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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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I  have commeted on both the Positive Aspects of Real Rank along with the Negative Aspects of Real Rank.  If you read my negative post you will recall one of my issues was that for advertisers buying posts via PayPerPost/IZEA they specify RealRank in terms of 1-9.  Where a blogger with a real rank of […]

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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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Check out this ad preview for Pepsi featuring, What is Love  Provided by PlayPhone.com that offers ring tones, wall papers and games. The video is a parody of Saturday Night Live's popular "Night at the Roxbury" skit will keep people awake with a humorous take on the before-and-after effects of drinking Diet Pepsi MAX. There […]

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I am a huge fan of lifelock for the protection it offers in defending against ID theft.  I wanted to blog about Lifelock because I understand how important protecting your identity is.
You may remember quite a while ago it was all over the news that the Department of Veterans affairs had an employee loose a […]

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There are a lot of internet marketers out there that work really hard to build websites that produce money day in and day out.  In fact more today then ever.  I myself have income from many different projects even some of my early "failures" over time turned around and spit out some cash on occasion.
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Everyone is always looking for Stock Tips - TheBuyList.com offers that and a lot more.  In fact TheBuyList.com provides key pieces of information that have never been offered before by any stock research, blog, or commentary website ….

TheBuyList.com shows you which mutual funds bought or sold a given stock and relevant buy/sell percentages from […]

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OK, right off the bat I am going to fess up and admit that this post is mostly me venting about my trip to Best Buy at lunch time today.  I have unfortunately broken the last two cases I purchased for my Blackberry and stopped by Best Buy during lunch to see what I could […]

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Any good business that is going to make it must have a revenue model for the owners itself.  Shocking?    Of course not anyone knows that so as I am looking at a new pretty cool get paid to blog site I am also asking how are these guys going to make a buck?    […]

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OK when Real Rank was first announced it coincided with the giant vicious Google PR smack down.  At that time I reviewed it and was pretty hard on it.  I have since discussed it directly with several People at PayPerPost and Izea and in fact I am even doing a bit of "fully disclosed evil" […]

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Originally I was going to do a video course on all of this showing how to do it step by step and sell it for say 19-29 dollars.  I still will if enough people commit in advance to buying it and I think it would help a lot of less technical people get it all […]

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Since PayPerPost started I have been a huge fan.  They have up until now done everything right.  They kept everything above board with the Disclosure Policy Requirement.  They provided great control for advertisers (I have used them to advertise massively) where you could filter by geographic region, alexa traffic, google PR and many other criteria.  […]

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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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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 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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