Spam King Soloway Gets Four Years
From the Daily Breeze.
Sphere: Related ContentRobert Soloway, a 1997 graduate of Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, was sentended in a Seattle federal courtroom this afternoon for charges related to his business of spamming e-mail inboxes with unsolicited messages - including those advertising his own business.
I’ll have a full report on the case and sentencing in tomorrow’s Daily Breeze. However, I’d like to note that, in the hour or so that I’ve been writing this story, I’ve received messages with these subject lines in my e-mail inbox:
- Stop Collection Calls
- PayPal Security Department
- Summer discount on w4tches delivery
- Angelina Jolie nude movie
- Do you want to enlarge your penis?
- Winning notification
Not that I’m against these cases or think that spammers shouldn’t be targeted, but I can’t help but think that prosecuting spammers is like filling a swimming pool with water - with an eye dropper.
Do Super Affiliates Really Exist?
There are more than a few sites out there that claim to train you like a super affiliate or are run by super affiliates. I read on Shoemoney a few weeks ago about a guy with a $3.5 million balance.
I’ve yet to come across any of these guys/girls, or at least any that are willing to reveal their “black hat” methods.
Does anyone out there know any of these “Super Affiliates”?
Sphere: Related ContentDriving Traffic to Ace’s Deals
Just wanted to re-cap the promotion/traffic building efforts I been working on for AcesDeals.com over the last few days.
- Google Adwords - Working with a small budget of $25 per day. The number one keyword for this group has been “coupon”
- Press Release - This is something that has been effective in the past. If you searched for acesdeals.com last week, you would have gotten about a page of results. We’re up to six pages now and growing.
- Social Networking - Some of the obvious things like sending an annoucement to friends, updated my LinkedIn Profile. I’ve also created pages on Facebook, Squidoo, and Blogger. I’m trying out Facebooks social actions marketing, which is kind of like Adwords, but it’s not driving much traffic right now.
I’ll be busy most of the weekend with my son’s seventh birthday party…
Sphere: Related ContentAcesDeals.com is launched
It’s been almost a week since I posted here, but with good reason. I’ve been busy getting over a cold and launching Ace’s Deals.
Ace’s is my largest affiliate marketing project to date. Built on a Joomla 1.5 back end, it’s designed to be a one stop shop for higher end brand merchandise. I’ve added some great brands to my roster, including Dell, Baby Phat, and Oscar de la Renta.
Now that the site is built, the real work begins. Although I’ll be making minor tweaks to the site and then the process of driving traffic.
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Floyd’s Barber Shop - What else can you Floyd-ize?
Up until recently I’ve been getting my hair cut at a high end salon in Manhattan Beach, CA. I was in a hurry one afternoon and didn’t have time to make an appointment, so I dashed into Floyd’s Barber Shop on Pacific Coast Highway in Hermosa Beach.
I guess I was expecting something a little old fashioned based on the name-a throwback to The Andy Griffith Program and Mayberry, RFD.
I was completely wrong. Floyd’s is the Starbucks of barber shops. The walls are decorated with Rock and Roll posters and photos from Rolling Stone. The “barbers” are tattoo covered twenty somethings. And there are a few terminals lined up with Internet Access.
Whoever is running Floyd’s hit the nail on the head. With it’s rock and roll atmosphere and $20 cuts with a shoulder massage, they are catering to anyone under 60 who wants a good haircut at a fair price. They have taken the Mastercuts model and brought it into the 21st century.
It got me to thinking - Are they any other aging brands or business models that can be Floyd-ized?
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