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Google Promoting ITSELF As A “Work From Home” Method

This surprised me enough to take a screen shot of it…
You probably know there are a lot of Biz Opps pitched as a way to “make money at home with Google Adwords”.
Well, apparently Google wants in on the action.
Here’s a screenshot of an actual search result done today:

To make sure it wasn’t a fluke, [...]

How To Earn $36/Hour Selling Hugs

People are always asking how they can charge money for things that others are giving away for free… The video below is your answer: Sell The Deluxe Version.
Want to start a simple business that requires no skills, no training, and virtually no startup cost? Get started in the rewarding field of professional hug-giving. [...]

What’s In A Name? (A Lot)

I was just throwing away junk mail out of my mailbox a hard-to-understand postcard from a company called “LifeStream”.
As I walked back up my driveway, I vaguely recalled that the local Blood Bank had recently changed its name to LifeStream “…to help alter longstanding public perceptions” (taken from an interview defending the name change)
Turns out [...]

My Tapeworm Diet Ad Joke Turned Out To Be Real…

For a silly example of how to use my Free Sales Letter Generator software, I wrote a joke ad about a tapework weight loss diet, but the joke’s on me… turns out, it’s a real diet!  Here’s an actual 1920’s ad for it.
Blech.
Well, disgusting or not, the free sales letter generator can help you quickly [...]

Just Because Information Is Valuable Doesn’t Mean You Should Sell It

There was a little dust-up this week on marketing forums after an established info-marketer offered to give the URL to a free website… for a price.
In all fairness, included in his offer were video tutorials of him showing how to use the resources on the free website to maximize its potential, and the “how” is [...]

Vanna White Is Indispensable

I saw Wheel Of Fortune last night… Remember when Vanna White used to actually have to flip over each mechanical box to reveal the letter on the other side?
Those days are long gone. Now she walks over and touches a corner of the boxes that have already lit up (meaning she doesn’t even have [...]

Selling Wadded Up Paper For $10 Apiece

Sometimes it seems like all the good ideas are taken…
Especially if your idea is to sell crumpled up pieces of paper for $10 apiece.
If you’ve:

never really believed that it’s the story that sells a product, not the product itself…
never really believed that art is in the eye of the beholder…
never really believed that a lot [...]

George Carlin’s 7 Dirty Words - Keep The Sound Down!

A looooong time ago way before the Internet had gone multimedia, I was up late browsing websites, and one was taking a long time to load. The speakers on my computer were up LOUD, and all of a sudden an audio of George Carlin rapid-firing his “seven dirty words” blared through my computer [...]