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  • NegBox 6:47 am on February 25, 2013 Permalink | Reply  

    What if a future employer read your Facebook and Twitter? 

    This comic from XKCD captures my thoughts about social media and employment perfectly.

    XKCD Dreams

    Some years ago (and while having a corporate job, now its a moot point) I decided my social media was mine and mine only and everyone that thought otherwise could go fuck themselves. In practical terms this meant I never tweeted the bullshit my employers wanted me to tweet, posted what anyone wanted and when it came to Facebook my policy was simple: People I work with directly can’t be my FB friends (especially my own business unit), people I worked with in the past yes. This was a very simple rule designed to help me be a little more free in posting what I want to post without having to stop and think if I’m writing about pansies, panties and butterflies while I’m supposed to be paying attention to a “Critical recovery action plan” phone meeting – the real problem there isn’t what I’m writing as much as when I am writing it.

    What I’ve learned about the collision of social media and traditional employers can be summed up in four words: Be Yourself. Show Yourself.

    Be Yourself: Be yourself – Accept yourself. Forget everybody else. Sounds retarded, yet the moment you stop to think about what others might think, you’re at risk of being phoney and losing your identity.

    Show Yourself: You can’t read minds, so stop trying to imagine what others might think. It doesn’t matter if your hobby is collecting Barbie dolls and cross-dressing on the weekends, the only thing that EVERYBODY wants is to know a REAL person. Everybody loves real people because there are way less masks, facades and play-pretend.

    Remember: FUCK. THAT. SHIT.

     

    • simon 8:46 am on February 25, 2013 Permalink | Reply

      good idea on not adding people from work.. really creates unnecessary drama. i’ve seen many people post pictures of themselves smoking a bowl (facebooks owns your pics, this shit will cant be good for you at some point)

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  • NegBox 5:05 pm on October 31, 2011 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Anik Singal, Bullshit   

    Bizarro World Leaks Affiliate Marketing Bollywood Film Starring Anik Singal 

    I just can’t stop laughing. The amateurs pose as strippers for ClickBank products, the felons do sweat lodges and the pros do Bollywood films to promote shit…  I’m not even sure what he is promoting, whatever it is I bet it ain’t free and it ain’t funny what it does to your finances. I’m sorry Anik, I’m sure you are a nice guy full of shit.

    You just HAVE to watch this video. Here’s the source page too.

    Gotta love the call to action: “Start your lethal agent training.”

    So I go… “Who the fuck is Anik Singal and why would he do such a movie?”…  I visit his site and the first thing I see is the motto “When Life Pushes You… Stand Straigh, Smile & Push Back” – I like it, reminds me of Cave Johnson’s ‘lemmons’ bit… When life gives you lemmons, burn life’s house down! Fast-forward to 1:00 minute on this next video – it is a funny part of Portal 2.

    So I dig a little deeper by visiting someone with a nose fine-tuned to the smell of bullshit and a keen disdain for just about anything: PPC.BZ,  best useless affiliate news source out there, and discover Anik actually swore off bullshitting people two years ago. Check it out, its kind of amazing what he admits on the video there, especially since he never stopped doing it.

    Here’s the “People buy my lies and expect the magic that I duped them into believing, to actually happen” video. I’m not sure what is more amazing, that he actually did this video or believing your BS to this level. I guess the latter – I wish I could take the blue pill like he does.

    Strangely enough, Anik seems to be only a tiny blip on The Salty Droid’s radar.

    Now personally it doesn’t matter to me if he is out to scam the planet, the way I see it he keeps the idiots busy. This whole secret agent theme and movie gig is just hilarious, though – Had to share.

     

    • Ryan Eagle 1:49 pm on November 1, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Interesting movie so far. Thanks

      • NegBox 2:42 pm on November 1, 2011 Permalink | Reply

        Seems I’m not worthy of the real one so I’ve been getting “Cheap Outsourced Link-Building Ryan Eagle” for the past two posts. … Ryan doesn’t say “Marketing research is important” or “Great epoch-defining film from the Hindu galactic empire who will own you American pigs” … ROTFL.

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  • NegBox 7:59 pm on September 8, 2011 Permalink | Reply
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    Affiliate Mistake #1 – Using Your Common Sense 

    Your are not your customer

    You are not MY customer either.

    So stop trying to act like YOU know what THEY want and GO FIND OUT.

    It never fails. Every time I tell someone what I do with affiliate marketing, sometimes even other marketers, I get this look of “You are so dumb, that will never work – you are doomed“.

    The typical assumptions I find folks make when discussing online marketing:

    • “I am normal, most people are normal, so most people act like I do”
    • “I would not do X, therefore most people will not do X, therefore your idea is stupid, forget the $50,000 you made off of it, you are crazy”
    • “Everyone on the entire planet speaks English, and uses the same sites I do yet somehow I’m the only one who knows there is porn on the net.”
    • “We all know the same things. We all want the same things. We all have the same problems.”

    Usually I get told I am targeting too narrowly and need to come up with something EVERYONE wants… Like a better Facebook than Facebook – Because we all know the little jew made out like a bandit and we all know we need another networking site. Next time this happens, I’m going to slap my forehead and shout “Of course! Jesus, I gotta get coding now! See ya!”.

    This is childish. Every little boy and girl out there doesn’t stop to think that other people have a different set of knowledge and beliefs until they develop a “Theory of mind“. Clearly some adults have a hard time acknowledging world views that are radically different from their own… If this is you, go visit around the world and make an effort to meet the locals you would normally not meet.

    The best part of all this is we routinely ignore the subtle cues that tell us we are in the minority – Evidence that you/me/they are not EVERYONE. Here is an example from this morning… I decided to search on Google “Why does time appear to slow down at the speed of light?” from my iPhone. Take a look at the suggested popular queries that start with “Why does…” that I got:

    Google suggests Oedipus complex

    Now if you really were just like your customers, then you would have the hots for your mom, an itchy ass, graying hair, a cat that licks you, a dog that eats your shit, a rotten belly button, a habit of shitting in large bodies of water and a raging urinary infection. Whatever you do, just skip the handshake next time we meet.

     

    • Mike Chiasson 12:19 am on September 10, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      I don’t know what sort of stuff you are into but when I did the same search ‘Eye Twitch’ was my first result…granted my third was “why doesn’t HE like me” lol. http://i55.tinypic.com/5b8tph.png

      • NegBox 7:51 am on September 11, 2011 Permalink | Reply

        I’m really going to use this iPhone parlor trick next time… I’m going to borrow *their* iPhone for extra giggles.

    • Neema F 4:32 am on October 12, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      So then the next logical question is… how then DO you get inside your customers’ head? How do you figure out what your prospect/audience desires to then target that desire and grab their attention?

      • NegBox 1:32 pm on October 13, 2011 Permalink | Reply

        Ask them. Seriously. There is no substitute for marketing research – Quantitative, qualitative, whatever you want to do as long as you don’t do it all inside your head.

    • Ryan Eagle 7:28 pm on October 20, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for the information. Marketing research is so important. Thank you!

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  • NegBox 7:47 pm on October 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Short Form Blog   

    Taking Back My Blog 

    Ever since I removed that plug-in that allowed me to punch in posts from the front page like it was a real-time chat, the amount of posts has gone downhill.

    We can argue the quality has gone up…

    One of the reasons for this blog is that I hate Twitter’s 140-char limit… So this doubles as my twitter stream. Lately, it hasn’t done much for me. Time to call it in.

    Truth of the matter is, I don’t give a fuck about post counts, quality or visitors (yeah, sorry about that – nothing personal) . This is my creative outlet, so I’m bringing back the short-form-blog style posts.

    Just so I keep myself focused, I’ll start by backlinking to my all-time favorite worthless and useless blog post on this blog: http://negbox.com/crashing-bed

     
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  • NegBox 3:24 am on October 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , IRC, ,   

    You’re About to Get Screwed, and You Know It 

    In one sentence for my ADD friends:

    We are increasingly playing in someone else sandbox, and the limits are starting to show and suck.

    FaceBook

    Largest site on the web. In the future, forget about having a blog outside FB – who will bother reading it when they’re too busy reading the ones already inside FaceBook? Its funny how the pendulum swings – AOL used to be as neutered as Facebook and it died a lonely death, now many of the the same concepts come back in Facebook.

    Here’s a thought: Let’s create a distributed trust protocol so we can build a Facebook outside Facebook and fuck Facebook in the Face.

    Twitter

    Huge platform seemingly derived from an IRC service. Some very many years ago IRC was all the rage, we had channels starting with hash # tags, and nicknames and pretty much Twitter without the Twitheads at Twitter. Then IRC died a lonely death for mainstream users – all that’s left there is – for the most part – some die-hards and the royal scum that controls the underbelly of the beast nobody wants to see… bot-nets, pedos, creeps, worms, distros… Its the Mad-Max style nuclear wasteland of the internet. … Then along comes Twitter and the pendulum swings again. They call it microblogging – WTF? It chatting, people, chatting – and all your chats belong to Twitter.

    Here’s another thought: Let’s create a federated chat protocol and layer it on a web interface… Isn’t that one done yet?

    Google

    Remember Altavista? Yeah, I didn’t think so. I’m not sure what is worse – having your content belong to Facebook, Twitter and others, or having the index to your content belong to them. Not only do they determine what gets found and read by the results of their searches, they directly determine what gets purchased when and where – they control the flow of money. I don’t think they’ve realized this yet at least not in a way that is noticeable – and frankly, I don’t really expect most folks reading this to understand how really big numbers of really small things work (scientific fact, most folks are too lazy to think like this) – Google has greater potential influence over the economic outcomes of the US and half the planet than any Illuminati conspiracy theory ever even conceived possible.

    Monopolies suck

    I suppose they suck especially bad when you’re not the owner of the monopoly. I also suppose if the monopoly was mine, I’d be telling everyone how I’m going to bring “Peace and order throughout the galaxy“.

    In closing, nothing – I don’t have any super-stellar words of wisdom here other than: This party ain’t over yet, so bring Vaseline.

     

    • CTRtard 7:02 am on October 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      “…so we can build a Facebook outside Facebook and fuck Facebook in the Face.”

      LOL. But I humbly suggest:

      “…so we can build a Facebook outside Facebook and fuck Facebook right in its fuckin Face.”

      I dunno… maybe one fuck was enough?

      Nice post. Google is taking over the world. They even own my phone.

      • Slave Rat 9:24 pm on October 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Good catch. I must have been in a mellow mood yesterday.

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  • NegBox 8:17 pm on August 23, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Office   

    Microsoft Office 2010 is Office 2007 Renamed 

    Two lessons on “tooling”:

    1. Too many tools will make your problem worse, not better
    2. Sharpen the tools that you do have and are being useful

    I do put my brain within the definition of #2 above – I try to take good care of it, sharpening it if you will, and avoiding needless “damage”…

    Anyway, Back to Office 2010. I use PowerPoint, Word and Excel on a daily basis – big time. I have a neural link to these tools – I think and magic just happens.

    Yesterday I decided to buy the upgrade from Office 2007 to Office 2010.

    After a day of use I can honestly say there is no fucking difference between 2007 and 2010. What a way to wallpaper Wily E. Gates’ mansion. Can you imagine any other place where you can continue to sell a shitload of the same crap you were selling three years ago, slap a new sticker on it and pass it for new?

    Uhhh.. Hello, FTC, Champion of the poor, witless and innocent, where are you when we really need you? Chasing bloggers again? Flushing your colon with berry juice? Seriously?

     
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  • NegBox 11:30 pm on July 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , Warning   

    FUCK YOU GOOGLE – An Illustrated Love Story 

    Jake, your mother called and she said you kissed Melinda five years ago while we were dating - And now she's pregnant. It must have been you, filthy bastard.

    Woha Mary, that's not true... And why do you bring this up when we're getting along so well?

    Mary, let me call my nosy mom and see what she meant. I'm sure I did nothing wrong!

    See? Like I said...

    SEE! I think it was just a kiss. ONE KISS six months before we met!... We were experiementing. Why are you getting so worked up? Why do you take it so seriously?

    You know what Mary, I'm sick and tired of your High Maintenance stinky ass. I'm leaving - FUCK YOU BITCH!

     
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  • NegBox 7:12 pm on June 16, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Alexa, , WTF   

    WTF Alexa? 

    How does this wind up on Alexa?? Check this picture below. Its the content of an affiliate manager’s e-mail to an affiliate, smack in the middle of the Alexa page for that domain, on the “related search queries”… What.. The.. Fuck..?

    Click to Enlarge - WTF Alexa

     
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  • NegBox 7:17 pm on June 3, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Bitches in Business vs Inferiority Complex Short Dick Men 

    I’m trying to figure out what I hate the most in my daily business life:

    1) Ultra-competitive pussy-flashing ladder-climbing bitches

    or

    2) Little short dudes with type “A-hole” personality and inferiority complexes.

    I’ve got news for the #1 bitches – Statistically speaking, you’re fucked. I’ve got news for #2 dickheads too… Statistically speaking, you’re also fucked.

    I’m not really cut out for the politicking bullshiticking. Here I am… Raised like a prince.. What happened? Ended up the person who makes it a sport to point at the elephants in the room, who want to breaks all barriers and cut through your programming… and I’m supposed to be politically correct and play the game. F-that biatch, I want to see you drop your jaw to the floor and storm out the room in indignation hopefully never to be seen again!

    Ah… My daily dose of frustration… Why I even care, I’m not sure. Oh, yeah… I remember why I care. I care because the bank owns my house and my employer owns my health – They have me by the balls quite literally.

     
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  • NegBox 6:12 pm on June 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Drip, , Membership   

    “The Drip” Membership Site Management is for Smart Marketers and Retarded Customers 

    I absolutely hate the “Drip”. We’re talking about the modern membership site’s way of keeping you on forever by dripping you new content slowly.

    My two reasonably-sounding stories:

    1 – I’m a batch person. I’m also a guy (like you couldn’t tell).  Men try to optimize and maximize movements, time, etc – as opposed to organize. Men optimize, women organize. Men like cool, Women like Cute. Men make and break, Women sort and file. Having the tools ready for when I need them works best. In the case of learning, I want to have the entire book ready for the airport delay – not two fucking pages.

    2 – I learn at my own pace. Everybody does. Ergo, nobody learns at the “drip” pace. I don’t give a flying crap if the content drip gives you more money – My time is way more valuable than whatever you’re charging for your product, so you’re making it a losing proposition.

    So what do you think savvy folks do when they bump into an info product they really want, but find it behind a drip system? Walk away? Yeah, right. We all flow through the path of least resistance – the path is not the same for everyone – figure out what those 3-4 paths are and monetize them before you lose the money to a .torrent or mediafire upload.

     

    • dean 7:45 am on March 17, 2011 Permalink | Reply

      right on bro,
      how about ” lick the drip of my tip ” I agree.

      but off topic, how dose a new guy get into the EWA type network… Blam, an the like.?
      They are not too keen of helping people out, they are so focused on finding fraud..
      bummer.
      Please advise.
      d

      • NegBox 5:42 pm on March 18, 2011 Permalink | Reply

        Hey Dean, the biggest tip I can give you is: Be transparent. Tell them exactly the truth. If you don’t know a pixel from a pixie, tell them you are new. Don’t be afraid to get turned down – you can come back when you have what they want or more experience. Getting into a network you don’t fit or based on bragging what you can really do is a great way to get blacklisted forever by them. Its really simple: Be honest. Brutally honest.

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  • NegBox 4:05 pm on May 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Double Your Dating, Eben Pagan, Feedly, Halo Effect, Mystery, Yaro Starak   

    Eben Pagan & The Halo Effect 

    The name “Eben Pagan” poped up in my RSS reader and my Feedly homepage a couple of times last week… Today in an e-mail from Yaro’s list, mind you I normally ignore his mailing list e-mails – I keep getting them as a way to keep my ear to the ground (along with others) and because I’m too lazy to unsubscribe. Still this one headline sounded mildly non-rubbish so I clicked through… Of course it wasn’t good, it was rubbish promoting a product from Eben Pagan with a video – and now I make the connection.

    This guy, Eben Pagan, is the one that wrote Double Your Dating - His face is unmistakable. Somewhere from my cortical implant comes the data bit… Double Your Dating was written by Eben Pagan under the pen name of David DeAngelo. Now it all makes sense.

    What doesn’t make sense is that he is writing about other shit. I’ve read and “consumed” about 80% of the stuff he put out. Really good stuff – if you’re in the dating zone, he is your man. Don’t just mosey over to his site, run over there, rent a cabin in the Alps and don’t come out until you’re done. Oh, and while you’re at it check out Erik James Horvat-Markovic, AKA: Mystery. (Damn, his Wikipedia entry ranks #1 on Google for “Mystery” – now that’s some Mojo right there – and with a name like that, you better get a nickname fast). Some brain-splitting stuff between those two guys.

    Back to the part that doesn’t make any sense – the Halo effect. I hate linking to Wikipedia when discussing serious stuff – I can’ avoid it since their entries are very good in general, so there you have it. Eben Pagan launched some really successful products with both great content and a philosophy that you GIVE AWAY YOUR BEST and charge for the rest. That philosophy is sheer genius and perfectly adapted to today’s worldviews. Does it make for a full book on marketing? Maybe… I just saved you $500 and three weeks by giving you in nine words the secret of the other nine-hundred-thousand words and fifty videos.

    What makes you think that someone who wrote and marketed an excellent series on personal development can create something really good in any other field? I see the Halo effect everywhere, though. Heck, I use it like crazy myself! You see it in action when a reporter asks a hockey player or a boxer what they think of politics or a world event. Since when did getting punched in the face qualify anyone to have a valuable opinion on anything other than pain medicine?

    In conclusion: What the heck is Eben doing selling marketing shit? Save your moolah and read some real marketing stuff.

     
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  • NegBox 4:53 pm on May 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , SecondLife, Virtual Worlds   

    Frivolous Virtual World Lawsuit du Jour 

    Again its on Linden Labs. These chaps need to move to Grenada, Norway or somewhere else. Californication is a bad idea.

    Some folks are claiming Linden Labs led them to believe their virtual land had real property values.

    Only in America do people expect the courts to compensate and protected them from the damage their own mental retardation inflicts on themselves.

    … And only in America do lawyers not get disbarred for playing along.

     

    • Mike Chiasson 9:35 pm on May 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      We should start a new niche blog where we tell them if they were mislead that they can triple their lawsuit by renting a gun, buying a bullet, and aiming it at their forehead. These people are morons lol. I would love to listen to a judge who would actually hear this case. Then again the guy who sued McDonalds for millions for spilling a hot coffee on himself (this was before the cups said ‘caution hot’) probably has some great advice on how to be a retard and fuck over business owners.
      My recent post Sooo Many Guru Products – Value vs. Price vs. Marketing, Review

    • negbox 8:01 pm on May 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      We ought to place little signs in hospital delivery rooms: Warning: Life is a contact sport.

      There's always going to be abusers – Its a very perverse industry where lawyers are judges, plaintiffs and defendants (and lawmakers!) and essentially take you to their ballroom dance – like it or not – and they're not cheap dates – You're paying! … Its their ballroom (they call it courtroom), its their dance (they call it trial) but its your wallet! Pretty wicked.

      As with everything – there is a balance of power… Where it gets to technology and marketing, its their checkbook, my ballroom… And my huge dick ready to screw *them* over…
      My recent post Frivolous Virtual World Lawsuit du Jour

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  • NegBox 6:51 pm on May 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Outsource With The Force 

    OMG, if I receive one more email about the “outsource force” program my mailbox is going to explode. Is it good?I don’t know, I’m too busy building shit to check it out. Realistically, I’m not buying any more crapware.

     

    • Mike Chiasson 2:52 am on May 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Haha yes my spam filter has flagged anything that says the word ‘outsource’ in it as spam after the recent barrage of mail. I love when you get it from one person then everyone else and they all use the same copy and are like ‘This is really a great product, trust me(I’m DEFINITELY not just trying to make bank off spamming you).’

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  • NegBox 1:37 pm on April 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    I Hope Google Chokes on an Antitrust Investigation Soon 

    For some reason, I’m slowly becoming more and more bitter towards Google. It all started nice and well – I loved the Prince Valiant air of the early days. These days, though, I’m going deep into Negative Sentiment Override and I’m seeing everything they do as as either self-serving, manipulative or aggressive.

    The real trigger here is that I’m pissed they charge “API Fees” to advertise with them using anything but their crap. If askjeeves.com charges API fees, they screw themselves. If lycos.com charges API fees, they screw themselves…. When the dominant (90%+) market player charges API fees, they screw YOU. Catch the difference?

    Their latest Blah post includes:

    Introducing preferred AdWords API pricing
    The Google AdWords API allows developers to build applications that interact directly with the AdWords platform. Agencies and developers of search engine marketing tools use these applications to manage large AdWords campaigns more efficiently and creatively.

    Today, we’re announcing preferred AdWords API pricing. This gives qualified Google AdWords Certified Partners who manage client AdWords accounts free use of the AdWords API based on managed client spend. To apply, agencies must have an active agency profile page and be compliant with the AdWords API terms and conditions. We’ll evaluate applications for preferred AdWords API pricing based on the criteria listed here.

    We hope preferred AdWords API pricing will encourage agencies and developers to experiment with new strategies, expand the functionality of their tools, and build more comprehensive client campaigns without worrying about increased costs. You can learn more about preferred pricing and how to apply at the preferred AdWords API pricing site.

    What does this mean? The ones with the big bucks get the big breaks – that isn’t news for anyone, is it? It just doesn’t fit the image of the goody-two-shoes Google: Rob the little advertisers to give the big ones a free ride – all under the auspices of lower cost of maintenance of the relationship and larger business scale.

    Oh, so you guys are looking for feedback? Here it is: Stop screwing the small advertisers! I’m starting to regret having given them the power I gave them, even if it was just an ounce of power to a Kiloton machine.

     

    • Chris Zaharias 2:15 pm on April 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      You got it all wrong, my man. Small advertisers' growth in spend over the years has been so anemic that it's the single biggest impediment to Google's continued growth. The 3rd-party SEM tool providers have never been able to apply their tool to SMB campaigns because the API charges have been prohibitive. Properly-built SMB AdWords campaigns have extremely high API cost / ad budget ratios.
      My recent post Is The Pareto Rule An Understatement in SEM?

    • Mike Chiasson 2:57 pm on April 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Hmm I took this one as leveraging an intelligent SEM's account to share the CTR pricing on to their other customers.

      For example if you have an ad that has a 8/10 quality score, it will cost more cpc than a 10/10. Part of that determination of quality score is CTR.

      Since SEMs probably nail more 10/10s than a small business owner, chances are their client's ad can be rated a 10/10 with the increased CTR as opposed to being say a 8/10 from their regular account.

      Still bullshit. but thats the way everything works to give incentives for people not to do it themselves. Saves google time from having to respond to emails (not like they do anyways). Health Insurance companies have done the same thing for years, you get it yourself its more expensive than if you signed up with a group of young people.
      My recent post The March Numbers

      • negbox 6:05 pm on April 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Mike, I think we're talking about different stuff – The API fees are what they charge to access your campaign using third-party tools – Like Tracking202 Pro. Unless I misread their guidelines, they already use quality scores to move your cost-per-click up and down. I seem to remember a video from Google explaining that.

        Your conclusion is still right, though: Google wants to scale by not spending that much money supporting small advertisers.

        Step back for a second and think about that model… Its the exact freaking opposite of the successful Web 2.0 businesses, which finance themselves with the top of the food chain and enable the long tail. You can't entice the "Long tail" advertisers by slapping them with fees!

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  • NegBox 7:54 pm on April 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Balance, Bluesteps, , Work-Life   

    Work Sucks, I Know 

    In an e-mail from BlueSteps

    On March 25th we asked you to tell us about your work-life balance in 2009-10. The results so far indicate that:

    • 53% of senior executives surveyed do not have a satisfactory work-life balance
    • 78% see work-life balance as critical in their decision to join or remain with an employer, yet 80% report that their employer does not have a program to improve work-life balance
    • 69% believe that a modern lifestyle (e.g. globalisation and new technology) has decreased their leisure time
    • 54% say that work-life balance and increased earnings are of equal importance

    Do I have to add anything to this?

     
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  • NegBox 5:07 am on April 14, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Grief, Kubler-Ross, ,   

    The Five Stages of Rat Race Grief 

    Scientists have identified the emotions that permeate the weeks of Rat Race 9-to-5 white-collar ass-to-the-leather work. They align perfectly with the Kübler-Ross model – more commonly known as the five stages of grief.

    Stage 1 – Denial
    Onset: Sunday Afternoon
    Typical Thoughts: “Tomorrow will never come. This afternoon will last forever. Monday isn’t happening. Is it 2012 yet? Maybe I’ll die in my sleep tonight”

    Stage 2 – Anger
    Onset: Monday Morning
    Typical Thoughts: “Why am I stuck in this piece of shit job? These people suck and I have to work for them! Agh! I hate this”

    Stage 3 – Bargaining
    Onset: Tuesday Noon
    Typical Thoughts: “Maybe I can take Friday off. If I can just take Friday off, everything will be fine, I can get through this week. ”

    Stage 4 – Depression
    Onset: Wednesday Mid-Morning
    Typical Thoughts: “Its no use – I’ve got meetings back-to-back. I won’t be able to take Friday off and it looks like I need to come in on Saturday to finish those TPS reports – my life sucks. I should just quit and be a beach bum, or move to the mountains and live off nature. ”

    Stage 5 – Acceptance
    Onset: Friday Morning
    Typical Thoughts: “Its Friday!  I can get through just a few more hours of this. I can do it – Just a little longer and I get to be Freeeeee!”

    Rinse-and-repeat some 50 times during the year, some 2000 times during your lifetime, and when you’re done you get to have dinner at IHOP with the senior menu… at 3PM.

    Life doesn’t suck, it bites, it chews and it spits out!

     
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  • NegBox 2:42 pm on April 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Instant Messaging, Monday Sucks,   

    New Fucking Instant Messaging Rule 

    Do NOT send me a mesage that says “Hi” .. Followed by “Can you chat?”. I am only available for the things that I give a damn. For everything else, there’s WankerCard.

    It is especially annoying when you have something important to say to me, like: “Your pants are on fire… On National TV, and the producers of South Park called and they want to portray you as a homo getting banged by Mr. Slave“.. and you let the chat window sit there, waiting for me to say something back. How stupid is that?

    And it is also annoying when you’re just trying to figure out if you can catch my attention for something you know damn well I don’t give a fuck about, and see if you can use personal relationships as leverage.

    To paraphrase Nicholson: Either way, I don’t give a damn! STATE YOUR FUCKING PURPOSE.

     
    • Gratuitous Eye Candy

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