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International Marketing – Giant Spreadsheet of Cultural Differences
Need a leg up on international campaigns? Use this giant interactive Excel to compare cultures, create ads that connect and avoid pissing money away.
PPVSpy Purchased and Reviewed – The Sky Isn’t Falling
I bought a PPVspy “perpetual” license from BevoMedia on Friday morning five minutes after Mike Chiasson sent me a text message about it. Interested in an unbiased no-affiliate-links capsule review? Read on. And no, I’m not biased in trying to justify to myself my purchase – Lets get that out of the way. The way…
Decent Landers in Two Minutes Flat – WYSIWYG Website Builder
Its fucking retarded that DreamWeaver, Adobe’s top-of-the-line ($$$) web design package can’t just work graphically kinda like PowerPoint and then figure out what it needs to do to display your doodle as a working web page. Maybe there’s tons of wizards out there that know how to do just that with DreamWeaver. As far as…
Easy Flash Banners – SnackTools
Awesome tool I started using last week: BannerSnack from Snacktools. Its not as fancy as Wix. Unlike Wix, it creates small files needed for banners, uses the clickTag attribute and most importantly it lets you download your creation free and clear – so you can use it without having to bleed money to them. I…
What About Guru Products?
Nothing is ever black and white – so here’s the skinny. You keep getting bombarded by “Product Launches”. What to do? Are they good? Bad? Evil? They are not all bad, and they are not all good. The major difference between a good product and a bad product is YOU. Yes, you. Not the product,…
Woopra Does Jaw-Dropping Site Analytics
Woopra is an Analytics tool I picked up after peeking under the hood while doing some competitive research. It really kicks Google where the sun don’t shine in many areas. The amount of stats is impressive, the way its presented looks almost like one of those Wired magazine InfoPorn infographics – Heck, you can even…
WordPress Killer Theme: Headway Version 2.0 Released
The one theme to end it all released Version 2.0 today: Headway 2.0 Its not an affiliate link, and I don’t get paid, yada, yada yada…. If you run ANY WordPress at all, you have to check out that theme. What’s so special? Well, how about designing your blog in real-time with a drag-and drop…
The Spy Who Popped Me
Originally posted to the Internet University message board Captains log, Stardate -313708.32 I went back to the Zip submit campaign I was running and trimmed the URLs so at least I’m keeping 2-3 profitable URLs. Ultimately I don’t want to invest a ton of time on something I know won’t take me very far even…
Speed Up Landing Pages and Redirects by Loading a Preview from a Content Distribution Network like CloudFront
If the offer you are promoting loads too slowly for sending it PPV traffic directly, or your own redirection is slowing down your pop-ups, here’s an interesting solution I developed. The idea is simple: Show the user the landing page even before it is fully loaded – so you get them to see the offer…
Ultimate List of Traffic Sources
In the neverending quest for traffic, I bumped into a great list of traffic sources compiled by Edward from http://3things.be which I promptly proceeded to rip, massage, sort and post. Probably the best part of the list are Edward’s one-line comments on each source. Check out the ultimate list of traffic sources. Check out Edward’s…
StatsRemote
Found a nifty little app called StatsRemote that can keep track of dozens of advertising as well as affiliate network accounts. By what I read this tool is pretty popular in the Adult webmaster industry. The functionality is limited to overall stats, the price is around $30 a month. In a nutshell, it gives you…
Five Hosting Tips for Newish Affiliates
Tip 1 – Get Dedicated Servers or a Virtual Private servers. I just spent the last two days migrating and consolidating hosting accounts. Total waste of time, but had to be done. Be smart, not like me. Tip 2 – Use the Domain Registrar’s DNS service, not your server’s. The main reason is because if…
How to Accelerate your Site to Warp Factor 9.9 without paying $99 a month
Ever wish you could deliver web pages and graphics at blazing speeds without having to sell your firstborn? 99% of the content of this blog is now speeding from Amazon’s CloudFront Content Distribution Network. Check the page source code – whatever comes from “cloud.negbox.com” is actually coming from a server at an Amazon location near…
Blogging & Comments System
I prognosticate in-line commenting will soon be a standard feature of most blogs. Its a catch-22. If you have a blog with little traffic, like mine, you want folks to get what they came for fast and easy – so your homepage should be styled to give them what they want with minimum fuzz. That…
Wibiya Toolbar
Check the toolbar at the bottom of your browser window when you’re viewing negbox.com. That’s the Wibiya toolbar. What a stupid name for an awesome app – I keep misspelling it every time I want to go to their site. I had this thing running on another site for a year or two and its…
WordPress 3 Released!
Wohoooo! WordPress 3 is now officially live! Lets see how many of my sites I can break with this! Check out the features Video below!
Jellyvision Turns Your Visitor’s Brain to Jelly
Don’t believe me… Take a look at Jellyvision’s un-believable samples. They make even the most boring stuff funny and entertaining. This is the complete opposite of the “no-control” video Mike mentioned last week. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing greater use of those very soon.
Tax Problems for Affiliates or Idiocy?
What piece of this puzzle am I missing? There’s a whole bunch of US internet marketers up in arms about their states trying to tax corporations that do business with them in a dozen different ways – They’re trying to tax corporations like they are based where the affiliate marketer is located, or other crazy…
Amazon Affiliate Sushi Box Blows Ass
I’m trying the Amazon “Nakamaste” or whatever the heck oriental name they have for their “automatic” box. Here I go, telling myself the wonderful story that it’s going to be like Google AdCents, but with better targetting since they know half the people that are likely to visit my site, and they can comb my…
Headway Marketplace
Nice! Clay and team have opened the doors to the Headway Marketplace. If you don’t know what it is or why you should care… Read up, you’re missing out on the WordPress theme to end all Themes. Headway Theme Marketplace
WordPress Lockdown by IP
Nice article by Matt Cutts on protecting a wordpress installation with an .htaccess file. There are also one or two some security plug-ins by Askapache that you can run that will do all sorts of magic – But quite honestly getting them to work is not that easy depending on your hosting and using them…
DigitalQuill Has Best Datafeed Plugin for WordPress
Digital Quill seems to have the best and pretty inexpensive (around $40 – unlimited) plugin for using datafeeds on a WordPress site – Or importing from Excel or CSV file into WordPress. Read the tutorials and seems really good for what I need… It even updates posts when you change the source file! Nice, real…
Drop-In Pack
Created myself a little “drop-in” package with the stuff I use most frequently in sites… This should make creation of future sites way easier – In the last two I reused like 80% of components! I’m typing this as it uploads to my latest Machiavellian machination… The machination I talked about earlier (the one where…
Hostgator into SEO Hosting
Wow. I didn’t know Hostgator was into SEO hosting – I read the description of SEO hosting just a few days back – It means hosting multiple websites on a bunch of IP addresses of different networks so that search engines see them as really separate sites and not a link farm. Search engines got…
Referrer Cloaking in URL shortener
A couple of days ago I wrote about my little trick to spy on bit.ly links, which Johnathan Volk later picked up for an April Fool’s joke with a kernel of truth in it. There are alternatives to Bit.ly, but this one from a commenter caught my eye: Referrer.us does URL shortening and cloaking with…
