May 2009

Every Marketer Should Buy P90X

May 18, 2009

Got my wife the p90x workout system for mothers day….. Holy cow the marketing behind this thing is amazing… and not just the badass infomercial that earns your trust so you make the initial purchase… The entire system of upsells where you feel obligated to spend more cash. Its TRULY amazing! and they pull it [...]

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What People Trying To Make Money Online Blogging Don’t Get

May 17, 2009

Blogs work because its like word of mouth advertising. You have been reading someones blog and getting to know them. Then when they recommend something you are more likely to buy it. Just like when your friend tells you about this great deal they got on something. It works so well affiliate marketers started making [...]

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My LOST Season 5 Finale Theories

May 16, 2009

WARNING BORING SPOILER ALERT – If you haven’t seen the season 5 finale of lost yet do not read. Also if you don’t watch LOST or understand what an amazing show it is just stop now and go on your way OR start with season 1 and get caught up. Now I am not going [...]

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HollywoodDJ.com – Free Speakers Friday!

May 15, 2009

Wow! This Friday the guys over at HollywoodDJ.com sent us a TON of stuff. Sure – they gave us a shirt. But they also threw in 2 sets of speakers, 2 disco balls and a bunch of dj/beat scratching tutorials. (DJ ShoeMoney in the hizouse!) If you didn’t know it – they provide pretty much [...]

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ShoeMoney q&a round 18

May 15, 2009

Business Minder asks: If your website suffer extensive targeted attacks from hackers and half of your database is totally destroyed and unrecoverable, what would you do? ShoeMoney: Restore from backups Who to hire? asks: I run an online tuxedo store and have the financial resources to hire 2.5 employees. What roles should I fill and [...]

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taking questions….

May 14, 2009

Fire away… its been a while. Ask whatever you want. the 10/90 rule will apply with answers. Update: thread locked answers posted tomorrow.

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Big Money Moving To Performance Marketing

May 14, 2009

Its a interesting time right now for big business. In the last couple months I have been contacted by many SEO’s that are out of a job and looking for work. They say there “clients”/employers just cant justify the costs. During the same time I have been getting contacted by performance marketing companies who cant [...]

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TwitThis Launches Suggested Twitter Users

May 13, 2009

A couple weeks ago I wrote about the fact that Twitter is now the 2nd biggest source of traffic to my blog behind Google. Since that post, I have received a lot of questions from people asking me how I market myself or the blog on Twitter. The answer is, “I don’t.” What I do, [...]

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Capitalism Runs In The Family

May 12, 2009

My wife has been posting some items on craigslist lately… and I think she is becoming addicted to it. She put my 8Gb ipod touch for sale for $100 – 1/2 the price I paid for it and quickly got a dozen replies. Guess what she did? 1) She sold it for the price listed [...]

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Why Technosailor Aaron Brazell Is a Weasel

May 12, 2009

I first met Technosailor aka Aaron Brazell at SXSW last year.  I was introduced to him by Ted Murphy.   He seemed kind of stand offish like he was better then everyone but I let it go because anyone can have a bad night. Later Aaron pinged me about a new project that Darren Rowse,  Brian [...]

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ShoeMoney Affiliate Network

May 11, 2009

Are we starting our own affiliate network? Mostly just dabbling . I got a email last week to check out has hasoffers to run your own affiliate company/network – saying they had all the features of direct track only it didn’t suck ass like direct track so I checked it out and it is pretty [...]

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What To Do When You No Longer Care About Your Web Site

May 11, 2009

Here is the general blue print for a successful website: You find a cool idea or service that you want to use. You build the service and solve the problem. You lose interest now that you have solved the problem and want to solve other problems or create new websites. People are still wanting to [...]

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GymJunkies.com – Free Shirt Friday

May 8, 2009

This Friday I’m sporting a shirt from GymJunkies.com. This site is dedicated to fitness information and packed full of how to videos, weight loss programs and strength training workouts. Want to look good for the summer? They just launched a free 30 day shred it program. Great stuff. Thanks, Vic! Stay up to date with [...]

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Coming Up With Your Next Thing

May 7, 2009

John Reese is one of the best marketers of our time. His accomplishments are legendary in this industry. I originally met John because one of the other admins at the Digital Point forums was talking about this guy who promoted his software product and he did hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales in 24 [...]

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What Is Your Twitter Account Worth?

May 6, 2009

Serious question. Lets say tomorrow Twitter decides the service is no longer free and you need to pay a monthly fee to continue to use it. Would that be enough to get you to stop using it? Would $10/month be to much? Would $50/month be to much? At times Twitter has been priceless for me. [...]

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