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The Tom Woods Show

BONUS Ep. 1161 Libertarian Homeschooling Dad Becomes Master of Online Business

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Matt McWilliams is more likely to be at the zoo with his kids at 2:00pm than he is to be behind a desk.

Matt is a libertarian and a homeschooling father, and served as an officer in the Libertarian Party at the local level. He's now an expert affiliate marketer, and has managed the affiliate programs of some of the top names on the Internet -- in fact, at the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards Matt was named the top affiliate marketing manager in the world. He brings that expertise to this discussion of what works and what doesn't when it comes to online business and affiliate marketing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1161, bonus episode.

0:04.3

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.9

Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:15.4

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Matt McWilliams is my guest today.

0:19.2

Matt has a background that will resonate with many of you, no

0:23.1

doubt. He is a homeschooling father. He's a libertarian. And for a brief time, as a matter of fact,

0:28.9

he was an officer in his local libertarian party. But what Matt is known for these days is affiliate

0:34.7

marketing. As a matter of fact, he's been affiliate manager for many big names

0:40.0

online. And as a matter of fact, at the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards, Matt was named

0:44.8

the top affiliate marketing manager in the world. So if you want to know a little something about

0:50.7

this, I would think you'd want to go to Matt McWilliams. Matt, welcome to the show.

0:55.8

Hey, thanks for having me, Tom. I'm going to dig out of you things that most interviewers would not

1:00.9

think to ask you, because I know certain things about you, that they don't, and that I think are

1:06.3

interesting in assessing your whole story. So it turns out when I, you and I kind of got to know each other

1:13.2

online, you dropped me a note. And it turned out that you have been active in the Libertarian Party,

1:20.2

not anymore, but in the past. And you're a homeschooler. And so right away, you're singing

1:26.4

from my hymn book. So I thought, all right, this is going to be the best guy ever.

1:30.6

So, and it turns out that that stuff does kind of tie in with your online career, because you actually first got online, started doing stuff online, in connection with politics.

1:44.0

Yeah. Yeah, I got elected chairman of the county libertarian party.

1:48.5

Now, just to be clear, that meant that the other three libertarians elected me.

1:51.8

Right. We all know how it works.

1:54.3

Yeah, I don't need to explain that.

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