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I built my early sales career as a young man in Dallas - Fort Worth Texas in the technology sales arena.  From the early through the late 90s I spent a lot of time at Business Mixers, Chamber of Commerce Meetings and other places where professionals gathered.  During that time I learned a lot […]

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I was recently asked to do a review of PeekYou and compare it to another People Seach Engine called Spock.com.  I decided to try two names in each to get an idea which had more features and overall was just more useful.  Having a bit of an ego I choose first myself and the second […]

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Pictured on the left is my long time friend Kevin Anderson with his loving wife Laurel.  On Sunday August 12th I got some of the worse news of my life when I learned that at far too young of an age Kevin passed away due to health complications.  Kevin had been battling some heath issues […]

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Recently at Franklin Spirko Media Mark Barrera and I have been working on some link building and blog marketing with our new client, Trump University.  One of the things we have targeted is to improve their traffic and ranking from web surfers that want to know more about real estate training programs.  To accomplish this […]

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I have not really been looking forward to the coming 08 Presidential election, as a true conservative from an economic stand point, quite liberal from a social stand point (in other words do what you want, just don’t ask me to pay for it) and a believer in the US Constitution there has not been […]

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There were plenty of people who trashed the Microsoft Zune back when it was released, which I mistakenly called a Homerun for Microsoft back in September of 2006.  I was planning on buying one but have since realized that the first generation player from Microsoft is lacking in many areas and choose to stick to […]

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Well I have been on a tear lately about paid links, buy blog comments and Google Requesting Link Narcs and I thought I was about done with it.  Yet after commenting in a few blogs who are all worried about Buy Blog Comments as the fear du jour and seeing the responses to my posts […]

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Long ago before I was a web marketer I was a salesmen and I really came into my own in that industry in the 90's working for a Network Cabling company called DataConnection. (I am in no way responsible for their website, )  During this time I did sales and design specification for a company […]

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Have you heard about PlugIM yet?  If not you may want to check it out, for lack of a better description I would call PlugIM as a clone of Digg that is Internet Marketer friendly.  In other words while you have to be a Michale Angelo of writing to make an SEO or Marketing story […]

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I try to avoid over promoting my personal companies and agendas on this blog and keep it primarily informational and conversational but I did want to toot our horn a bit about Marketing ICE.
Marketing ICE (ICE stands for Interactive Creative Education) is a company founded by myself along with Mark Barrera and Ben Fitts.  Together […]

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I am about tired of this topic so before I just become totally fed up with it I had better say my piece on the whole mess.  To me the simple reality is this, there will never be a way to know 100% if links are purchased or traded for or natural.  No matter what […]

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Chris Garrett just did a post on his blog about comment spam and how it may "ruin the do-follow community", you can read the article here, Comment Spammers the End of Do-Follow Movement? Personaly I probally should have nofollowed that link just to poke Chris for making the comments he did about returning nofollow to […]

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I was just reviewing a video about a new service called Socialstream which is a joint project between Google and Carnegie Mellon University and it is designed to take social networking to a new level.  Based on the ease of use and integrated viral network components I also think the real goal is to reach […]

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I am going to do something a bit different and I hope something that will be seen as a bit creative today.  I am going to post a list of my favorite Business, Internet Marketing and SEO blogs.  These are all blogs I read every day (or at least as often as they are posted […]

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So I am on to topic 4 of my Blogging Without The Internet experiment.  In case this is the first time you have read one of my posts in this series I am on vacation and writing from my get away place in the mountains just north of Hot Spring Arkansas.  It is beautiful 5 […]

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