I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news: CaRP version 4.0 is finally ready for release. The bad news: I'm going to be out of town for a week and won't be able to release it before then, so you'll have to wait till the 26th or so to get your...
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Last June, I launched a product named Fast JV. Until a day or two ago, it had never shown up in Google. My first thought way back when was that it had simply been sandboxed, but when I registered it in Google's Webmaster Tools, they said that no pages from the site appeared in their...
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Don't get me wrong -- I have Indian friends, and I've even been known to unconsciously adopt an Indian accent while talking with them. And I'm not at all opposed to outsourcing. Nor would I be opposed to hiring in India for email support reps. But U.S. companies simply should not be outsourcing telephone support...
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My "new years resolutions" this year revolve around process changes. One of my brothers and I periodically have long conversations about our businesses. In our latest phone call, he talked about how he's taught his employees that if they follow processes designed to bring about particular results, the results will come. If you focus only...
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A product/service that I won't name has a video on their sales page claiming that over 300% of affiliate commissions are stolen. ...huh? I can only guess that they mean that for every $1 in commissions earned, $3 of commissions that should have been earned aren't. Uh, guys, that's 75%. If 300% was getting stolen,...
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I can just hear PayPal singing: "Daisy Daisy, Give me your answer do! I'm half crazy, All for the love of you!..." Slower and slower and sllooowwwweeeeerrrrrr. Hal, wake up! I've noticed over that last month or so that PayPal has been slowing down. When I first noticed, I was a little concerned that I...
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The latest issue of marketing millionaire Russell Brunson's DotComSecrets Magazine included an article on using RSS feeds for SEO. It recommended two tools for converting RSS feeds to HTML and integrating them into webpages: my product CaRP, and the CMS system Drupal. Of course, if you want to integrate feeds into existing webpages that aren't...
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I sent out Grouper Evolution version 1.6.3 yesterday. I'd been working on a much more ambitious upgrade, but decided that it was important to get a few of the improvements out now. The most visible and important change is an overhaul of the Shopping.com affiliate plugin. The original plugin was based on data sent to...
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How's that for a headline? I'm trying out a new sales page for Fast JV with a little more..."spice", shall we say? Perhaps you've heard of the "AIDA" model of selling, where you first try to grab Attention, then inspire Interest, next arouse Desire, and finally provoke to Action. One popular technique for catching a...
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John Reese announced a new service today that concerned me a little...because it's very similar to a project I've been working on for a few months. It looks like the future of link exchanges is the exchange of links and content. Here's an overview of what I've been working on: Members of my service (the...
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