A few thoughts on President Obama...

First and foremost...GIVE THE GUY A BREAK! He's only been in office for a few months. It will take a bit longer than that do undo EIGHT YEARS of damage.

Now, that being said, I'd like to reflect on Obama's prowess as a first class Marketer, and what we can actually learn from him.

Of course he didn't single-handedly manage his pre-election marketing. But he chose all the right people and collectively his campaign did a GREAT...

Just finished reading this recent news item. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/R...tters--756029/

I had no idea Twitter was suffering from such a low retention rate.

But to be fair, I don't think they are making a fair comparison. Their findings show that "even when Facebook and MySpace were emerging networks like Twitter is now, their retention rates were twice as high".

Fact is, FaceBook and My Space were more engaging...

The first time I ever heard the term “Affiliate Marketing” was about 3 years ago. I figured it might be something interesting to look into. I searched around, read some stuff here and there. Then I bought a bunch of domains.

I parked most of them. Two of them became my affiliate sites. I pasted in some articles. Completely duplicate unoriginal content all the way. I signed up for PPC with Miva, AdWords, and Yahoo.

My plan? Put up the sites, advertise them, and...