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The Funniest FAKE Affiliate Offer

Cats For Gold
This is just absolutely hilarious. I think it highlights pretty well the situation that is silly ass CPA offers. Even though if we could melt gold and make real live kitties that would be sorta awesome.



Pop Over LightBoxes Gone Wild

So aweber (not affiliate link) has just released their new form generator. Amazing. We are now moving into list building 2.0 with this stuff.
They are extremely attractive and the Pop Over LightBoxes show up in most browsers and look snazzy as can be. Highly customizable with tons of quality graphic options.
This is [...]



Clickbank PPV Hypocrisy

I am not sure of this so maybe I shouldn’t be writing this but that usually doesn’t stop me.
You aren’t allowed to send direct PPV traffic to Clickbank. It makes sense. A lot of people aren’t ready and able to handle 100’s of thousands of hits to their site in an hour. So no real [...]



The Shady Side of Youtube Reputation Management

So you don’t like a video about you, your company or brand. How do you fix it?
1) Ask the person to take it down.
Or
2) Now I do not advise you to do this as it against Youtube TOS and probably some other laws but I have scene this before. I repeat don’t do this. [...]



Online Lead Generation Explained

Video removed but below it is the transcription.
Today, many people generate prospective consumer interest through Online Lead Generation. They are building email lists, E-newsletter lists, building out reward programs or for other member  programs, loyalty programs, and often inbound phone leads.
A lead is usually an email submit or inbound phone call. Thus the company gets [...]



Tech Cocktail Chicago Interview

[Video Above] This is my interview with SEO / PPC Analyst Sara Burton. Let me know your thoughts below.
As you can see I’m still working on my camera skills.



Bing as my default Google Chrome search?

I’m not sure why this happened but I just installed Google Chrome on a new computer and for some crazy reason it choose Bing as the default search engine. Used it for a few times. Gave me good results but had to go back to Google. I missed it. What can I say.
Anyone know how [...]



5 Steps to Rocking Your Web Presence

1. A Clear and Concise Goal
2. One Single Metric
3. Knowing Where You Are
4. A Strategy and Skill Set To Get You Where You Want to Be
5. Flexibility To Modify The Course When It Doesn’t Go As Planned
I think these are pretty obvious as to what they mean. My real question and one that shocks me [...]



A Man’s Night at BlogHer

I got invited to hit some of the parties at BlogHer and decided I couldn’t pass it up.
WOW! The big brands and even the little ones love and court the mommy bloggers. Some real quality freebies and the conference hadn’t even started yet. I can only imagine what the next two nights will be like.
Also, [...]



Can you really be a twitter expert?

Has it really been around that long? Do you have that many followers that I should be impressed?
If you have 100,000 followers what sort of KPI are you using to show any sort of value?
I just don’t know how many of you are twitter experts. At this point I am not. But if [...]