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Harrison Gervitz is a 16 year old kid who sounds like a 10 year vet of the industry. He recently posted a guest post on shoemoney entitled “Running an Ad Network (The Mechanics of Arbitrage) which is the best short piece on internet marketing I have ever read. If you are thinking of getting into making money on the internet this is a MUST READ.

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Hey all I haven’t really blogged in a while, thought I would update everyone. Here goes:

The Chargers are 0-2. This will all change tonight when we beat down Jett Favre at Qualcomm tonite. I will be there early tailgating (read: shotgunning beers like I was still enrolled at SDSU) so hit me up if you have the digits.

I am going to ThinkTank 2008, and I am really excited. No I didn’t win my way in but I am still going - thanks dk.

ZinText has probably been my most active project, closing a round of angel funding and inking a licensing deal with arguably the biggest affiliate company in the world. Stay tuned for details.

Thinking about moving this blog to knofun.com, and changing all my chrishedgecock branding (twitter,blog,aim etc) to knofun. Yeah I know I have thought of it before and didn’t do it, that’s why I am thinking about it now.

My lil nephew continues to be the best-looking AND most-photographed kid in San Diego - nay the world! Exhibit A:

So yeah that’s probably about it for now.

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SEO is a huge part of what I do. I don’t really consider myself an SEO, but at the same time my business relies pretty heavily (some might say too heavily) on the 50k or so people I see every day from organic search. So I pay attention to SEO trends, stay WAY on the ‘whitehat’ side of things (even though I am an active member at blackhat world). I also read ShoeMoney a lot, because he is a smart guy (even if he has bad grammar). Shoe is giving away a trip to SEO Thinktank 2008 to the person who writes the best post on how they could contribute to ThinkTank 2008.

Shoe is giving away the $2499 entry cost plus room and board for the event and surrounding days, for a total of $4100. So why do I want to win? Yes, I could easily afford the entry, and since I never win anything on Shoe’s blog (*cough* daily t-shirt contest *cough*) I will probably end up paying. But why should I win? What do I bring to the table? Funny you should ask:

• I have been making real money online since 1998
• The first ‘real’ job I had was working for a company called Microsoft doing web development for this new product they had called ‘msn’
• My last ‘real’ job was for a company called MP3.com and we released this product called My.MP3.com that got us sued for $300 million
• My last ‘real job’ was in 2002, since then I have survived - nay, flourished - on my web marketing, development, and SEO skills
• I have worked closely with search guys at Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com, and Search.com
• I was invited to the eBay Affiliate roundtable in Chicago in June of this year - only the top 15 or so affiliates were invited.
• Working out of my house and mostly for myself breeds a closed mind. To make sure I am still interacting with other like minded people who can help me grow in my quest for internet dominance I regularly go to places like CoWorkingSanDiego, and lunch a few times a month with guys like Shawn and Ryan who challenge me with their superior intellect. This proves I am willing to share my mojo with others - maybe you!
• Bonus: I live in San Diego, in Pacific Beach to be exact. So the cost of awarding me this prize would only be the cost of admission to the conference, which I am hoping Shoe has covered
• Extra Bonus: I will challenge shoe (I will pay for the shots up front) to a drinking contest of some sort and win!

So yeah it felt good to write all that stuff (especially about not having a real job for 4 years :-), thanks for the opp Shoe hope to see you in SD.

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