Malaysia Loves Formula One

March 23, 2008

There’s nothing like a Sunday with Formula One and some Durian ice cream We travelled 1 1/2 hours outside of Kuala Lumpur for the 2008 F1 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix. My Polish friends were very pleased with Robert Kubica’s 2nd place finish. See a quick video of the race!

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Guru Who? – An Abridged Reading List

March 21, 2008

So you want to understand a bit about the Internet marketing gurus? Here are a few things I recommend you read. The Butterfly Marketing Manuscript This is a $97 ebook from Mike Filsaime. Is it worth it? I think so. Filsaime provides some really effective techniques to monetize your website visitors. I’ve never seen better [...]

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Get a Technology Divorce – Technology Should Not Be Your Bottleneck

March 20, 2008

Brilliant programmers are working 24/7 on the planet. If you have a real business you can pay a pittance to get yourself out of almost any technology backlog, jam-up, or snafu, without your existing tech team in the office. Of course this doesn’t work in all cases, but increasingly it’s becoming true for most programming [...]

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Understanding Influence to Boost Profits

March 20, 2008

Many folks marketing products or services online often times get so wrapped up in technology that they forget to focus on the fundamentals of sales. If you want to boost profits it’s essential to realize that the psychology of sales works in the digital world just like it does in the old fashioned one. There [...]

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Guru Who? – Meet the Internet Marketing “Gurus”

March 10, 2008

So who are the Internet Marketing Gurus? These are the folks that offer to sell you programs to become rich through Internet marketing. I’ve always dismissed them as charlatans or trainers of pure newbies. The fastest way to delve into the word of the Internet marketing gurus is with a quick visit to GuruDaq. The [...]

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Is it a Company or a University? Getting Schooled at MindValley

March 10, 2008

I’m starting my second week of a month long visit with MindValley in Kuala, Lampur Malaysia. This is a learning adventure to see how MindValley takes an idea and turns it into a profitable business. These guys know Internet marketing backwards and forwards. They know it better than any other group I’ve encountered. In the [...]

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Tracking202 – PPC Conversion Tracking For Affiliates

March 9, 2008

This morning I was a bit surprised to find that another company is offering a PPC conversion tracking solution for affiliates. Remember, that the big problem is knowing which keywords convert for affiliates since the conversion pixel resides on the merchant’s page, not the affiliate’s. Tracking202 is a San Francisco based company that’s offering their [...]

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How To Do It! – PPC Conversion Tracking For Affiliates

March 5, 2008

I was dabbling as an affiliate in some programs powered by Commission Junction a few years ago. One problem I encountered was how to track which of my keywords would convert into sales. The problem for affiliates is that they don’t control the merchant’s conversion page, so they usually can’t track which keywords convert unless [...]

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Kuala Lumpur’s Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) – Not Quite Silicon Valley

March 4, 2008

So I met another tech company in the Internet marketing space operating out of Kuala Lumpur. As I mentioned before there are only a few companies working in the Internet marketing category over here. This is a European based company that was drawn to open a development office because of the supposed benefits the Multimedia [...]

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