It's my birthday today ... yes yes, thank you for your wishes!
An interesting post on Digg I stumbled on. Although I did not make this list of top 20 people Internet Millionaires under 30.
FYI - I am not under 30, so I do not qualify. I'm on other lists not mentioned here. :)
Here is how I spent my Birthday weekend ... floating on a portable office (canoe) on the Okanagan waters.
Thanks again - Have a great day as well!
Nice quote about video marketing
Customers that watch videos convert at twice the rate of customers who do not.
http://blog.shareresults.com/?p=691
Additional information on video marketing
http://blog.shareresults.com/?p=706
What are you addicted to these days?
How about social networking?
Bookmarking, building links, submitting sites, getting reviews, posting videos, etc ...
Quick tool for FireFox users to bookmark sites - Shareaholic
Various services all in one place, simple and easy to bookmark sites
Tracking with Google Alerts
Recent video on managing your website links and where you site may be linked from, video Google Alerts video here.
Fellow Vancouver-ite John Chow has released his blog report ... inspirational.
Initially starting off at $350 per month, John now enjoys a new record of $32,500+ for the previous month.
Here's his key:
The key to making money online is to drive a lot of traffic and then maximize the income from that traffic.
That's a mortgage payment and then some.
I have recently started my own little blog ramblings called Affiliate Money Tools to help beginners with affiliate marketing and making money on the Internet.
I've been at this over 10+ years, so why not share some joy.
Enjoy the 40K John, I'm right behind you.
The ultimate chase scene - Steve McQueen
Love the music and the roars are best when speakers are turned right up
Click here to see how the chase was put together ...
There really is not much out there for this, but ...
As for meta descriptions, still looking, unable to find
Learn more about the various meta tags here
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/the-bloggers-guide-to-meta-tags/
With some engine, it still can make a difference
I was in Toronto last year delayed due to snow and ended picking up Seth Godin's 'Purple Cow'.
What makes your company remarkable?
Getting quite involved in social media brings me to the Squidoo site and lo and behold Seth, the founder, is here.
More here: http://www.squidoo.com/whybuildalens
Besides that, still setting up communities on probably the most popular blog social MyBlogLog
Here's an example for this site
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/antonjamm/
and or the main profile
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/onlinejamm/
Time to set up Squidoo and see what it is about
Get connected with others
If you have a blog, one really needs to set up a Yahoo profile at MyBlogLog
Here is a sample of what mine looks like
http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/onlinejamm/
Drive traffic, drive new users, get more visitors
Once set up, add me to your list!
Ever since I got in to offering social bookmarking a few months back for our clients, it has been an eye-opener.
Do it work, does it help my site, can I see some results, etc...
In an effort to keep all things organized, I've created a simple site to showcase the collection of social sites online, properly called Social Bookmark List
Every day new sites I've never been to are coming up and why not post them online.
Happy July 4th!
I took the plunge last week (I think, I lost track of time) and purchase another notebook ... more power, more gear, new OS.
Yes people are ranting about Vista and all it's flaws, but personally after all this time, I think it is great.
Turn off the glossy stuff and you're good to go.
My biggest concern was the ability to run a PHP/MySQL web server off the machine.
No problems there either.
You can run various flavors of Apache, PHP or MySQL with WAMP .... very cool
Personally I'm still running Sokkit, which is done. XP Home had issues and sokkit was the solution at that time.
Or you could set up PHP, MySQL, Apache manually .... but why?
BBQ time
If you're making that type of money from AdSense, then you've done your research on niche specific keywords and ones that are paying well.
It is possible to make five bucks from one click of advertising on your page, simply need to find where.
For the ones that are offering hosting services, it makes you question whether going through email account set-up, file uploading, database setup, site troubleshooting and more is really worth offering the service for $5 per month.
The Planet is a dedicated server hosting provider which operates six large data centers in Texas. One of their Houston-based data centers suffered from a fire last night which has left all servers there temporarily down which means that approximately 7,500 customers can’t access their websites.
Follow up on post:
http://antonjamm.blogspot.com/2008/05/planet-goes-down.html
Seems from DP and others, many are still in the dark
ETA - today - 50%
