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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th September 2012, 11:08 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 2,133
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Beef.ca Help with selling domain name?

Just one more thing. I'd reconsider the "Buy It Now" price. Basically that sets the MAX you could get for it... and if I were a domain investor, I'd snap it up at your Buy It Now price just when the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th September 2012, 10:59 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 2,133
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Beef.ca Help with selling domain name?

If you can't stop the auction now that it's met the reserve, the only choice you got is to let as many people know as possible to try to get a bidding war going. Start advertising everywhere you can...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 31st August 2012, 06:57 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 824
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Would you work here? I'm speechless...

You're kidding :eek: Where the heck have I been :confused:
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 31st August 2012, 06:55 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 824
Posted By Wendy Maki
Would you work here? I'm speechless...

You KNOW that something's big when Amazon gets into the act. Amazon's now into the micro-job freelancing idea with something they are calling MechanicalTurk

Check it out at Amazon's site:...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th August 2012, 07:41 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 566
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Company Name or Personal Name for FROM emai?

Whatever you do, do it consistently.

Pick the name that you are most likely to need to be identified with over the long term, ideally one that gives you the most flexibility and recognizability....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th August 2012, 11:44 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,595
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: My Squidoo Experiment...

First, Thanks for your response. I really am not into getting into one of those weird tit-for-tat things I see so often on this forum :( but I really think I need to clarify something. I am most...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th August 2012, 06:53 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,595
Posted By Wendy Maki
My Squidoo Experiment...

I confess I've never had much interest in Squidoo until now. I'm a couple of days into conducting a totally unscientific Squidoo "experiment" and I thought I'd share my thoughts and experiences with...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd August 2012, 07:37 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 607
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Can the previous owner take this domain from me?

If you bought it legitimately from a registrar, it's yours to do with as you want... keep it, sell it, give it away....

The only issue would be if it was a Trademarked term, and that is a whole...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd July 2012, 11:45 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,142
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Content Curation!

There certainly is a lot of misunderstanding of what content curation actually is.

The simplest way I distinguish it is to compare it to a "literature review" that you may do in an academic or...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th June 2012, 10:37 AM
Replies: 41
Views: 1,406
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: 4-5 Refunds out of Every 10 Sales - Continue Promoting or Drop Product?

Let's shift focus and empower Margaret here.

First, she's got some "mad skills" here :D and the dialogue is sort of putting all the emphasis on the product.

Margaret, you're making $300 AFTER...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th June 2012, 03:10 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 787
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: New Frontier in Domain Registration - The new wild west??

Here's the list of new "strings" (as the tld's are being called) that are being applied for, direct from ICANN:
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th June 2012, 06:13 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 960
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: "Academic" version of powerpoint 2010?...

Just remember that content that you create with MS products can have coding in them that says what created it.

Personally, I'd rather be safe than sorry, but that's just me...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th June 2012, 11:48 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 544
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Copying merchants autoresponder messages?

Sounds like you already know the answer.

Ask the merchant. And if it's no, it means no. (Just taking it is "copyright infringement" -- and each every email you send out is a separate count and...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th June 2012, 10:22 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 2,465
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: How To Stop Google Giving Me Personaly Enhanced Search Results

So far, the only thing that seems to help at all is incognito or private. Even there, though, location still shows up, so clearly something is "remembered."

BTW, it doesn't matter whether you...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th June 2012, 07:09 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 691
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Sharing a Rant...

Going back to the rank I started from, John Carlton's not mine ;) , the part that I really enjoyed the most was what he was saying about cynics, and his own attitude of 'optimistic pessimism" (aka...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th June 2012, 04:55 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 2,123
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Sneaky tactics that make you suspicious

You have Waaaaaaaay too much time on your hands .... :D
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th June 2012, 04:37 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 691
Posted By Wendy Maki
Sharing a Rant...

I just read one of John Carlton's brilliant rants... and I feel so much better after encountering too much negativity over the last couple of days that I wanted to share it with everyone:

Cynics,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th June 2012, 08:37 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 3,242
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Meet the Man Who Registered 14,962 Domains in 24 Hours

Domain investing is nothing new. Someone has just made a nice PR stunt out of it. There are plenty of domain investors around who hold "portfolios" of thousands upon thousands of domain names. They...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th June 2012, 02:57 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 2,540
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Our 15 year business seems like its on its last 30 days here, could really use input..

Do you have a website? An email list?

Where do the PPC ads bring a prospect to?

Here's a couple of quick ideas for getting traffic:

Create a quick video demonstrating what your service does....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th April 2012, 04:43 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 733
Posted By Wendy Maki
How To Crash Your Inbox. 4 Billion Subscriptions In 7 Days.

No, I'm not offering some tip or program to help you get more than half the world's population (just over 7 billion) on your email list. :D

Actually, I'm just ruminating on my last hour of email...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th April 2012, 08:22 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,766
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Even Senior Citizens Have Issues With Google Search Results Now!

Hmmmm. You've just crystalized something that's been niggling at me, a subtle reaction I've been having when I "google."

I actually think the SERPS are better quality than they ever have been,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th March 2012, 10:26 AM
Replies: 153
Views: 38,999
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Your article writing ISN'T working! This is why:

There's been so many great contributions to this thread already, but I'll throw in my 2 cents (for what it's worth Hee Hee).

When I write articles, especially for syndication, I do look at...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th March 2012, 08:07 PM
Replies: 36
Views: 1,568
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: An Article I Would Have Paid $1,000 For

Fabulous article and fabulous analysis too.

Only thing I'd add is that so much of the so-called articles out there say almost nothing. There is next to no substance.

This article example has...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th March 2012, 04:11 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 1,226
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: imspot.com - How much is this domain worth?

6 letters. clear to understand for several niches. Could be worth over 1,000+ but only whenever the right buyer comes along. Do something with it to develop the niche potential to help your chances....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th March 2012, 03:49 PM
Replies: 258
Views: 13,490
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Don’t Call Yourself a Writer If What You Really Are Is a Thief

Print magazine article writers frequently write articles on areas that are not in their 'expertise' but they do a lot of research and then interview, consult, and often get quotes from the real...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th March 2012, 03:39 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 995
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Is this the quickest way to lose subscribers?

I actually unsubscribe most often when I am getting duplicate emails from the same source, either because I have deliberately subscribed for a specific benefit (with or without realizing it would be...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th March 2012, 03:17 PM
Replies: 258
Views: 13,490
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Don’t Call Yourself a Writer If What You Really Are Is a Thief

Just to complicate the discussion even further, there is a concept of "common knowledge." To illustrate, back in the long ago days when I used to write critical essays analyzing works of literature,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th March 2012, 01:46 PM
Replies: 258
Views: 13,490
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Don’t Call Yourself a Writer If What You Really Are Is a Thief

I'm often puzzled why there is so much mis-information about what really starts in school... getting trained to "credit" our sources, and not to "plagiarize." Now, I understand that, as a writer with...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd February 2012, 03:27 PM
Replies: 83
Views: 2,788
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Will I go to jail for this?

Can't say it enough. ALWAYS, always assume that you cannot use someone else's images, or other content... UNLESS you are given specific permission to the contrary.

Here's a couple of things to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th November 2011, 11:40 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 738
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: less than $1/day from adsense

Adsense can be frustrating because there are so many variables that you don't have control over.

Assuming you have visitors that do click, the price for that click varies by day, season, month,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd November 2011, 12:05 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 442
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Writing content for syndication

Think Reader's Digest. (I always keep them in mind as my model.)

They are the ultimate syndicator. Every article is a reprint.

They are still going strong because they have it down to a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st November 2011, 11:10 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 603
Posted By Wendy Maki
Re: Need advice abt selling/transfering my GR@UP@N-related domain to their lawyers

This is just a curiosity thought, and don't do it without real legal advice. But I wonder what would happen if you just cancelled the domain, just completely dropped it so that you don't own it...
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