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Free Proxies and Anonymous Internet Surfing

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Great guidance on how to anonymise your surfing via proxies:

Hiding Your IP Address, Anonymous Internet Surfing HOWTO.

The danger is that unless you do it just right you risk more than you gain. Specifically that the proxy holder can grab all your unencrypted passwords (email, site logins).

(Free Proxies and Anonymous Internet Surfing continued...)

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Is Dynadot selling our domain name searches?

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Dynadot is a great company. Nowhere better to register one's domain names.

Why?

  1. fair prices
  2. great backend interface
  3. fast loading website (for a domain registrar where one spends a lot of time doing repetitive actions, speed is extremely important
  4. telephone support

But lately Dyandot has been getting a lot of bad press for purportedly selling names their customers are searching for.

When doing bulk seraches for available names, make sure you stay away from DYNADOT. In the last few days I had few names I queried about (that were avaibale at the time) registered by somebody else withing 24-48 hrs. (including some by that notorious serial registrant "Mrs. Jello" from this board).

Dynadot is obviously selling their query logs to the likes of that slimy character, so beware.

Okay, world, take a deep breath. This does happen. Last year there was a domain that I really, really wanted. I'd spent a week thinking about the name, looking at what was available and finally leaped, two days after having queried initially. Bingo, the domain was gone. This was on the .at registrar.

This was not a topical, news type domain name so it had nothing to do with collective consciousness or spiritus mundi.

(Is Dynadot selling our domain name searches? continued...)

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Making Money with Other People’s ClickBank Products?

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Trying to make money with other people's clickbank products?

It's not as easy as it looks. Here's one guy's experience:

I've been getting my ass handed to me by Google trying to promote "successful" clickbank products. Seems the product owner and one affiliate are making sales but not me even with good ctr and position. Tried direct linking and also landing page. Still no sales. I do believe you that this works, however, for every clickbank product that ranks fairly high it seems there are always other affiliates already kicking it. How does someone like me, a newbie, compete with the dozens of other affiliates, LIKE YOU? How many people can play this game like you and sustain numerous losing campaigns before a winner comes along? So far every product I've picked seems to have a few successful affiliates already, so what makes me think I can beat them (you) if they're more savvy marketers than me? I really struggle with the selection process because it just seems like a roll of the dice

What's hilarious is Andre Chaperon - full-time internet marketer since 2003 - spent a month working on a campaign and documenting. At the end of the day, he managed 18% ROI. He blames it on a mistake setting his PPC prices, but making a mistake seems to be part of the territory. There are a lot of things to go wrong.

For me, it's like chess. A great way to practice hunting big game.

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The Opt-In Email Marketing System

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

This tip comes from one of those hardcore marketing sites. What do I mean by hardcore? They are selling marketing education to marketers or even to non-marketers (hardcore giveaway in the excerpt below: dubious punctuation and capitalisation).

But as our clients move to building prospect lists and incorporating informative sequential autoresponders, we are seeking ways to get more people to offer their information. It's not easy.

But one answer was sitting right in front of us. If we can put a search box on every page, why not an opt-in box?

What should you have on every page of that website???? Answer: An Opt-in form.I'm as serious as a Heart Attack and a MAJOR Stroke combined. Your Opt-in Form should be on every page of your website, it gives the surfer/visitor multiple chances to Opt-in to your service, free report, eCourse etc.I don't know what you've been told in the past but the above steps Blows Everything Else Out Of The Water when creating a presence on the internet and garnering Opt-ins.

Speaking of which, where is the opt-in box for Foliovision?

Coming soon...

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Online Video for Clients

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

This is a great commercial website which has really taken advantage of online video - they call it Topskips TV but it's really just rubbish bins.

A very visual demonstration of their rubbish containers of different sizes, it's certainly easy to watch.

Topskips TV has convinced of the value of video on the web. It certainly beats all those terrible camstasia cameras recorded computer screens.

We plan to bring video to most of foliovision clients websites in the new year.

Finally, we'll go full circle - from television producer to web design company to online marketing company to television producer!

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