Posted in Announcements on Apr 30th, 2008 48 Comments »
Today I turn 31. Yep, it’s been a whole year since I joined the club. Thirty was a pretty milestone year for me (for many reasons too long to list), but there’s not much about 31 that screams “milestone.” It’s sort of “30 again” in my opinion. The crazy thing is knowing the next huge […]
Posted in Just for Fun on Apr 28th, 2008 16 Comments »
Here’s something you don’t see everyday — Prince getting down on the dance floor in Hollywood. I hit up Deep last night at Vanguard and there he was, gettin his groove on. I snapped one pic and his bodyguard yelled at me, “No pictures!” He looked like he was going to pound me straight into […]
Posted in PPC Related, Announcements on Apr 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
Do you guys recall the criticism Tracking202 originally received regarding their free pay-per-click ad tracking tool? If not, you can read up on it here. Essentially, their mistake was not that they created a poorly designed PPC tracking tool (offered to PPC managers and affiliate marketers), but that the data managed was to be hosted […]
Posted in Conferences, Google Related on Apr 24th, 2008 6 Comments »
During the last day of ad:tech I was able to sit in on a session with Google Analytics evangelist and author or Web Analytics: An Hour a Day, Avinash Kaushik. If any of you have looked into mastering Analytics, there is a good chance you’ve heard of him or read his blog. I recommend you […]
Posted in Thoughts on Apr 19th, 2008 11 Comments »
Did any of you receive PayPal’s monthly “newsletter” today? I was cleaning up my inbox and was shocked that they’re emailing their recipients with affiliate deals. Here’s the email in its entirety:
Here are the reasons this irks me:
I am to receive their “PayPal Periodical newsletter and Product Updates,” which should (in my opinion) contain PayPal […]
Posted in Conferences on Apr 18th, 2008 7 Comments »
Here are a couple video clips I took of the closing keynote session at ad:tech yesterday. Martin Sargent and Gator of Revision3’s Internet Superstar interviewed Kevin Rose of Digg, Kent Nichols of AskaNinja, Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary, and Jeff Macpherson of TikiBarTV. I caught half of the keynote before having to catch my flight back […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2008 14 Comments »
One thing I really love about conferences such as ad:tech is that it gives us bloggers a chance to meet up with each other in real life! We ate at a wonderfully cozy restaurant called Annabelle’s Bar and Bistro, which was right near the Moscone Center.
I began organizing this meet-up last week and to my […]
Posted in Google Related on Apr 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
I just got out of one of Google’s presentation on Analytics, Measuring and Tracking for Success, where the speaker presented tips on using the most effective measuring reports in Analytics. Tips were very general and did not extend beyond the explanation of existing tools, however we were presented with a short list of useful Analytics […]
Posted in Networking on Apr 16th, 2008 14 Comments »
Wow, I am exhausted, sitting here on my computer at 3:00am (for some reason). I guess us bloggers never sleep What an amazing day it’s been. All I’ll say at this time is I’m glad I came to this conference. I’ll give a proper update when I’m not so exhausted. From the 300-vendor exhibit […]
Posted in SEO on Apr 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
I came across a fantastic article while reading Search Marketing Standard magazine on my flight to San Francisco. The article’s author, Jessica Bowman, of SEMInHouse.com published a set of articles that collectively make up her In-House SEO Startup Guide. The particular topic that interested me was The In-House SEO Life Cycle (additional supporting readings here […]
