I recently attended the SXSWi festival, aka spring break for geeks, in Austin, TX. After the event, I was reminded of something that I read over on Mitch Joel’s blog a couple of weeks ago. It was something about how we should change our perception of our websites. Mitch argues that we should no longer look at our websites as simple places to
shill our products and services with mumbo jumbo and corporate rhetoric.
He’s right.
Your website is really an information publishing portal, and seeing it as anything other than that, is …

A while back, I came across a picture of Shoemoney with this check from Google Adsense for $152,000+. According to the post that Shoe wrote to accompany his picture with the check, Shoe was doing some arbitrage from different ad networks so his “take home” was probably a lot less than the face value of the check, but I digress.
I myself have received my very own check from Adsense. I was ecstatic when I got it. No, it was not for $152,000 it was for significantly less than that. A …

I put together a video for my quickwordpress.com site about how to add a facebook badge to your website.  It’s a very straight forward process, that for some reason is really hard to figure out on your own.  Here’s the link to the video:

I’ve got some more content for my website creation and promotion site coming down the chute, so join over there for more tutorials for getting your own website up and running using wordpress.

Over on ezine articles, they have a great blog post to help you write more articles.  I’ve finally figured out that it’s all about the content, so here’s a quick tip about content creation.
Write an article that lists out, let’s say 7 steps to whatever.  Let’s say “7 tips to great vacation photos.”  You write one article that lists all 7 items very briefly.  Then you write 7 more articles, each of them focused on one of the tips that you just wrote out in your first article.  You need …

I’ve learned a new term over the last couple of days. The term is pre-selling.
Up until recently, I was having a hard time wrapping my mind around how affiliate marketing worked. How can I sell something that I haven’t used? It seemed disingeuos at best, and deceiptful at worst. Enter the concept of pre-selling.

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Turns out, I don’t have to sell people on the product that I’m promoting, nor do I have to lie and claim that I’m using something when I’m not really using …