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I was given special access to Brian and Tony Clark’s new membership site Teaching Sells as a joint venture partner to see if I felt the program was worth recommending to you.
Every other blogger in my industry has already written their promotional posts about the program during the first few days when Teaching Sells was released. Although I … Read the rest of this entry »
I just spent a four day weekend down the coast at Byron Bay, a well known backpacker holiday location about two hours drive south from my hometown of Brisbane. Byron Bay was once a very hippie-centric town and it still carries some of the vibe from days gone by, but today you are more likely to meet up … Read the rest of this entry »
A broad range of players in the Internet video industry, minus Google meet today in order to arrange a set of “collaborative principles” for Internet video. They hope this movement will help Internet video to continue to grow, while also protecting copyrighted material.
Headlining the group were CBS, NBC, Fox, Myspace, Disney, and Microsoft.
This conference is being planned … Read the rest of this entry »
Skype is expected to announce a deal in the next couple of days that it will be partnering with wireless service provider 3 to sell the Internet telephone companies first wireless phone.
It’s not hard to see that eventually Voip will take over for all land based phones, but could this announcement launch them into the ever competitive cell … Read the rest of this entry »
I had a chat this morning to Asher, a journalist from the Tech section of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. He was writing an article about the recent turmoil caused by the PageRank update and was looking for feedback from those affected in Australia. He also had a chat to Darren Rowse to grab his take on the situation.… Read the rest of this entry »
I’m not entirely sure I want to write this article. I think one of the best ways to reduce the impact of Google’s PageRank is to talk less about it. If you ignore something it loses all power.
However, people still seem to care about PageRank. Webmasters care, bloggers care, search engine optimizers care. Even bloggers who are writing … Read the rest of this entry »
The internet advertising world has turned into a multi-billion dollar per year business. With more avenues for advertisers than ever before, this trend seems to be going nowhere but up. But one problem may halt the ever-increasing industry – Hits!
Without a universal way to measure a websites value an advertiser really has no way to determine how much … Read the rest of this entry »
A new report at Yahoo shows that presidential cabinet members aren’t immune to the blogging bug. Health and Human Services secretary Mike Leavitt and Michael Chertoff of Homeland Security in the US are two of the newest members of this centuries newest gold rush, blogging. This just goes to show that anyone with a computer can and will start … Read the rest of this entry »
I just completed reading a fantastic book called 50 Great E-Businesses and the Minds Behind Them by Ross & Holland published by Random House Australia (more details).
Here is my video review of the book (press play) -
This book features 50 stories of successful Internet businesses and the people behind them, including Australian successes Wotif.com, CarSales.com.au, … Read the rest of this entry »
Download the MP3 [ 41 Minutes - 9 MB]
It’s time for podcast episode #40. It’s hard to believe I started podcasting more than two years ago now!
This episode features myself and Darren Rowse and our topic of discussion is blog design. Darren talked about his recent Problogger redesign and how he worked with his designer, Ben Bleikamp… Read the rest of this entry »
Amazon just announced that it will be offering a flat 20% commission on all Mp3 downloads from their marketplace. This is great news for those of you that use the Amazon affiliate program (Amazon associates). If you don’t, you can sign up by clicking here – Amazon associates program.
This increase is over double the top commission for … Read the rest of this entry »
People who run e-commerce sites – sites that are focused on making sales of a product – have a history of great difficulty when it comes to search engine optimization. We are told to build links to improve search engine rankings, yet why would a person link to a site that is essentially a glorified shopping cart?
One of … Read the rest of this entry »
Talk about an odd couple. Social networking giant Myspace has teamed up with internet phone provider Skype to bring Voip (voice over internet protocol) service to Myspace IM users. The proposed service update would provide Myspace IM users the ability to enable voice chat.
This will bring voice chat to Myspace in a big way. Skype is the worldwide … Read the rest of this entry »
Earlier today YouTube announced the arrival of their long-awaited anti-piracy software. This software has been in development for some time, no doubt due to the increasing concern that YouTube was turning a blind eye to video copyright infringement. This all changed when media colossus Viacom slapped YouTube with a one billion dollar lawsuit.
To find and remove copyrighted clips, … Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been closely watching the RSS count at SmallBusinessBranding.com and late last week it finally ticked over the 2,000 mark.
Congratulations to Rob, Ed, Kevin, Freya, Krishna, Sean, Drew, Steve, Brad and all the previous Small Business Branding authors who have written for the site at one point in time.
Small … Read the rest of this entry »
Not to be confused with Bryan Clark who just started writing for this blog, Brian Clark from Copyblogger.com just released a brand new free report as part of the release of his new site, Teaching Sells, a project he’s partnered with Tony Clark to create (I wonder if that’s his brother?).
The report is titled -
