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Re: You Really Do Have Friends

Josh Neumann — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:42:16 -0000

That stat is pretty amazing, but I believe it. Thanks for the post, nice tips.

Re: My 2008 Fantasy Football Team

Josh Neumann — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:10:22 -0000

Nice picks. Fantasy football is something I wouldn't mind trying once, looks like fun. Good luck.

Re: Presentation: I’m A HUGE Failure, Are You?

Josh Neumann — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:18:46 -0000

I've heard that success feels like failure 90% of the time, and this can often be the case, because the reality is, we see profits from a very small percentage of our efforts.

I believe it's Dan Kennedy that says to fail as fast as possible, because there's no getting around it, and the faster you fail the faster you will find the winners. Anyway, great post.

Re: Rackspace Hears My Twitter Whining

Josh Neumann — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:24:56 -0000

This is the way to keep customers. Sounds like a great company, although I have found liquidweb to be just as good.

Re: Using Social Media To Sell Offline

Josh Neumann — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:15:26 -0000

Nice to know someone who actually made money with social media. I'm not saying it doesn't work, just that I haven't heard many people giving proof it's working for them. To me, good old SEO and PPC are still the best ways to make money online.

Re: Tips to Make You a More Productive Social Networker

Josh Neumann — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:30:37 -0000

I personally feel social networking is overrated. From what I've heard it's a lot of hype but doesn't produce a lot of results. However, I will have to experiment with it myself to find out if this is true or not. Are you personally making good money from it?

Re: The Fork In The Road: Quality Or Quantity? And At What Price?

Josh Neumann — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:35:01 -0000

Quality of traffic is definitely more important. I'm seeing a lot of success by only targeting keywords that have a lot of PPC ads, simply because it tells me it's a "buying" keyword.

Re: The Online Marketing Avalanche

Josh Neumann — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:37:47 -0000

Great post, I have actually seen a pretty dramatic increase in my affiliate income since the recession. I also think since other affiliates are pulling back on their advertising money that it's helped me.

Re: Wordless Wednesday: Traveling

Josh Neumann — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:15:06 -0000

Agreed, when are you going to post about your travels?

Re: Does your site engage visitors or is it just a monument to YOU

Josh Neumann — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:12:52 -0000

Excellent points. Even if your site doen't actually allow comments from vistors, you still need to clearly explain the benefits in it for them for buying your product.

All too many businesses get conusmed with bragging about how long they've been in business, their past awards, etc, when the reality is, prospects don't care about this, all they want to know is what's in it for them.

Re: Bush’s Robots.txt Vs. Obama’s Robots.txt

Josh Neumann — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:21:51 -0000

I guess Obama can pretty much do no wrong.

Re: Obama and McCain: How political marketing has evolved from offline to online

Josh Neumann — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:01:49 -0000

As a republican, this info is a bit disturbing, but as an internet marketer, it's a very interesting read. It's interesting how many things marketing principles really come in handy for besides just making money.

Re: Social network marketing: Getting from zero to critical mass

Josh Neumann — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:07:43 -0000

Very informative points. The lack of critical mass is what doomed my first 3 network marketing busiensses, but now I know how to get it. Thanks for another educational post.

Re: 50+ essays on viral marketing, social network monetization, product design and more

Josh Neumann — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:29:22 -0000

Excellent points, thanks for the educational posts. Any aspiring entrepreneur should read them before starting.

Re: Texas State alumnus thrives with NFL second chance

Josh Neumann — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:43:01 -0000

Always nice to see smeone get their life together and get a second chance. There's so many negative stories about players' legal troubles, these stories need to be broadcast more.

Re: IOUCentral - P2P Banking isn’t always so simple?

Josh Neumann — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:25:00 -0000

Looking forward to further updates. Social lending is always an interesting topic, and it will be interesting to see which firm wins out. Keep us posted.

Re: http://www.instigatorblog.com/the-art-and-science-of-the-small-exit/2009/02/04/

Josh Neumann — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:23:33 -0000

I think the biggest thing is having a system in place that runs without you being there. This is where the real value of the business lies, otherwise, you are the business.

Re: Slate on split testing in the McCain and Obama campaign (robo-calling versus text messaging)

Josh Neumann — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:26:59 -0000

Very informative post, it's amazing how many applications marketing has besides just getting more business.

Re: Traffic Method #2 - Write About Bigger Companies Who Write or Link That You Wrote About Them

Josh Neumann — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:42:58 -0000

Great info, you definitely don't give the same rehashed info you can find anywhere else. Thanks a lot.

Re: From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks

Josh Neumann — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:47:14 -0000

Tim, very interesting post. Just one quick question-do these same principles apply to other workouts such as vertical jump training. With mine, no weights are invovled, just leg exercises.

When I say these principles, I mean doing only one set, going until point of muscle failure, rest 3 minutes between sets, only working out 2-3 times per week, etc? I don't do weight training, and I'd be very interested if it could be applied to vertical jump training.

Re: Writing a Call to Action in your Blog

Josh Neumann — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:57:39 -0000

Very true, I've generally heard that with email lists, you should write about 3 informative emails that don't sell anything for every one that's selling something.

Either way, the most important thing is to build up trust and then sell something, which your tips would accomplish.

Re: BloggersBase.com - Get Discovered and Make Money Online

Josh Neumann — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:04:30 -0000

Sounds like an interesting service, I especially like that you can put the posts on your own site. Of course, this begs the question: what do they get out of it?

Re: Talibanization of Pakistan Begins

Josh Neumann — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:33:17 -0000

Well, you can be sure with Obama, we aren't going to step in and do anything about it.

Re: A Sad Day for Oakland

Josh Neumann — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:48:08 -0000

Why does everything always have to become a race issue? Black or white, his actions are completely indefensable-the police were just doing their job.

Re: Tweeting and Jury Duty don’t Mix

Josh Neumann — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:50:32 -0000

Social media is getting out of hand. What ever happend to face to face communcation, like we used to have before phones, email, text messages, and now social media? I'm really getting pretty sick of it.

Re: Obama’s Al-Arabiya interview

Josh Neumann — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:52:29 -0000

Obama supports Israel? Wow, something I agree with him on.

Re: Master of All Distractions

Josh Neumann — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:37:15 -0000

I still have yet to use any of the social networking sites, pretty much for the reasons you listed above. I also just can't see them benefiting my online business much and have yet to hear of people who do see results from using them.

Re: Personal Dashboard perfect mobile app for tough economy

Josh Neumann — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:02:03 -0000

It might be nice, except that it would be tempting to check them ALL the time. I find that once a week for handling my budget and bank balance works just fine.

Re: Apeer brings collaboration to multimedia files

Josh Neumann — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:28:14 -0000

The video works, you just have to wait awhile.

Re: Update

Josh Neumann — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:35:10 -0000

Are you still updating the blog?

Re: Obama’s Mortgage Plan: What is, and isn’t, in the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan

Josh Neumann — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:21:18 -0000

I don't agree with any of the stimulus plan. Free market principles always work out in the long run, even if the short term there's trouble. When has big government and more spending made anything better?

Re: I got a job as a Social Media MGPE!

Josh Neumann — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:12:05 -0000

Cool, maybe you can teach me how to use it. For the life of me I still can't figure it out.

Re: Feeling Pain Over a $10 T-Shirt? NOPE, But Principles Matter in Business!

Josh Neumann — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:43:34 -0000

Excellent points, going above and beyond the call of duty is the best way to succeed in business, and since the above examples are becoming more and more common all the time, I think it's becoming easier to stand out from your competition.

Re: Forum Spam Sucks! Learn Forum Marketing the Right Way.

Josh Neumann — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:10:27 -0000

To go along with that, the thing I find annoying are the people who essentially "spam" blogs by always posting "nice info, thanks for sharing" or something to that effect. Either contribute something useful or don't say anything.

Re: How to Quickly Screen an SEO Company in Less than a Minute

Josh Neumann — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:24:59 -0000

Very good points. Fortunately, I know enough about SEO that I can handle most of this myself, but if I ever do need to hire one I will certainly keep this in mind.

Re: Super Easy Free website and instructions for making money online

Josh Neumann — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:13:44 -0000

Great info, thanks for the informative post.

Re: Google pagerank update at the end of 2008

Josh Neumann — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:03:07 -0000

Yet another example of how Google rewareds sites that continually get updated, so if you neglect a site for a few months, as I've experienced lately, it will be gone.

Re: Embedded match on Google Adwords

Josh Neumann — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:52:23 -0000

Good info for beginners, but I still don't understand the benefits of using broad match, as it's much harder to track where your successful traffic is coming from, not to mention which of your ads is performing best for each specific keyword.