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 »
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 »
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 →
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 →
Blogs Will Evolve & Integrate Into Google Search Results, Eventually
Cleveland recruiting & blogging guru Joel Cheesman points out that blog results are beginning to show up in the regular Google results. Yeah, they’re probably testing, but I argue it’s going to go further as time goes by. Look, there are now 63 million blogs out there according to Technorati. These blogs are like little tadpoles right now, but watch out, some are going to grow up. And what happens when a blog grows up? It turns into a frog? No, it stops... Read More »
Introducing: Ask The Blogger.com
For years now I’ve struggled with recommending tools, services or guides that I liked because I always worked for a company in a brand management type of role. That meant that I was unable to endorse Internet related products. Sure, I could pass recommendations to friends and colleagues, but that was about it. Until now. I’ve recently launched my latest website called AskTheBlogger.com. AskTheBlogger.com is built for me to answer questions from anyone about... Read More »
ReviewMe.com Offers 50% Discount + PayPerPost Gets Disclosure Badges
The headline says it all, sorta. Through February 2007, check it out. We have found that advertisers who have used RM have been impressed and keep coming back for more reviews. So our biggest challenge is getting an advertiser to try it once. To encourage new advertisers we are offering a special coupon code that will give advertisers 50% off any review they purchase this month. The cool part is 100% of the sale price will go to the blogger so there is no discount in payout. For... Read More »
A PayPal Executive Needs To Call Jim Kukral
Calacanis says that Google is putting the nail in the PayPal coffin. Perhaps, perhaps. I won’t guess on that. But what I will do is make a plea to a business development person at PayPal, right here, right now. I have an idea for you that can kick Google’s butt. I need to talk to the right person (decision-maker), and I need an NDA, and I need 10 minutes of your time. Call me, email me… Info on right. This isn’t a joke. What have you got to lose but... Read More »
Cleveland Internet & Marketing Gurus Know How To Deliver The Goods
You know, I always thought I was the only Internet marketing geek here in Cleveland. Not true, over the past year or so I’ve begun to find out that many talented Cleveland people are also pushing the envelope of web technology and creative marketing ideas. Here’s mashup of a few finds just from this week alone. Cleveland’s own recruiting/HR blogging expert, Joel Cheeseman has just been featured in the Wall Street Journal. “I can work in my pajamas... Read More »
My Best Blogger Award From The Affiliate Summit
This is my blog, so I can be self-promotional, right? That’s still allowed here right? :) Ok, good. A few weeks ago I happened to win an award for “Best Blogger” from the Affiliate Summit event. You will notice the winning badge for it on the right of this blog. I also just got the actual award photo taken by my studio-mate and local Cleveland photographer Hal Stata. It’s a very nice award, and I’m grateful for it. Having been blogging since... Read More »
Ted Murphy Of PayPerPost Is A Fucking Marketing Genius!
After I wrote this post 30 minutes ago, I went to wash the dishes before I put my kids to bed. As I was washing I had an epiphany. Ted Murphy of PayPerPost is a fucking marketing genius! The Scoble thing nailed it for me. Checkmate. Game over people. I used to dislike PPP, but now, well, I think I must start rooting for them as I admire Ted Murphy for his marketing skills. Think about it for a moment. I have followed it from the start, and I estimate that the work Ted has... Read More »
Ten Online Marketing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Turns out a podcast I did with Small Business Trends Radio last year made the top 10 list for the year! Here’s a direct link to my podcast and info page. It was entitled ‘Ten Online Marketing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them.’ View entire list here. In this edition of the Small Business Trends Radio show, host Anita Campbell has as her guest in this conversation, internet marketing guru, Jim Kukral of Revenews.com. Jim makes his living helping others be... Read More »
Techcrunch Conversation Tracker: Free Online Marketing Idea #1
If you’re an avid reader of www.techcrunch.com as I am, you’ll know that the comments are always sometimes the very best part of the content. I would argue that most of the time they are even better. That’s no dig on TC, but rather a compliment to the community they have enabled over there. So when a story breaks on TC that I am interested in, I follow the comments, and the trackbacks, very closely. TC doesn’t have a “subscribe to comments”... Read More »
Cuban Chumps Trump! Here’s Why Trump Doesn’t Need A Blog
Mark Cuban couldn’t resist jumping into the fray by calling out his ole’ buddy ‘The Donald’ on his blog today. Now T the C on the other hand, well Donald, your blog sucks. Its actually pretty embarrasing. First of all, rule number one of blogging Donald is that you are the one that is supposed to write the posts on the blog. Less than half the posts on the front page of the blog have your name as the author let alone are written by you . Blogs are... Read More »
