Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th May 2010, 10:35 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 471 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.
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Forum: Copywriting
26th August 2009, 08:25 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 2,309 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...
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Forum: Copywriting
26th August 2009, 01:31 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 2,309 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
25th August 2009, 12:08 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 869 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.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd August 2009, 10:05 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 858 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th August 2009, 07:02 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 441 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....
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th August 2009, 06:55 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 735 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th August 2009, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 999 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th August 2009, 09:39 AM
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Replies: 72
Views: 2,579 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th August 2009, 09:29 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 999 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th August 2009, 07:45 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,089 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)
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
6th August 2009, 11:27 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,089 Re: No More Twitter?
It's not like taking down Twitter is a big accomplishment. They can barely keep themselves up as it is.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd August 2009, 02:40 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 750 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd July 2009, 12:54 AM
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Replies: 82
Views: 2,851 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
26th June 2009, 08:38 PM
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Replies: 95
Views: 4,767 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....
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
14th June 2009, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 450 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th June 2009, 09:11 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 2,035 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th June 2009, 08:16 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 396 Re: php list
Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl, and MySql all come to mind as software that are free and far from useless.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th June 2009, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 49
Views: 1,199 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th June 2009, 08:00 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 458 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.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
2nd June 2009, 12:45 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,002 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
2nd June 2009, 10:10 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,002 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
2nd June 2009, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,002 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
2nd June 2009, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,002 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
2nd June 2009, 06:38 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,002 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. ...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
2nd June 2009, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,002 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st June 2009, 08:28 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,002 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st June 2009, 05:20 PM
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Replies: 57
Views: 2,002 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st June 2009, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 563 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.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st June 2009, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 2,148 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st June 2009, 09:36 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 2,148 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st June 2009, 08:29 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 632 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st June 2009, 08:04 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 2,148 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st June 2009, 07:04 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 1,179 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.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
31st May 2009, 09:19 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 681 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
31st May 2009, 03:26 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 32,452 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
30th May 2009, 01:06 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,062 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
29th May 2009, 09:29 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 460 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
29th May 2009, 09:52 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 426 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
28th May 2009, 08:32 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 617 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th May 2009, 07:40 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 610 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th May 2009, 07:30 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 716 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
27th May 2009, 12:12 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 616 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...
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Forum: Programming
23rd May 2009, 10:34 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,503 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd May 2009, 11:55 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,119 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. ...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd May 2009, 02:47 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,029 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st May 2009, 12:09 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,270 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st May 2009, 12:00 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,119 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
20th May 2009, 02:55 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,049 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
19th May 2009, 09:55 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,013 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
18th May 2009, 09:40 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 979 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
17th May 2009, 12:20 PM
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Replies: 145
Views: 4,928 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
15th May 2009, 11:53 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 818 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...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
13th May 2009, 09:32 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 630 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
12th May 2009, 11:24 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 18,414 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
12th May 2009, 11:17 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 18,414 |