 100% free, no selling, just great information that will help you build mini-niche websites that make $5 dollars a day!

I can’t tell you enough about how genuine and helpful both Mark and Josh are.  And this video is just another example of what you can find from these guys.

If you opt-in to Mark’s email newsletter on the site he also sends you some really nice free bonus stuff too.  Its really a great video to check out.

If you havent’ had a chance to check out Josh Spaudling’s $5 Formula eBook you REALLY need to get it. Its free too – so check it out today – its at http://www.5DollarFormula.com/

And don’t forget the video version by Mark at http://www.5dollarformulavideo.com

Well it looks like Amazon.com is making some big changes that will effect a lot of affiliates who use PPC.  Effective May 1st, Amazon is no longer going to pay affiliates who use PPC to send traffic directly to Amazon.com.

This is not going to effect most affiliates who build good content rich websites and get feeds from Amazon.com to display links on their pages. Amazon.com will still pay these folks for referring their readers to Amazon.com  Its the folks out there who setup Pay Per Click ads that, when someone clicks on the ad, they go directly to Amazon.com.  It seems Amazon.com considers this a conflict with Amazon’s advertising policies and is now completely discouraged.

This makes sense really if you think about.  A lot of people have been making some quick money by setting up cheap PPC campaigns, focusing on very specific products.  These ads then route people directly to Amazon.com.  People buy products and these affiliates make money.  There really is no value that the affiliate is providing at all and no website involved either. Its just a simple man-in-the-middle selling games.

For more info on this change in the Amazon.com affiliate advertising policy check it out on their website at https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/promo/paidsearch.

What are your thoughts?  Do you think Amazon is completely out of whack?  Have you ever setup PPC directly to Amazon? Will this effect you?  Let us know what you think!