Even the big boys sometimes shoot themselves in the foot. Something Shawn Casey is doing is hurting his email deliverability and probably his response rates, and while I know why he's doing it, there is a better way...

Hi Shawn,

I tried to get this message to you through your help desk, but I got...
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I released a new product today named "Fast JV" that makes it incredibly easy for any ClickBank affiliate to create promotional bundles of ClickBank products and attach bonus products to them without having to go through all the schmoozing that's usually necessary to set up a joint venture.

I was hoping to sell it through...
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I just published my first ScreenCast (if you don't see it, it's because I'm split testing against the old version of that webpage, and you got the old one--sorry!) I checked out some Mac software first, but ditched it almost imediately--useless. I tried Wink next, but found it wholly unsuitable both for recording audio and...
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Rogers Cadenhead points out today that the title character of the TV series "House" bears obviously intentional similaries to Sherlock Holmes, thus the name "House". And here I thought they'd called the show "House" because "Jackass" and "The Jerk" were already taken by movies. I can't stand that show.

4/26/2007 Update: The price is now locked at $14.95. This for a DVD recording of a seminar on making your mailing lists more profitable. The original cost of admission was $997!

If I were you, I wouldn’t even take the time to finish reading the rest of this post! Seriously, if you want to ge...
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After my transition from Mail.app to Thunderbird today, I discovered that quite a few messages that I had deleted long ago in Mail.app had reappeared in Thunderbird. Here's my theory of how it happened and how people using Mail.app can be sure that they're not wasting a lot of hard drive space on deleted messages....
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Yesterday, I heard that version 2.0 of the Thunderbird email client had been released, so I decided to check it out. I would have switched a while back except for one annoying problem -- I prefer the two-paned view with a separate window for reading messages, which works great in Thunderbird except that when I...
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I recently signed up for a test drive of BidFuel.com (which I cancelled during the free period--it didn't look useful enough). Since then, I've started receiving spam at the email address I gave them--an email address I created uniquely for them. No one else has ever seen that email address. I recommend not signing up...
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While I was at my father's house during the Christmas holiday, we had an interesting discussion of the problems in Iraq and throughout the middle east. The three main sources of information were my brother-in law (an air force intelligence officer who has spent time with military personnel from a variety of middle eastern countries),...
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Last year, my resolution was 1280 x 1024 on both of the 17" monitors connected to my Mac. I did pretty well on those--I don't feel the need for larger screens.  This year, my resolution is to replace the Mac and one of the monitors with a 17" iMac at 1440 x 900. I'll have...
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