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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th May 2012, 02:20 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,167
Posted By erichammer
News publisher software free today only

Hey folks,

Just saw this on Giveaway of the Day. It says it can submit to around 100 news sites automatically. Don't know anything more than that. Free only today May 13, 2012: Giveaway of the...
Forum: Wanted - Members Looking To Hire You 2nd May 2012, 10:05 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 855
Posted By erichammer
Re: At Home Writing Jobs

My mistake. Though I could have sworn it wasn't there when I looked before...
Forum: Copywriting 28th April 2012, 03:33 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 872
Posted By erichammer
Re: Clearly, this guy is meant to be a copywriter...

He did come up with a clever idea...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th April 2012, 07:46 AM
Replies: 63
Views: 2,234
Posted By erichammer
Re: Frustrations of being a Writer

Like I said, I'm actually very busy and pretty much at capacity for what I can handle right now. Oh, and I don't even advertise the $35 blog posts. I just advertise article writing for $75. If people...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th April 2012, 07:26 AM
Replies: 63
Views: 2,234
Posted By erichammer
Re: Frustrations of being a Writer

It seems many of you are complaining about super low pay. I agree. Many clients expect to get things written for next to nothing. However, as Alexa Smith always says -- the bottom feeding clients are...
Forum: Wanted - Members Looking To Hire You 28th April 2012, 03:11 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,197
Posted By erichammer
Re: Content Divas is Hiring Rock Star Free Lance Writers!!

Folks, just for the record, I have worked with Content Divas in the past so I thought I'd offer some insight:

They are very easy to work with and generally don't make writers crazy (anyone who...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th April 2012, 01:16 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,595
Posted By erichammer
Re: Making Steady Money From Writing?

Most people don't know the difference. They think "quality" means that it doesn't read like spun garbage. However, there is so much more to it than that. The thing I always do is to tell customers to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th April 2012, 12:27 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,595
Posted By erichammer
Re: Making Steady Money From Writing?

I have not yet reached the point where I don't worry about money, but I have gotten to the point where I make a decent middle class income from my writing and tend to get a steady stream of work. I...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th April 2012, 05:19 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 958
Posted By erichammer
Writers: Here's how to guarantee you'll never get a decent client

If you are determined to remain a starving writer who can't seem to ever get a steady client, there are at least four things you simply must do:

1. Go to the help wanted section of the forum and...
Forum: Copywriting 12th April 2012, 03:02 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 997
Posted By erichammer
Re: Headline feedback, please

I'd try to focus instead on the feelings that people have about their floors being sparkly clean instead of focusing on the service. I'm trying to think of something off the top of my head, but...
Forum: Copywriting 9th April 2012, 07:43 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 638
Posted By erichammer
Re: Anyone care to take a look? (Critique)

I think I actually have a copy of that floating around somewhere though I don't use it. Don't remember what it does or where I got it though.

In any event, the free is always good, but I'd make a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th April 2012, 04:50 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 518
Posted By erichammer
Re: Cloud Website Backup

I just use a plugin in WP to save everything to S3.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th April 2012, 03:57 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 684
Posted By erichammer
Re: Watch out from fake freelancers : I just saved myself $1299

Now how do you expect an honest crook to make a living if you keep outing them for being crooks? :D
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th April 2012, 04:58 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 964
Posted By erichammer
Re: An apology to the forum

No real need to apologize. Being banned can happen for any number of reasons, most of which are fairly benign. Just move on.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th April 2012, 11:43 AM
Replies: 59
Views: 2,437
Posted By erichammer
Re: How do I become a better writer?

I'll just echo what has been said already: read and write. The best writers are also voracious readers who happily sit up all night reading a novel and prefer this to watching television. They also...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th April 2012, 11:29 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 910
Posted By erichammer
Re: What To Do If You're Looking for Article Writing Gigs

The problem is that the perceived barrier to entry into the world of professional writing is extremely low. Just go and sign up at Elance or Odesk or any of a thousand other sites and boom -- you're...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 4th April 2012, 12:42 AM
Replies: 87
Views: 26,690
Posted By erichammer
Re: FREE alternatives to aweber

Of course not. My point wasn't that people will tag someone as being in the amateur hour for not using Aweber. My point was they would consider someone as being an amateur hour person for using an...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 3rd April 2012, 11:24 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 26,690
Posted By erichammer
Re: FREE alternatives to aweber

Sorry, but this is being penny wise and pound foolish as the old saying goes. These free alternatives will mark your e-mails as being amateur hour garbage and you'll find it harder to make...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd April 2012, 10:38 AM
Replies: 46
Views: 1,315
Posted By erichammer
Re: Where Do You Find High Quality Writers?

Reminds me of the time I did a batch of "articles" (I use the term loosely since these were very charitably called "articles") for a client who not only insisted on a minimum of 3% keyword density...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th March 2012, 12:46 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 1,082
Posted By erichammer
Re: Instead of asking for a mentor....

Like I said, in writing, I'm 100% confident that I can teach someone things they don't know and offer them a veritable wealth of knowledge (well, I could definitely teach someone who isn't an expert...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th March 2012, 01:46 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 1,391
Posted By erichammer
Re: JCPenny gets slapped by google for blackhat seo...lol

And in other news, President Kennedy was shot and killed today...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th March 2012, 06:11 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 554
Posted By erichammer
Re: It seems there is truly a niche for anything and everything, even belly lint!

That's not so unusual. After all, people die all the time and while it's not a very pleasant subject, it's at least practical. Belly lint though... yuck.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th March 2012, 07:55 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,457
Posted By erichammer
Re: Can You Believe This! Namecheap Blunder...

I do not trust Namecheap at all. I had a horrendous experience when using them. I'll never ever go back to them again. I tries posting the details here and was banned for 24 hours for my trouble, but...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th March 2012, 10:54 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 952
Posted By erichammer
Re: I don't get it. Top 100,000 sites in the world?

The question isn't how sophisticated the site is. First of all, they have a really interesting niche for themselves where they share weird things which people would be interested in reading about....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th March 2012, 09:32 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 923
Posted By erichammer
Re: Wanting to start IM but too much information! Just need a starting point...

I'll be very blunt: 99% of successful bloggers write about their passions and worry about the niche only as an afterthought. People who create minisites worry about the niche, but minisites are much...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd March 2012, 11:40 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 869
Posted By erichammer
Re: The Longest Domain Name

Not even close. I ran across this one years ago while working at Demand Studios. It was so long that their system refused to let me list it: The longest list of the longest stuff at the longest...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd March 2012, 10:43 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 702
Posted By erichammer
Re: MRR eBooks Question

Nope. Master Resale Rights means that you can provide it only as is. However, in most cases (though not all -- read the license) you can include it. You just have to leave it unchanged with the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd March 2012, 10:40 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 790
Posted By erichammer
Re: Meta Tag SEO... Not Dead!

Depends on which meta tags you refer to. The major search engines don't look at keyword meta tags anymore. However, the title and description tags are extremely important. Many people also fill out...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd March 2012, 12:48 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 2,640
Posted By erichammer
Re: Is Dialup Dead?

Now here's a real question for you: does anyone still use a 300baud modem to connect to their dial up connections? I still remember when those were state of the art and we could laugh at people who...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st March 2012, 08:35 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 570
Posted By erichammer
Re: Should I use "My" or "Your" in the domain name?

Not to mention that it's possible to use the prefix to your advantage in creating a brand name if you need to use it. So for example if you were doing a site on weight loss, you might register...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th March 2012, 02:34 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,247
Posted By erichammer
Re: The cheapest way to get articles?

The one that ensures you'll never make a penny online. I don't mean to toot my own horn, but article writing is not a place to look for the "cheapest." This is your website's reputation on the line...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th March 2012, 09:04 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,504
Posted By erichammer
Re: High traffic on funny pictures sites ?

Not necessarily. I Can Haz Cheezeburger for example makes a ton of money by selling merchandise surrounding the photos that they have on their site. The catch is to get people who take these funny...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th March 2012, 06:01 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 1,143
Posted By erichammer
Re: Thoughts on getting content written for free

I occasionally take guest posts on my blog. However, I have very high standards and I find that most offers of guest posts are for crappy junk. The first time I took a guest post, I made the mistake...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th March 2012, 01:56 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 859
Posted By erichammer
Re: Videos and Other Bandwidth Sucking Sites

Maybe you can do something on the browser level:

Stop YouTube Videos from Automatically Playing in Firefox - How-To Geek...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th March 2012, 06:54 PM
Replies: 116
Views: 12,848
Posted By erichammer
Re: Amazon Account Terminated

It sounds (and I'm no expert -- just guessing here) that the issue was somehow artificially forcing visitors to use your Amazon affiliate ID. I know that's not much, but without knowing exactly how...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th March 2012, 10:07 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,362
Posted By erichammer
Re: Fiverr Feedback Fury - Whining Over $5 Makes You Look Cheap and Lame

The problem is that many people who pay $5 really want work done for free and they tend to think that their five bucks entitles them to act like His Royal Highness...

The only time I ever left...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th March 2012, 10:02 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,646
Posted By erichammer
Re: How to create videos with white background?

Green screen technology. However, you can use what I like to call a poor man's green screen if you have a wall painted a dark solid color. You can stand in front of that wall to speak and then use...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th March 2012, 03:43 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,121
Posted By erichammer
Re: Any Other Websites Like Share-A-Sale?

There are dozens of such sites. Off the top of my head, Google affiliates, commission junction and linkshare. There are dozens if not hundreds of other such sites, but those are three of the biggest.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th March 2012, 05:38 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 797
Posted By erichammer
Re: Simple eBook Question that i can't figure out

This is a common misconception that people have about copyright. If he took the words verbatim or close to verbatim from another website, he would be violating copyright. However, if he merely took...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th March 2012, 06:10 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 848
Posted By erichammer
Got an Android device? Get 50GB of free cloud storage if you act right away!

No,

This is not a sales page. I have zero connection with the company. Just wanted to share a sweet deal with my fellow warriors.

Box.net is a relatively new cloud storage service. They are...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th March 2012, 03:54 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 805
Posted By erichammer
Re: OTO's and Upsells

By the way, the answer to your question: 51954407897.2111 :p
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th March 2012, 03:51 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 589
Posted By erichammer
Re: Are you addcited to WSO's?

Personally, I almost never buy information based WSOs unless they are super cheap and by people who have a good reputation for providing real value. I found too many of the information WSOs I bought...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th March 2012, 02:53 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,299
Posted By erichammer
Warning: someone hacked my Windows Live account

This is just fair warning to people who may have signed up for Windows Live accounts. I was in the process of dropping my old online service for storing files (MyDocsOnline) and was about to move...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th March 2012, 01:48 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 724
Posted By erichammer
Learn python programming for free

Hi folks, ran across this just this morning and thought I'd share it (http://www.udacity.com/). This is a course taught by several well known computer scientists which teaches how to use the python...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th April 2011, 02:08 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,098
Posted By erichammer
Re: Someone was offering $3.00/1000 word article?

You can get a junk writer on a place like Elance or Guru for that kind of money, but you'll get what you pay for -- what you get will be pure garbage which won't be worth anything. If you want...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 17th April 2011, 12:18 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 1,668
Posted By erichammer
Re: Best free Wordpress template

Hands down, I'd have to say Mystique. I tested around 30 so called "free premium" themes (i.e. themes that are supposed to offer premium features for free) and the best by far was Mystique. It does...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th April 2011, 11:10 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 963
Posted By erichammer
Re: Speed up my blog? Load pages faster

I have a few suggestions for you. First of all, if the images are too big, resize them to be smaller. You can do this before uploading them using Gimp. If you can't or don't want to do that, consider...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th April 2011, 03:48 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 713
Posted By erichammer
Re: Help: Need some guide to sell domain on flippa

FYI, John Chow is holding a webinar on Thursday night about using Flippa. He promises it's a no pitch, all content webinar (and when John says it's no pitch, all content, you can believe him -- his...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th April 2011, 05:20 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,180
Posted By erichammer
For everyone who asks for "cheap" writers, check this out. It could cost you thousands of dollars.

A client of mind just sent me this. It's the first of 25 pieces of content he purchased from a "cheap" writer. The very first sentence shows just how good such cheap writers are:

The whole thing...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th April 2011, 02:58 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 746
Posted By erichammer
Re: I would like to 'try' / Make money writing articles for people...But...

There is article writing and then there is article writing. I charge $20 per article for what I do, but I've been doing it for years and I provide well researched, well put together articles which...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th April 2011, 05:39 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 550
Posted By erichammer
Re: The Case of the Disappearing Traffic

Double check it through hidemyass.com. Google plays tricks by showing you what they think you want to see. Using the proxy there, you'll see what everyone else would see.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th March 2011, 03:43 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 1,107
Posted By erichammer
Re: Is this legal? Copyright?

Using information is not plagiarism. Using words is. Let me illustrate this for you. Let's say I wrote "The best way to make money online is by building a blog and posting new articles to it...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th March 2011, 07:29 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 911
Posted By erichammer
Re: PLEASE HELP (No don't want a mentor or anything)

Hi,

These two may help with security:

WordPress › WP Security Scan « WordPress Plugins (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th March 2011, 04:16 PM
Replies: 129
Views: 4,266
Posted By erichammer
Re: The Big Banks might be about to cripple Internet Marketing.

It's amazing how people end up running like chicken little instead of actually taking the time to find out what the situation actually is. It seems everyone just took the alarmist opinion from the OP...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th March 2011, 06:24 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 2,622
Posted By erichammer
Re: Can a Fiverr user sue another Fiverr user?!?

As far as I know from dealing with Fiverr over a problem with a gig I ordered, their only remedy is to refund the money and to delete the other person's account if they have lots of complaints...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th March 2011, 02:36 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 566
Posted By erichammer
Re: Kind of a legal question about online videos and audio

You can legally transcribe small portions of what they said with credit. i.e. if you have an hour long video of Bill Gates speaking and you want to quote him verbatim for a sentence or two, you are...
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