John Ritskowitz's birthday
It's a little strange to get a FaceBook notice of John Ritskowitz's birthday today. John passed away 2 years ago at age 44. He was a great contributor here and ... [read more]
It's a little strange to get a FaceBook notice of John Ritskowitz's birthday today. John passed away 2 years ago at age 44. He was a great contributor here and ... [read more]
So what do you do when you advertise in FaceBook news and get a bunch of smart alec, crass, or down right rude comments? I saw this comment on an ... [read more]
More a philosophical discussion rather than a technical one, but why do you think a 26 year old was able to slap up a website, have it go viral, and ... [read more]
How do you send an auto-Reply thank you when people start following you on Twitter? I don't see any settings in Twitter for that, yet I suspect its automated just ... [read more]
I'm wondering if you worry a lot about product theft. With all the filesharing and torrent sites about many products from those here on the forum are posted on a ... [read more]
I find human behavior so interesting... Even negative outcomes can happen using the herd mentality... Petrified Forest National Park A/B tested two versions of a sign imploring people not to ... [read more]
How do you organize your PLR and Articles that you've purchased so you know where they are, what niche they belong to, and where you've used them?
What does "over deliver" mean to you?
I'm entering this message via voice by speaking into a microphone using Dragon naturally speaking. For those of you that hate writing or have carpal tunnel syndrome as one writer ... [read more]
Ok... first, no discussion about actual politics or who you think is right or wrong. I'm focused on the marketing and business aspects of this... An advertiser is mostly just ... [read more]
I'm not a big fan of FICO scores. I believe the system to be very flawed. Someone with excellent credit might be on the edge of bankruptcy, while someone will ... [read more]
Oops.. I gave a refund then the next day the person sent an email asking when it will come. Checking into things I realized I sent the refund to the ... [read more]
Google is on the move and is now taking a shot at all that juicy local business. I don't know what markets they are in so far, but Utah is ... [read more]
If any of you noticed the link in Allen's signature it is http://www.kiva.org Its a site that lets you lend money to overseas micro businesses to let them get their ... [read more]
I'm glad this wasn't a money site or I would be ripping mad. They just suspended my hosting which means I can't get in with FTP, CPANEL or anything to ... [read more]
I went to the Warriors for Hire section on the forum and ordered a service (backlinks) from someone with lots of good feedback. The service was to be done in ... [read more]
Every time I use Craigslist to sell something I get a rash of people scamming, which is bad, but today I got the poorest excuse for marketing I can think ... [read more]
Do you spin articles? Do you think it's perfectly fine or do you believe that spun articles are like trash dumped in the ocean?
I find I have to talk at a slower pace than I would like so that Dragon can correctly put words on the screen. If I speak too fast, I ... [read more]
Just wondering. If you are going to plan to go to a marketing seminar, do you make a vacation of it for the family?
I checked one of my sites and this is what I got: W3C validity Invalid (69 errors, 1 warnings) The thing is I use a WordPress blog. I would have ... [read more]
When I want a website designed I'm faced with choices of platforms and languages. A php programmer will say that PHP is the way to go. A Ruby on Rails ... [read more]
Arrggg I'm listening to a "course" that I purchased and it's a series of recorded webinars. I guess that's ok, but I have to listen to all the misc. patter ... [read more]
Ok I don't have the product, I can't even buy it yet, but I wanted to be the first to start a thread about it so people can post their ... [read more]
It strikes me that every other product is now "How To" on selling services to local business. I'm wondering how long it will be before businesses put up a sign ... [read more]
So what happens when you use your FaceBook login to validate your account with other sites and you lose your FaceBook account? Often I'm given the option of using FaceBook ... [read more]
We can see your dirty laundry when you fail at something you are promoting. Example: A marketer gave webinar on being successful with an affiliate promotion. He carefully showed how ... [read more]
I have some sites where I constantly get spam on my classified and forum sites from a so called SEO expert advertising his services. Would you hire someone that?
When you read negative hurtful comments about you, does it hurt? How do you overcome it. Do you wish for revenge? Do you sulk? Do you hate back? Do you ... [read more]
I'm afraid that the longer you are involved in internet marketing the more you start to look like Frank Kern. Have you seen Andy Jenkins lately?
I had a hard drive crash, one that I had transferred a lot of photos to from my C: drive. Since the files used to be on the C drive ... [read more]
WSO sellers: Do those questions get to you? In looking over a lot of WSO threads I see a lot of questions that seem very irritating. Questions like "Will you ... [read more]
Anyone have salon marketing info products?
Anyone remember Big Mails? Before the internet people would publish rags or advertisers and collect money by selling space ads on 8 1/2 x 11 sheets. Each of those ads ... [read more]
Does anyone believe that someone else, for a fee, will do all the work for you and create your business? The implication is that there is no work, you don't ... [read more]
I just got this email today. Do you think it's good or terrible? How would you improve it? SUBJECT LINE: Update We are 14 new cars short of our goal ... [read more]
I found this job for a copywriter... well you have to do the layout too.. but.. the pay is incredible!! 100 bucks! You might be able to pry out of ... [read more]
You made it, you have all the money in the world or all you want. Where in the world would you most like to live or call home?
Who makes more money? Those with hair or those without?
Ever try writing when a 3 year old is screaming "Twinkle twinkle little star" over and over and over?
Some swipe files are obviously good. You know these are the top x number of successful ads. What about swipe files you create yourself? You see ads you like, you ... [read more]
What do you think of a baby sitter that you just barely paid today for the month requesting an additional $700 loan to pay the rent? I'm just gobsmacked.
Are you happy? What does that mean? Does that mean you'll never be unhappy? Does that mean you are happy at the moment? We hold these truths to be self-evident, ... [read more]
Generalizations abound. Do you tend to trust women or men more when you read sales copy or deal with them in an internet transaction?
I just listened to a very successful marketer that advocated charging at least $3,000 a sales letter right out of the gate on your first client. None of this $97, ... [read more]
I've about had it with the high and mighty who treat people like crap. I've had my Adsense account almost ever since they started. As a thank you for my ... [read more]
Today I was searching on the net and found something that interested me. I started reading about it and realized it sounded familiar. It turns out I had created the ... [read more]
Have you ever been on a marketing list to hear and learn about marketing but get a political email in the mix? I understand the passion. A marketer has a ... [read more]
I didn't need that image in my head, but it made me laugh. Part of the email promo for the Marketers Cruise has as a benefit : # 3 - ... [read more]
Just like the Soup Nazi Google disables Adwords accounts in their bid you weed out those they don't like. As they have become the big cheese everywhere they have forgotten ... [read more]
You need to have a plan of work for the day. If you start the day not sure of what you are going to accomplish you may or may not ... [read more]
I wouldn't do this especially to a woman. Someone that became my friend on FaceBook ,who knows when ,wrote on my wall.... ..it has been awhile since we have made ... [read more]
Is it just human nature? When I joined this forum I was blasted with sarcasm and people talking about me as if I wouldn't read it. As my posts grew ... [read more]
Background: This winter I had a new furnace installed and the guy that put it in had put in the air conditioning 13 years ago as well. All seemed well ... [read more]
If you set a goal and don't reach it, did you fail?
Just a reminder... I'm amazed out how many newsletters I've signed up for that end up in the spam bucket of my email client. Periodically I go in the Spam ... [read more]