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…There’s just a little more than a day to finish what you were supposed to have completed this year.It’s natural to measure your achievements by how much you have earned, but I think a more important measure is how much you have learned this year.Even a salaried employee can go through the year, earning a ...
Tags:No TagsI awoke this morning to some startling news.
Ewen dropped me an email timestamped 325am this morning.
(gee, I wonder if I have to be an insomniac to be a heavy hitter Super Affiliate).
I made a mistake.
A big one.
It appears that I am...
Top 10 Worst URL Flops
1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is
www.whorepresents.com
2. …
Email solutions provider Aweber has been adding a slew of new features to their autoresponder service, including email analytics and stats, and more recently, a widget-like chicklet to display the number of members on your list.The question is: What effect does it have on your email list opt-in rates and is it significant?Displaying your number ...
Every week, yet another journlalist or online marketer predicts the Death of Blogging. Ironicially, sometimes these ‘predictions’ are made by bloggers.Far from dying, there’s a resurgence in blogging, judging by the flow of private equity and growth of blog networks.Just look at the nearly 1,200 submissions for the Round 5 submissions for the 9rules Blog ...
Marketing on the social networks like Facebook, MySpace, can be difficult to monetize if your marketing efforts aren’t focused.In this podcast, I covered 3 principles that will help …
Yahoo! MyBlogLog had been the hottest blog/social marketing widget in my opinion in 2006 and early 2007. Somewhere in between the balance of power shifted to Facebook, which continues to be dominant for heavyweight networking.Lately I’ve been gravitating towards using twitter, although the lightweight 140-character cellphone text messaging aspect of it, doesn’t …
At the recent Affiliate Summit, Seer Interactive founder Wil Reynolds and SEO veteran presented some of his latest techniques in optimizing your website rankings in the search engines.Affiliate Summit co-founder Shawn Collins recently uploaded Wil’s slides from his presentation together with other presentations and they can be access here: Affiliate Summit East 2008 …
A couple of days ago, Michael Gray AKA Graywolf posted a controversial post “Is the BlogHer Conference Guilty of Sex Discrimination” - lambasting the event for not including male speakers (although they were welcome to ask questions during the sessions and speak at open mic sessions).While I won’t go as far as to call BlogHer ...
I had a chance to talk with Super Affiliate Zac Johnson’s and pick his brain on his strategy in developing niche sites.Some of the points we touched on:How he got his start in internet marketingHow he developed a niche site which received 180,000 visitors per day and was hosted on 4 Dell serversHow he researches ...
Although I’ve a pretty nice compact Fujitsu Lifebook ultraportable (not nearly as small as an Asus eee PC, but much more powerful), I’ve accumulated quite a bit of “digital clutter” on it over the past 2 years that I’ve owned it.Digital clutter occurs when software is installed on a computer, then uninstalled, frequently leaving bits ...
This week I had the opportunity to invite online retailer Buy.com’s Director of Marketing and co-host of their BuyTV program.Buy.com was among the first online merchants to launch an online program in 2006. Since then BuyTV has recently been syndicated on the G4 TV network.Besides computer and consumer electronics, Buy.com offers other consumer merchandise with ...
Longtime blog readers will recognize Austin, TX-based Laura Alter as the co-owner of laptop forum NotebookForums and might recall the launch of her blog last year.Recently, Laura has been more proactive moving from the forum management/marketing side of things to becoming a SEO evangelist of sorts.She recently organized an Austin SEM meetup, with a presentation ...
It’s always a pleasure talking to affiliate marketing veteran Rachel Honoway who’s one of the pioneers at affiliate marketing service agency Kowabunga (later acquired by Think Partnership), having started in 1997.She’s not only friendly, but highly knowledgeable about prevailing issues in the affiliate marketplace.If you haven’t yet, check out …
I just got back from spending half a day at Project Hollywood 2, the homebase of PickUp Artist Mystery and the Venusian Arts team. Besides Mystery, I also got to meet Lovedrop and Matador.If you missed the first season of VH1’s The PickUp Artist, you can check out the VH1 page.The series is slated for ...
You can’t escape social networks or social channels even if you tried to. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Plurk, FriendFeed, Orkut, Bebo, LinkedIn - give access channels for strangers to meet and attempt to become your friends.As a marketer, social networks or web 2.0 networks and services give you an opportunity to reach out to potential customers ...
So it’s official…From the mouth of SearchEngineJournal editor Loren Baker post “Matt Cutts confirms paid links and PageRank update“, the voice of Google Matt Cutts has said:The partial update to visible PageRank that went out a few days ago was primarily regarding PageRank selling and the forward links of sites. So paid links that pass ...
I had email marketing and Miva cart SEO optimization specialist Jason Henderson AKA Big Jason from BigMarketingOnline on the line this week.Despite the intrusion of a couple of phone calls, we discussed issues like:Text-based vs HTML emailsHow to increase list responsivenessResources for building up your foundation in direct marketingAs well as Jason’s previous career …
This past weekend was a busy one, as I’ve been shifting one of my home offices around. My 10mbps DSL connection finally works over ethernet (I was struggling with poor signals over a 802.11g network previously). Every LAN point in my home should provide connectivity. So now I have wireless and wired Internet and LAN ...
If you tried to access this blog over the weekend, you might’ve noticed that it was up and it went down at times. I’m glad to say that we’ve moved the blog from a shared hosting account to a dedicated server and for the most part the bugs have been ironed out. (barring some file ...
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