Demand Media’s Business Model

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This is just about the best explanation that I’ve seen for what Demand Media does. I’ve looked into, and seriously considered, becoming one of their article writers. My motivation was mainly to see if I could reverse engineer how they come up with topics to write about, but $15 per article isn’t exactly chump change [...]

SEO Case Study

This is a case study published by SeoLinkwheelers, and was originally referred to me by Shoemoney. What I like about this case study is that it highlights some of the steps needed to perform proper keyword research and then shows you the results that you can get when keyword research is done well. SeoLinkwheelers Case [...]

Eric Schmidt – ADMS Keynote: Mobile Is Where Innovation Is

CNN of course, completely misses the point of the entire presentation. They focus on the lamest parts of the presentation instead of on the real meat of the presentation. CNN focuses on the advertising aspects of what he said, completely missing the part about mobile phones being the primary gateway to the internet for a [...]

How to Get Advertisers For Your Blog or Podcast

In his inimitable style, Gary Varynerchuk shows us step by step how to get advertisers for our blogs, or podcasts etc. Basically, here are the steps: Find companies that are already advertising on Google, Bing or whatever. Go to the advertiser’s site, click around and find their contact information Reach out to them and tell [...]

Typical Latin American Country Has Low Productivity

An article published on Newsweek says that the low productivity of Latin American countries is to blame for the region’s low per capita income and lack of development. The Inter-American Development bank (IDB) appears to have sponsored the study. Photo Credit: thejourney1972 (away until april) That article, is a complete load of manure. Let me [...]