Using Google Voice To Track Performance of Online Ads

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13 points·cwan··7 comments

A little bird told me that Matt Maroon is making between $1000 and $10.000 a day (fluctuating) from adverts on his facebook games. So I guess he knows.

I do have quite a bit of experience with purchasing/monetizing internet advertising, having gotten into the affiliate CPC marketing game in the very early days, but none for a b&m establishment yet. Something I'd actually like to try at some point as I feel there's a lot left to be done there.

Way to avoid the probing sneak into your finances ;-)

That's straight out of 48 Laws of Power (crappy Pop-sych book with excellent chapter titles):

"Law 30:

Make Your Accomplishments Seem Effortless

Your actions must seem natural and executed with ease. All the toil and practice that go into them, and also all the clever tricks, must be concealed. When you act, act effortlessly, as if you could do much more. Avoid the temptation of revealing how hard you work— it only raises questions. Teach no one your tricks or they will be used against you."

In jest, of course :-P

This is similar to the idea of Yext (http://www.yext.com/) from TC50.

AFAIK, Google Voice does not allow commercial use. But one could definitely use Skype, ribbit, Twilio, etc for the same purpose. Its a pretty good idea.

Using any of these "web 2.0" services is a bad idea. You should use whatever these use as their backend, where you can buy phone numbers for 10 cents a year or whatever.

How does Bob get Google Voice accounts? Is it open to all users now? and can users get more than one account?

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