This is the first post in a new section called “Cool Tools” (I know, very original). Anyway, I just found a new plugin for wordpress that allows a visitor to sign up for sms alerts. I have no idea whether or not people will enter their cell phone numbers but I will give it a shot anyway. To sweeten the pot a little, I will give away a package of sofware, ebooks and website templates to anyone who does sign up. Look for the SMS sign up to your right ——> Do you want this for your blog... Read Full Story

If you are an Adwords advertiser, you may have gotten an email today saying that Google decided to show actual numbers for traffic estimates! This is a beautiful thing as it will allow me to better estimate how many clicks and impressions I can expect from a particular phrase in any given position of [...] Read Full Story

I just came across an article in MSN about the world now having 10 million millionaires! It is a bit a counter intuitive information given the current recession but it makes perfect sense. People who recognize the movements in their markets can profit no matter what the conditions are. Tags: millionaires, rich, money, msn Here are some [...] Read Full Story

In a move the reeks of desperation, Microsoft has decided to start paying people to click on ads and subsequently make a purchase. Year over year, MSN Live continues to lose market share to the Googleplex so it is looking for anything to start getting people to get familiar and actually use Live.com. They have partherships with about 700 advertisers that sell their own physical goods, like TV’s and tube socks. That agreement allows the advertisers to pay on a % of sale basis so that there... Read Full Story

Okay, this just falls in the “what the hell were you thinking” category and is a bit outside of my normal types of posts so please forgive me. But. . . There is a couple in Germany that tried to sell their baby on ebay for 1 Euro. They now face child trafficking charged and claim that is was just a “joke”. Well, I don’t think that anyone is laughing including the German government who has taken custody of the 7 month old baby. Read the whole story here on MSN. Here are some posts you may... Read Full Story

Talk about a case of too much government! You may have heard about the recent legislation that New York state passed that give it the authority to charge sales tax to ANY entity selling to a resident of the state no matter where they are based. That love also extends to affiliate sales! Can you believe it? As a result, Overstock.com has cut off all of it’s New York affiliates so no more Big ‘O’ for the Big Apple. Amazon has decided to sue the state questioning their authority in... Read Full Story

Finally after months of grand standing and covert ops, it appears that Microsoft decided to drop it’s pursuit of Yahoo. Here’s a link to the official press release. Although the deal may have created lots of synergies between the two online media behemoths, it would not have done much in the way of gaining on their mutual nemesis, Google. Now that Google is climbing into bed with Yahoo and serving up advertising from Adwords, it is going to be interesting how things develop going forward... Read Full Story

Finally after months of grand standing and covert ops, it appears that Microsoft decided to drop it’s pursuit of Yahoo. Here’s a link to the official press release. Although the deal may have created lots of synergies between the two online media behemoths, it would not have done much in the way of gaining on their mutual nemesis, Google. Now that Google is climbing into bed with Yahoo and serving up advertising from Adwords, it is going to be interesting how things develop going forward... Read Full Story

You are not going to believe this but Forbes posted a story about the richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, building a home costing nearly $2,000,000,000 dollars! 2 billion dollars? It will be 27 stories tall and have over 400,000 square feet of space including 6 floors of parking. Read Full Story

You are not going to believe this but Forbes posted a story about the richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, building a home costing nearly $2,000,000,000 dollars! 2 billion dollars? It will be 27 stories tall and have over 400,000 square feet of space including 6 floors of parking. Read Full Story