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OK so do we really need yet another social bookmarking online community (aka a Digg Clone)? At Franklin Spirko we decided that yes indeed we do and hence the launch of HatedOrLoved.com
The reasoning was simple, there are so many sites like Digg, Mixx, etc that utilize a community approach to share news, stories and just […]

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OK look I am not an "I told you so kind of guy" in most instances but I feel vindicated here and I just have to say it this time.  I reported back BEFORE ANYONE that some sort of deal was being brokered between Yahoo and Microsoft with MS being the buyer and the big […]

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A lot of people seem to believe that SEO is about nothing more then getting a web page to rank well for high traffic terms on Google and the other major search engines.  Back in the dawn of SEO that was pretty much the case and anyone that could do it consistently was quickly able […]

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If you read this blog then you know I am a hard core internet marketer but that doesn't mean that I don't know the value of high quality business mailing lists, targeted telemarketing lists and accurate consumer lists.  In fact when I worked with Sage Telecom we did millions of direct mail pieces per month […]

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I wasn't always an Internet Marketer, at one time in fact for almost a decade I was a corporate sales manager for a few different major corporations.  In that time I traveled extensively managing sales forces of 20-40 individuals.  Generally you would jump on a jet, fly to a city, get picked up by your […]

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We talk a lot here at Comtech News about online marketing, SEO and other Internet Marketing techniques.  We have never really spent much time discussing gold old fashioned branding.  To be fair about it, this blog is about technical stuff and we come at most subjects from that vantage point.  Yet recently I was reviewing […]

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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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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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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 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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Written on June, 3rd 2007 
It’s about 7:30 on a beautiful Sunday Morning in the Arkansas Mountains as I write the second post of my Blogging Without The Internet series.  Today I started thinking about what it was like back in 1998 when I really started to get into Internet Marketing as a newbie.  In a […]

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Well this is certianly going to be my only post today because tonight at 8:30 Central time we launch our beta version of Marketing ICE (Interactive Creative Education).  We know there will be bugs, which is why we are going to be offering all of those that attend a highly discounted rate.  In fact Ben […]

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Regular readers may have noticed that we recently added a page to our blog called SEO Training.  This was to promote the pre launch of a new company we are launching soon called Marketing ICE.
Well on Tuesday March 20th we are having a special Webinar for up to 100 Beta Users.  These users will get […]

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