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Steve Jobs at Next illustrating his business plan circa 1991.  It’s a great example of logical business plan that didn’t make sense to the larger market.

Pork and Beans by Weezer is a masterful bit of viral marketing since it contains many popular Internet memes. They’ve had 14.3 million views in five months. But it’s really lame that the video is not embeddable.

Edited video with lyrics and names of the memes.

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The Lazy Slacker is a new blog that started two days ago. His goal is to show how to take a new blog and reach $1M residual income. He may be a lazy slacker but this doesn’t appear to be his first foray into Internet Marketing. I’m definitely going to watch over [...]

I haven’t been whipping through the 30 Day Challenge lessons but have been making steady progress. The last two weeks has been spent moving a month’s worth of content to this blog and adding original content to the Best Temecula Wine Tasting site.
Nevertheless, I’m still very impressed by the 30 DC lessons and am [...]

Thanks to a direct response to my Twitter account (trustavenger), I learned of a WordPress plugin called Viper’s Video Quicktags. I just tested it with the previous YouTube video and it worked like a charm.
Viper’s Video Quicktags will save you lots of time embedding video from YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, Vimeo, Veoh, Viddler, Metacafe, [...]

One of my favorite YouTube videos.  And I don’t even like soccer.

Since having fun is critical, I’ll link to at least one fun video every Friday. If you’re not familiar with the Numa Numa Guy (Gary Brolsma), you need to first watch the video that started the craze.

Numa Numa (19.8 Million views)
Numa Numa - digitally remastered (2 Million views)

Numa Numa Yoda #09 (2 Million views)
And [...]

Anyone interested in information marketing should watch the video on Seductive Selling by Frank Kern. Here’s a word of warning; near the end of the video he states, “This stuff is a little bit sneaky. It’s a little bit black ops stuff.” Even though this is the type of stuff I usually [...]

One WordPress feature is automatic trackbacks (pingbacks) by other blogs powered by WordPress. I learned of my first trackback via a Google Alert. It’s a source of back links that may yield some traffic.
These trackbacks are tagged with the “nofollow” attribute so it won’t help Google Page Rank. WordPress 1.5 and above automatically [...]