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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 guys it is valentines day once again and if you know what is good for you then you will be doing something nice for that special lady in you life.  Forgetting Valentines day is a good way for a married man to end up on the couch for a night or two.  Now we […]

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I just came across this post by Mind Valley Labs.  In a nut shell here is the way to go about building your mailing list with your blog comments.  When a user comments on your blog customize the results page to prompt them to opt in to your mail list.
Seems like a simple mod and […]

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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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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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Mostly I discuss internet marketing techniques here at Comtech News but that doesn't mean that I don't see the value in off line marketing techniques.  One great way is to us direct mail in the form of post cards to get your message to your prospects.  Well if you want to give this method a […]

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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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I recently wrote a very long article about how to protect yourself from Google, if you are a paid blogger.  The article is very long and covers everything I could think of in regard to building traffic and protecting the value of your blog.  For those that got nuked down to  PR0 (like Comtech did) […]

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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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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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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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