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How to Succeed at Bum Marketing

Every once in a while, a marketing system comes along that is rather revolutionary. For people who are able to get in on the ground floor of these marketing systems, they can make a lot of money while they are still very lucrative. Eventually, these systems tend to get over saturated with people, […]


Beware of Trojan Viruses from Road Apples

I was traveling one time, as I often do, and was staying at a hotel on my trip home. I went down that morning in order to be able to grab some of the continental breakfast that they were serving. This particular hotel had a great breakfast buffet and I was really enjoying […]


I Thought It Was an Innocent Download!

It all started out as a fairly normal day, even though I was getting ready to go on a great vacation. I was really excited about the trip that was about to go on and had packed about a week earlier so that I wasn’t rushed around at the end. I was just […]


Four Problems with Bum Marketing

The definition of bum marketing is: Using free web page sites for promoting affiliate programs, and then using free links to get those pages ranked well enough in the search engines to actually get some traffic to them. Usually the marketer targets “long tail” keyword search phrases that don’t have a lot of relevant competition […]


Bum Marketing for Income - the Right Way!

In 2007 a new term became very popular among internet marketers: Bum Marketing. It’s a cute way of describing an affiliate marketing approach that incurs no expenses for web hosting or domain registration. Free community websites are utilized instead, ones where free web pages are being handed out to all comers. Basically you are building […]


My Wife’s First (and Hopefully Last) Computer Virus

My wife came home from work the other day very upset. She works for a bank in the mortgage department and they had given her a laptop for her use at work. Someone had sent her an e-mail that had an interesting sounding attachment, so she opened it. It wasn’t long before […]


Recent History of the Trojan Horse

The Trojan horse is something out of ancient history that we still use in conversation today. For example, when we call something a Trojan horse we really mean that it is something that is good looking but has an evil intent. A Trojan horse virus is also something that looks good on the […]


7 Ways to Harvest Free Traffic

Using free website traffic tactics can be addictive. Once you start you might never want to pay for advertising again. Try these tips and see for yourself.
Tip #1: Organic Search Engine Rankings. There are only three search engines you need to worry about and those are Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Conquering top search engine rankings […]


Designing Your Myspace Profile

I have one theory as to the popularity of Myspace. I believe the chief attraction is the user-friendly method in which ordinary folks can enjoy the thrill of becoming a graphic designer (when it comes to putting their profile together). Even my parents could probably figure out how to make a snazzy background and splash […]