If you don’t know what Bum Marketing is, you must have been hiding under a rock. It’s basically a new name for article marketing, except that instead of including a link back to your own website, bum marketers put in a link to an affiliate sales page.
There are some skills involved – the main one is finding a [...] Continue Reading…
When I first started tinkering with the Internet, about 10 years ago, I did what every South African does, and signed up for a domain name and hosting with my ISP. I soon realised that this was less than ideal – what if I wanted to change ISPs? I’ve been through about 5 of them, some because of mergers [...] Continue Reading…
Qassia is a new social networking site, brought to my attention by Jack Humphrey.
Qassia describes itself as “a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory.”
You can add your websites, and promote them by adding what Qassia calls ‘intel’. Intel is anything from a paragraph of text to an academic treatise, and it has [...] Continue Reading…
It looks as if ClickBank has some decent competition, at last. I’ve never thought much of PayDotCom, mainly because of its reliance on Paypal for payments to merchants (South Africans still can’t receive payments via Paypal…)
Don’t get me wrong, ClickBank is pretty good. But there are a couple of areas where their system is less than ideal. Firstly, that [...] Continue Reading…
When I read Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad a couple of years ago, one of the key points that stuck in my mind was the necessity of creating assets. Kiyosaki defines an asset as anything that puts money in your pocket. By his definition, a luxury car is not an asset, it’s a liability. The house you live [...] Continue Reading…
It’s a new month, and that’s a good excuse for a bit of a change in the way the ol’ blog looks. I’ve used Cory Miller’s “Clean Copy 2″ theme – if it’s good enough for Michel Fortin and Terry Dean, it sure ought to be good enough for me!. Actually, I had to tweak it a bit to [...] Continue Reading…
BTW, if you promote him on your blog, you can forget about getting any promotion from me in the future.
I’ve really enjoyed your blog over the last year or so. It’s been inspirational. And thanks for the offer to promote my blog. Unfortunately, I’ll have to turn it down, because I don’t like being dragged into your personal dispute. [...] Continue Reading…
Ed Rivis recently mentioned that he’s taken his book, the Ultimate Web Marketing Strategy, off the market. He’ll be releasing a new paperback version shortly, and he’s promised his blog subscribers a free copy of the PDF version. Get over there and subscribe to his announcement list before he changes his mind.
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