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I laughed [out loud] when I read this quote in an article by Valley Wag’s Paul Boutin.
“Entrepreneurs You guys think money is everything. That is, you think money is some sort of universal currency into which anything can be converted, and which can be converted to anything else.”
I’ve been expressing my frustration about entrepreneurship lately. […]

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Yesterday my business partner and I had lunch with Courtney Tuttle, a blogger and Internet marketer (www.courtneytuttle.com).Up until a few days ago I didn’t know he lived close so I contacted him and the next day we met him. Courtney is just as generous in real life as he is in his blog. He […]

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I’ve been writing a lot more SEO press releases again and so it’s on my mind. I want to go over the steps of writing an SEO press release.

Assemble the facts, news angle, and begin writing.
To me, the best quality press releases involve actual interviewing, on the phone. There is so much more information you […]

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I just read a feature about blogger John Chow on the Unusual Business Ideas that Work blog. I met John Chow at Blogworld a few months ago. The post talks about how much he’s made from blogging - $25k a month. He started out making $300 a month. He spends about $550 a month in […]

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I’m going to save you a lot of pain and money. When businesses are new to blogging they often want to set up their own blogging software or platform. Don’t do it. Use Wordpress. It’s customizeable, has many plugins, and it’s free (be sure to host it on your own server, with your own domain […]

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I had a consulting gig last year that had me write an SEO press release every week. I had no access to stats and that severely hampered my ability to improve and learn from all of the data. I like seeing what combination of techniques and PR distribution services work best for different business objectives. […]

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I wanted to link to an earlier post about Walmart and then I discovered something: my blog is messed up. None of my permanent links work [this has since been fixed]. I can’t quite express how I feel about the fact that almost 3 years of work and writing is inaccessible to the search engines […]

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I just learned a bit more about Innuity - the company that does the Internet Marketing services for Sam’s Club. They have a tie to a Utah company that became a bit infamous - 10x Media. In 2005 Innuity acquired 10x Marketing. I didn’t know that until today.
Here’s a quote from a press release about […]

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“…even years after beginning the process of starting a business, only one-third of people have a new company with positive cash flow greater than the salary and expenses of the owner for more than three consecutive months.”
This from Guy Kawasaki’s blog and it relates to what I’ve been writing about and thinking about lately. This […]

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As I was catching up on my blog reader today, I did a double take on this revelation: Sam’s Club (or WalMart) offers Internet Marketing services. The company that offers the services is called Innuity. It’s not new but I’ve never heard of it until today. I spoke to them to find out more.
First, Sam’s […]

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