Annoying Video Saves Website Owner’s Butt!

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;//–> Since April 1 is National Backing Up Day I’m posting this video to both celebrate good website backup principles, and to haunt you if you do not have a reliable, set-it-and-forget it backup solution for your own websites. The first time I saw this video I didn’t know what to think – it was [...]

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Backup or Clone Your WordPress Site

Backup or Clone Your Wordpress Blog

Dear Friend, I went to your website and was all ready to buy from you – but your site is down! What’s up with that? If you’ve ever gotten an email like this you know the pure cold terror that grips you as you scramble to go look at your site. When you discover that [...]

Don’t Fall For This Email Domain Scam

I got this in my email inbox today. The people who put out scams like this should be publicly caned. Never, never, never respond to anything that comes in the mail about a domain without looking really closely at the source. The only people who have any relevant info about your domain are the people [...]

Colorado Man Electrocted By Internet Gains Bizarre Powers

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This shocking video was recorded live in Las Vegas at the Internet Marketing Superconference. Witnessed by Jack Humphrey, Colin McDougall, Len Thurmond, Carl Galletti, William Shatner, and Leonard Nimoy. Since many of you are finding out about me from the white hot discussion about unsubscribing from email lists – I thought I’d include something to [...]

Aweber’s Queer Little Accounting Method

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While Aweber is the flagship of email marketing and list management, particularly among Internet marketers, there are some peculiarities about their mindset that can make them a very annoying business partner. Here are the two that bug me the most. Long know for their extreme, some say fanatical, adherence to every scintilla of the Can-Spam [...]

Ali Brown Feel Something Big Video

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Posting to WordPress From iPhone

I am writing this post using my iPhone – how awesome is that? No 140 character limit and no laptop just the free app for WordPress for iPhone and a quick admin update to allow XML publishing and I am untethered, bad and nationwide. Transitioning from rare article publications to life-streaming, at least on my [...]

Welcome to Stardust Factor

A blank sheet of blog paper turns into a new and unique place for a strange little group of people who want to be speakers. Am I talking to you? Whether you are a successful professional speaker looking to sharpen your biz, just getting started, or anywhere along the way, this site will help you [...]

12 Biggest Whores in Internet Marketing

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This post was originally written and posted in July 2008. It created a firestorm of comments, a particularly spicy phone call from a phat Internet marketing guru, and an introduction to a fascinating woman who kind of rocked my world. Hilariously funny (to me) is that I never NAMED anyone. The freakin’ POINT was about [...]

Twitter is a Sentient Being

Jack Humphrey published an article I wrote about how Twitter is better than Google because the collective brain trust functions as a living sentient being. Is there any other computer or software that you can type a real question to – and get back real answers, not search results? I believe this is one of [...]

Favicon What Is It?

Favicon – what the heck is that? This video shows you what Favicons are and how they can be part of the “little things” that give your blog or website a special professional touch. Recommended resource: Virtual Graphic Artist Rachael Butts and here is a coupon that will save you $10 on your purchase of [...]