This is a guest post by David Gray of Analog.com, a leader in Electronic Components I once heard a wise young American English teacher compare the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean national characters to ceramic pottery and tea cups they produce in particular. A Japanese teacup is an extremely delicate, refined, and proportionately symmetrically formed china […]
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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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This article was written by Leigh Hanney of SEMSamurai.com In any structured system the introduction of a new variable will have a lasting influence on that structure. In short, nothing will remain the same. Take a typical family unit of two parents and one child… When a second child is born the dynamic
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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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Michael Jackson’s estate management challenge. What Would the King of Pop Want? The will itself is rather straightforward; the estate, however, is already proving to be a nightmare. A complex labyrinth of assets, music royalty rights, custody arrangements, creditors, lawsuits, and beneficiaries must be negotiated and it may be several years before the estate is
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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
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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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I’m not talking about acai, crush, or consumer scams. This post is about how to avoid the most common form of business failure. The moral of the story- “In God we trust… All others pay cash.” A designer I know is a nice fellow. Great design skills, and great intentions. Yet we paid him $6,000
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We’ve been testing Google Template Center since November 2008. As you would imagine, if you want to multiply clones off a master template, this is the tool for you. You can create a master and then copy it over multiple times. So let’s say that you have a Denver laser surgeon and based on the
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We’ve spent the last 4 months porting our Google campaigns over to Facebook. Just like with AdWords, where you pay for clicks, but not impressions– one trick is to place your phone number in the ad. Some proportion of folks will call the number right from the ad, which gives you a free lead. What
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