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Shock Marketing Tactics For PPV Profits

kpaul — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:03:53 +0000

Shock Marketing Tactics For PPV Profits « Finch Sells

as usual, good stuffs – well, except for the stealing images bit. heh.

Demographics, Facebook, Affiliate Marketing Drama

Dirtee Cash – Dizzee Rascal

kpaul — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:29:02 +0000

Dirtee Cash - Dizzee Rascal

more British hippity hop…

Money talks, listen, mmm-hmm-hmm, money talks
Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, woh-oh
Money talks, money talks
Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, woh-oh

Everybody wants to be famous,
Nobody wants to be nameless, aimless,
People act shameless
Trynta live like entertainers,
Want a fat crib with the acres,
So they spend money that they ain’t made yet,
Got a benz on tik that they ain’t paid yet,
Spend their pay cheque
In the west end on the weekend
Got no money by the end of the weekend.
But they don’t care cos their life is a movie,
Starring Louis V, paid for by yours truly,
Truthfully, its a joke, like a bad episode of hollyoaks,
Can’t keep up with the cover girls,
So they got bad credit livin’ on day rate,
Livin’ in debt when they still don’t get
Cos they too busy livin’ the high life, the night life
Lovin’ the high when livin’ it large
And they all say

Money talks, mmm-hmm-hmm, money talks
Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, woh-oh
Money talks, money talks
Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, woh-oh

Let me take you down to London city
Where the attitude’s bad and the weather is shitty
Everybody’s on a paper chase
It’s gonna be rat race
…

Money talks, mmm-hmm-hmm, money talks
Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, woh-oh
Money talks, money talks
Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, woh-oh

I’ve no excuse, I just want you to use me
Take me and abuse me
I got no taboos, I’ll make a trade with you
Do anything you wa-ant me to

Money talks, mmm-hmm-hmm, money talks
Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, woh-oh
Money talks, money talks
Dirty cash I want you, dirty cash I need you, woh-oh

Dizzee Rascal – Where Da G’s

Managing Online Communities

kpaul — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:57:20 +0000

Here’s a piece of something I wrote to help with community problems on my flagship site – Anderson Free Press.

I’m not going to please all the people on this site. I know that. I do think it’s my job to make this place into somewhere that people from all walks of life can come and interact with others in the community. With that in mind, I ask you to reflect on yourself and how you’re representing yourself on AFP. I understand this will be difficult for some people who don’t do this in real life often (again, I’m naming NO names and have no one particular in mind), but it’s something that’s really helpful.

Instead of thinking of AFP as a collection of cliques and groups, think of AFP as a big family. If you know families, you know they don’t always get along – especially during the holidays. At the core, though, is a love that’s hard to describe. Your fellow posters here at AFP certainly aren’t real family, but they’re a form of online family, in my opinion. And that means it’s important to treat them as such.

Now, before I’m bashed, I’m not saying you have to agree with everyone on here or walk on egg shells not being yourself, but I beg you to think about how your actions in this public forum affect others. If all the posting members do is bicker back and forth – what reason is there for new people to sign up? If you’ve noticed, we’ve gotten a lot of new users lately (and even had some old favorites decide to return.) This is a great thing. If AFP becomes known as a place that is dangerous or not fun, this could stop. And I don’t want that.

Ben Franklin, Yo

I have to wonder if some people out there might not want that, though. I mean, AFP closing would make a lot of people happy, I imagine. But I’m not done yet. Lord willing, I’m going to take this all the way. There is a master plan in place. It took Benjamin Franklin 10+ years to build his publishing empire in Philadelphia. I’m no Ben Franklin, so I’m happy to be where I am after 4+ years. I still have hope – even as I look through threads at AFP and see problems.

Beyond the current problems with people not getting along, I see the future of AFP. I can see a future where AFP lives up to its potential. And that’s a very bright thing. We just need to weather the storm until we reach the promised land. And perhaps that’s the thing – there’s never going to be a time when everyone at AFP (or, indeed, any online forum) magically gets along wonderfully with no problems. There is no forum utopia.

You can go read the whole thing if you want. We’ll see how it goes over. AFP is a great UGC site at the moment. User Generated Content. I need to do more posts on that. What do you think?

Would you like fries with that Landing Page?

kpaul — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:19:01 +0000

I’m a webmaster, so I occasionally find myself after a long night of (insert crazy list of tasks – God bless the invention of browser tabs) wanting something quick and unhealthy to eat. So, like many others, I head to the local McDonalds sometimes. Not a lot, but anyway. They have the recession deal hashbrowns two for a dollar. Every time I’m there it seems there’s a big confusion as to how many hash browns I actually want.

I tried one order of hashbrowns (assuming that would be two for a dollar) but that needed clarification. I tried two hashbrowns (which was just as confusing for the counter people it seems.) Anyway, I was thinking I should maybe try to say, $1 worth of fried potato pieces please. That might freak them out even more.

I started thinking, though, about how mainstream McDonalds is and how they must throw tons of money at making things simple for the mass of people who go through the golden arches. That led to me thinking of drive-thru menus. How they’ve evolved. Some are too complicated maybe, but they all strive to make it simple for the buyer.

Then I started thinking about landing pages. Why not set-up a lander that looks like a drive-thru menu? The basic cheapo version would be a PNG imagemap maybe, with a full-blown version being Flash and interactive. Would you like to Super Size your resveratrol?

Chaotic Evil affiliate marketer

The Chaotic Evil affiliate marketer would rush out and get some high quality digital photos of several drive-thru menus and swap out food with product to see what works. The Chaotic Neutral might just throw it up as a joke for link bait. The lawful good would probably not have a lander. The true neutral would take the idea and own it on their own, secretly milking it for as much money as they could before it got out and the copycat gangs got it.

Now, I may get lambasted for giving out ideas like this. If not because they’re a bad idea then because I’m giving them out. Here’s my take on ideas. You give away 10, keep one. Or maybe it’s give away 9 keep two. I never remember. The point is I like to share. It makes this site valuable and may attract the right kind of audience.

So, if you like the idea, run with it. I don’t have time to play with it. It might work, though. You should be quick. I imagine if it works we won’t hear anything about it until the horde finds out about it and tries to copy it. And I guess that’s part of the overall lesson of this post. This may not be the best idea, but it’s an idea. The next step is to take it and do something with it. That’s up to you. I can’t hold your hand the whole way. I have other projects of my own I’m always tending to.

Monies

If you do take the idea and it works, let us know once it’s all dried up. Or just gimme some link love.

Til next time …

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White Hat? Black Hat? How ‘Bout Chaotic Neutral

kpaul — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:55:05 +0000

Lawful Evil

Are you tired of there just being three SEO hats and having to choose white, black or grey? (Although there was a big brua-haha earlier this year about Blue Hats or Green Hats or something…)

Well, here at Webmaster Chronic, since I’m boss (as in leader not the 80s boss) I’m going to do away with Black Hat and White Hat and Grey Hat and even Green Hat and Blue Hat SEO. To maybe make it a little fun, I’m doing to start mark all my posts here with D&D alignments.

That’s right. Billy Gates might be Lawful Evil? This would at least give us a slightly broader way to look at where people are coming from ethically when building their empire online.

Who knows – I may quickly trash the idea. We’ll see.

In the meantime, what alignment are you when it comes to making monies online?

SEO Alignments?

Google, Newspapers, Black Friday Shopping

Blaze Trails, Don’t be a Follower

kpaul — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:04:29 +0000

Okay, you’re still reading. Good. The second piece of the puzzle I drop to you is that you shouldn’t blindly listen to people. Especially on the Internet. It’s a big, bad place. It’s where the money is, though. And that draws a lot of people to the pool. It’s good to read (not chasing the magic bullet – but to learn), but don’t take everything at face value.

This goes along with the “be a leader not a follower” mantra I touched on in the Don’t Read This Blog post. At some point you have to realize that you’re only limited by yourself. Well, there are things that can limit you in the beginning, but there are ways to get past them – usually with work/time. Time is money and in the beginning that’s important to remember.

That is Interesting to Me... Really...

Listen to others, but in the end you want to listen to yourself. Call it your inner voice or a sixth sense, whatever you call it, that instinctual feeling is very important in the business world. Take it all in and keep what is good, keep what you can use. Always be thinking of the future – but don’t get drowned by it.

I guess this post is dashed off and I didn’t put a lot of thought into it, but being a webmaster in the 21st century is kinda like that. (Especially with the publishing model I’m currently using across my network…) So, don’t expect too much from this blog and you won’t be disappointed.

That said… (anyone watch Curb Your Enthusiasm?!) I want to try to give you some insight on my successes and my failures. There are plenty of both.

Webmaster Circle

So stay tuned and enjoy the blog. Leave comments.

Tell your friend.

Tell your enemies.

Come partake in the Webmaster Circle at Webmaster Chronic.

Peace out.

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