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					<description><![CDATA[For most of my career, I labeled myself the same way most people in my world did — an affiliate marketer. It was the simplest way to explain what I did. I bought traffic, built landing pages, ran funnels, tested offers, optimized performance. Anyone in digital marketing understood it instantly, and anyone outside of it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[When I first started running OpenClaw in a serious operational way, it became obvious pretty quickly that the technology itself wasn’t the limiting factor. The agent was powerful enough to function as a real second brain — something that could reason through problems, spawn subagents, run research, write code, and support business workflows without constant [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[When you’re running traffic on platforms like Meta or native networks, you almost never send users straight to an offer. You send them to a landing page. And more often than not, the landing pages that perform best aren’t traditional squeeze pages or hard sales pages — they’re listicles. Listicle-style pages work because they feel [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Not the “read books and feel productive” type of learning — but the kind where you build, break things, fix them, and slowly realize you’re getting better at something you didn’t even plan to master. This year, I spent a lot of time getting deep into vibe coding and creating system processes with AI. Not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[The affiliate marketing world recently witnessed a new player on the conference scene: Affiliate Takeover. Held from July 9th to 11th in beautiful Barcelona, this inaugural event promised something different, and it certainly delivered a unique experience. Like many others, I was curious about this new venture, by Alex Micol, and it seemed a lot [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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