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Google is Finally Showing Search Volume!
If you are an Adwords advertiser, you may have gotten an email today saying that Google decided to show actual numbers for traffic estimates! This is a beautiful thing as it will allow me to better estimate how many cli[...]
10 Million Millionaires!
I just came across an article in MSN about the world now having 10 million millionaires! It is a bit a counter intuitive information given the current recession but it makes perfect sense. People who recognize the movem[...]
MSN Live To Pay You To Search
In a move the reeks of desperation, Microsoft has decided to start paying people to click on ads and subsequently make a purchase. Year over year, MSN Live continues to lose market share to the Googleplex so it is look[...]
Sell Your Baby On Ebay?
Okay, this just falls in the “what the hell were you thinking” category and is a bit outside of my normal types of posts so please forgive me. But. . . There is a couple in Germany that tried to sell their ba[...]
New York Wants To Charge Affiliates Sales Tax
Talk about a case of too much government! You may have heard about the recent legislation that New York state passed that give it the authority to charge sales tax to ANY entity selling to a resident of the state no matt[...]
Microsoft And Yahoo Merger Not To Be
Finally after months of grand standing and covert ops, it appears that Microsoft decided to drop it’s pursuit of Yahoo. Here’s a link to the official press release. Although the deal may have created lots o[...]
A Billion Dollar Home!
You are not going to believe this but Forbes posted a story about the richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, building a home costing nearly $2,000,000,000 dollars! 2 billion dollars? It will be 27 stories tall and have o[...]
Using RSS Feeds To Simply Your Web Experience
I recently came across a video, that a friend sent to me, that defines RSS and it’s uses in a light hearted manner. It’s the best explanation that I have seen so far so I wanted to include that video for you.[...]
China’s Quiet Milestone
If you haven’t already heard by now, China officially passed the US in the sheer number of online users, according to Nielsen Net Ratings. While everyone knew this would happen it still is a huge reminder of how [...]
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A Picture From Stephen Pierce’s Event
Phew! I spent the weekend at a conference that Stephen & Alicia Pierce put on. Now I have read a lot of books, spent money on a lot of courses, and have attended a variety of business events. None of them compare to what I experienced last weekend. I have been a fan [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Picture From Stephen Pierce’s Event", url: "http://fredhopkins.com/pics/a-picture-from-stephen-pierces-event" });
I Finally Got A Chance To Meet Dr. Joe Vitale
One of the marketers that I have always had a lot of respect for stopped by the office to meet with the team. We all spent a few hours going over his projects and giving him feedback from clients. In the process, I took a video of us talking together of which I [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "I Finally Got A Chance To Meet Dr. Joe Vitale", url: "http://fredhopkins.com/pics/i-finally-got-a-chance-to-meet-dr-joe-vitale" });
