Art Of Money

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. When I first heard about these new ads my first thought was, “ya right, as if music blasting every time I visit a MySpace page isn’t bad enough, imagine an advertisement!”
But then I remembered a post by Darren @ […]

My prediction is that Blog Rush will be just another form of Internet gentrification. It benefits the biggest and best blogs the most. Which means that the more you, the little guy, use it, the poorer you will be.
Since ProBlogger, John Chow and ShoeMoney are all better bloggers than you and I, our traffic will […]

Here’s a large forum thread with lots and lots of pictures of Guerilla Marketing. Some very cool ideas!
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I need a new logo for my city blog network, and I was going to use a traditional logo service like My Logo but I thought it would be fun to get the network bloggers involved in the process so I decided to go the SitePoint Marketplace and run a logo contest.
The process has been […]

The ultimate in product placement and contextual advertising, although Google would call it spam I’m sure.
In a speech yesterday George W. dropped a little product placement for “Dell” televisions into his talk.
Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B628CifhR_8

Could it be the highest priced contextul ad ever. Apparently Michael Dell donated $250k to George Dubya’s campaign fund.

Okay, time to take score from the “Tag Line” vote from last week.
Maybe some things just don’t work well as user generated content
…mmm how to tally up the votes since there were so many ad hoc suggestions in the comments? For now here the current standings from the official pole:
18.18% Stumbling […]

As my newsletter readers will know, I recently began to offer an online version. All I did was put a very basic plain page up and linked to it as an alternative to reading the text email [it also allowed me to do better links].
Of course being the savvy Internet guy that I am, I […]

My first blog was more focused on personal finance topics like budgeting, investing and saving money. Since that site is 18 months old now, even though I’ve pretty much abandoned it, it still gets search
engine traffic for these topics.
Blogging Perks - Marketing With Free Gifts
This leads me to tonight’s topic. A shiny new […]

It’s easy to sell me stuff, ‘cuz I’m a loser!
This post is the second in my Business Basics series. Last week I started with Got Business? and so this week I thought I dive right in with a real life business case study called: “How Not to Sell Me Something” that touches on the real […]

Joel Comm’s AdSense Game
Joel Comm has released a semi-cool little game that teaches you how to create AdSense sites. It’s called the AdSense Game.
It allows you to go through the steps of choosing an topic, setting up your template, AdSense placement and color optimization and marketing techniques.
Then it runs a simulation to tell you […]