Yellow pages, a waste of money?

I recently received my copy of the “Yellow Pages.” All I could think was “what a waste.” I think a Yellow Pages ad is a waste of money and here’s why: 1. Most searches now begin online When was the last time you scrambled around to find the yellow pages so you could find the [...]

Your Landing Page Sucks

Seriously it does. My landing page sucks too, so you’re not alone. Actually, from what I’ve seen, a lot of landing pages out there on the internets suck. What’s a landing page? Just to make sure that we’re all on the same page, a landing page is the first page that people land on when [...]

How I earned a check from Google

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 fallacy of followers

There is a common fallacy on Twitter and if you fall for it you’ll likely end up disappointed with your Twitter experience. The fallacy is the “follower fallacy.” The common wisdom was, or is, that you need a lot of followers on Twitter to be effective. The more followers the better. The more followers you [...]

Using Custom Google Search Strings to Find People to Follow

While perusing on Twitter, I came across a tweet that had the following Google search string in it: site:twitter.com bio location tx 100…1000000 followers -400 Unfortunately, I don’t remember who posted it, if you happen to catch this post, please let me know so I can give you proper credit.  What that search string does, [...]