May 2012
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Growing a Conscience
I have a long and sordid history with modern snake oil salesmen. They prey on my greed and impatience and I part with my money far too easily and too often. I may have developed a bit of resistance to their hypnotic gaze, but I still sometimes feel that familiar attraction. Every reformed junkie knows what this feels like. It’s like when you take Sudafed for a head cold, but later you feel...
April 2012
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Google Slap!
Many in the internet marketing world will relate to this recently…
March 2012
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Using Memes for Traffic and Backlinks
This is an excellent read! Click it, read it. You’ll thank me. How To Use Memes To Build Easy Backlinks Traffic Example? Check it (hat tip to Ben II)
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The Many Reasons Why I'm Leaving Triberr
Several months ago I wrote about How I Found Triberr, and Why I’m Begging for an Invitation. We’re getting near the six-month mark so I thought I would follow up on my Triberr experiment. The bottom line: not worth it, I’m leaving Triberr.
When I first joined Triberr, I had some rather simple goals in mind. I wanted to increase both my reach and my traffic from Twitter. And in theory, Triberr...
February 2012
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The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 5 - The...
This is Part 5 of a Five-Part Series - The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review. You can read the other parts here:
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 1 - Introduction
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 2 - The Members Area
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 3 - Niche Refinery
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 4 - Postrunner
In Part 5 I will discuss The Keyword...
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The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 4 -...
This is Part 4 of a Five-Part Series - The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review. You can read the other parts here:
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 1 - Introduction
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 2 - The Members Area
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 3 - Niche Refinery
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 5 - The Forums
In Part 1 I discussed the basics and the...
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The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 3 -...
This is Part 3 of a Five-Part Series - The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review. You can read the other parts here:
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 1 - Introduction
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 2 - The Members Area
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 4 - Postrunner
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 5 - The Forums
In Part 1 I discussed the basics and the key...
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The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 2 - The...
This is Part 2 of a Five-Part Series - The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review. You can read the other parts here:
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 1 - Introduction
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 3 - Niche Refinery
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 4 - Postrunner
The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 5 - The Forums
In Part 1 I discussed the basics and the key...
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Is Dr. John F. Demartini a Fraud?
It has been a long, LONG time since I first wrote about Dr. John Demartini. I mean, a LONG time - almost seven years now! And yet now, somehow, many years after I forgot all about him, he is haunting me. Every time I look at my Google Analytics for this web site, there he is. Eventually it made me wonder: “Why are all these people still searching the internet for this guy?” I also...
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The Ultimate Keyword Academy Review - Part 1 - An...
Have you ever heard the old saying “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” ? Wow, now that I think about it, that’s rather harsh, isn’t it? Hopefully it was never meant literally, and Mark Twain used it so that has to count for something. Wait, where was I? Oh, yeah. Well, just like that cat saying, there’s definitely more than one way to make money...
January 2012
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Why You Absolutely Need to Join The Keyword...
[NOTE: I have begun a review series on the NEW, IMPROVED KEYWORD ACADEMY! Click here for Part 1]
Previously I reviewed the site and service of The Keyword Academy. At the time I had just unsubscribed from their service, deciding to use my own tools and, frankly, the knowledge I had gained from their site, while avoiding the ‘information overload’ that can sometimes be a problem in...
December 2011
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Holy Crap, I'm an Affiliate Marketer!
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve been toying with affiliate links for years now, but I was never serious before. I guess I had no strategy, no framework. Oh, and I really didn’t have that much traffic either. Traffic helps . :) So for years I’ve struggled with all of this. I was running Adsense for awhile, several years ago. More recently I spent a lot of time doing...
October 2011
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Facebook vs Google Plus: A Stream Comparison
Just for kicks, I thought I’d compare the last ten things in my main news feed/stream on both services. To try to be fair, I am using the broadest stream, not some narrower, more selective stream, and I’m not including things I share myself. Also, Google+ brings things back to the top of the list if there is an updated comment, so that might skew things a bit…. In summary, it is...
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Me and Steve Jobs
I generally missed out on the first generation of Mac products. All the jobs I held in the 80’s used dumb terminals or dedicated word processors like Wang. In 1990 I started working for an ad agency in Las Colinas, TX which was using an antiquated word processing system from NBI. It utilized large cabinets with 10” floppy diskettes and a 60MB hard drive the size of an emergency spare...
September 2011
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Is Google Plus the Ultimate Virtual Man-Cave?
[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”535” caption=”XKCD Comic on Google Plus”][/caption] A lot of people are writing about the recent big moves in social media. Google Plus just transitioned from invite-only to public beta, and Facebook just announced their first ever massive redesign at their recent f8 conference. I’ve been on Facebook for...
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How I Found Triberr and Why I'm Begging For an...
[UPDATE: I have now written a review after six months of Triberr membership, discussing The Many Reasons Why I’m Leaving Triberr] Have you ever stumbled across something on the internet and later are unable to remember how you found it? That happens to me all the time, as in two or three times an hour. It’s how my brain works functions. (it’s an ADHD thing) Here is how I ended up...
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US Exports More Refined Fuel Than it Imports
Energy Department statistics show that gasoline demand in the U.S. is running 157,000 barrels a day below 2010 levels. At the same time, gasoline stocks in the U.S. are down 16.3 million barrels below last year, at 208.8 million barrels, even though refinery outputs are high.Rising inventories in periods of weak demand are one of the things that drive retail prices lower, but the refined fuels...
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Occupy Wall Street
This Saturday could be ….. interesting… SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) – The start of WWIV? Too strong? Maybe just the “Second American Revolution?” Too dramatic? Either way, this is a new D-Day, the invasion of Wall Street. And a global game-changer. On Sept. 17, the Arab Spring becomes the new American Fall, with 20,000 revolutionaries in a tent city. Plus “solidarity”...
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Repost.Us Generates New Revenue For Content
March 2011
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Twelve Years of Stock Market Misery: Redux
Nine months ago I wrote my own little analysis of the ‘new’ market realities. There has been a lot of movement since then, most of it up. But where do we stand today? The S&P is up from 1117 to 1256. The Dow and Nasdaq are up similarly percentage-wise. But if you look back from today, March 17, 2011, and go back to March of twelve years ago (now 1999) the comparison is almost...
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Charlie Sheen: Crazy...like a fox!
This last five weeks has pretty much been all Charlie Sheen, all the time, especially on the celebrity gossip web sites and television shows. His January 27 hospital visit was either a hernia repair or due to an extended cocaine bender, depending on the source. His status as highest paid TV actor came screeching to a halt as the producers put Two and a Half Men on hiatus. What he did for most...
January 2011
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My Review of The Keyword Academy and Why I Quit
[NOTE: I have begun a review series on the NEW, IMPROVED KEYWORD ACADEMY! Click here for Part 1] I have a long, sordid history trying to make money online. I’ve tried all sorts of schemes, I’ve spent countless thousands of dollars, and so far I have precious little to show for it…except tax write-offs. I guess the only good news is that I have discovered that I really do have an entrepreneurial...
December 2010
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The Great Shingles Outbreak of 2010 - An Update...
or a post-mortem, as it were… [caption id=”attachment_914182576” align=”alignright” width=”225” caption=”Early symptoms”][/caption] Fortunately, after the antiviral meds kicked in they generally suppressed further growth, although for a day or two it seemed as if they might have made it angry! But the peak of my shingles symptoms was still...
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Tumblr Outage Sends Thousands Looking For...
Tumblr turned blogging into something similar to Facebook and Twitter. It was easy to bounce other people’s information, pictures, videos, etc. out to your own followers. But if you thought that this free service was a good idea for setting up your main internet presence, today’s outage (now approaching 24 hours) probably has you thinking twice. But not me….I got out a few...
October 2010
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Loan Mods – The Truth Comes Out
If you’ve been paying any attention to the news lately, you’ve seen the headlines. One after another, the major banks are all suspending foreclosures. GMAC, Chase, Bank of America. They claim that a few lazy staffers here and there have been signing documents willy-nilly, not paying close attention to the actual names under the blank line. Each claims that they will be reviewing...
September 2010
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Loan Mods Are Lenders’ Wet Dream
So we’re in the throes of a recession here in the United States, resulting from many greedy decisions by those in charge of banks and Wall Street investment firms and the politicians they ply with money. Trillions have exchanged hands, and most of that bailout money came from your pockets! Your tax dollars went to Washington and were then redistributed to all of those greedy bastards who...
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The Great Shingles Outbreak of 2010
So I thought it would be fun to track my shingles episode. But first, a bit of background. Like, wth is shingles? Most of us know what chicken pox is. We all had it as a child. Lots of bumps, scabs and itching. Here and gone within a week usually. But what they don’t tell you is that after the external symptoms are gone, the virus responsible finds a nice quiet spot somewhere near the...