3 months ago Microsoft spent $100 million to launch BING search. And now Yahoo! has followed suit, spending another $100 million for their own branding campaign. All the while Google and Facebook are laughing at the big company mentality for marketing– to spend money on traditional advertising. If your search quality hasn’t changed, then invest […]
$100 million for Yahoo’s new ad campaign– it’s about YOU! Read More »
I was able to catch up Murray Newlands, a famous blogger. We were able to have nice about his work in affiliate marketing, and the secret behind the site, Murraynewlands.com, an affiliate blog that came from nowhere and is now everywhere on Google and Twitter. Not only has he some great content on his blog,
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You may have heard the phrase “Kill two birds with one stone”, regarding taking one action to produce two results. Twitter and Facebook have teamed up to create a highway directly to one another, allowing users to update one status and be published to both sites. Most people are aware of how you can have
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I started and completed a 260 page book in my 4-hour flight between Washington DC and Phoenix today. It’s Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith. I average a page a minute for light content—half a page per minute for dense, textbook-like content. The lie is explained later in this post, by the way…
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A few days ago, I posted a Facebook status message, asking “Who wants a free SEO analysis?” 23 people responded and I chose one winner. Yesterday, I chose the winner and posted the analysis here. And now, not even a day later, I do a search on Twitter and see pages and pages of people
Who says twitter is a waste of time? Read More »
This morning, Shoemoney put up a guest post by me covering Facebook Quality Score. Because we manage a few dozen fan pages, as large as a quarter million fans, I wanted to lend insight into what the metric is and what it may mean to advertisers and affiliates in the future. Let me clarify a
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Facebook keeps releasing new features to its self-serve PPC platform. It feels like Google from 2003– are you keeping up? Did you see that you can target people on their birthdays, in addition to your existing fans, as well as being able to select multiple countries? If you’re selling gifts of any type— this is
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Remember a few weeks ago when Facebook allowed everyone to grab their own vanity url? Now they’ve just opened up the ability for you to choose a name for your pages, too. You just need 100 fans to be eligible. Just like you’d see in the domain grabbing world, the same thing is happening on
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A couple of weeks ago, Jeremy Shoemoney came to visit Content Factory and we headed to a Denver strip club with Scott Richter and other folks in tow. Here’s the shot we took outside the club which you can also see in today’s shoemoney.com post. Tell me, is that a good or a bad thing
Famous or Infamous? Shoemoney and strip clubs Read More »
Do a search for “hooked on phonics” and you’ll see 869,000 results on Google. If you’re an affiliate pushing this program, you know how much it costs per click on paid search, plus what the payouts are if you promote via Commission Junction or Amazon.com (if you’re not in certain states)– generally 15% or around
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