Posts Tagged ‘Google’
323 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
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How do three friends go from an idea to launching a business and getting some killer PR in only a few months? Listen to this interview with The Tyros to find out.
On this July 4th episode we talk with Josh Koch, Tony Monteleone and Kyle Armstrong about their new startup that's going to change the face of Officiating.
Are you a front-end developer looking to get in on the ground floor of a hot Indy startup? Check out The Tyros' Web Developer job opening.
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418 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
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.
Bob claims that his ebook gets a 6 to 9% conversion rate.
Bob's book pays out $44 for each sale an affiliate brings in.
We first have to be realistic on the conversion rate...
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439 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
DocRaptor is a killer new web service that makes generating BEAUTIFUL PDFs as easy as writing HTML. The raptor also does Excel Documents, however for the purpose of this post I'm going to focus purely on the PDF side of things.
Many many years ago, I started a PDF Book Printing service called PrintFu and needed the ability to generate PDF invoices dynamically that could then be merged with the customers original PDF for the printer. While this was in 2003, I spent a retarded amount of tim...
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476 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Apparently Google doesn't like the idea of people learning how to drive traffic to their website WITHOUT Google. Usually Google will display"Did you mean:" when you misspell something - but in this instance, if you search Google for "Drive Traffic Without Google" - they suggest Drive Traffic WITH Google.
Now that Google has suspended my AdWords account, I'm on a mission to learn how to generate traffic without the mighty Goog. I've never liked having all my eggs in one basket and will sh...
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476 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Last month we covered how to create a Zombie Blog that pissed off a whole lot of people, and this month we'll cover how to setup an Automated Zombie Twitter Account. However, unlike the Zombie Blog, this Twitter Account actually has some real value to it's followers. In essence this tutorial will show you how to "combine" a ton of different blogs in to a single Twitter account. Unlike the Zombie blog, this Zombie will send traffic to the original blog posts, thus giving the authors more traf...
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487 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
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Remember when the word Geek used to have a negative connotation? My friends, those days are long gone! Now it's chic to be geek! If you happen to be an 8iFY reader and aren't the most technically savvy; this post is written just for you! Here's 4 easy steps that will dramatically improve your geek cred.
1. Ditch Internet Explorer and go with Google Chrome
You instantly loose any credibility in the geek community If you're on Internet Explorer. Keep in mind if you're browsing a geeks site t...
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489 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
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I'm an awful writer, I know this and I accept this; yet I still do it. See, I have a mild case of dyslexia and a major case of the "shiny object syndrome". I have the attention span of a field mouse and I get bored rather easily. All of these weaknesses usually don't add up to someone who wants to blog for a living; and yet, I still blog.
For the first time in my life, I have found a way to keep me focused and engaged in a blog besides the randomness of my personal blog iCorbin.com; and I owe i...
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493 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
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By no means do I claim to be a product naming expert, but I can tell you that I've saved a ton of money by not paying a branding agency to come up with my names; and for the most part they all have passed the sniff test. For example: DigitalGood.me, MemeCard.com, Print(fu), Listy.me, Sutra.biz, UXJobs.com, PirateIndex.com, JumpWeekend, WhatTheInternet, SocialKombat, CommerSutra, PostcardsFromSpace.com, Pickylist, AwesomeSqueeze and about 15 others.
It's very easy to get overwhelmed when you sit...
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496 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
This is the first part of the series "How the hell to start selling online" where we will cover how to find physical products to start selling.
Chances are you've had fantasies of running your own online store; a business that doesn't need a physical store front and sells easily shipped products. In our first podcast James Paden gives a little overview and hilarious story about his adventures selling products online (check it out here).
The main questions most people ask when they start ...
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497 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Each time I launch a new AdWords campaign, it seems a complete crapshoot whether it's accepted or not. If you've had similar problems, this blog post is for you. Here are 20 things Google thinks are EVIL and will disapprove on AdWords (maybe):
How to Spam AdWords.
Imagine that, Google doesn't want you to share your secrets on how to spam adwords.
Anti-Abortion / Abortion Ads.
I suppose they couldn't pick a side.
Academic Aids.
Like pre-written term papers and essays, cheat sheets for...
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502 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
What's an Evil Automated Zombie Blog? Glad you asked! It's when you leverage RSS feeds to automatically create blog posts from other blogs and news sources. These sites are good for generating traffic from Google, and can run without you every having to create a single real blog post. After a short period of time, your blog will amass a large number of posts around a given topic; the very thing Google bots like to gobble up.
WARNING: These types of mindless zombie websites are considered evil...
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503 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
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Arron La, the developer of the Android based Advanced Task Killer, shared exactly how much money he made for both his paid version and free version of his app. While these results will not be typical (he was one of the first paid apps released in the Android Market), it should give you some idea of what type of money can be made if you have a good enough product.
You can read his full post here
Here are a few interesting facts from his post
He has generated around $80,000 (after googles cu...
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505 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Oh hell no, I'm not going there am I? You betcha!
I've spent most of my career obsessing about usability and building user friendly websites and apps - and I am going to break one of my biggest no-no's in order to achieve better results. The EVIL POPUP!
There's no doubt that you've seen my popup for the 8ify Newsletter offering a free copy of "Whore IT Up!" - and while I too despise these types of tactics, the truth is - they work. Now my popup isn't as evil as some, it will never be s...
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509 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Do you know how to design a WordPress Themes, or know someone that does? This technique is a great way to generate anywhere between $500 and $4,500 a pop without having to deal with too much client BS.
There are a lot of businesses that use WordPress for their corporate sites. Most of them either are using a premium wordpress theme, or a custom built one. These businesses are ripe for the picking, and can be easily sold if presented with a design before they have to buy.
Step 1. Find a...
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511 days ago
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Produced by Brandon Corbin
Google gives websites with a physical address a better rank.
MailChimp and other Email Service Providers require a physical address to comply with the CAN-SPAM laws.
People feel more confident about websites that display a physical address.
So what's a geek to do?
Go get a P.O. Box from your local Post Office; expect to pay around $50 to $200 a year depending on the size of the box.
You should now have an address like P.O. Box 7189, Fishers Indiana 46037. But the secret is that...
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