Facebook is a great social network to use in your social marketing toolbox, if you do it the right way.  Unfortunately there are waaaay too many people who don’t have a clue how to effectively promote their businesses using Facebook.

If you’ve spent any time on Facebook, then you’ve probably already seen too many bad social marketing offenses to count… I know I have!

So here are what I consider to be the top 3 most stupid Facebook marketing mistakes: Read the rest of this entry

Using public domain is one of those little insider’s secrets that a lot of people use to legally steal content and tap into millions and millions of pages of material that you can use for anything you want without asking permission or paying for it.

What is Public Domain?

Public domain is material the public can use anyway they want. Public domain falls into 4 main categories: Read the rest of this entry

I absolutely knew better, but I still made a really dumb mistake.  Let me tell you what I did…

I wanted to develop a new website for my Nu Skin products (an MLM company that I recently got involved with).  I wanted to create a blog where I could review products and provide content.

So, my first stop was to decide on a domain name. Read the rest of this entry

Last week I reported a major financial altercation, to the tune of $130, with the folks over at Article Marketer… here’s the post.  Today I’d like to update you on what transpired and how the situation finally ended.

As you know, I wrote the original post on March 24th at around 3p.m.  By 8p.m. the same day, this message was posted to my blog: Read the rest of this entry

ArticleMarketer.com stole money out of my Paypal account and refused to give it back — Let me tell you how it happened.

Article Marketer is an article distribution service that I used to use last year.  I was pretty happy with the service, but they discontinued their service last October and split into two different services:  ContentCrooner.com and DistributeYourArticles.com

Now I use DistributeYourArticles.com… the service is pretty okay, and I pay a separate monthly fee for it.

So here’s the rub on how they ripped me off…

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Google Adwords has become a completely ridiculous system to deal with.  You might remember that I became the victim of the “Google Slap” last summer.

Well, Google gets so much search volume that I was compelled to give it another try.

This time I started a completely new account, new email, different credit card, different computer… even a different IP to set up the account because I wanted to be able to start from scratch with Google.

I followed their guidelines EXACTLY and got a 7/10 quality score for ALL my ads. Here’s what happened:

On Monday I posted a video about why Facebook advertising sucks, so I thought that I better post an update to that video.

I still think their inconsistency and their interface sucks… but it bothered me that they wouldn’t accept my ads, so I kept messing with it until I finally got one accepted yesterday.

Now I have a whole new set of complaints…

The way that I finally got accepted was to create an advertisement that linked to one of my Facebook group pages.  My idea is to use Facebook to build a list.

And that brings me to my new Facebook complaint: Read the rest of this entry