Probably the two most popular scenes for Internet Marketeers and wannabe Internet Marketeers are these two from Glenngarry Glen Ross and Boiler Room:
I like the Glenngarry scene but you know what? Alec Baldwin may not be the best actor on the planet but Ben Affleck is not fit to carry his jock. It’s more than that though. The two movies do not even compare. David Mamet versus Ben Younger. Who the hell is Ben Younger? David Mamet is a legend in his field and his movies are awesome, Ben Younger never managed to rise above Boiler Room. Then look at the cast: Ed Harris. legend, Al Pacino, Michael Fucking Corleone, Kevin Spacey. These are all tremendous actors who have elevated the craft. Boiler room has Giovani Ribisi, Vin Diesel, and the guy from Ocean’s Eleven who I don’t know who he is. These guys are all one note actors. Boiler room is a formulaic ripoff off Glenngarry Glenn Ross and doesn’t try to even hide it. Glenngarry Glen Ross is a brilliant portrayal of men in sales. Boiler Room is all testosterone and no heart. Give me Glenngarry any day, the kids can keep Boiler Room
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Keyword Elite is an advanced keyword research software tool that is going to revolutionize the pay per click and search engine optimization market place for ever.
Bryxen technologies are the creators of this keyword research software tool with their specialist marketing man Brad Callen. Keyword Elite enables you to create thousands of top paying keywords for your adsense or adwords campaigns for any niche market.
If adsense is not your market then it can also be used for analysing your adwords campaigns and even spy on the adword competition. If you are one of these marketers that have been spending your hard earned dollars on keyword lists, you might want to re-think your tactics and take a minute of your time to investigate keyword elite.
Once you have decided on a topic is when you put keyword elite to work, with the click of a button you can be generating 1000’s of keywords related to your keyword topic and niche market. Keyword Elite will even tell you if the market is too saturated or for adsense users what costing your are looking at to be competitive with your pay per click campaigns. With all the built in extras within keyword elite such as, how many searches, competing web sites and most importantly the KEI, (Keyword Effectiveness Index) this index tells you how competitive the market is for your selected keyword. The higher the KEI the less competition you will have so this is a good keyword to be marketing on your web site.
Keyword Elite comes with its own keyword database ready for you to use as well as a 30 page guide that explains every thing you need to know to use this impressive software.
If you are looking at creating successful web sites in a competitive market place then you need to take a look at keyword elite. For every internet publisher or pay per click specialist this is a must have tool.
In my post about hostgator, I said that I didn’t like Godaddy the hosting company. However, I love Godaddy the Domain Registrar. Currently all of my domains are registered through GoDaddy.com
Your domain name is registered somewhere out in cyberspace through an authorized domain name registrar. Do you know which one? Do you know who is listed as the registrant / owner of your domain names?
A domain name registrar is the organism or company chargeable for providing domain name registration services to the public. A domain name registrar is either authorized by ICANN ( the Internet Firm for Assigned Names and Numbers, an framework hot to Internet governance ) to contribute registration services or is authorized by its own supervision to register domain names within a specific ccTLD ( country code Top Parallel Domain name extension ). A registrar extremity further personify authorized by the registry of a Top Commensurate Domain to act as an means of the registry to formation domain name registrations, locale the consideration is not a reseller. The registrar is further engaged for creating and maintaining a WHOIS database for its customers. The quantity of registrars has exploded in recent caducity, stifle some being increased reputable than others. Examples of domain registrars embrace GoDaddy, Network Solutions, Register. com.
Man upstairs Helps Those Who Protect Their Domain Names: You know the sayings - an ounce of prevention - Holy spirit helps those - a stitch in bout. Nowhere are these sayings truer than in cyberspace. The internet is still akin to the Barbaric West. Lawlessness and maelstrom still burst forth. You would substitute muddled by the quantity of calls and emails everyday from popular bright-eyed - pace companies who own irrecoverable guidance or ownership of their domain names. The cause of domain name problems is, more often than not, a failure of the company to protect its domain name from its own employees, third parties, vandals and scam artists.
Here are some tips that will help keep your domain secure from third parties, hackers, cybersquatters, pornosquatters, add - site squatters and other domain name leaches.
1. Control your domain registration information: You must be listed as the domain registrant with correct contact information in order to control your domain. Many companies hire web developers or internet service providers ( ISPs ) to secure its domain names and develop its websites. I can not state this more strongly. Never let third parties register your domain name without oversight and instruction. You must control information at the registrar level in order to control your domain name.
2. Control your domain account number, login name and password: The domain account password with the registrar is set by the domain owner at the time the account is created with the registrar. Keep your domain account number, login name and password secret at all times. If you forget your password, every registrar has a system to send your password to the listed email account. In fact, all changes to your domain registration account occur through the registrant email address. Hackers sometimes use their tools on registrar login screens to hack into your account and change your registrant information. Make sure your password contains both letters and numbers and both upper and lowercase characters. The registrar will not treat you as the domain name owner / registrant unless you are the email address who controls your username and password.
3. Control your employees: What happens when the IT person you hired leaves for another company? If that IT person’s email was provided at registration and you don’t control that email address, you may be in serious trouble. The same is true of business partners. When company founders have a falling out, domain disputes often occur. Also, be careful about using free email services such as email at msn. com or email at hotmail. com, which you do not use regularly. Many of these services will discontinue your account if you do not log in on a regular basis.
4. Lock your domain name: Every authorized domain registrar is required to allow you to “Lock” your domain name. Domain locking is critical because registrars who receive a transfer request from any third party will send you an email. If your domain is not locked, the failure to respond to the registrars email request for change is an automatic “approval” of the transfer. Locking your domain prevents this from occurring. You will know if your domain name is locked if you see the words “Registrar - locked” when you view your domain name at the registrar or Whois database level.
5. Regularly check your domain registrant information: Check the Whois database on a regular basis to ensure you are listed as the registrant with all the appropriate contact and email information. Whois information is listed through your registrar or through http: / / www. internic. net / whois. html
6. Beware of spam emails, which pretend to be your registrar: You will receive spam from companies pretending to be your registrar, or mail asking you to sign papers again purporting to be your registrar. You must be extremely careful when responding to any request for information or authority about your domain by mail or email. Ninety percent of what will likely come into your inbox is essentially fraud. If you are not absolutely certain that the email is from your registrar, you should not respond. Many people sign or respond to emails, which provide authority to give your domain name up to someone else.
7. Don’t forget to renew your domain registration: Some companies simply fail to renew their domain name registration when it expires. If the email for the contact person is bad, the company never gets notice that its domain name is expiring. Many cybersquatters, or worse yet pornosquatters, have already paid money for rights to the domain name if it expires. They want your domain because it already has built - in traffic that they can turn into money by replacing your web site with an advertisement or link site, or a pornography site.
8. Establish your domain name as a trademark: Most of the domain name laws are designed to ensure that the proper company has the right to its domain name. These domain laws are tied directly to your trademark rights in the words used for your domain name. Registering your company or domain name with the appropriate trademark office gives you tremendous leverage in protecting your domain name in cyberspace.
9. Call an attorney: If you do lose your domain name, contact an attorney who specializes in this area. There are laws and remedies available which might help you get your domain name back. Domain names are valuable property and should be protected no different than a company’s customer list or its trade secrets. Many companies rely on their domain names and web traffic for substantial revenue. While domain name law firms can help your company get its domain names back once lost, it is rarely without serious business interruption and the investment of significant resources. The best course is to protect your domain name on the front end. An ounce of prevention is truly worth a pound of cure.
Lately I’ve been thinking about different ways of marketing a product. I’ve been pursuing internet marketing for over a year now with limited success but I think some things have clicked lately that are going to open some floodgates for me. I am “borrowing” fairly liberally from Seth Godin here but the three types are Interruption Marketing, Permission Marketing, and Hybrid Marketing.
Interruption marketing is exactly what it sounds like. The marketeer interrupts you to show you their product. Examples of this include television commercials, ads in magazines and newspapers, and ads on a website that are just there because the website gets a lot of traffic. This is the hardest form of marketing to track success. With tv and magazines you have no idea how many people saw the ad, how many of them were going to buy your product anyway, how many of them already own your product, how many of them bought it because of your ad. It’s kind of a crapshoot and it is the biggest form of marketing there is.
Hybrid marketing is when the advertiser gets your attention with some kind of interrupt and then takes the opportunity to get contact information from you. If you opt int, expect to receive advertisments in either your email of snail mail in the future which hopefully you can opt out of at any time. A big example of this is a zip or email submission which is really popular with newbie IMs. You choose an add from an affiliate network that is pay per lead, you buy traffic based on celebrity keywords and the user submits their email address. The IM gets paid and the advertiser gets a new email added to their list. This form of advertising is easier to track since you know who recieved your email and could cross reference who recieved the email with who bought the product.
Permission marketing is the one I prefer. You target a particular keyword like buy blue widgets. You funnel all the traffic you can from that keyword to your site and it stands to reason that anyone searching for that phrase is looking to buy a blue widget of some kind. You put up an ad to a website that sells blue widgets and magic happens. The searcher gets what they want with, I get a commision on the sale, and widgets.com gets a new customer. Everybody wins. The best part about this is that it is easy to track.
It’s 9:30 pm on the east coast and Obama wins the race. Currently, MSNBC and FoxNews have called Ohio for Obama (MSNBC I’d be cautious, but Fox Freakin News!) and with his other states he has 200 electoral votes. Throw in his gimmies out west (CA, OR, WA, HI) and that’s ballgame. Obama will probably pick up a couple more swing states as well as Colorado and we will have our first African-American President. It’s morning in America. It’s the first time I ever voted for a winner even if I live in a very, very red state (my county went 70% McCain today).
Remember everybody, go out and VOTE! We don’t want Obama to be this guy:
If you live in a state that allows early voting, then vote early. Get your friends and your family to vote. No matter who you vote for, people died so you could vote so do it.
The hardest part of building a new site is coming up with materiel for your content (disclaimer: content may or may not be king). If you are not a subject matter expert in your niche or even if you are coming up with engaging, unique content can be quite a challenge. There are several possible solutions but one I like to use is PLR content.
Private Label Rights content usually refers to ebooks, articles, written contextual content, scripts, and programs. Someone else makes them and you pay for the right to use them, rework them, or even sale them. It is an easy way to increase your productivity by reducing content production time.
My new favorite site is the Private Label Chest. PLC is a PLR website run by Vic from BloggerUnleashed. It has many great products with PLR licenses. There are dozens of niches present with lots of content to draw upon. He uses a drip system to periodically add new content. Many of the products have the entire sales system included including ad copy, keywords, and even an entire mini site. There is also a lot of resources for building mini sites such as graphics, fonts, templates, etc. There is even software available for personal use that will help you promote your products and niches. Many of the PLR ebooks are just waiting to be plugged into the $7 script which is a great piece of software that will allow you to get paid directly in your paypal account.
I’ve been using the article packs to easily generate content and articles for article marketing. It’s easier and faster to just rewrite an article than to spend a lot of time doing research and its cheaper than outsourcing the work on ELance or Rent a Coder. There is even a 25 article pack on green tea which means I am branching out into a niche I never would have thought of on my own. It’s so cool.
You don’t have to use PLR to make money online and some people think you shouldn’t. But I’ll be counting up all the extra scratch I’m making while they are doing research or corralling freelance writers. My time is valuable and limited and I want to make the most of it. I’m also a cheap bastard and don’t buy anything online unless I have to. So if I’ve invested the money you know it’s a good deal. Plus, Vic is a great guy, a little rough around the edges, but he knows what he’s talking about. If it wasn’t for him, I probably never would have made any money online. So go to the Private Label Chest and sign up today.
When I said it yesterday, I was thinking in the back of my mind, no, they won’t actually go there. However, not only did they, they didn’t waste any time. On MSNBC today Brad Blakeman criticized Barack Obama for flying on his campaign plane to visit his ailing grandmother. All I can say is wow.
Blakeman tried to equate it to the $150,000 the McCain campaign spent on clothes for Sarah Pailin. I’ll try to be fair, is it completely above board for him to have flown on the campaign plane? Maybe, maybe not. Is this a stupid line of attack for the republicans to take. Absoloutely. I guess that’s why some strategist no one outside the media has ever heard of was tasked with saying it, in case it sounds stupid (Yah think?).
It was pointed out on Countdown that if a democrat had said the same thing about McCain visiting his mother then the republican outrage would be heard far and wide, it would dominate cable news for 8 days. I agree, Bill O’reilly’s head would explode in a fit of fake outrage.
My question is: is McCain even trying to win anymore? Huffington Post has the clip here.
Barack Hussein Obama…yeah, that guy’s different. He’s an arab or something. No, no way I would vote for him.
B. Hussein Obama, followed moments later by the professation that “What? It’s his middle name.” So which is more galling: the use of Barack Obama’s middle name to mark him as “not one of us” or the fact that they person who just said his name is such a coward that they don’t have the balls to come out and say that is what they are doing. How much of a weasel do you have to be?
I suppose it’s a testament to how much this thinking has been marginalized that not only do racists such as these have to hide in the shadows, disguising their intent with indirection. It’s also a testament to how far we’ve come as a society that it isn’t working. Despite what the McCain campaign thinks, 10 point leads on polls that traditionally skew right is not within the margin of error.
Yes we can.
John McCain’s campaign seems to be run by drunken lemurs. That of course is just speculation by an ameteur and I get all my news from Keith Olbermann, John Stewart, and Fark.com. However, it lurches from tactic to tactic, never sticking with one for very long. Even when they stick with one, hurling negative attacks, they jump from attack (Ayers) to attack (ACORN) and I swear they are just trying to get Obama to respond in a way that they can put it in an ad next week. It wouldn’t surprise me if some surrogate this weekend says something about Obama taking a couple days off to spend with his grandmother. McCain won’t say it and neither will Pailin but just someone will and then they’ll use whatever Obama says back against him.
But it won’t work. Obama is not the sort of guy who takes the bait. He hasn’t risen to any baiting so far that I know. He just remains resolute and dare I say it, Presidential. He by all appearances wants to lead, not get down in the mud and scrap. So GoBama!
I think it comes down to being a black man trying to suceed in a white world. I remember reading about Jackie Robinson when I was a kid. I remember the part where Branch Rickey told him that he would not be able to respond the way he wants to to people trying to get a rise out of him. Jackie Robinson had to be above it all or he would never make it. They say both women and African Americans have to be twice as good as the next guy. Obama went to Colombia, he went to Harvard Law and was the first African American to edit the Harvard Law Review, and now he is the first African American nominated by a major party in the presidential election. I think he knows a thing or two about being twice as good and leaving his ego at the door. He is certainly not going to let some cranky old man who thinks it’s his turn to be president ruin this run. McCain however, seems to be trying real hard to provoke a man just so he can bring him down.