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Burger King is undisputeably the king(no pun intended) of off-the-wall advertising. And they have done it again with their latest program: Whopper Sacrifice.

Read Part 1 Here

The Top Affiliate Challenge will feature 12 marketers in 3 teams of 4, lead by Ken McAurthur, John Chow, and ShoeMoney.  It should be an interesting show, and I’m looking foward to it.  I’m sure there will be a lot to learn from watching it. Personally, I’m a big ShoeMoney fan, and my money is [...]

Google took one more step towards owning a monopoly on the internet advertising industry by announcing  a ten year deal with Yahoo the other day (news report here) Yahoo will now be using the Google adsense network, and it is expected to raise $250 million for Yahoo in the first year.

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After talking to some friends, and reading some forum posts about this particular issue, I wanted to write a follow-up to this article.

     Google seems to have taken it upon themselves to play judge, jury, and executioner when it comes to websites.  I’ve discussed before about my experiment with College Debt Assistance, where I had heard enough talk about making money with MFA(made for AdSense)  sites  that I decided to give it a shot.  I recently received [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, was recently on 60 minutes, where they talked about everyone in silicon valley spooging over him. I will give credit to CBS though, as they to be one of the only broadcast stations that realize the power of these web 2.0 technologies. You’ll notice they have ‘Digg It’ buttons [...]