Online Marketing Videos Every Aspiring Super Marketer Needs To Watch
Mack at the Viral Garden had a great post about how he found some amazing marketing videos by some famous marketers over at Google Video. I started searching through Google Video and found plenty of gems by speakers such as Seth Godin, Joe Jaffe, Jackie Huba, and Robert Scoble. For the other 99.9% of you that have broadband (ie, real internet), enjoy. Do yourself a favor, take a few hours out of your day or weekend, and give these guys a chance to make you smarter. In particular,... Read More »
Disney.com Shopping, So Easy My 5-Year-Old Can Shop There
I know, I know, it’s stupid to leave my 5-year-old with a live Internet connection on her little game pc setup in my office. But to my defense, I am always in the same room when she’s on the computer, and I usually have the wireless disconnected so she can’t surf the big bad web. However, the other day I found myself watching in amazement as my 5-year-old was surfing through the games at Disney.com, and how the Disney website successfully integrated products... Read More »
Google Facts You Did Not Know & Expert Tips You Can Learn From
Found a nice little review of a talk by Google Product Manager Marissa Mayer. Check out some of the stuff she revealed, pretty darn interesting. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Lesson Learned: Simple Works How true is this? Sometimes things just work out. Don’t always think you have to over analyze something. And most importantly, if you’re confused... Read More »
Do You Play By Google’s Rules?
Someone said something to me last week that really hit home. We were chatting about search engine marketing over IM. I was talking about how I disliked that business and why I got out of it years and years ago. Then he said… “You know why you hate search? Because you play by the rules.” It was as if he dropped a bomb on my head. Dead on right. Bingo! He continued… “I stopped playing by the white-hat rules a long time ago, and I hated search too... Read More »
Jim Kukral To Speak At PayPerPost Conference With Robert Scoble
Ok, not “with” Robert Scoble on stage at the same time, but “with” him at the event as a speaker. I’ve accepted a speaking gig at the PayPerPost “Postiecon” on June 1 & 2nd, 2007 in Orlando, Florida. DID KUKRAL REALLY JUST SAY WHAT I THINK HE SAID? Yes, I did, and let me tell you why. For those of you who don’t read me here or at ReveNews, you wouldn’t know that I was probably one of the biggest PayPerPost bashers... Read More »
BigBrownBox.com Project Goes Live - Over $13k Value In The Box In Less Than An Hour
The Big Brown Box project just went live. Check it out, in less than an hour of it going live, the big brown box has over $13,200 worth of stuff in it. Including a $1700 Dell XPS gaming laptop. Want to put something in the big brown box? It’s easy, find out more here. Here are the first four items in the big brown box. Item #4: $10,000 Web Traffic Package From Jon At Wickedfire Forums! Item #3: $500 Podcast Design Consultation from David Lawrence Item #2: $1000 Professional... Read More »
Video Search Results Making Their Way Into Major Search Engines
Take a look at one of the results for “kukral” over at Icerocket.com, which is a blog search engine. What will you see? You’ll see a video result, with direct links back to “kukral” tagged video in YouTube. (By the way, Technorati is doing this as well for tags already.) I predict Google will begin posting similar results for regular searches by mid-Summer 2007. Tell me why they wouldn’t. They own YouTube, and this is the natural progression... Read More »
AuctionAds.com Big Problem & The “Porn Test”
What’s the big problem with AuctionAds? It’s simple… “eBay sucks” (in my opinion), and eBay is the basis for the entire datafeed/products. I know, I know, eBay is a billion dollar company, producing trillions of transactions yearly, etc… But you know what? Every single time I’ve used eBay to try and sell something, my auction gets flubbed up by scammers and fraudulent bidders. I hate eBay. But honestly folks, I just signed up for... Read More »
JimKukral.com Was Hacked!
By me. :) Please excuse the horrible link bait-ish headline, but I wanted to get your attention for a special announcement I need to tell you about. You can view the announcement at JimKukral.com. Read More →
Not All Ebooks & ‘Guru’ Guides Are Bad
Jon from Wickedfire forums and the Super Affiliate Marketing Blog writes a post entitled ‘My New War On Internet Marketing Ebooks’, where he wants to ‘stop these assholes from making money off of your foolishness and greed‘. I’ve decided that I’ve had just about enough of these internet marketing ebook self dubbed experts and gurus making money off of their regurgitated information. So, instead of just warning people about it (since... Read More »
Online Video Lighting Tips To Help You Produce High-Quality Online Videos
If you’re a regular reader, you know I’ve been harping on online video for quite some time now. Well, I’ve actually done more than just talk about it, I’ve taken the plunge off the high dive and worked very hard to create video content over the past month or so. I’m here to tell you one thing. If you’re going to do video production, you gotta get the lighting right. Case in point, here are two examples of videos of me talking on a white... Read More »
Internet Marketer Anatomy Lesson - What Type Of Marketer Are You?
If you’re new to the “making money online” business in general, you’ll soon find out that there are two types of Internet marketers. And those are… Type A Internet Marketer: The type that will find a way to make personal profit at all costs just to make money regardless of the technique and approach. Type B Internet Marketer: The type that do it the harder way, because they care about the industry, and instead focus on real content and businesses... Read More »
Affiliate Marketing & Blogging Disclosure Test, Your Help Needed
Would you help me test something? I’ve posted two links below, both are to the same website, but one will have my affiliate link encoded in and is clearly labeled, and the other will be a straight link. I want you to tell me which one (honestly) you would click on if you saw it on my blog, and why. Link #1 (non-affiliate link): ReviewMe.com Link #2 (my affiliate link, I get a spiff if you use this): ReviewMe.com Would you avoid my clearly labeled affiliate link? Why... Read More »
Want More Blog Traffic? Give Your Expertise Away
You’re an expert at something, right? Or maybe you know a heckuva lot about the topic of your blog, right? At least I hope so. Give your knowledge away. Here’s a perfect example. The Copyblogger had a simple request for his readers yesterday. His headline is written: ‘Let’s Remix a Few More of Your Headlines’. Last fall, I invited readers to submit posts they had written, and I chose several and rewrote the titles. Quite a few people seemed... Read More »
Online Marketing Idea: Keep The Conversations Alive On Non-Blog Content
What if you have a blog, and a website? I know, it sounds so archaic, believe me, I know. But even blogging geeks like me still sometimes have “non-blog” pages as part of their blogs, or, have pages that were created years and years ago before the blog ate the main part of the site. The problem with those old pages is that they aren’t interactive without comments, right? It’s foolish to not attempt to keep the conversation alive, even on old non-blog... Read More »
How To Manipulate The Media & Get Free Publicity With Creative Marketing Ideas
Got 10 bucks, an hour of time and a creative idea? Because that’s all it really takes to get all the media publicity and exposure you or your business could ask for, all for almost free. Don’t believe it? I can prove it. This is a story about how I did it, why I did it and the results I got from it. You can do it too. What, you don’t like free publicity for little work? I know you do, read on. The Setup I live in Cleveland, Ohio, and I’m a die-hard... Read More »
I’m An Affiliate Marketer & My Blog Has Affiliate Links. What Else Should You Expect?
Mark at 45n5 (what does 45n5 mean anyway?) is talking more about disclosure on his blog these days. It’s good conversation, but it got me thinking. I’m a long-time full disclosure guy, having fought the PayPerPost battles and many other blog battles over the years and recently. So I get the need to disclose, heck, I even invented these blog honor badges. Disclosure is all about deception and intent. If it is your intent to fool or deceive someone for your own... Read More »
Why Are More People Making Money Online?
Matt at Netbusinessblog.com posted a detailed analysis today entitled ‘Making a Living Online - All the Cool Kids are Doing it‘. I’ve been noticing a lot of extra activity in the web business world over the last year. At first I thought it might just be because the few sites I visit were marketing themselves better or that the internet was just becoming more popular altogether. After a little bit of looking at recent traffic trends, I think it just boils... 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 »
