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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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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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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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Wikipedia (who sucks, practices nofollow and considers all SEO's spammers and therefore does not get any links from me) defines a narc as "A narc is a person who notifies authorities of illicit activity, betraying someone in the process".  Now this is why I call anyone that would notify Google that they have found paid […]

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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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Part of the joy of having been online since 1998 (at a time when FFL and Safe Lists worked) is you are so blasted with spam you usually get to be one of the first people to see new types of spam emerge, oh the privilege!  So just when you thought all the dirt bag […]

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Today I was going through my RSS feeds and like many bloggers I monitor blog feeds for mentions of my name and my blogs.  I was surprised to see that I was today announced as Crickees' Crush of the Week.  Anyway I am not sure what the criteria was to be selected but I got […]

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Today I was discussing things with Mark Barrera and we were talking about blocking IP addresses of clients on Google Analytics so visits to their own site would not count.  This is really simple to do with Google Analytics. In your Google Analytics account, you can enter up to 4 IP addresses to "block", doing […]

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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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Written on June 2, 2007
Ok this is going to be an interesting little experiment.  I am typing this brief post while on vacation at my second home up in the mountains of the Ouachita (pronounced wash-a-ta) Forest in Arkansas.  It is a beautiful place sitting on a ridge top at about 1100 feet of elevation.  […]

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Some people think there is no such thing as a "stupid question", such people probably ask a lot of stupid questions themselves.  Of course there are stupid questions in all worlds.  Most are not real questions, no they are questions written by people that claim to be experts or position themselves as such just so […]

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I just got the news that North Texas won its' bid for the 2011 Super Bowl and I am pretty happy about it with a lot of help from.  A great bid package was presented by former Cowboy Roger Staubach. Now I know this is not a typical post for the Comtech Blog but there […]

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I was just reading the latest issue of OMMA Magazine and they have a list of the top 50 spending advertisers from 2006, there is nothing new here because ClickZ tends to publish this data every month.  Here is the March 2007 Report for example.  What I found interesting is that they broke out the […]

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Ok this may seem a bit odd given I just said Donald Trump's Blog sucked a few days ago.  The reality though was my post was never a slam on Trump or even his blog.  It was simply to help my readers understand what is an emerging trend in blogging - large companies jumping into […]

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