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Re: 29

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:52:40 -0000

You'll have a lot more fun as a Bodhisattva than a Christ :)

Don't take it too seriously. Have fun and happy birthday!

Re: Getting Attention Trick: Memory Sticks

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:14:41 -0000

LOL, you should see the other nine I handed out :)

Re: How To Start An Ecommerce Store From Scratch?

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:16:21 -0000

That was a good one. She did drop a lot of good start up advice.

Re: Getting Attention Trick: Memory Sticks

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:43:37 -0000

Thanks Jim. I appreciate this. And I spent just over 100 for 10 engraved drives.

Re: GeekCast 31: The Hot Mess

jimkukral — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:59:11 -0000

Ha, Mike, I totally forgot about that. I just pulled it out of my bag and am checking it out now. Note for future: Don't hand out special memory sticks to me when I'm drinking sake and beer combined at 1am. :)

Re: Google Hates SEO’rs, It’s Time To Face Facts & Give In

jimkukral — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:51:34 -0000

I am on the same page Mike.

Re: Google Hates SEO’rs, It’s Time To Face Facts & Give In

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:40:11 -0000

This reminds me of a panel I saw where someone asked if Google is overstepping their bounds and everyone agreed that Google was. I don't agree. Google is a business and they can set the terms of doing business with them. However, I also believe that situations like this breed innovation. You don't want to do business the way Google does, so what do you do? People like Ted Murphy, IZEA CEO, are offering alternative services to page rank, and despite his network wide Google slap, his company is growing. Will it work? Time will tell. They got a pro wrestler to be governor so anything really is possible.

Re: GeekCast 31: The Hot Mess

TrishaLyn — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:27:39 -0000

LOL it's really funny to hear the eventual nuggets of good stuff - but behind the louder shenanigans. I'm going to officially claim I wasn't there - I think I picked out something I said ONCE in that whole mess lol.

Re: GeekCast 31: The Hot Mess

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:59:06 -0000

The best part, if there is such a thing, is when I'm handing out the thumb drives (with a personal video message for each of you if you haven't looked at it yet) Sam makes the sound of a wounded deer.

Re: GeekCast 28: Free Beer in Boston

Tim_Jones — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:19:11 -0000

I'd be right along with you all.

Re: GeekCast 28: Free Beer in Boston

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:28:21 -0000

Oh please, I'd be sitting with Trisha Lyn to watch Geekcast too, in all it's mandal glory.

Re: The Death Of The A-list

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:42:15 -0000

Should I be amazed that I've been in online operations for years and never read anything by Scoble or Arrignton? However large you think the interwebz is, it's even bigger than that.

Re: Sell Out for Affiliate Summit in Boston

affiliatetip — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:54:35 -0000

Hi Mike -

We're expecting around 2,500 in Boston. You can see the history of attendance at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/about.php

Re: Sell Out for Affiliate Summit in Boston

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:50:40 -0000

How many people are attending? I know it grows ever year, so what's it up to now?

Re: Feedfront Magazine Review

jimkukral — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:56:45 -0000

Ha, good point Mike. Yep. You can turn off related videos on Youtube now I think.

Re: Feedfront Magazine Review

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:53:42 -0000

Really gotta love the suggested other videos Metacafe offers at the end. "Man eats goat testicles." I really hate that feature. You have no control over the quality of videos following yours. That and the remarks left in the comments must be another reason major advertisers are not pouring money into video ads.

Re: Get on the Magic Affiliate Bus

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:28:07 -0000

And now Vaynerchuk on the way back? This gets better and better.

Re: GeekCast 26: Verizon EVDO Overage Freakout

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:41:14 -0000

TAC – What would make it compelling is an actual challenge with rules. The audience doesn’t know what’s going on. Even Ian Fernando voted himself off the show because it had no structure and required the contestants to fund the campaigns. Just having a structure to it, not “make as much money as you can”, would be enough for the audience to look past the poor production.

How about Mandelback.com for the Zappos contest?

Re: Congressional Hearing on Online Advertising

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:15:29 -0000

That was great to hear Tim 's passion about his business and the online advertising industry. All the speakers there offer really good ideas to the board on what can be done to educate both the government and the public about online advertising.

In a follow up video Q&A session, there was an interesting poll result conducted by the board that 60% of small business think getting online is too hard. One solution offered was locally targeted ads on search engines, rather than competing nationally. Great answer. Good to see guys like Tim in the front lines.

Re: Blue Man Group at Affiliate Summit 2008 East

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:30:07 -0000

That is going to be great. I've never seen them live and this is a great treat.

Re: How YouTube Is Missing Out On $1.2 Billion A Year By Not Having A Business Channel

jimkukral — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:57:09 -0000

Mike, some argue, like Sam H., that Youtube wasn't bought to be profitable. But I disagree. I think they just haven't figured it out yet. My plan gives them a solid way to do it and doesn't mess with their user videos or publisher model.

Re: How YouTube Is Missing Out On $1.2 Billion A Year By Not Having A Business Channel

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:34:39 -0000

Well Google needs to figure out how to make Youtube profitable. Even though Google spends money left and right, they will want a good ROI especially in a down market. If they don't, Youtube might end up one of those stories of the second tech bubble, sold for a ton and never made a buck. Also, Jim has a very good point about integration and the universal search. Youtube videos will rank higher than another business video host company.

Re: Want To Build A Niche Website?

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:20:25 -0000

I prefer openX or another adserver. As long as they are able to serve an advertisers tags through their adserver they should be good. A savvy advertiser should be using their own adserver (such as DFA, Dart for Advertisers) and have their own tags. They will give these tags to the publisher and tell them to serve it through the publisher's adserver. The ad call will redirect to the advertiser's server. This way the advertiser will rely on their own numbers for fulfillment.

However, as the industry consolidates they will need to migrate to a standard adserver and inventory tracking system. Which is good, it means they have grown and they are able to sell space to a bigger brand of advertiser.

Re: Your Picture in the Next FeedFront Magazine

affiliatetip — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:42:54 -0000

It was really hard to get her to balance on top of the computer. ;-)

Re: Your Picture in the Next FeedFront Magazine

Mike Buechele 1115 MediaName * — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:40:30 -0000

That's either a nifty camera shot or the world's smallest dog.