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While surfing the web today, I came across Who Needs Designers and had a really good laugh at the video on their site.
Any designer that deals with clients should also have a good chuckle.
“You paid your brothers nephews friend $50 for that whopping logo.”
Continue Reading: The Weekender: Make My Logo Bigger Cream!!!
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You may have noticed that I haven’t been writing as much on this blog over the past couple months. That’s mostly due to us being extremely busy on some client projects and a personal project.
In that time I’ve learned a few things about internet marketing that I’m going to share with you now.
1. Social media […]
Continue Reading: Three Things I’ve Learned Over the Past 2 Months
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I just received a disturbing email from Creative Public about the new Orphaned Works Copyright law that is trying to be passed in congress. This law could hurt a lot of artists and designers, if passed.
The following is from the Creative Public email I received and was written by Michael Durwin, Creative Director of […]
Continue Reading: Orphan Works Copyright Act of 2008
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This is for all you sinners (link renters) out there.
TLA is giving a 15% off discount in the month of May when you use coupon code may.
Apparently this will give you 15% off your order for the life of your order.
Continue Reading: 15% Off Coupon for TLA in May
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Over the past year I have purchased a few after market domain names. It amazes me how many times I am given the option to rent the domain name if I can’t afford to buy it.
One domain I wanted to purchase had an asking price of $695 and a 1 year rental price of […]
Continue Reading: Renting Domain Names Is A Bad Idea
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This weeks funny video is an awareness test from Transport For London.
Its interesting what you miss when you’re trying to focus on one thing.
Enjoy your Friday!
Continue Reading: Funy Video Friday: Awareness Test
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A few months back we posted the very funny Tech Bubble music video created by Richter Scales. With in a couple days it was taken off of youTube.
Well, it’s back on youTube and we still think it’s pretty funny so we’re posting it again.
Enjoy your Friday.
Continue Reading: Funny Video Friday: Tech Bubble Music Video
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One of the many perks to having a blog with a decent amount of traffic and the word ‘marketing’ in the title is that publishers send you books for free.
In the last month I received Accidental Branding by David Vinjamuri and 2011: Trendspotting For The Next Decade by Richard Laermer who coauthored Punk Marketing. […]
Continue Reading: Accidental Branding and Trendspotting for the Next Decade
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Just got an email from TLA with a coupon code for 15% off through the month of April.
If you buy links from TLA, use coupon code april at checkout.
Cheers!
Continue Reading: 15% Off Coupon for Text Link Ads
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Chris Clark recently sold pizza.com for $2.6 million. He originally paid $20 for the url.
It looks like Chris had been trying to monetize the site through Google ads and an Amazon store for pizza recipe books. Unfortunately the big pizza companies like Pizza Hut, Dominoes Pizza and Papa Johns Pizza don’t have affiliate programs. If […]
Continue Reading: Pizza.com sells for $2.6 million
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This week’s funny video is truly very funny. Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator was a fictional energy drink from the movie Idiocracy which was written and directed by Mike Judge who also created Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill.
In the movie Idiocracy, Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator made water redundant because of it’s popularity which […]
Continue Reading: Funny Video Friday: Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator
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Just over a week ago Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com agreed to do an interview with us.
We thought it might be nice for you, our loyal readers and participaters (new word I just made up) in this blog to ask him any questions you had relating to SEO.
Below are the seven questions and answers […]
Continue Reading: 7 Questions With Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com
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Aaron Wall of SEO Book has been kind enough to do an interview with us.
Instead of me asking him questions, I thought it might be nice for you to be able to ask him whatever you wanted about SEO. Submit your questions for Aaron Wall on our contact form.
You have until the end of […]
Continue Reading: Ask Aaron Wall Anything You Want!
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Ian McFadyen sent me this weeks funny video. Saturday Night Live created a very funny skit spoofing the Taco Bell Double Decker Taco. SNL created their own masterpiece of a taco:
A crunchy all beef taco smothered in nacho cheese, lettuce, tomato, and special Southwestern sauce; wrapped in a soft flour tortilla with a layer […]
Continue Reading: Funny Video Friday: SNL Taco Town Skit
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One of my friends has close to 20 websites hosted on a reseller account at eHostpros. Their biggest site, the one that makes them the most money gets over 2000 visitors a day and any interruption in hosting could really hurt their business.
It’s a good thing that eHostpros uses secure servers, or so their […]
Continue Reading: Why Web Hosting Is So Very Important
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This weeks funny video is a collection of all 8 Old Spice Deodorant commercials featuring Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell) from the movie Semi Pro.
Some of the commercials are pretty funny, others a little less funny. You gotta cut Will some slack. He had to do 8 commercials.
Enjoy your friday!
Old Spice Deodorant Commercials:
Continue Reading: Funny Video Friday: Jackie Moon sells Old Spice Deodorant
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The internet can be a great place to make a living, and affiliate marketing can be a great way to do it.
Unfortunately there are many reasons why affiliate marketers should be living in fear. Here’s five.
1. For every original idea there are at least 100 copycats
Competitions on the internet is inevitable. If you come […]
Continue Reading: 5 Reasons Why Affiliate Marketers Should Live In Fear
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Are you getting annoyed with Facebook? Well some people are, and they made a music video to tell you about it.
Facebook Anthem is another Web 2.0 inspired music video with the music from Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’.
Enjoy your Friday and this funny video.
Facebook Anthem
Continue Reading: Funny Video Friday: Facebook Anthem
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For the month of March, you can save 25% off all new submissions and sponsorship advertising in the Best of the Web Directory and BOTW Blog Directory.
Use promo code SAVEBIG during the sign up process.
The promo code may be used multiple times for multiple products and services during the month of March.
Continue Reading: Save 25% at Best of the Web
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A good friend of the Virtual Marketing Blog, Scott Trimble of Half Again will be launching a new product for web site owners, bloggers and affiliate marketers later this month.
It’s called StoreStacker and here’s what Scott says we can expect from it.
StoreStacker will allow website owners to make more money and increase traffic to their […]
Continue Reading: Get Ready For StoreStacker
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The National Parks Conservation Association recently launched a campaign to elect a bear for president, in hopes of getting the presidential candidates to address national park issues while on the campaign trail.
The NPCA has relied heavily on viral videos, and the internet to promote the campaign.
Y&R Chicago created several pro-bono videos for the campaign. The […]
Continue Reading: Funny Video Friday: Teddy For President
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Let’s start the week off with another round of statistics that should be relevant to internet marketers and e-retailers.
1. The top 10 retail product searches for November 2007 were wii, aqua dots, xbox 360, ipod, Pokemon, digital cameras, artificial christmas trees, furniture, ps3, guitar hero.
2. The top 10 retailer name searches of November 2007 […]
Continue Reading: 7 Internet Marketing Statistics Relevant To e-Retailers
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This weeks funny video comes from Norway. It’s a commercial for Deal.No projectors.
The dog thinks the picture quality is very good.
Enjoy your Friday.
Continue Reading: Funny Video Friday: Deal No Dog Commercial
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During the course of the last few months I’m sure that I’ve read at least a half dozen articles discussing non-compete/non-disclosure agreements.
In my opinion these articles, which were all from major business related magazines, did a great job telling the story from the perspective of the business owner.
Unfortunately they did a poor job of […]
Continue Reading: Non-Compete Agreements: The Other Side Of The Story
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This week’s Funny Video Friday features a GTI driver who insists on driving with the windows down, which is to bad for his girlfriend and her hair.
“Hunny, its kinda hard for me to enjoy the sound of the engine with all that yackin.”
Enjoy your Friday!
Continue Reading: Funny Video Friday: “My Fast Likes The Windows Down”
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In the February 2008 issue of Inc. Magazine there is a short article about how gDiapers is using online videos to help promote their eco-friendly diapers.
As a new dad I was very interested in the product, and as an internet marketer I was interested in the marketing side of this story. I had to investigate […]
Continue Reading: Biodegradable Diapers and Online Video Marketing
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The week after the Super Bowl makes for an easy Funny Video Friday post.
I thought that there was a good crop of funny commercials this Super Bowl.
Below are my top 7 funniest Super Bowl commercials, in no particular order.
Tide-To-Go: Talking Stain
Bud Light: Will Ferrel (the long version)
Bud Light: Breathe Fire
Cars.com: Glondoor Stone Ciricle […]
Continue Reading: Funny Video Friday: Top 7 Funniest Commercials From Super Bowl 42
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The ‘R’ word has been thrown around quite a bit lately. While we might not be in a recession at the moment, we’re definitely close.
Within the last couple months here in Orlando one small design shop closed it’s doors, one large marketing company laid off close to a third of it’s employees and another […]
Continue Reading: Recession Proof Your Internet Marketing Business
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We are dedicating this edition of The Weekender to a really good friend of ours, David Rigotti of Freezing Hot.
Many of you may not know that David was the founder of the Virtual Marketing Blog. He started it in February 2007 and then passed the reigns off to Nial and I near the end […]
Continue Reading: The Weekender: David Rigotti is Freezing Hot
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As I have mentioned before on this blog, I run a small interactive agency called Kinoli. We receive many resumes and portfolios from students graduating from new media schools looking for an internship or their first real job.
In my opinion most of these soon to be new media graduates are not prepared to succeed […]
Continue Reading: The Problem With New Media Education and My Solution For It
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A few months back I noticed that a large competitor of one of my sites always sent out their newsletters on Mondays.
This competitor is the type that would have done studies to figure out what day has the best return. But I still wanted to know what’s so great about Monday? Why not Wednesday […]
Continue Reading: More Online Shopping Happens on Mondays Than Any Other Day Of The Week
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As an affiliate marketer there is nothing worse than working hard to drive traffic to an advertisers web site, to then lose that commission to the advertiser.
Some advertisers are doing things to seriously reduce the commissions that their affiliate partners should be making. Below are two things to watch for.
Call Now To Place Your Order
Some […]
Continue Reading: Two Types of Advertisers That Affiliate Marketers Should Avoid Like The Plague
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