Affiliate Marketing Friends Have Helped Raise Over $500 So Far
We’ve passed the $500 mark of donations raised for charity over at AffiliateMarketingFriends.com. I wanted to thank all of those who have participated so far. The page is starting to fill up and it looks great! There’s still plenty of time to get in and get your spot. Some banner spots up top available as well, very cheap. Update: I’ve decided that the money should go to an organization in my hometown that is doing some AMAZING things. This page should... Read More »
Have A Beer With Me?
I’ve been working non-stop for the last week or so, day and night. It just occured to me that I need a break, and a beer. Otherwise I face another panic attack like a few weeks ago. My beer consumption drastically dropped over 5-years ago when my wife got pregnant with our first child. The second child followed 3-years later, and here we are, over 5-years later and I don’t drink hardly ever. You know, sometimes you just have to take a break and relax and kick... Read More »
New York Times: Shmuly-Tube Tearing Down The Walls
Well, well, well. Shmuly made it into the New York Times, with a lead in on Techmeme today. As Sam points out, “traditional walls between media, content and creation are crumbling all around us”. Yep, and this is further, real, proof of that. No one would mistake the Ask a Jew guy for Lonelygirl15, but these days YouTube contributor Shmuel Tennenhaus is feeling like a hot commodity. Mr. Tennenhaus, an aspiring comedy writer who gained a modest following on YouTube... Read More »
The Big Brown Box Project Is Coming
Awesome Dave and I have been secretly plotting out our next project, one that we hope will top the Awesome Million. It’s called BigBrownBox.com, and it’s almost ready to go live. We have one problem. We can’t find a box. We’re looking for a box about the size of dishwasher. So I went to Sears and asked for a box, but they said they immediately cut the boxes down, so no luck, and I’m not buying a dishwasher just to get the box. Then I went to... Read More »
An Awesome Way To Start Your Week, Make Yourself Awesome!
If you’re new to the ADHD world of Jim Kukral and his many projects, then perhaps you didn’t know that I’m awesome. So awesome in fact, that I’m the co-founder of the Awesome Million, a website that lets anyone or anything become officially awesome, for free. Me “Awesome Jim” and my business partner “Awesome Dave” are on a mission to help 1 million people, places or things prove their awesome-nicity. So far, over 1,000 awesome... Read More »
Hire Jim Kukral To Be Your Golf Caddy?
I’m available, check out the pic of me on the right of this page and find out more. Or, just click here, http://www.caddyforhire.com Read More →
Shoemoney & MyBlogLog Make Up - View Shoe’s Secret Yahoo! Check
Most of you might have heard that MyBlogLog apologized to Shoemoney. What you may not know about the whole saga may shock you. I’ve obtained secret documents and photos that show that Yahoo! was so upset about the branding disaster they had created that they sent Shoemoney a check to ask him to stop talking about it. The secret photo is below. You’ll notice I’ve added red arrows to show the proof. I can’t say I blame you Shoe, that’s an awesome... Read More »
Idea Consultants Must Have A Plan & Be Able To Solve Problems
Aaron Wall over at SEOBook (that’s my affiliate link, buy the book and get me a spiff I’d appreciate it) has a good post called ‘Hiring the Ideas Guy‘. As more and more content is created there are more publishers than there are good ideas, which means publishers are hungry to spread the few good ideas that exist. What separates a profitable channel from a money loser is typically two things: ideas and execution. Righto. The reason consultants can... Read More »
Viral Marketing Works When It’s Useful & Interesting… & Easy
Seth Godin is right, as usual. Check out this fun little, yet very simple tool. It’s viral because it’s interesting, not because it’s accurate. And it’s interesting partly because it talks about how much money you have. Sort of the new fortune telling. So let’s review. This works because it’s easy, fun, useful, interesting… When you work on projects, do you strive for those things? If not, are you sure you’re on the right track? Read More →
Uh-Oh, Techcrunch Grabbed The MyBlogLog Story
Thanks to Sam for pointing this out to me. I wrote about this last night here. Judging by the first comment at TC (below), I can already see where this will be going. Not good for MBL. Holy Christ, what kind of developer doesn’t encrypt their login cookies? That’s not a security hole, it’s just awful programming. Get your popcorn. Read More →
MyBlogLog Teeters On The Uncool Ledge, Will They Fall?
It doesn’t take much to become “uncool”. I’m telling you, one minute you can be the Fonz, and the next minute they catch you picking your nose and the Fonz becomes the dweeb. ‘Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyy!, Nerd!’ I’ve got a message for the crew at MyBlogLog. In case you missed the drama, here’s a recap over at Techmeme. Summary: Shoemoney has been messing with security flaws in MyBlogLog and posting about them. MyBlogLog... Read More »
5 Reasons Why BumpZee Will Be The Next Digg, But Even Bigger
Digg may have been the best “user driven social content website” out there, but not anymore. BumpZee, a new, innovative and unique community/tool built by Scott Jangro, is better than Digg, on may levels. In fact, BumpZee might be better than Digg, Techmeme, MyBlogLog and many others, combined. Don’t believe it? Here’s 5 reasons why BumpZee is better, and why BumpZee will blaze a trail as a pioneer of successful web 2.0 mashups. Note: BumpZee is currently... Read More »
I Got My ‘Affiliate Thing’ On Today
Make sure to head on over to listen to the latest ‘Affiliate Thing’ radio show where I was a guest today. Shawn Collins of Affiliate Summit and Lisa Picarelle, editor-in-chief of Revenue Today magazine interviewed me about the current state of happiness that has perpetuated the industry ranks these days. From Shawn’s blog… We chatted about Jim’s new project, Affiliate Marketing Friends, and the overall boom of creativity and friendliness that... Read More »
Bad Copywriting Is A Waste Of My Time
In my surfing tonight I came across a site with some seriously bad buzz-word copywriting. This has been on my mind lately, so I’d thought I’d share this. From their site main feature area… 365 Media provides the ideal combination of advanced technology and expertise to information providers. Our solutions and services lower costs, streamline operations, create efficiencies and generate new revenue for our customers. Our mission is to unlock the true potential... Read More »
You Ain’t Fat… You Ain’t Nuthin!
I gotta tell you, there’s probably nothing more annoying than skinny guys hoisting an extra 20-30 pounds stealing all us real fat guys thunder. C’mon Calacanis, you are rich and slightly famous and smart… You gotta get the limelight for pretending to be fat too? Pa-lease. Kevin Smith’s thigh weighs more than you. Let me ask you a few questions my friend. Call this a fat quiz. Did you shop in the husky section growing up? When you sit in an airplane... Read More »
Affiliate Marketing Idol Lookalikes
My apologies ahead of time to the affiliate marketing players featured below, but hey, you kinda do resemble an American Idol season 6 contestant. You should put your face on AffiliateMarketingFriends.com! Send hate mail to jim at jimkukral d0t com. Leslie Hunt or Heather Paulson Nicholas Pedro or Mark Romanelli Antonella Barba or Stephanie Agresta Jeremy Palmer or Blake Lewis Ian Lee or Paul Kim Read More →
The Best Pixel Scripts Are?
I just recently launched Affiliate Marketing Friends using this pixel friend script. However, I’m, how do I say it, I’m underwhelmed at the script’s completeness. It’s buggy to say the least, and leaves a lot to be desired. Certainly not something I’d launch a real business around. What do you expect for $40 right? So I’m looking around for a better pixel friends script. In my searching around I found this script (aff), which seems nicer... Read More »
Scammers & Thieves Are Ruining The eBay Brand Experience
I just tried to sell a computer on eBay and what happened? I got scammed. No, I didn’t lose any money, I’m too Internet geeky to get scammed that hard, but what did happen was this. 1. Over the 10 day auction I got 41 eBay messages asking me if they “could buy it outside of eBay and ship it to the UK/Nigeria/Australia etc…” Um, no you can’t. 2. During the last half hour of the auction, two UK bidders bid it from $1500 (the top value price... Read More »
TecheMeme Loves Sam Harrelson’s Cost Per News
This is blatant proof. Seems that Techmeme.com picked up Sam’s write up about my new plans. I didn’t think it was that big of news, but I guess the Techmeme system did! Or, more likely, they value Sam’s Costpernews.com highly, as they should. That’s probably it :) Read More →
Let’s Make Some Creative Video!
Today I plan to make 10 videos here in my office. Some will be done with my webcam at my desk, but some will be done with an actual video camera (my first attempt), directly then downloaded to my pc for editing. I’m feeling VERY creative today, so watch out. To be inspired, I watched one of my favorite videos. It’s a spoof on magician David Blaine. This is NOT for kids or for loud volume in the office, the language is pretty rough. Why is this video great? Because... Read More »
