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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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I would imagine most readers of Comtech News have seen the 90's classic movie known as Office Space.  The movie is one of the true cult classics of all time and tells the story of three men working for a software company going through a down sizing.  It is a story of incompetent management and […]

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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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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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When we began the creation of Marketing ICE back in January we put a lot of the free videos on YouTube.  Initially this was to save bandwidth by only providing hosted videos to paying members and letting YouTube fit the bill for the free members.  The issue was that the YouTube videos were small and […]

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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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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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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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Recently I have been playing with a some what black hat script, OK it isn't some what it is dark as they come.  As I began to expand the possibilites of what could be done with this script in tying in several blogs together I developed a need to do a "random" post.  As in […]

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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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