The great W.C. Fields left the world many hilarious one-liners. His cynical view on life and stinging sarcasm was way ahead of his time and his influence can be seen in comedians as diverse as Don Rickles all the way through to Kathy Griffin today. Unfortunately, it appears that poor W.C. is all but forgotten today.
I’m sure Mr. Fields wouldn’t be too bothered by that and most likely would have another great one-liner at hand to brush it off with.
W.C. was famous for not being all that fond of children and animals and expressed that by remarking in one of his films:
Posted in: Adwords, Affiliate Marketing.
The title of this post: “A Good Free HTML Editor“, has become an oxymoron by now. The old adage, “you get what you pay for“, really applies in this case. One of the best known free WYSIWYG HTML editors has been Nvu. I wrote a lament about Nvu a while back. It has since been replaced by another open source project called kompoZer, which despite some feature enhancements, is still plagued by the same annoyances that Nvu was so infamous for. I won’t enumerate those annoyances again here. If you want to know more about what they are, just read my previous post linked to above.
Posted in: Products I Like.
It seems a big IM launch doesn’t go by without the bold claim about how much the product is going to over deliver. The most common tactic is to tally up the individual value of all the bonuses: “A Whopping $23,456.87 In Additional Bonuses!”
In reality, these bonuses are probably a collection of resell rights or PLR material or outdated loss leaders that the marketer’s JV partners threw into the pot. Total actual value: $29.95.
Posted in: Marketing.
I just got back from eating breakfast at the Roy Rogers across the street. In case you’ve never heard of Roy Rogers (the restaurant, not the TV cowboy), they were once owned by the Marriott Corporation and were spun off from their Hot Shoppes Jr. failure. Most all Roys were eventually converted into McDonald’s. It seems the one across the street is one of the few survivors. A good thing too, since my only other alternative for breakfast would be the WaWa gas station down on the corner.
The staff is real friendly over at Roys and they play Country Western music in the background. To paraphrase the old joke:
Posted in: Blogging.
Google recently rolled out a fairly major change to the way that Quality Scores are reported for keywords in our Adwords accounts. For the most part, when Google changes things within their applications, I usually find them to be for the better. Though I can’t always claim the same for changes they make to their various search engine algorithms.
As with most changes, it’s taken me a little while to adjust to the QS reporting changes, but so far, I’m liking what I see.
Posted in: Adwords.
