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What Would You Spend $500 At Kmart On?

December 2, 2008

Disclosure: I received compensation for writing this post. Kmart and Izea are having some fun this holiday season. They choose a few high profile bloggers to write about their experiences shopping at Kmart. I happened to be one of the chosen few!. They sent me a $500 Kmart gift card and asked me to share [...]

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Pubcon Poker Tournament & Fight Club Announced

October 22, 2008

Unfortunately this year I wont be at Pubcon but if you are going there are some awesome events planned by PurposeINC DK sent out an email announcing this years Pubcon Poker Tournament. I finished 2nd in the event last year and nabbed almost $2,000.00. It was by far one of the best events of the [...]

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Website Magazine At Blogworld

October 6, 2008

Website Magazine is a great industry rag that I am happy to say I will be writing a article called “Anything But Adsense” for the next issue. We had a chance to talk to them at blogworld:

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StockMarket And The Bailout

October 2, 2008

Been getting a lot of emails about what I am doing with my investments during this time. I have stopped putting money into the stock market and started to retain cash. I think times are going to get much worse then they are right now and that will mean there will be opportunities. As I [...]

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What Do You Consider A Successful Blog?

September 15, 2008

During our Big Money Blogger panel,  a question was asked what was the one key tip to give to a blogger to help them be successful. My answer was just simply to write great content. Now I would have had many things more to add but it wasnt a “name your top 10 tips to [...]

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Wicked Cool Books

August 13, 2008

People are always asking me to recommend books to learn programing. While I can understand many languages I mostly hack around. I hardly ever write a program from scratch unless it is a bash shell script and some people would consider that hacking around by itself =P. Anyway one book series that I have always [...]

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Slick New 125 x 125 Advertising Plugin For WordPress

August 1, 2008

The 125x125px format is super hot for WordPress blogs and I stumbled across this plugin today that makes managing them a breeze. Its about as easy as it gets but you can do some more advanced stuff with it like customizing positions of your ad layout. If you are looking for a quick and easy [...]

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How The ShoeMoney Blog Started

February 27, 2007

I stumbled upon this post titled Successful Bloggers and How They Got There Start ShoeMoney.com – Now I really don’t know if this was his first post but here it is – Shoemoney meets a Chihuahua…and Paris Hilton. He also runs eliteretreat.info, that has to be the first .info domain that I’ve seen that actually [...]

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Top Commenters On The SideBar

February 25, 2007

If you notice on the right hand side I added a top commenters. I wrote this wordpress plugin last night. It basically gives a link (not nofollow) to the top 10 commenters over the last 7 day period. So people who comment frequently get a reward. I mean you are adding value to my site [...]

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11 Reasons Why OpenID Rocks/Sucks

February 20, 2007

I’ve had some interesting conversations with people lately regarding OpenID. What is OpenID? It’s 1 login/password for every site that supports it. As you may have noticed we’ve implemented it here in the comments and soon you will have to have an OpenID in order to leave a comment. Now Microsoft tried to do this [...]

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How To Remove/Uninstall Internet Explorer 7

February 17, 2007

fun fun fun I just spent the last 30 mins trying to figure out how to uninstall internet explorer 7 from my pc after finding out its incompatable with the few applications I even keep windows around for. If you try to do it just by going to add/remove software you wont find it. Here [...]

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Google Adwords Arrow Trick To Increase Click Through Rates

February 6, 2007

A few Mondays ago I answered this question where I revealed a little trick I like to use in my Adwords adcopy that makes my ads make a little arrow with the keywords like this: Well a ton of questions emerged… Threads on forums poped up and I started getting email… The questions and comments [...]

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My Favorite Little WordPress Tricks and Plugins

January 17, 2007

After having Problogger.net’s – Darren Rowse on my show yesterday and Matt Mullenweg (wordpress creator) on the show last week I thought I would keep with the blog theme and share my favorite tricks and plugins that I do with my blog. Favorite Plugins Akismet: Do I really have to say anything? Its already caught [...]

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The SEO industry is very focused on being SEOs

January 17, 2007

Written by Ian Gorrie Like many professionals, many attempt to avoid time consuming activities that are not core to their business. Business is enabled by the features and abilities of the software that it employs. These feature-rich software environments can, and usually do, have an invisible threat of insecurity. This is a perennial theme of [...]

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ShoeMoney Search Engine Ranking Script Remastered

January 10, 2007

Ok I know it was broke forever but its back WITH A VENGENCE!@!! http://www.shoemoney.com/serps.php Still the lightweight serps page you know and love but now with ajax! My fingers are about to fall off from all this h4x0ring.

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