March 29, 2011

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Google Bans 11-Year-Old Adwords Account Over Deleted Ads

Adwords Bans my Account

Google seems to be looking for increasingly draconian ways to purge advertisers these days. My Adwords account, which was nearly 11-years-old, had likely been around for longer than most of the Adword’s support team I’ve dealt with. Why then, did Google feel the need to suspend my entire account without warning? It appears to be [...]

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March 28, 2011

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Google Adwords Rolling Out Bans Again?

Adwords Banned

I’m seeing a trend of new suspensions being once again handed out to advertisers using Google Adwords. The difference this time is that advertisers are losing their accounts not based on any sort of current infractions, but are being banned for “violations” that occurred in some cases years ago. This was before Google even restricted [...]

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March 28, 2011

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“Google Proof” Your Business by Providing Incredible Value

Maybe you haven’t noticed, but it’s getting increasingly difficult to get your sites ranked in Google or to get your ads shown through Adwords. Google, for all relevant purposes, is THE search engine. If you want to compete in any market you can either spend all your time trying to please them or you can [...]

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February 22, 2011

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Why You Are Not an Expert (and neither am I)

You are not an expert

The moment you think you know it all you have admitted defeat. Hindsight is always 20/20 and looking back I can’t believe how many stupid decisions I made because I thought I knew every possible detail about a problem or situation. No matter how experienced you may be there is always room for new experiences [...]

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February 7, 2011

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Chasing Money is Like Fishing Without a Pole

Chasing Money Fishing

“I want to make 2k per week.” If you’ve spent any time at all on marketing or employment message boards then you’ve seen messages like this one. There’s plenty of people who’ve figured out what they want or need to make to quit their day job or pay their bills. But they’re all wrong. The [...]

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February 3, 2011

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5 Ways to Guarantee Another Year of Failure

Missing the target

It seems like there is a certain segment of the population who pretty much wants to wallow in their failure rather than make an effort to improve their life. As the economic situation gets rougher I see more and more people wondering why they just can’t be “lucky” and make lots of money. This post [...]

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February 2, 2011

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How to Increase Productivity by Killing Your TV

TV Affects Productivity

Time is the one currency that cannot be acquired in any greater amount. We all get 24 hours per day. Try as we may to shift, reorganize or optimize our schedules or even deny ourselves sleep there are only so many minutes daily. It continues to shock me then that the majority of most adults’ [...]

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January 31, 2011

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Why Most Businesses Fail

Business Idea Fail.

If asked why most businesses fail I think the average child will come up with the correct answer much more frequently than those who are also in business themselves. Most people who consider themselves businessmen or marketers will look for elaborate multifaceted reasons…advertising, expenses, competition, shifting markets, etc. A child is more likely to get [...]

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January 26, 2011

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Why Multiple Business Ideas Are Poisonous to Your Success

Multiple Business Ideas

If I could go back and point to one reason why I failed to make money in so many of my online endeavors it would have to be lack of focus. Not a lack of focus on any particular idea, but lack of a SPECIFIC focus. Almost everyone you meet who is trying to build [...]

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July 12, 2009

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Surprising Split-Testing Results…

Split Testing Graph

Actually, let me say that I’m going to betray the title of this post right away and say that to me these results aren’t surprising at all. However, if you read some of the info by the “experts” then stuff like this isn’t supposed to ever happen. The reality is that I’ve tested thousands of [...]

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