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In case a Web Designer ever needs a tie

Gives whole new meaning to “black tie”

And all sorts of other great ties that kind of make me wish I had to dress up for work every day.
Truly, Ties that Don’t Suck

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I was a PPC Pansy. Ooops.

Search Engine Land had a nice, tongue-in-cheek post How To Be A PPC Pansy: 5 Tips To Weaken Your Campaigns
According to this - I was a PPC Pansy for about a week recently as took an expensive keyphrase out of rotation in an AdWords campaign. It was THE keyphrase that we finally got #1 in [...]

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30×3: Didn’t make it in 30, but $50 in 43 days

Well, I didn’t really succeed this month, though I do think I am in a better position than last time.
Once again, work got hectic and you know the rest.
But on Augst 13 I made my first affiliate commission for $50.
How? Well, it really wasn’t through crafty online marketing, but more along the lines of finding [...]

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30×3: Rising Again…

A while ago, I tried a project I dubbed “30×3″ that didn’t go that well. The concept was simple:
Spend 30 minutes a day  for 30 days and earn $30 by building and promoting websites.
Didn’t do well the first go around, mainly because I knew what I wanted to do but didn’t really have a plan [...]

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30×3 Challenge update: The Spaghetti Method

Status Report:
Day 21 - 2008/12/21
Revenue: $0.03
No real progress on the monetary side and I really shouldn’t have expected anything else.
Though the main point of this experiment was to test out some different theories, I didn’t go into it with any sort of plan  beyond the very vague “update and promote”. Not the most detailed attack [...]

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