Jeremy Palmer is partnering with Commission Junction to offer live seminars on affiliate marketing. It’s called Blueprint for Profitability. There will be 5 1-hour seminars a month.

This is the closest you may ever get to getting personal coaching from Jeremy Palmer. It comes with a training guide, tools, and a copy of his ebook, High Performance Affiliate Marketing.

Nice run-on sentences CJ. Seems like Jeremy could help with their web copy…

Commission Junction has partnered with Jeremy Palmer, author of the e-book High-Performance Affiliate Marketing and a multimillion dollar earning publisher in his own right, to create the Blueprint for Profitability program. The Blueprint for Profitability is a series of live, online seminars designed to bring Jeremy’s experiences and our own expertise together in a format that provides publishers with the tools and strategies to have an immediate positive impact on their own revenue.”

Microsoft’s Strider URL Tracer is a free download. Use it to see who is using your domain name. It catches typo-squatters who use common mispellings of your branded terms. Example: someone registers www.amizon.com

Google makes a lot of cash this way (from The Washington Post):

Google specifically bars Web addresses that infringe on trademarks from using its ad network, but a review of placeholder Web sites that result from misspelled domain names of well-known companies found that many of the ads on those pages come directly from Google.

The URL tracker also blocks children from accessing porn if they mistype a common children’s web site. I wonder if network security appliances ever come with this type of service.

It’s still the wild wild west on the internet…

I don’t know about you but I feel like I can use some good news. You know I love Business 2.0. This issue was great. The cover story is about bloggers who quit their jobs and blog full-time (my dream!).

Highlights from Business 2.0 Magazine:

• So good you can eat it up
  Pre-seasoned shishkebob sticks that flavor food with no extra fat or salt. Spiced cooking mats that soak seasonings into food.
• Another benefit of excercise: electricity!
  Students from University of Stirling in Scotland are getting a patent on a system that lets exercisers create electricity while they work out. Gold’s Gym is interested because it could save 20% off their electric bill.
• The military’s war against common bathroom mold
  Technology developed by the military takes care of mold in the bathroom.
• Its easy being green
  Adobe is saving money and the earth with their innovative building design. Cubbies have composting garbages. The switch to compact florescent lights saves $105K a year. They invested $1.1 million and save a million each year. Other companies take note.
• Most relevant to former Provo Labs employees
  “Only the Bulldogs Survive.” Stubborn determination may make all the difference between startup success or failure.
• Best alarm clock for sleep
  A watch that lets you set a range of time to wake up. It selects the optimal time based on your sleep patterns. I wish the alarm would start soft and gradually get louder.
• Best use of a video ipod
  Jason Jennings of the Colorado Rockies. He uses it to watch reruns of his games and improve his pitch.

Microsoft Filed a lawsuit against John Jonas, his partner Daniel Goggins and one other man Monday. (Thank you to the person who posted a comment on my post about it). It’s making national and international news.

Deseret News: The suit charges the defendants were involved in “cybersquatting,” trademark infringement, false designation of origin, unfair competition/false advertising and unfair business practices.”
Here’s what MSNBC said about the Microsoft lawsuit:

“Microsoft filed two civil lawsuits Monday against four defendants it said are profiting from domain names that infringe on Microsoft trademarks. One filed in U.S. District Court in Utah alleges that Jason Cox of Albuquerque, N.M., Daniel Goggins of Provo, Utah, and John Jonas, of Springville, Utah, together registered 324 domain names targeting Microsoft. The defendants do business as Jonas and Goggins Studios LLC and Newtonarch LLC.”

I wouldn’t want to be Jonas. Bye bye spam profits. He responded to my post justifying his actions and accusing others of doing what he does. It was then pulled from his blog. This week my friend remarked that “no one cared” what Jonas is doing. I rest my case.

Another blog: bink.nu “Watching Microsoft like a Hawk” chimed in.

A recent Forbes report said Utah is fourth best state in the country to start a business. Ranks determined by “business costs, economic climate, growth prospects, labor, quality of life and regulatory environments,” Techrockies reports. Viriginia is #1.

Nice retro “Welcome to Utah” sign on the report page.

Did you know you can get Omniture’s Site Catalyst through 10X Marketing for $150 a month? I always assumed that meant you had limited functionality. Nope. This is a great deal. I wish I knew about it last year for Tahitian Noni. Check it out.

After looking at all the business blogging books about business blogging available I want to ask for a recommendation. What blogging for business book have you found most useful?

Oh, and don’t forget to catch Blake Snow talking about business blogging at U|Tech this October.  Talk to me about getting a good deal if you’re planning to come. The price goes up in September.

If you went to BYU you might remember Eric Snider. He’s still around and still writing. Business Blog Consulting Blog talks about how Paramount banned Eric from reviewing anything ever again because he gave a bad movie review.

He says he wants to create a new section called: the Dangers of Pissing Off a Blogger. 

I like how FatWallet, Dave Taylor, and others have addressed things on my blog. The more influential the blogger the bigger deal it is that you don’t piss them off. I dig Guy Kawasaki’s article on How to Suck up to a Blogger. That’s more the approach.

Bloggers are opininated (I’m holding back a lot lately though). Blogging levels the playing field. You decide what gets said or is left unsaid. You can’t buy off or control a blogger. Large corporations probably don’t like that. Negative feedback is an opportunity for more publicity if handled right. When the big guys take on the little guys in public most people root for the underdog. The corporation gets the black eye and the blogger benefits from all the traffic and attention.

Rosalind Gardner blogged about how an affiliate got kicked off FriendFinder’s program for copying her material. I applaud FriendFinder for taking a stand. I don’t think it’s fair for someone to steal your content and make money on it. Write your own content. In my book that’s cheating. Glad to see someone taking action.

I should copywrite my blog and we should all be careful to do the same. I predict this will be more aggressively policed in the future.

Other types of content like songs can’t be ripped off so people can put them on ads. You have to pay for it. People get sued for this sort of thing.

It’s difficult to stay on top of copyrights on the internet but I maintain that it needs to be done. Google tries and I don’t think they do enough. They end up punishing the innocent and letting the guilty get off. Plus you’re guilty until proven innocent.

There has to be a better way.

Wired Magazine has a hilarious piece on web 2.0 startups.

Mix and Match: take a market, add a hyped technology (like my fav: ruby on rails), attach a service (like reviews), then a delivery method (a podcast, a wiki) and there you have it: a new company! Just shake it up all and add a name.

It also cites the web 2.0 companies that have worked.

Example: Flickr. Photo (a market) + tagging & RSS (web 2.0 tech) + Search (service) + Community (delivery method)

What web 2.0 combinations can you mix up?