This is the backstory to one of the most epic and iconic pictures in internet marketing.  When I cashed this check it was accompanied by a $350 unemployment check.  My

Recently, during my conversations with people online, it’s been more and more common to stop and say “Google break!” We only resume once we’ve filled our conversational knowledge gaps. It’s really not surprising, then, that the two top activities online are search and e-mail. Facebook is losing out majorly on popularity. And the rest of the things you can do …

Fishing without the right bait is pointless. You’ll sit there on the shore or rocking back and forth in your boat all day hoping for some action. Marketing isn’t much different. If you put the wrong bit of content or information for the wrong niche, no lead is going to follow. What is a marketing hook? It’s a sample, something …

As of 2016, there were 334.6 million domain names registered across all top-level domains. And each year that number grows by at least 38 million domains. And we’re nowhere near the number of possible letter combinations for a web address. There are plenty of unregistered domains out there to snatch up! So, why in the world would you want to complicate …

Al Gore didn’t invent the internet, but he did create Google’s secret Al-Gore-Rhythm. All jokes aside, ever since Al Gore didn’t invent the internet, network technology accelerated at light speed. We went from 56k dial-up to fiber quicker than the industrial revolution invented cars. This also means that network security needed to evolve just as fast. At times, it didn’t …

William Shakespeare — king-killer, gender-bender, master of pun — ran one of the most lucrative businesses in the British Isles. Playcraft. It is a miracle that he (or she if you believe certain theories) did not wind up hung by the neck for roasting the king on multiple occasions. But he made a pretty penny doing so. To understand Shakespeare’s …

Google’s products aren’t really products. They’re portals. Just like a highway isn’t really a product even if it’s a toll road run by a private corporation. The real product is access. Google gives access to information. Gmail gives access to communication. How does Google make money from these things? Ads. For a while, e-mail marketing was a free-for-all game. If …

Don’t choke on your milk here, but today alone people published 2 million blog posts. That’s right. If you’re thinking of starting a blog, you have to compete with 2 million other people every day. This is why you absolutely can’t just write a personal blog and hope someone will read it. Sure, someone might read it (likely your mother), …

About 50% of people in the United States are lazy with their money. They haven’t put money away for retirement and they’ve generally only saved about $1,000. It gets worse. Only 15% of people in the U.S. have over $10,000 in savings. There is really no excuse for this. Some might cite familial or situational issues. I’m betting, if you …

Remember when the internet was plain and simple? When it came to running an ad campaign, it was a choice between running text placements or static banners ads in 728×60 or 468×60 sizes. Now, it’s a full-time job just to manage the different types of ad placements and campaign types available today. Even with the internet now being more saturated …

In 2016, retailers in the United States spend almost $5 billion on affiliate marketing. In the next few years, that number will grow to almost 7 billion dollars. You heard all of these incredible numbers and you dreamed of how a piece of that pie could be yours. It’s months later and you’ve made absolutely zilch. Hours of work to …