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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th May 2010, 10:35 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 471
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Is a selling license needed?

Depends upon your jurisdiction -- this is a worldwide audience here. Here in Durham NC, you would need a business license as a "peddler" to run a web site.
Forum: Copywriting 26th August 2009, 08:25 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 2,309
Posted By ltdraper
Re: [WTH] need a good copywriter

Different thread. He ran a WSO, collected money, and then disappeared without delivering. When pressed via email, he promised a refund if we'd just wait a little longer. I suspect he was trying to...
Forum: Copywriting 26th August 2009, 01:31 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 2,309
Posted By ltdraper
Re: [WTH] need a good copywriter

So how about fraud and stealing? Are they forbidden too, or do you just make an exception for that?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th August 2009, 12:08 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 869
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter money maker

Why not do both? It takes about 10 seconds to tweet something.

They're paying $30/tweet for accounts in the 20K follower range.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd August 2009, 10:05 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 858
Posted By ltdraper
Re: There's no I in TEAM

There's is no I in TEAM, but there's an I in WIN!
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th August 2009, 07:02 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 441
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter fun and directory

I'm sure people will sign up, but what's the monetization strategy? Or are you just looking for Oauth tokens so you can have them follow accounts for you?

The backlink value will be pretty small....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th August 2009, 06:55 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 735
Posted By ltdraper
Re: tr.im - the first of many to go?

Sorta like Twitter?

If you can't describe your business model to your grandmother in 15 seconds, it's not going to work.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th August 2009, 10:48 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 999
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Check out this phenomenal Twitter growth!!!

The problem with the paid model is that the people you want to reach probably wouldn't spend money to be on there, so the reason you'd be there would go away. Paid subscriptions only make sense for...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th August 2009, 09:39 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 2,579
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Why everybody making money online but I cant ((

Yes, but it involves Craigslist and constantly getting STDs.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th August 2009, 09:29 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 999
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Check out this phenomenal Twitter growth!!!

There's another way to look at this: Twitter's costs are rising by multiples each month yet their revenue remains flat -- zero. $40M in venture capital may seem like a lot of money, but in reality...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th August 2009, 07:45 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 1,089
Posted By ltdraper
Re: No More Twitter?

Actually, it appears to be from the Russia-Georgia conflict: Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user | InSecurity Complex - CNET News (http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10305200-245.html)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th August 2009, 11:27 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 1,089
Posted By ltdraper
Re: No More Twitter?

It's not like taking down Twitter is a big accomplishment. They can barely keep themselves up as it is.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd August 2009, 02:40 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 750
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Scammed, does it look like I have a case?

You may as well try to contact Blizzard and get your account back. The worst case is that they'll delete the account and the guy that scammed you won't be ahead.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd July 2009, 12:54 AM
Replies: 82
Views: 2,851
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Unless something is done, its over for NC Affiliates

Anyone thinking of taking the advice offered here to simply incorporate in another state and set up a mail drop in order to run an affiliate site from inside NC needs to talk to a lawyer instead of...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th June 2009, 08:38 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 4,767
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Is Amazon Dropping Affiliates From Your State?

We got our termination notice today (NC), and to add insult to injury we got our last direct deposit yesterday for a fairly nice amount.

I never got a response from either my state rep or senator....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th June 2009, 07:28 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 450
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Monetizing Digg Traffic

Digg traffic traditionally is horrible at monetizing. As you said, they're ad blind. The bounce rate is very high. They'll look at your pic, chuckle, and move on.

The benefit of Digg is the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th June 2009, 09:11 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 2,035
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Excellent WF answer but no "THANKS"? That Sucks!

I try to thank people and have been thanked a few times, but I still haven't figured out where to spend them.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th June 2009, 08:16 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 396
Posted By ltdraper
Re: php list

Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl, and MySql all come to mind as software that are free and far from useless.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th June 2009, 08:03 AM
Replies: 49
Views: 1,199
Posted By ltdraper
Re: A forum that will force them to pay?

I'll answer the question without passing judgment on your business plan.

Joomla will handle your needs quite well. You can install the Community Builder and Fireboard extensions. AEC (Account...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th June 2009, 08:00 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 458
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter Tip O The Day

Neat trick. You might want to remove the no follow tags on your bookmark page unless you're trying to hoard link juice there.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd June 2009, 12:45 PM
Replies: 57
Views: 2,002
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter Account Banned

Excuse my shorthand. The reason web rings, lists, etc stopped working is that reciprocal link schemes fell apart when the search engines figured them out. And yes, web rings had their time in the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd June 2009, 10:10 AM
Replies: 57
Views: 2,002
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter Account Banned

Actually, it seems to have a lot to do with your following/follower ratios and your total numbers. From what we've seen, you can unfollow 5% without hitting their radar. So a person following...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd June 2009, 07:18 AM
Replies: 57
Views: 2,002
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter Account Banned

Since you're new to this you might want to keep an open mind. You don't have a lot of data to work with to formulate your opinions and point out the flaws in people's thinking that have been doing...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd June 2009, 06:57 AM
Replies: 57
Views: 2,002
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter Account Banned

For a long time those tactics worked. Back in the day, getting a bunch of reciprocal links was the way to go. I remember being in a niche in 2001 where the top result on Google had 3,500 reciprocal...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd June 2009, 06:38 AM
Replies: 57
Views: 2,002
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter Account Banned

I'll respectfully point out that there is no functional difference between following 260 people and 27,000 people. Both are way above the threshold of how many conversations you can have at a time. ...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd June 2009, 06:29 AM
Replies: 57
Views: 2,002
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter Account Banned

I agree with you 100%. It's just a strategy. The point of automation is that you can say "Ok, I've got that covered. Now I'll spend my time on something more important." This is merely tires on...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st June 2009, 08:28 PM
Replies: 57
Views: 2,002
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter Account Banned

You don't have to spam them. The key to this strategy is to provide value and attract suspects into your funnel so they can become prospects. They people that are just building up followers and...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st June 2009, 05:20 PM
Replies: 57
Views: 2,002
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter Account Banned

You expected information completely for free? The reason we've got empirical data to share is that we're running a service.



Hardly. Use Twitter any way you want. You don't have to follow...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st June 2009, 12:03 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 563
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Need dedicated server recommendations

We recently switched hosting companies and looked at several. We ended up at SingleHop, and about 4 months in it's been great.

We've got a bigger server for about half what we were paying before.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st June 2009, 10:17 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 2,148
Posted By ltdraper
Re: TWITTER Is Deeeeaaad !!!!

This puts Google Friend Connect in an entirely different light, doesn't it?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st June 2009, 09:36 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 2,148
Posted By ltdraper
Re: TWITTER Is Deeeeaaad !!!!

Here's a good article that isn't quite so hot on Google Wave: http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4400.html
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st June 2009, 08:29 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 632
Posted By ltdraper
Re: willing to pay for proxie socks

The only reliable proxy you'll ever really have is to rent a server and run the proxy yourself. Those "free" proxy services usually have another motive, which is usually not what you want. And the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st June 2009, 08:04 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 2,148
Posted By ltdraper
Re: TWITTER Is Deeeeaaad !!!!

If Wave truly is a Twitter competitor, then it makes Twitter a more attractive acquisition target to the other players.

But Twitter should have sold out when they had the chance. Someday...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st June 2009, 07:04 AM
Replies: 36
Views: 1,179
Posted By ltdraper
Re: May is over and I'M SO EXCITED--I Made $$$!

Congrats! Now just figure out what works and scale it up. Adding zeros is not as hard as it might seem, i.e. there's much more difference between 0 and 500 than 500 and 5,000 and 5,000 and 50,000.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 31st May 2009, 09:19 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 681
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter experts... Unfollowing thousands?

Your Twitter Grade will be better since they take your ratio of following to followed by into account. Or perhaps they're just wanting to clean up their twitter stream.

I would think most of the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 31st May 2009, 03:26 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 32,452
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter Emails - How do I stop them ???

Settings -> Notices -> Uncheck what you want to stop.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th May 2009, 01:06 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,062
Posted By ltdraper
Re: How can I bulk delete Twitter DMs?

How to Bulk delete DM Direct messages together in Twitter? | Twitter (http://www.thewwwblog.com/bulk-delete-direct-messages-twitter.html)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th May 2009, 09:29 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 460
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter question

The danger of one account is that you're putting all of your eggs in one basket. What if something happens to that account? For example, someone at Twitter decides to suspend you because they think...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th May 2009, 09:52 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 426
Posted By ltdraper
What is TweetPenguin's Angle?

I've used TweetPenguin (http://tweetpenguin.com)in the past, it didn't do much but it's an interesting app. You put in your Twitter info and it puts you on a list of people to follow. It's...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th May 2009, 08:32 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 617
Posted By ltdraper
Re: To the WOF Members. Who is handling Multiple Twitter Accounts ? + Bonus Article

I'm at the freak level. I use TweetDeck. And obviously, our software.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th May 2009, 07:40 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 610
Posted By ltdraper
Re: When Twittering, What's More Important: TONS of traffic or TARGETED Traffic?

Any traffic you get is going to be targeted. They clicked on your link, didn't they?

Now I think the question you were really asking is do you want to target your following efforts on a small...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th May 2009, 07:30 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 716
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Darn Good Frog

Hmm, that's not the analogy I've always heard about eating a frog.

The best way to deal with a problem is to confront it head on and deal with it quickly. It's like eating a frog. If you sit and...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th May 2009, 12:12 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 616
Posted By ltdraper
Re: New Twitter search engine TOPSY

Pretty cool. They're going to get a ton of incoming links as people talk about them in blogs. Their outgoing links are do follow. Sneaky Warriors might link to a query that provides links to their...
Forum: Programming 23rd May 2009, 10:34 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,503
Posted By ltdraper
Re: iphone programming guide

O'Reilly has an iPhone SDK book. The author is Zdziarski. It's been helpful.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd May 2009, 11:55 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,119
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter is a waste of time...not?

I used the $0.05/click number because that's the minimum you'll generally pay for clicks through other advertising. I'm just comparing $X spent on Twitter marketing to $Y on something like adsense. ...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd May 2009, 02:47 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,029
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Here's a free Twitter Sales Trick for y'all!

As we say in North Carolina, there's only one way to boil a frog. You can't throw him into a pot of boiling water because he'll just jump out. But if you put him in a nice warm pot of water with a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st May 2009, 12:09 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,270
Posted By ltdraper
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st May 2009, 12:00 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,119
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter is a waste of time...not?

Why would anyone expect marketing through Twitter to be different than any other marketing medium? Would you build up a very small, personalized list of email addresses, postal addresses, phone...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th May 2009, 02:55 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,049
Posted By ltdraper
Re: joomla clickbank payment gateway plugin

I'd love to learn that such a thing exists as well!

We use AEC, which doesn't support Clickbank. But making that work might be possible via customization.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th May 2009, 09:55 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 3,013
Posted By ltdraper
Re: AutoFollow Twitter

Our product is an autofollow machine -- It puts your follows on autopilot. Just sign up for the service and it runs every day and adds people that are likely to follow you back. You don't have to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th May 2009, 09:40 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 979
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter tool works like an autoresponder

I've been a TweetLater user for a long time. It works.

The click throughs on Tweets are very low. The key is a lot of followers. Most marketers are an order of magnitude off of where they need...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th May 2009, 12:20 PM
Replies: 145
Views: 4,928
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Twitter Auto-DMs are Pure Evil

I agree that auto DMs are somewhat evil, but I don't mind receiving them because they're just playing the game like anyone else. I haven't turned mine off because the sales keep rolling in. And it...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th May 2009, 11:53 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 818
Posted By ltdraper
Re: Joomla users - lend me your brains.

I'm heavily into Joomla. As a blogging platform I don't think it's as good as wordpress, but it's not meant to be a blogging platform. It's a community platform.

The real strength is the ability...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th May 2009, 09:32 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 630
Posted By ltdraper
Re: What is Your Favorite Facebook or Twitter Tools?

Lol. I like the PMS Social Suite (http://promote-my-site.com/index.php/component/option,com_pmssuite) myself....300 follows/day on autopilot for 30 days for free.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th May 2009, 11:24 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 18,414
Posted By ltdraper
Re: What is the maximum number of people we can follow on twitter in a single day?

Actually, they do state their numbers: Twitter Support :: I can't follow people: follow limits (http://help.twitter.com/forums/10713/entries/14959%5C)

The 10% is what people have observed, but the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th May 2009, 11:17 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 18,414
Posted By ltdraper
Re: What is the maximum number of people we can follow on twitter in a single day?

Not true. We routinely follow ~1,000/day without any problem.

It's all about validation. If people are following you back, you won't attract any attention. If you follow people and never get...
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