Archive for July, 2008

I told you yesterday I was playing with a new lens. The Rank was over 400,000 of course. It’s overall Lens Rank is today 155, 602. That’s not a bad overnight jump in rankings. I really enjoy the way a good Squidoo lens can make not only monthly paychecks via PayPal but also a nice [...]

For me, “Teaching Sells” has been one of the most personally revolutionary concepts ever. It’s helping me – slowly and surely – change the way I do business online. But there’s some bad news for some people about Teaching Sells.  It’s closing and some people are going to be left out. Teaching Sells is Closing [...]

California uses more gasoline than China. If California were a separate nation, they’d be the leading fuel consuming nation in the world. So while the rest of the country is being told to conserve, to pay higher gas prices, switch to hybrids, etc. it appears the really disproportionate consumer of gasoline in the US (and [...]

CNN’s Article “How Not To Sell Abroad” is really hilarious, unless these mistakes happened to you! Such as, “The Quink Pen won’t make you pregnant”… might be a good headline in a convent. Toyota’s “MR 2″ in French sounds like a French cuss word. Coor’s marketing slogan “Turn it loose” in Spanish refers to a [...]

If you have the ability to write key word dense copy that also happens to sound (or read) like it might be of interest to human beings instead of search engines, Associated Content may be just the place for you to write! In addition to up front payments for your articles, they have boosted back [...]

I’m sort of like a dog. I find a bone, play with it a while, bury it and then dig it up to play some more later. The dog in this case is Squidoo. Here’s a bone I’m playing with right now… lens rather. Just for record keeping purposes, here’s the rank today 7/21/2008 when [...]

I ran this concept last August. I wanted to bring it to your attention again because it’s selling at a huge discount for the time being… under $10. So if you’re the least bit interested, now is the time to buy! Here is a great idea for geographical post card marketing that someone sent me [...]

William Douglass who writes the Douglass Report recently noted that Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is trying to sell it’s weight loss product called “Alli” as an “over the counter” weight loss tool. Like big companies everywhere, they’ve decided that a great way to sell more of their stuff is to make sure that consumers can’t buy [...]

I was visiting Clickbank’s site today and found this notice: New York state has implemented a new law that requires online retailers with affiliates located in New York state to collect sales tax from New York residents. Therefore, effective 2008-06-01 we are collecting sales tax on all sales made to residents of the state of [...]

Gary Busey is doing promotions for Vmail so they sent me these videos about some wacky business ideas. If you’re kinda bored and want to see what Gary Busey is doing these days, give it a look see. It’s mildy risque and not nearly as funny as I hoped. If you can’t see the video [...]