Archive for January, 2008
Town Hall Chat With Ted Murphy, IZEA CEO
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Ted Murphy, IZEA CEO, held a town hall chat with bloggers this evening. I clipped a few key points that were of interest to me (I think you can tell from the chat where I am focused), along with some Q&A from a few other […]
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An easy way to get custom-printed mailing labels
I first found Vistaprint in 2003 when I needed business cards in the wake of a job loss.
I appreciate the ease with which Vistaprint allows me to order my print needs. There are always plentiful stylish templates, and I’ve also ordered cards using my own design. But, I’m a sucker for the free products, […]
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Pulling together the Google penalty threads
Let’s tie the various posts I’ve written over the past few months together into some coherent form, shall we?
In October, I pointed out that using human reviewers to penalize websites for selling links was unfair, given that this is a highly subjective process that can’t possibly address all, or even a majority of link-sellers. One […]
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Should PayPerPost file an antitrust claim against Google?
Came across this article thanks to Digg: Could PayPerPost Have an Antitrust Case Against Google?
To think that an antitrust case isn’t part of the exit strategy at IZEA is probably naive. If Socialspark catches fire, there would probably not be any action. But, if theyre just treading water and burning cash, a lawsuit does two […]
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Tips for buying business gifts
In my past professional life, I did several tours as a marketing manager, responsible at various times for market communications, market research, and strategic marketing. In these roles, one of the more enjoyable tasks was selecting and purchasing promotional gifts, mostly for trade shows and customer visits.
Today, this world is much easier since you can […]
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Google Page Rank Penalties Not Real?
Oh, it’s been a while since I used the phrase Google Lies, and since I believe I may now be legally bound to use it at least once a month, just click the link below to Andy Beard and read for yourself. Here’s a teaser:
It seems Google used their real dataset for PageRank for the […]
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IZEARanks.com is now open to the general public
Izea has opened up the latest component of what will be known as SocialSpark today by opening IZEARanks.com to the general public.
Some key points:
IZEARanks is only open to Blogs, so the ranking is relative to other blogs.
Realrank is at the core of IZEARanks, and the algorithm is public knowledge and can be found at the […]
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Are you going to test Pay Per Play Ads?
There is a new PPP coming to market, but it isn’t the one with you’re all familiar: This is Pay Per Play Ads, a company banking on advertisers willing to pay webmasters for the right to place a short, five-second audio ad on their websites. The ad will play every time the page is visited, […]
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Who is responsible when bloggers feel they have to write negative reviews?
I don’t like writing negative reviews any more than the next guy.
I try to get past this by only taking paid-review opportunities that I truly like, or for which I can see how someone else might value the product or service.
But sometimes, I come across an opportunity which has potential but is falling down on […]
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Equipment financing and leasing
I’ve worked in businesses of all sizes. One of the big hurdles in the smaller businesses was access to the capital we needed to grow the business. To keep our cash flows strong, we utilized equipment financing and leasing when we made capital purchases. This allowed us to buy the ERP system and manufacturing equipment […]
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