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Performancingads Blog Ad Network Launches – But Who Is It For?

July 28, 2008

PerformancingAds launched on Saturday and was well covered in the blogosphere. When I initially heard they revenue split was 40/60 with 60% going to the publishers I was really turned off. I currently use Google Ad Manager and it costs me nothing. It did not make sense why we should give someone 40% for no [...]

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3 Things Before Launching A Website – TFS 20

June 21, 2007

Often I talk about being action oriented and just doing stuff. Well just doing stuff has taught me some interesting stuff. Now before I launch a website it really HAS to contain these 3 items or I will keep it on the back burner until I can find a way to implement these 3 items. [...]

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Hiring Someone – TFS 17

June 18, 2007

Last week I talked about how to fire someone. Today I will cover my thoughts on hiring someone. A good prerequisite for this post is this one on hire people for jobs not jobs for people. The last few times we have found people we placed ads in the University of Nebraska student paper and [...]

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Focus On Functionality – TFS 16

June 8, 2007

This tip is simple. Build in all the functionality of your website/application before you start doing cool GUI/AJAX and all kinds of other features. If you launch a site and half your users cant use it cause they prefer Firefox then not only can they not use your stuff but its likely they will not [...]

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How To Fire Someone

June 7, 2007

In my life I have had the following jobs in order: Happy Joes Pizza – fired Eagles Grocery Store – fired Target – walked out after 2 days Best Buy – car audio – fired Montgomery wards – Left for Sears Sears – Washers & dryers – Left for Internet Express Internet Express – Quit [...]

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How To Write Tips For Success – TFS 13

June 5, 2007

Anyone can write tips for success. I mean srsly. Don’t pee into the wind, don’t eat yellow snow. Just look at the blogosphere there is 923123 experts writing about how to be successful. The difference in my opinion is showing people how it can apply directly to them or even better yet how it directly [...]

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Make Progress Every Day – TFS 12

June 4, 2007

If at the end of this “tips for success series” there was a greatest hits I think this would be one of them. Basically I make myself make progress on something every day. It doesn’t really matter how big or small the level of accomplishment ….. just make progress. I talk about being action oriented [...]

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Hire People For Jobs Not Jobs For People – TFS 11

June 3, 2007

A mistake I made early on was looking around at friends/family/people and seeing those who needed a job, hiring them, then trying to get them to fit in somewhere in the company. This always ends in disaster. This probably sounds so obvious but its something I still struggle with. Its kind of like when your [...]

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Wasting Idle Time – TFS 10

June 2, 2007

1 thing I like to do is always pre-plan times I will be idle… like when your dropping a deuce or going to be stuck on an airplane. These are some of the best moments in the world to just relax and focus. I rarely read blogs that have more than 1-2 paragraphs online but [...]

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Shit Or Get Off The Pot – TFS 9

June 1, 2007

Paralysis by analysis you see it every day. People sit and wonder about what they could be doing. They get all excited about owning there own website and making it happen. I get emails every day from people asking me what I think of there great idea. The ones I do answer I am very [...]

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External Site Auditing Tools – TFS 7

May 29, 2007

A lot of times when you want to buy a site you kind of have to trust the user is giving you proper stats. Really you need to do some homework on your own. Here are some of the tools that I use. SeoDigger is a nice tool that you can put a url into [...]

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Prioritize Profitable Projects – TFS Day 4

May 24, 2007

As I have discussed before I have pretty bad Attention Deficit Disorder. Its never been clinically diagnosed but anyone who has spent time around me, talking to me, or even hearing me speak (when I ask the audience member to repeat there question after i start to answer it) knows that I have it. What [...]

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Know Your Goals – TFS Day 3

May 23, 2007

Knowing your goal is the probably one of the most important things when running a website. When people attend the Elite Retreat or when I do consultations (very rarely) the first question I ask is what is your goal for this site. It always amazes me people do not have a goal other then to [...]

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Pay Per Click Targeting Tools – TFS Day 2

May 22, 2007

Ok here is something juicy… When doing pay-per-click every seems to think it stops with keywords. Here is a small little trick that we have been using since it launched. What is it? Why its Google Trends of course! Let me show you an example… Lets say you are pushing the Omaha Steaks offer through [...]

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You’re Only As Good As Your Team – TFS Day 1

May 21, 2007

This week I am going to work on a series called tips for success. I was going to start it monday but Neil wrote a great post about how a marketer is only as good as their programmer so I thought I would kick it off on a Sunday. I have 2 employees for the [...]

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