Thoughts On Making Money On The Internet and Other Stuff
From the category archives:
For what it’s worth, I briefly pondered naming this post “no-strings-attached internet marketing,” until I realized that phrase was quite a contradiction in terms!
I wonder how many other internet marketers find that lack of time is one of their biggest constraints? It is for me – if for no other reason than that I work [...]
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OK, OK I realize grabbing a phrase from Barbra Streisand’s 1964 hit gives away my age. And yes my hair’s gone grey, et al. But I’m not here to bemoan the good ‘ol days. Or am I?
Like it or not, right now the Web’s heavyweights are waging a battle for our mice. Under the guise [...]
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It’s the 1st of January as I write this. Traditionally the tendency for a lot of us is to impulsively come up with a bunch of New Year’s Resolutions, take a few overt actions to try to implement them but then, once reality bites sooner rather than later, allow the whole idea to slide off [...]
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I suspect that not many bloggers will have the courage to write a post like this one, either from a perceived sense of shame, or a fear of BigTech, or both.
Yesterday, discovering two things changed my mind and lead me to out myself. One was a respectable affiliate marketing blog that contained 2 recent weakish [...]
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Today’s BS tweet of the day:
“…I need 50 more opt ins to win a cam corder…PLEASE opt in [shortened url].”
Normally I wouldn’t give this sort of request the time of day, in fact it’s a sure signal for me to unfollow someone with such a brazenly selfish marketing approach. But why I raise this [...]
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“…web 2.0 would be far worse off without those who take the risk, and make it at the cost of their wife and sometimes family.”
So wrote well known tech freelance writer and fellow Australian Duncan Riley this week in this post. What a controversial linkage between social media success in general and the human tragedy [...]
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This post was inspired by Chris Brogan’s challenge for us to publicly outline (to our own audience) the sorts of things we want to accomplish in 2010.
This is a timely invitation because for the past 2-3 weeks I’ve been monitoring daily mentions of “2010″ via Google Alerts. You see, I believe we all can have [...]
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Is a 140 Character Text Field an Appropriate Venue for a New Colosseum (Coliseum)?
This is a story about a clash involving a cancer sufferer, a good cause and a couple of celebrities from the old and new media, along with observations made or implied about their values, ethics and that sort of thing. Along the [...]
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Conceived as a way to tell my story, I’ve just launched a videoblog career series by uploading to YouTube the first 2 of many videos designed to showcase the numerous careers and jobs I’ve been employed in over the past 40 years.
In “Love Your Job – Or Leave It” you’re going to be able to [...]
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Amateur video footage (see multimedia box opposite and/or my YouTube channel) shot 18 hours ago in the New South Wales town of Gilgandra had this writer second-guessing the history of agricultural machinery in Australia. Standing in front of an old horse-drawn combine harvester, I used the vintage wheat harvesting machine as a prop to introduce [...]
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