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Spagg.com The First Place Where Private Owners Can Securely Rent Their Cars To Make Extra Money
It is an idea who’s time has come: SPAGG.com
With the revitalization of the inner cities and old buildings as ” industrial lofts”, the green movement, and the economy and the slow economic recovery of late, the timing for SPAGG.com is prefect:
Spagg.com Network – the first place where private owners can securely rent their cars to [...]
Nothing Much Going On Today – Good Time For Goal Setting, Analytics
goal setting and analytics
How To Market And Cash-flow An E-book Using Google And Adsense
One of our current partners, Brian Bentow, is a computer programmer who wrote a book about computer related injuries: his experiences prior to meeting us, and the processes he went through learning about self-publishing a book, are valuable to anybody who has something to say, and who wants to get the word out for pleasure [...]
Dont Get Stuck With An Outdated Website
Iso 9001 Quality Control Experts – Easy To Rank For Niche Searches
If you type into Google search “ISO 9001 Quality Control Experts” or anything else to do with Guaranteed Certification in this niche market, you will find our client: Qualaco, Inc. Even though this is a brand new domain we reserved for them, they already have organic Google rankings targeting their niche market exactly.
They not only [...]
2010 Seo Sem Smo| It Is About The Content, Stupid
Beware outdated techniques and services: any methodology that is designed to bring an unworthy site up on the first page organic search results of Google and others, at best, will not work for long; at worst, these outdated, yet still widely offered services will get your website penalized, or even banned.
Why Elance, Rent-a-coder, Freelancer, And Other Freelancing Sites Are Terrible
If you are even thinking about using Elance, Rent-a-Coder, Freelancer.com or any other online freelancing site, get ready for some Brain Damage! These sites are terrible for both the clients and the freelancers…
10 In 10: Online Marketing Chain As Strong As Weekest Link
As we did years ago (you will notice that everything we said several years ago has come out to be true, and much of it still applies) we will sum it all up by reviewing all the pieces to a succesfull social media marketing (online marketing) campaign:
Online Reputation Management Can Be A Powerful Force For Change For Good
A black fireman had his helmet filled with urine and eggs and tomatoes put in his boots during a campaign of racist bullying at three fire stations including Paddington, a tribunal has heard
What Happens If I’m Charged With A Felony In California? Legal Answers:
What happens if I am charged with a felony in California
Meetup.com And Affinity Marketing | Building A Refferal Farm
Whether your target clientele is as narrow as gay female liberals, or inclusive as everyone who drinks coffee, you can be instantly exposed to everyone in your area (probably thousands) who have indicated an interest in such new meet-up groups by key words and geographical radius.
Inetgiant.com – Largest And Oldest – Coolest Free Classifieds On The Web!
Inetgiant.com Free Classified Ads is the oldest, most well known, and best free classified ad site I have seen. It is extremely quick, user friendly, HUGE – and they offer a robust set of options: seeing how many ads there are there, I would consider some of them due to the low cost:
Social Network Creation – Moderation And Development
$99.00 Per Month Private Label Social Network
See our new network here as an example!

Custom – stand alone or install into any existing website
Seamless Branding and Integration
Ongoing hands-on managed Social Community with Ajax, Video, Chat
We manage SEO, Promote
Optional $148 Per Month with domain, hosting, ad revenue

It is not necessary to spend thousands of dollars re-creating the [...]
Businesses Can Do Their Own Seo And And Social Media Marketing
Businesses Can Do Their Own SEO and and Social Media Marketing By Israel Rothman

As someone who sells SEO related Social Media Optimization and Marketing as a service you would think that it is not in my best interest to tell people they can do SEO and Social Media Marketing on their own: But it’s true. Just [...]
Your Gift To Your Community, Your Cash-cow!
Serve your community, promote your business, and make a profit at the same time: you can be on top of thousands searches for combinations of your target key words, and build a valuable website property at the same time!
By giving the local interactive community portal in your area away for free, you can capture a marketplace, and [...]
Merchant Services Charge-back Horror: Why Paypal Is The Only Way:
photo credit: David Boyle in DC
There are reasons why I had the outrageous gall to re-start my online marketing company without capital: I had done it all before to the tune of millions, didn’t need a physical location, was selling a service with very little hard costs other than our time, and had re-created [...]
New Low Prices For An E-book: Only $299!
Now you can have an E-Book marketing system blog by purchasing our amazing power immediately for $299, or complete with hosting for one year, your own domain, strategic posting and promotion, and ongoing training, promotion and support for as little as $479.00.
Why have a website that nobody sees? We promise traffic and functionality that puts you [...]
The Slow Death Of Seo As We Know It
photo credit: jphilipg
Now that race includes video, and another new trend: with more and more websites coming online, branding is taking back over, and small websites are seen less and less. We go to Expedia to buy Airline tickets, for instance, and now cheap Tickets.
The window for SEO supremacy is closing, as more and [...]
Social Media Marketing: When The Water Is Low…
In logging, there is a saying:
“When the water is low, the stumps will show”
It refers to the cylclicle nature of the industry, and how only the toughest survive when things are hard.
Recently I heard it said another way referring to the real estate industry in last year’s Leadership conference:
“When the water is low, you can [...]
Link Bait: Blogging For Two Audiences
Here is the paradox: you must reach your market with a message that will generate leads to feed your business.
You must also reach the geeks and journalists who may republish and link to your articles, creating traffic and search engine rankings.
For Social Media Marketing purposes, you are really writing for two completely different audiences:
Example:
We are [...]

Nov 012009

Why Elance, Rent-a-coder, Freelancer, And Other Freelancing Sites Are Terrible

If you are even thinking about using Elance, Rent-a-Coder, Freelancer.com or any other online freelancing site, get ready for some Brain Damage! These sites are terrible for both the clients and the freelancers and here are just some reasons why:

For Clients:

What if I don’t know exactly what I want? Too bad! These sites want a piece of the transaction so they control your freedom to work directly with the client to help define the project to meet your business goals!
Who is actually doing the development? Because you cannot work with the freelancers directly, you may THINK you are working with a qualified freelancer but they just hand the project and a programing book off to a high school student!
These prices are too good to be true! They are! The freelancers are forced into a competitive bidding process so early in the project that is so heavily weighted against them that they are forced to underbid poorly defined projects. In fact, these projects are typically a miserable experience for the freelancers and you are likely to get crap back!
Why can’t I find top-notch professionals? On these sites, the freelances are incented to do quick and dirty jobs to meet hard deadlines. Scope can and should change as you learn more about the project. It is nearly impossible to do Agile or intelligent development in this way!

For Freelancers: