#24 Kyle Lacy, Social Media Kung-fu Master Interview. @kyleplacy
#14 Bad ass online business models with co-host @MuhammadInc
How to build a smart Zombie Twitter Account

#18 How can a full time developer start a business by himself? Travis Ryan and @WeeBehave

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#18 How can a full time developer start a business by himself? Travis Ryan and @WeeBehave

In this interview I talk with WeeBehave’s CEO Travis Ryan about how he created his idea, got started and got some great PR – all by his lonesome. Indianapolis’ WeeBehave helps parents and teachers keep track of their children/students progress in behaviors and chores. Now Travis is looking for a co-founder to take WeeBehave to the next level and dominate the education market.

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#17 Make money coding with @AdamTal and @Binarypress

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How do you turn your code in to cash? In this Interview I talk with Binpress.com‘s Marketing leader Adam Tal. You’ll hear how Adam got his start making money online, creating revenue generating machines and landing at Binpress.com, a new source code market place that’s going to make a lot of good coder a lot [...]

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Make money online, for real. 3 online services that pay.

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Make money online, for real. 3 online services that pay.

Making money online schemes have turned in to some of the biggest scams on the internet.  Most  claims are flat out lies in order to fool consumers in to buying some book, crappy software or video tutorials. Today I offer a handful of methods to actually make money online. Sure these services won’t afford you a [...]

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13 sweet ass web tools & resources for web developers

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Google Hosted jQuery. Use Google’s hosted version to save bandwidth and decrease page load. Packer by Dean Edwards. Take that huge ass Javascript file and compress it! ProCSSor. Make that ugly CSS beautiful. JSON Formatter. Makes JSON pretty. YQL Console. Build Yahoo Query Language for quick JSON or XML from mashup data. PHP Snippets. Bunch [...]

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#16 The rise and fall of Appendant Marketing [podcast]

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Mark Anderson and I relive our experiences launching Appendant Marketing Group, a personalized direct marketing agency. We candidly cover: Meeting at TruStar Solutions. Leaving Enfront to launch our first product RecruitCard. The pain and excitement of building an company, office and hiring 15 people. An accidental firing. Generating $1.2 million in sales in our first year. Promoting your business using conferences for virtually free. Raising $350,000. Growing big egos and more! Not selling when we should.

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#15 Alan Wlasuk [podcast]

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Alan is one of the founders of WDD, Inc. an Indianapolis based software testing / development firm, he has also rocking technology longer than most of you have been alive. In this weeks show, Alan and I talk about his journey from being an AT&T intrepreneurial to launching a new WDD spin off called 403 Web Security – launching later this month (april 2011). 403, will focus on secure web app development and website security scanning.

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Vintage Apple Commercials

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1994 Power Macintosh Apple Cube Commercial 2000 Powermac vs. Intel Then Apple went in Intel. PowerBook – early 90′s Corporate Mac The greatest commercial ever aired Brandon CorbinBrandon is a self professed Technology Hit man and Product Evangelist. He’s a Private Speaker, an Anti-Social Media Consultant, a Connoisseur of time, chaos, usability and life. He’s [...]

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4 helpful WordPress hacks

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Add the following functionality to your WordPress blog by coping and pasting any of the snippets directly in to your Themes function.php file. Add Browser Type to Body Class Helpful for creating browser specific styling. function browser_body_class($classes) { // A little Browser detection shall we? $browser = $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_USER_AGENT' ]; // Mac, PC …or Linux [...]

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#14 Bad ass online business models with co-host @MuhammadInc

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#14 Bad ass online business models with co-host @MuhammadInc

Mohammad Yasin and I talk about some great online business models. Like: Rock Melt, Angry Birds, Dino Dash, CraftSquach, Moki.TV, Learnable.com, Flippa.com, Evernote and Raidious.com

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How much to pay per click. estimating your EPC.

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How much to pay per click. estimating your EPC.

It’s important to know how much you can spend in online advertising (Google AdWords, Facebook Ads) and still come out net positive. To do this you’ll need to calculate the EPC (earnings per click) for a given offer. Story Time: Let’s say you’re promoting an ebook called “Billy Bob’s guide to Goat Milking” as an affiliate. [...]

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Boxee or Roku for Internet TV.

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Boxee or Roku for Internet TV.

Since 2003 I’ve been an avid consumer of television and movies over the internet. Over the years, consuming online video content on a Television has become much easier thanks to companies like Roku, Boxee and even Google. But with any new market, picking the best solution can be a bit confusing. Boxee Box I’ve been [...]

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#13 Yaw Aning co-founder of Pocket Tales #podcast

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#13 Yaw Aning co-founder of Pocket Tales #podcast

In this episode of the 8iFY Podcast, I interview Yaw Aning the co-founder of Indianapolis startup PocketTales. PocketTales is an online social gaming platform for children – built around reading books. They got their start at the first StartupWeekend in Indianapolis, and had a chance to present at SXSW in 2010.

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#12 How 8iFY is (or isn’t) making IT money.

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This weeks podcast covers how the last 3 months of the 8iFY experiment have been. I started 8iFY to test different ideas in making money online, and to share those results with the readers / listeners. In this episode I talk about what has been working and what hasn’t.

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Mobile Porn – 5 frameworks for building your next mobile app.

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Mobile, mobile, mobile is the new location, location, location. Your product / website needs to work on mobile devices. When I say work, I mean transform for the device the user is … usering. Also, just having the full blown website scaled down on the tiny screen doesn’t cut the mustard . Luckily, there are [...]

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#11. A few of my favorite things. With guest co-host @dougrowe72

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Doug Rowe and I talk about a few of my favorite products and services in a pseudo-Oprah style, minus giving things away. MacBook Pro, DropBox, Audible, My Daughter, Kim Crawford, Brewhouse, Roku, Netflix, Hulu, Dexter, Amazon Prime, GarageBand, GetClicky, Prycast and [shameless plug] JobExpose podcast.

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