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16 articles in three reading paths, in reading order. Pick the one that matches where you are; every article is on this site.
Beginners
What affiliate marketing is and how it actually makes money, why to get into media buying early, and an entry route that suits beginners: eCom listicles.
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What Is Affiliate Marketing? A Beginner's Guide to Earning in USD
Affiliate marketing explained for beginners: how a $100 sale becomes a $20 commission, how attribution works, CPS vs CPL vs CPI, and what to do first.
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Affiliate Marketing in 2026: How It Makes Money, in 3 Minutes
Affiliate marketing in plain words: the roles in the chain, CPA/CPS/CPL, what each stage looks like, the $1,000-$5,000 you need to start, and 3 beginner traps.
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Why You Should Get into Media Buying Early: The Advertizer Lesson
Why get into media buying early? The Advertizer (Monetizer) story: banned in 2018, an open window in 2019, then registration closed and accounts became scarce.
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eCom Listicles: The Most Beginner-Friendly Play I've Seen in 2026
Why eCom listicles are the most evergreen play for beginners in 2026: lower budget barriers, network templates, EPC-based bidding and product placement.
Media buyers
Start with how Peter runs PropellerAds and the Facebook × Zeydoo basics, then four Facebook case studies (survey and ClickBox offers), and finally why campaigns keep crashing.
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I Ran PropellerAds This Way, and the Results Surprised Me
Why direct-linking offers on PropellerAds with no tracker and no lander can beat the "standard" funnel when you are testing on a small budget.
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Facebook × Zeydoo Basic Playbook, Part 1: Four Setup Essentials
Part 1 of running Zeydoo CPL offers on Facebook: ad accounts, BeMob vs Skro as tracker, warming up a Page at about $5 a day, and offer URL, postback and flow.
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ProPush Case Study: $3 a Day on Facebook to 79% ROI in 3 Months
A publisher ran Facebook Ads to a ProPush Constructor Social Survey lander from $3 a day: $883 spent in three months, $1,581 back, 79% ROI, and how he scaled.
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Case Study: 5 Facebook Campaigns Hit 27.5% ROI in South Africa
Zeydoo's official case study of my December 2025 run: 5 Facebook Clickbox campaigns in South Africa, $5,257 spent, $1,444 net profit, 27.5% blended ROI.
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Case Study: 1-3-3 + Manual Targeting Hit 26.87% ROI in 2 Months
Another affiliate's Clickbox run on Facebook in the Philippines and Mozambique: $1,721 net profit at 26.87% ROI in two months with a 1-3-3 test structure.
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Case Study: Only 580K Facebook Users, So How Did eCPM Hit $81?
After the latest Facebook BM ban wave, a look at Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, two small GEOs newly added to Clickbox offer #20418, and how to test them.
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Why Your Campaigns Keep Crashing: The Opposite of What You Think
A campaign starts to pick up, we rush to add creatives, adjust bids, cut zones and swap offers, and it crashes. Over-optimizing is often the real cause.
AI × one-person company
Building ad automation and a tracker with Claude Code, connecting PropellerAds through MCP, then the cost of running a Hong Kong company and a finance workflow on Airwallex.
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I Built an Adv Ad Automation System with Claude Code in 3 Days
How I used Claude Code to build, in 3 days, an Advertizer ad automation system that keeps QS above 80%, reads trend reports and auto-creates Bemob links.
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After Installing This, I Closed My PropellerAds Dashboard
PropellerAds' official MCP connector: what it is, a 10-minute install, 41 tools, the EST time zone trap, and my 7-day test at +12.7% ROI.
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Building My Own Ad Tracker: Adv Tracking v1 with Claude Design
In my last post I said I'd build a custom tracker. Here's Adv Tracking v1: lightweight, built on a Claude Design system with 4 colors and 20-odd components.
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HK$3,600 a Year to Keep a Hong Kong Company with No Employees
My Hong Kong company's annual renewal bill came to HK$3,600. What that money buys a one-person company run with AI Agents, and why the fixed cost matters.
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Airwallex AgentOS: My Digital Employee Takes On Finance Chores
Airwallex AgentOS connected to Claude Code in 10 minutes, no code. My digital employee now matches 30 days of payments, opens invoices and preps statements.
Income and ROI figures in these articles are past results of one person or case, not typical outcomes. Paid traffic can lose money; start with a small test budget.