I was talking to one of our account managers who has been consulting with a client looking to sell ads on their website. I got to thinking that the concept of putting together a fast and easy media kit for this purpose would be a good topic for a blog post, so here goes… I […]
Some Thoughts Regarding the FTC Disclosure Rules
I have been out of pocket the past few weeks and haven’t had a chance until today to go over the FTC Rules for Disclosure as they apply to Bloggers. I know that this caused a serious uproar inside the blogger community, ShoeMoney (Jeremy Schoemaker) even called an emergency town hall meeting on TinyChat to […]
More Affiliate Marketing Tips…
A while back I posted My Approach to Monetization after I had been doing a lot of experimentation on various projects and for the most part it was well received, after I had posted this I ran across ProBlogger’s 10 tips for using affiliate programs, and I was amazed that I had a few of […]
A Few Key Ingredients for a Successful Project
A short time ago my my partners and I launched a startup project of our own and within 4 months time we had picked up national exposure to the point that we were negotiating 4 potential sponsorships and had requests from at least a half dozen or so other parties interested in being a part […]
HootSuite / Adsense Frustrations
My partners and I have been using Hootsuite for a couple of months now to feed our twitter feed from our Nascar website. Out of all of the Twitter tools out there, this one ranks in my top 5 just because of what it allows you to do. You can manage multiple accounts from their […]
My Approach to Monetization
I have a simple, possibly hard headed, approach to monetization. Granted I haven’t ran a campaign personally in several years, and I know that the game has changed a lot in that time, but I don’t think that I am too far off base w/ my thought process here… (and I would love to get […]
More Thoughts on Monetization
You might notice that I am now running some advertisements on my blog in the sidebar. For those of you who know me, you will know that this is a stretch for me, up until this year I never attempted to monetize any of my personal projects, and honestly I haven’t built an affiliate link […]
Central Arkansas Refresh Meeting
Just a heads up, the Central Arkansas Refresh Group is going to have our second meeting this next week (Tuesday, March 31) at the Starbucks located at 9401 N. Rodney Parham Rd. in Little Rock. The start time is 6:00pm and we expect the meetup to last about 2 hours but with all of the […]
ShoeMoney® Monetization Webinar
My partner Greg and I sat in on Jeremy Shoemaker’s webinar last night that was put out by Big Jason Henderson and Big Marketing and it was awesome!! After the webinar ShoeMoney did a 90 minute Q&A and it was very informative. The video from the first part of the webinar is available online at […]
Advertising & Social Networks
I was reading an interesting article in the Financial Times today about Social Networking and it’s effect on advertising. This is exactly why I have been involved with social networking because I do see it as the next frontier for my industry. My business partners have been dabbling with social networking as well so that […]