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Joel Comm Screwed Up

Last week, AdSense Guru Joel Comm launched his long awaited 4th edition of his best selling AdSense eBook. Instead of selling the book at the standard $97 price, Joel decided to sell it at a price everyone can afford, only $9.95. As you can expect, sales has been quite high. However, what many buyers may not have realized was the […]

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Ad:Tech Recap and Interview

Ad:Tech maybe over but I have a couple of more videos from the show for you. The first one shows my encounter with an ominous Google sign, the Ad:Tech press room, Bob Buskirck updating his blog from his iPhone because he doesn’t like his Dell laptop, some of the free stuff we got, the Ad:Tech lunch room and other show […]

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Biggest Dot Com Pho To Date

Normally, the weekly Dot Com Pho is attended by six to ten people. However, BlueFur decided to bring their entire furry team to bring the attendance up a record 16 people. If we get any bigger, we’ll need to book out the entire restaurant. For this edition of Dot Com Pho, we find out the correct way to say “Pho” […]

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Sights and Sound from San Francisco

On the last day of Ad:Tech San Francisco, we decided to take a drive out to Berkeley to visit Redux, the makers of FlickIM. Redux is a venture funded startup that’s trying to take over the entire Web 2.0 world (like all startups are). My friend Tyler Dikman is one of the founders. We also head out to Fisherman’s Wharf […]

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Defying Google as a Business Model – Do You Follow?

This post was guest blogged by Alan Johnson, the author of The Online Business Handbook. Since we have our very own John Chow as a perfect example of a person who has chosen to make defying Google an important part of his business model, let’s try to find out if this strategy is recommended for everyone or if that is […]

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Michael Mina San Francisco

Last night, Sarah and I were went to dinner at Michael Mina with Allen Young and his wife. Allen is a long time reader and when he heard that I was coming to San Fran for Ad:Tech, he rung me up and offered the invite to what is arguably the best restaurant in all of San Francisco, if not the […]

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Alexa Changes Its Ranking System

Alexa did a revamp of its ranking system last night. The makeover saw the rankings of many blogs take a tumble. This blog went from the 5,000 range all the way down to 17,088. What did Alexa change to create this drastic drop for many bloggers? Data from More Sources In the past, the Alexa ranking was generated from users […]

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