| Lazy Internet Marketers Fail
The biggest obstacle that will stand in your path as you start and travel along your Internet Marketing journey can be encapsulated in one word: Laziness. Conquering it is key to reaching your money goals. People keep asking me why I say that 90% of Internet Marketers drop out of the industry within 6 months. The truth is I don’t have a fixed answer, but on bad days, it seems like everyone else who started out about the same time as me has moved on to: Network marketing Taken up a 9-to-5 job somewhere Doing the "financial trading cycle" which typically involves day trading or forex or options trading The sad part is that they inevitably hit a brick wall, then look at what I’ve achieved in the last year and comment "Gee, you’re lucky".
It's Your Money: In Cyberspace, Everyone Can Hear You Scream
The ad promising a free lawn tractor or $500 worth of groceries seemed too good to be true, but you decided to check it out. It was only after offering up a few personal nuggets of information, like your name and e-mail address, that you realized that several actions and purchases would be required to land your "free" prize.You thought you got away clean, but then the junk mail came. Well, if this has ever happened to you or someone you know -- and I speak from experience as my otherwise astute mom fell for one of these scams last year -- vengeance may be on the way.The Federal Trade Commission launched an inquiry into the practices of ValueClick's (Nasdaq: VCLK) marketing practices last week. The company's WebClients subsidiary is one of the many outfits that look to generate leads through iffy promotional tactics.
Are You Getting Google AdSense Traffic this Memorial Day Weekend?
A WebmasterWorld thread asks whether users are noticing any sort of "AdSense slump" or a "a little dip in U.S traffic & revenues." Indeed, people are, with earning drops between 20% and 95%, and it's not atypical behavior for the three-day weekend. You won't find a lot of folks in the U.S. sitting in front of their computers during a 3-day weekend. What else can possibly contribute to the lower earnings? There's better weather, college graduation (and thus slower Internet connections), the Memorial Day holiday, and summer vacation. Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld. .
Google buys FeedBurner, adds to advertising arsenal
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has purchased RSS feed leader FeedBurner. Terms were not disclosed, but the cost was rumored to be about $100 million. The company provides feeds for about 400,000 customers, many of them blogs. It will be a good fit with Google's Blogger platform, which is widely used. More menacing for Google's competition is the fact that Google will control the largest banner ad serving company, DoubleClick, the premier search text ad business, AdSense, and, with FeedBurner, the largest RSS advertising platform. Firms, including AOL and The Wall Street Journal, participate in the FeedBurner advertising network. Advertising is sold by channels like "business" and "news' with feeds from the appropriate sites banded together. Once again, it is surprising that Yahoo! Inc.
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