Seth McFarlane making “Too Hot for TV” Internet-Only Animated Series – Teams with Google Adsense

Monday, 30 June 2008, 14:00 | Category : News
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I don’t typically like to cover Adsense, but this is different. Seth McFarlane has done it a again. What an innovator! To escape the “Taste Police” he is creating an Internet only cartoon series called “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy.” Google plans to syndicate the program using AdSense on the already thousands of websites [...]

Amazon.com Founder Invests in Twitter.com

Thursday, 26 June 2008, 14:51 | Category : News
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Back in March the South By Southwest (SXSX) Interactive conference (not to be confused with the music showcase) was a stir with everyone and their mom “Tweeting” on Twitter, the micro-blogging site that allows you to interact with friends and conversations under 140 characters. Although Twitter had been around for six months by that time, [...]

Does Your Handwriting Predict Your Success as an Internet Marketer? President?

Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 16:05 | Category : Business Motivation
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I read two books on the subject five or six years ago and even ordered some “grapho deck” flash cards for the common traits through Bart’s site. One of his bonus giveaways was an eBook on common handwriting traits of the world’s most financially successful people. As Tony Robbins and other NLP practitioners would say, if you want to have success in an area of your life find “models” in that area to fashion your behavior.

Dallas Ad League Celebrates 100 Years & Honors Richards, Bloom, & Temerlin

Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 12:45 | Category : News
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When asked about any major blunders over the years, Stan Richards told an interesting tale. A Dallas Morning News Reporter recounted the story. “After 19 hours of travel, he got home, took a shower, put on his ‘blue new-business- presentation suit,’ jumped in his car and drove to Liquid Paper’s headquarters, ‘wired for work and [...]

What is the “Automatic Matching” Feature in Google AdWords?

Friday, 13 June 2008, 8:09 | Category : Pay-per-click
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Today I noticed in one account interface a message that if ignored could radically change how often ads are triggered and for what keywords. I thought they had a similar match type already implemented called “extended match,” but this possibly takes the liberty at which Google will trigger your ads for search (related and sometimes [...]

Sage Advice – Earn a Good AdWords Quality Score from the Beginning

Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 10:12 | Category : Pay-per-click
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Don’t expect the account to instantly pay for itself the first week or even month. If you follow the path of the diligent and knowledgeable you will outlast the lazy and uninformed and eventually be rolling in ROI bliss.

Dallas Morning News Publishes Smaller Free Version to Combat Internet

Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 21:46 | Category : News
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To combat dwindling advertising revenue and readership due to companies spending their advertising and marketing dollars on the Internet, The Dallas Morning News is now experimenting with giving away a smaller version packed with more graphics, brief stories, and more coupons. I thought they already had the Quick news which was already free, but I [...]

Is Article Marketing Dead?

Monday, 9 June 2008, 13:21 | Category : Marketing
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Pre-Wordpress’ birth and the critical mass of blogs, Internet Marketing Professionals used many other tactics, one of which was writing value-based informational articles and submitting them to several article directories for online publishers and website owners to repost. This type of article marketing was done for years before blogging. What is Article Marketing? Wikipedia defines [...]