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The rebirth of emails?

Thursday, December 29th, 2011 | Permalink

We are all familiar with daily deals sites even though the idea is pretty old. So why the hype? Well timing is key, with so much social media daily deals are able to spread quickly without muh effort… The free marketing from sharing deals via Facebook or twitter exponential drive sales and new sign ups. so has email marketing been reborn or are we just adding more spam? Personally I think it helped mainstream email again a bit but with smartphones email will once again be a flood of spam. Smartphone apps and text marketing is where it is all headed allowing deals to not just get right in the palm of a potential client but we have no way to block it … Yet!!!

Great Presentaion by BigCommerce.com – Bootstrapping to Seven Figures

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 | Permalink

Our co-founder Mitchell Harper recently gave a presentation to around 3,000 entrepreneurs called Bootstrapping to Seven Figures: How to grow your business to seven figures per year on a shoestring marketing budget.

His presentation was so good that he received two marriage proposals by the time he was done and spent almost 2 hours after the presentation answering questions.

In the presentation he shares his 7 step blueprint which anyone can use to grow their business to 7 figures in revenue within 12 months on a zero dollar marketing budget.

The presentation is broken into 4 videos:

Here’s to your success!


 

My Interview on Patch.com

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 | Permalink

Some of you may know and others not that I am an active martial arts instructor and Coach. This year we have 17 kids headed to nationals so patch.com came out and caught some of our kids training Check it out.

http://gaithersburg.patch.com/articles/video-karate-dojo-raising-money-to-send-students-to-nationals

The Return to o2s

Monday, February 7th, 2011 | Permalink

it’s been some time sense blogging and lifes been hectic but overall things are well. let me update you on past events…my printnpost.com site started to have issues after the company i had used for the technology no longer existed to the site died over time. it’s def still on my life to get another version of it back up but i need to find the right technology to run it the way i want.

Adsense…O man, how to say it :(  well google banned me for a BS chang in the T&C, so disregard i had been with them for over 2years and approaching about $700 monthly from adsense.  this came from a combination of SEO domains as well as sites i operate.

So becuase 1 domain i had forgotten about and only had adsense running and never got around to getting the content on the site. I ended up losing my account and the money they owed me! I should have litend to shoemoney to not reply on them :(  lissen learned.

I actually was able to get a new account after some time but under a new id, email ect.

OFFLINE PROJECTS

Aside from online ventures, Im proud to say the 15 months have been great building up my martial arts studio.  For those that may have recall some of my old post, i grew up in the martial arts so the oppurtunty came up and here we are with about 100 students, a few national championships and growing stronger as the days pass.

NEW PROJECTS

- I recently started working with a pair of friends to help them marketing a medical device online..soley with SEO and i have to admit i’ve learned more in the past 3-4 months then i did before. whats great is how i was able to get them on page 1 of google 2x..yes 2x, with 2 different domains. So aside from continue to work with them on the online marketing..I have started applying what i learned to other projects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mob Wars and Facebook Games

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | Permalink

So I decide to try out one these game on facebook, to be specific Mob Wars..after just over a week I have to bow my head to the creative means of how this game is addictive as well as a cleaver revenue generator. After doing some research it seems that this game rakes in…ready! well over 100k daily, can you believe that?

I defienalty created the wrong facebook app…LOL my event app is just a week or 2 away from going live but I am already planning to build one of these games. It is simply amazing how much money there is to make online with simple ideas that spread! I love the net!

Twitter Stats based on nielsen.com

Monday, May 4th, 2009 | Permalink

Fastest Growing Member Community Destinations in February 2009

RANK Site Feb 08 Feb 09 % growth
1 Twitter.com 475,000 7,038,000 1382%
2 Zimbio 809,000 2,752,000 240%
3 Facebook 20,043,000 65,704,000 228%
4 Multiply 821,000 2,394,000 192%
5 Wikia 1,381,000 3,758,000 172%
source: Nielsen NetView, 2/09, U.S., Home and Work
Twitter Most Popular Among Working Adults

Twitterers (a.k.a. Tweeters) are not primarily teens or college students as you might expect. In fact, in February the largest age group on Twitter was 35-49; with nearly 3 million unique visitors, comprising almost 42 percent of the site’s audience. We found that the majority of people visit Twitter.com while at work, with 62 percent of the combo unique audience accessing the site from work only versus 35 percent that accessed it from home only.

Unique Visitors to Twitter.com by Age Demographic

Age Group Unique Audience Composition %
2-17 250,000 3.6
18 – 24 ** **
25 – 34 1,379,000 19.6
35 – 49 2,935,000 41.7
55+ 1,165,000 16.6
65+ 477,000 6.8
source: Nielsen NetView, 2/09, U.S., Home and Work
**These demographics have insufficient sample sizes

View the full article http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitters-tweet-smell-of-success/

1 domain 2 domain 3 domain More…..

Friday, May 1st, 2009 | Permalink

So I get asked about why I keep buying domains and dont let any go. WELL since you guys asked! I had some really nice domains years ago in hopes i would sell them and i knew very little about adsense or other ways to make money with them. Due to my lack of knowledge at that time I lost some great names i wish i could get back!

So now if i find a name i hold on to it and try to make sure it is doing something…I figure I get domains for $8 a yr so as long as the domain can produce 0.66cents per month. it wil pay for itself. Over time I my domain portfolio will only grow and maybe some day i will just sell out.

I have a friend that owns about 5,000 domains give or take a few and he use to attend the domain auction traffic. he was offered a nice $90,000 for all his domains but he was doing some projects so declined the offer. yet the offers are there so why not

10 usefull Twitter Plugins for your WordPress Blog

Monday, April 20th, 2009 | Permalink

TweetSuite – a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes server-side TweetBacks, ReTweet-This buttons, digg-like Tweet-This Button, automatic tweeting of new posts and some widgets.
Tweet This – A plugin that adds a Twitter icon to every post and page, so your readers can share your blog entries on their Twitter accounts with ease.
WP Twitip ID – Plugin adds an extra field to the comment form for user to enter their twitter username
Twitter Badge – Official javascript codes that display badges showing what you are posting on Twitter.
The Twitter Updater – a wordpress plugin that automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post. You can specify the text for the updates, and also have the option to turn the auto update on/off for the different post actions in the admin panel.
TwitThis is an easy way for people to send Twitter messages about your blog post or website. When visitors to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes the URL of the webpage and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL. Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of the web page to all of their friends on Twitter.
Twitter Tools – This wordpress plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget – Customise the number of updates shown in your sidebar, individual links to each status update on Twitter, style your Twitterings using CSS, choose whether to display your Twitter name before each post and customise text between the post text and the relative time.
Twitter Feed – Posts your blog updates to your twitter account. Login to twitterfeed using your OpenID, provide the URL for your blog RSS feed, and how often to post to Twitter.
Twitt-Twoo – is a simple little plugin that will allow you to update your Twitter status right from your blog’s sidebar. It is AJAX powered and allows for quick and easy status updates.
Twitter Sharts – ‘Shart’ your twitter status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages.
I hope these Twitter tools will help you integrate Twitter in your wordpress blog and vice versa. Found a Twitter tool for this list? Post it in comments.

Welcome to My Fight Club – TheRedCanvas.com

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 | Permalink

My New pickup Sparring site is up….if those that don’t know…I grew up doing martial arts and the one common issue over the years is finding new people to spar with so I decide to organize a pick up sparring list. Its just like any other Pick up sports except a bit like an organize fight clubThe setup is straight forward…1 page site to collect emails for interested fighters….I’m using constant contact to make my life easy and turnkey.

I know www.shoemoney.com has his www.fighters.com Blog MMA site but Im a Bit more of hands on type of guy!

You Follow me and I will you!

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 | Permalink

I Just setup My twitter account so lets see what this all about! ..So Come Follow me! At http://twitter.com/o2smedia

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