If you are serious about making a living from internet marketing, you need to attend shoemoney’s Elite Retreat. It’s only five grand, which may sound like a lot but when you look at the setup of the conference you are getting face time with the absolute top experts in the field. Like I said, IF you are serious.
Don’t have five stacks but you are still really serious? Doubtful, but where there’s a will there’s a way. Fortunately for you Pepperjam is hosting a contest to give you a free pass to Elite Retreat. You still have to get yourself to San Fran, but you are serious about this internet marketing thing right?
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elite retreat, pepperjam, shoemoney
Hey yall. I havent looked around on here in a month or so, and actually had a bunch of comments! Weird. I am still working on updating this blog, I think I am going to get a new theme from UBD and move everything to knofun. Stay tuned!
I also just got back from a crazy week in vegas. Was out there for pubcon, but really only spent about 15 minutes at the actual convention. The rest of the time was spent schmoozing, drinking, conversing, gambling, and making an ass of myself. Typical vegas. Met a lot of really cool people, and build better relationships with some people I already know. DK had a big week, big ups guy but hey can you tell those girls to finish editing the sportscenter highlight reel from ThinkTank???
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Released a new version of ZinText today. You can check it out on our demo page.
Basically we replaced the old info window that pops up when you mouse over a link. Now instead of 2 items you get 10, and its all in flash with some cool hover effects and all that jazz. We will be playing around with different movies to test click throughs and all that, but for now at least it looks better 
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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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arbitrage, gervitz, harrison, marketing, shoemoney
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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I have blogged before about my car site CarsForaGrand.com where we showcase used cars & trucks for sale, all under $1,000. In an effort to provide a better service, I have now added a location search to the site. So for example, if you wanted all the cheap used cars for sale in san diego you can now do that. From there you can narrow by make, for example Chevys for sale in san diego under $1,000. Check it out for your area!
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When Microsoft promotes its search engine and its web browser inside of its 80%+ market share operating system, that’s a violation of antitrust laws. So when Google uses its 80%+ market share search engine to promote its content, what is that?
Jason Calacanis has rightly been raising a stink about this. I was trying to link to him but confusingly he is “retired from blogging” so I can’t link to his comments. I guess he is too cool for his own blog but not too cool for twitter and friend feed?
Anyways Jason has a good point. He is complaining, of course, out of self interest. His “human powered search engine” Mahalo is in essence a one-source wiki or a MFG site = “Made for Google.” I wonder what their ratio is of page views from their search box vs. page views from google. At any rate, Jason is understandably upset at this knol development, since they will be taking up a lot of room in the SERPS that probably used to belong to Mahalo. And the big elephant in the room, will Google the search engine give preferential placement to Google the content company? Jason has taken three steps to handle this. 1) Complain to his sizeable audience - loudly 2) complain to Matt Cutts - repeatedly 3) create a bunch of his own Mahalo pages on knol. Not a bad strategy, just like Jason: intelligent and shrewd.
So combine that with Aaron Wall’s breakdown on knol. Aaron does some more tests with knol, and pretty much proves Google is giving itself priority placement in its search results. Well, kind of. It’s not ranking #1 for anything yet, but compare that to a site you start 3-4 days after launch. You won’t even rank for your own name. Danny Sullivan did some tests for knol SERP results and found it was “giving pages an advantage they might not get if they’d been hosted on some other brand new web site.”
My thoughts? Well, everyone is making this big fuss just a few days after they launched. We all know that Google’s algorithms can take hours, days, or months to decide what they want to do. Also, everyone is comparing knol to a brand new site. Yeah, a brand new site on a domain with a pagerank of 10. The domain that INVENTED pagerank. Nevertheless, Google moving into content when they promised us they would only be there to ‘index the world’s information’ is a disturbing development, and certainly has a lot of potential for abuse.
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google, knol, seo
All is well with my twitter again. Sorry for shouting.
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