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Entries from March 2007

Advertisers That Will Like Google Pay-Per-Action

March 25th, 2007 · No Comments

I was thinking about Google Pay-Per-Action, specifically about which advertisers might really like it. Many Google advertisers already know what ther cost-per-action is - so in a sense they are already paying-per-action. Yet, a lot of advertisers have had a hard time making the content network “work” form them (achieve their ROI goals) - or [...]

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Tags: Affiliate Marketing · Google · Pay-Per-Action

Milk Carton Marketing

March 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

How do you introduce a new product in a truly remarkable way that appeals to exactly the type of people who would buy it…and start lots of conversations about it? (like this blog post) Seth Godin did it with milk cartons.
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Tags: Books · Marketing · Purple Cow · Seth Godin

Get this if you use Firefox + iTunes

March 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

I just got FoxyTunes for Firefox and it lets me control iTunes right from my browser. Good stuff.
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Tags: Firefox · FoxyTunes · iTunes

Save Internet Radio!

March 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

Not too long ago I found Radio Paradise, and now I find SomaFM…but they both (and many others) might be shut down. Arrrghhh! Listen while you still can…
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Tags: Internet Radio · Music · Radio · Radio Paradise · SomaFM

WWSJD - What Would Steve Jobs Do?

March 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Spotted this at Valleywag. Crazy silicon valley Apple fanboy?

P.S. I’m not a fanboy yet.
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Tags: Apple · Mac · PC · Steve Jobs · WWSJD

Panda on a Plane

March 21st, 2007 · No Comments

This cracked me up…

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Tags: Panda · Plane · Random

Google Pay-Per-Action

March 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Wow this is exciting. There’s a write-up on it over at Revenews too. It’s currently in beta (of course). Here is the Google blurb on it…
Increase your advertising reach while paying only for actions that you define. First, you’ll create an ad and define the action that you want a user to perform when they [...]

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Tags: Affiliate Marketing · Google · PPA · Pay-Per-Action

10 Jack Welch Inspirational Quotes

March 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Jack Welch is one of the business world’s greatest leaders and managers. He is definitely inspiring to me…here are some quotes I picked. I’ve read a couple of books on him, and I would say he places a lot of focus on candor and hiring good people. It makes sense. If you have a great [...]

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Tags: Business · GE · Jack Welch · Quotes

Akismet Really Works

March 20th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve been using Akismet to fight spam on this blog…and it has been working awesome. If you’re not familiar with it, it is basically an automatic spam killer. I can’t stand spam comments, spam trackbacks, spam anything! I didn’t use it for a while on this blog because I was just too lazy to install [...]

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Tags: Akismet · Blogging · Blogs · Spam · Wordpress

Want Links & Play Poker?

March 19th, 2007 · No Comments

I like this SEO poker tournament idea from SEO Black Hat. The tournament is this saturday. Basically, you ante up a link on your site, and you could end up winning a ton of inbound links to that same site plus some cash. I probably won’t be playing…only because I suck enough at poker to [...]

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Tags: Black Hat · Black Hat SEO · Gpokr · Links · Poker · SEO