Here’s an image I whipped up for my link exchange website just after I introduce the problem of what I call “caveman links pages”:

The caption reads, “When you’re courting the search engines, you have to be sensitive to their needs.” (My wife got a chuckle out of that).
How does the song go?
“I was lookin’ for [...]

Last month, I called Kodak out for trying to grab the moral high ground in printer ink pricing.
An HP employee helped sink the dagger deeper by commenting on that post. Well, now it’s HP’s turn to get called out.
HP’s ad shows 2 peacock’s — the “cheap replacement ink” peacock with a small tail, and the [...]

I’ve got two issues with Kodak’s new “most expensive liquid ads (ads for their printers that use less expensive ink).
The first is factual: the worlds most expensive liquid is NOT printer ink. I’d guess it’s either medicine or (most likely) perfume.
The second is how they’re portraying themselves as the heroes, the advocates of the common [...]

A little over a year and a half ago, when John Reese announced his BlogRush service, I thought “oh, c**p,” (that word isn’t “CaRP” :-) “one of the big boys beat me to my idea.” At the time, I’d begun working on a site that was going to be similar, but with a few key [...]

I’ve picked up more than 50 new followers in Twitter over the last 24 hours, including a few big names like Matt Bacak, Stephen Pierce, John Alanis and others. It doesn’t look like anyone tweeted about me and recommended following me, and there’s nothing in Google blog search that would explain it.
So I’m left to [...]

You know the old saying: “Give a man a dollar and he’ll eat a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger. Teach a man to earn a dollar and he’ll die from eating Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers.”
Well, it’s something like that.
Russell Brunson and I are launching a new website where you can get 5 things for a dollar, and none [...]

2008 has been quite a year. I wasn’t able to finish one big project I’d hoped to complete (I still need to learn to manage distractions better), but the year has seen a number of good developments, both business and personal. Here are some highlights:

My efforts to make “internet marketing guru” contacts that started last [...]

The Conestoga Mall here in Grand Island, Nebraska lost $60 (more actually) of sales for their retailers today. I went in to get Christmas gift cards, only to discover that they charge $2 per card over and above the value of the card. For a $10 card (we were going to buy them for 6 [...]

Yesterday, I suggested we organize a Day Without Email where we’d all shut off our SMTP servers for a day. We wouldn’t send any email out, and no email would come in. (But messages to us wouldn’t get lost because the senders’ servers would keep retrying till we turned our SMTP servers back on tomorrow).
So [...]

I’ve had it! This morning I could barely connect to my server because it was so overrun with bounces of spam sent by people spoofing my email addresses (ie. spammers sending email with an email address at one of my domains in the senders address). I’m not kidding. The traffic was so heavy that HTTP [...]