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Comment on Viral Marketing and Why Ken Barth at Tek-Tools is a Good Sport by John

John — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:14:02 +0000

Robert,

3 million hits at 1 cent a hit. Sure, that’s $30,000. But, if he gets that much visibility for Tek-Tools, I think Ken might be willing to pay the fee. Right now he’s at 27 hits, so I’m down just over a quarter.

John

Comment on Viral Marketing and Why Ken Barth at Tek-Tools is a Good Sport by Robert

Robert — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:50:56 +0000

John,

Renegotiate your contract–quick! I just saw a Lego stop action video on YouTube that had over 3 million hits.

Comment on Viral Marketing and Why Ken Barth at Tek-Tools is a Good Sport by John

John — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:45:22 +0000

Michael,

Brilliant? I’ll try not to let it go to his head. But, if he could actually make some money doing viral videos, I’d be very happy.

John

Comment on Viral Marketing and Why Ken Barth at Tek-Tools is a Good Sport by Michael

Michael — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:00:08 +0000

Brilliant!! Absolutely love it - and I’ve got to imagine that with a “lego” tag it will eventually start to get some hits. Perhaps not the most targeted marketing, but plenty of people in tech love legos…

Comment on While Looking For A Definition of Bleg, I Find a Blogossary by John

John — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:07:29 +0000

Thanks Michael. Great link. So much to learn.

Comment on While Looking For A Definition of Bleg, I Find a Blogossary by Michael

Michael — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:57:30 +0000

The Freakonomics Blog often features “Our Daily Bleg” - see this post (http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/our-daily-bleg/) for their definition: “A bleg = blog + beg — i.e., using a blog to beg for information.”

Comment on Jason Rakowski Speaks Out on When to Fire The Customer by John

John — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:41:07 +0000

Andrew,

Thanks for the heads up. Having just deleted about 25 ring-tone spam, I was at least pleased to have a real blog site that didn’t appear to be slam-pitching something. But I’m probably wrong there, too.

Would the real Jason please comment?

John

Comment on Jason Rakowski Speaks Out on When to Fire The Customer by Andrew Jensen

Andrew Jensen — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:17:41 +0000

Only problem is I suspect he is using an auto spam blog comment system–but using text which appears as if he really popped by and was impressed. He commented on one of my blogs and my gut instinct told me to Google the phrase “Good Layout and design. I like your blog.” before approving it and, sure enough, we’ve got about 642 blog posts on the web from Jason all saying the same thing. Having said that, it’s probably one of the “better” blog post spam techniques I’ve seen–especially since so many blogs have let it slip and I almost did the same. If you get more aggressive and search on the IP address “he” used to post, you’ll find a whole trail of spam.

Comment on Data Migration: Bloggers Comment by John

John — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:36:00 +0000

Hey Barry,

Thanks for the clarification and the tip. I’ll check out Open Replicator.

John

Comment on Separation of Duties and the Implications for Product Design by John Glenn

John Glenn — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:31:08 +0000

nice article ..it helps my mind to plan better for changes.

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