Category Archives: Marketing

Marketing ideas, news and commentary

New .Tel Top-Level-Domain

Tel TLD

Here we go reinventing the white pages, except now you have to pay to get listed. For a moment I thought a .tel domain would open up lots of creative URLs, like "drugcar.tel" and other strange uses - But you can't do that, it only works as a data storage, it doesn't work as a ...

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Revenue Streams – Part #1 – How MS can Pwn Google

bing-google

How diversity of revenue streams brings business resiliency and in the case of MS vs Google may mean the difference between stellar success and epic failure.

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Hoe Money

HoeMoney

Every time I see the Shoemoney System logo, my dirty mind kicks in.

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Shoemoney System Explained

Jeremy Schoemaker

I convinced my mom to sign up to the ShoeMoney System – Seriously. Read on to understand why you probably want to take a peek.

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HumanSpinner for Rewriting / Article Marketing / Spinning

HumanSpinner

Trying out an automated rewriting service that uses the Amazon Mechanical Turk as a back-end. This system can create “spinner” seed articles and really fast rewrites of anything.

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Signed up to the Shoemoney System

shoemoney-logo1

Just signed up to the ShoeMoney System. The first three videos are a nice overview that was made available prior to launch, an intro and a video on setting up a Google account. This might be too basic for me in some areas, but I'll sit tight and try to pick the cherries. Among ...

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BING Adcenter – Trickle traffic?

Had the bright idea of grabbing something that looked like it was working on Google and didn't have a matching campaign on BING... The idea came from one of the webinars I saw. Almost no ads appear for my keywords, but I get zilch for impressions. Actually, I got all of 57 impressions - good ...

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Miserable Failure in Progress

My little affiliate marketing experiment goes on. No, I didn't manage to spend 1.5K in the two weeks I allowed myself, so ended up writing a nice check - That should tech me to be a bit bolder, then again I did spend the holiday time with my #1 priority: My Family. I failed the ...

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Affiliate Marketing – Getting Started

The Affiliate Marketer Pyramid

I’m going to try my hand at affiliate marketing with the bit of free time I have over the holidays. It all started while reading Jeremiah Owyang’s blog on August 4th, in which he mentioned John Chow’s blog monetization strategy and contrasted it with a softer sell. It all gave me some nice ideas for my blog revamp, and then on John Chow’s blog I saw an article published on November 3rd about Jonathan Volk. This all got me thinking about the affiliate marketing space…

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Marketing Miss for Tropicana and TOMS

TOMS, Tropicana and a host of other products attempt to win over customers with ecological or social good appeals. These fall short when they forget to take a look at the available research. In this post I take a quick look at Tropicana’s “Rainforest” and TOMS “One for One” appeals.

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