
One of the perks of being a blogger is you often get free items in return for a review. DVDs, food, gadgets, new tech — a good review is an excellent marketing tool, so most companies see these freebies as part of the cost of doing business.


One of the perks of being a blogger is you often get free items in return for a review. DVDs, food, gadgets, new tech — a good review is an excellent marketing tool, so most companies see these freebies as part of the cost of doing business.
There was an interesting post on this blog other day about link tracking and it made me start to think a bit more about link monitoring. We all think about the possibility of affiliate networks shaving offers and redirecting our traffic and messing with landing pages, so I wanted to create something that would monitor these types of changes. What I went on to create is a piece of software I have been using for a couple months now and I thought this would be a great way to help affiliates make sure no
One of my first "big books" out of college was James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science and it still resonates with me, though it's been so long I think I'm due for a re-read. In any case, the next book up in my ongoing self-education is Gleick's The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. It's long. It's dense. It's good, so far. In fact, there's already a passage, a quote from Plato, that has struck me as germane to the ongoing threads I attempt to weave here on this site (even if all I'm really
I have had my free report on my blog since its inception because Zac taught me in his free report ‘Six Figure Affiliate Blogging‘ how important it is to get your free report up as soon as you can. If you don’t, you miss out on all the potential benefits of the traffic you garner from day one. I am constantly learning from Zac and other affiliate bloggers, and since launching my Self Publishing Blog I have been looking at and reading a lot of blogs in different niches to look at their
Today, Amazon officially opened its Android Appstore. For this Android user it is a welcome sight (or site if you will) because Google’s Android market is like a flea market of apps. You are pretty confident that something good is in there but there is just too much junk to wade through so you give up. Amazon aims to clear up some of the confusion, cut through the garbage and help deliver quality Android apps more quickly and efficiently.
Last year, Eventbrite took a stab at putting a dollar figure on the worth of Facebook and Twitter followers. Now, five months later, they’re digging a little deeper into the data to discover why and when we share.
Everyone knows what a ringtone is but I admit I was thrown for a moment when I saw this new report about ringbacks. A ringback tone is what you hear while you’re waiting for your call to connect. Usually it’s a sequence of beeps, which aren’t very pleasant to listen to, so why not offer something more fun like the McDonald’s jingle or a reminder to have a Coke and a Smile with lunch.