October 2009
22 posts
They Finally Broke Twitter (Again)
Look — now YOU can top Trending Topics despite having no actual mentions of that specific phrase.
More likely: Twitter mass-destroyed all accounts that spread the phrase “Start Making $60-$100”, but hadn’t yet removed the phrase from the Trending Topics list. Maybe successfully spamming Twitter is harder than it seems…
You Know It's Bad When It Makes Donald Trump Look...
As I’ve noted several times before, people tend to attach the Trump name to all kinds of questionable online cash schemes. Here’s my new favorite: The Trump Network.
Looks like what it says it is, right? A link to an article about Donald, a link to an article about Ivanka…
But what’s that middle tweet? What does Charleston trying to land a 787 manufacturing deal have...
Savvy Ladies Bring the PANIC!!!
Savvy Ladies may (or may not) be a fabulous service. But if you want to find out for yourself, you should do so immediately, because the shrill and desperate tone of their tweets indicates that TIME IS OF THE MOTHERF*CKING ESSENCE!!!
UPDATE: Swin Hodges Will Not Be Stopped!
One of my favorite douchebags, Swin Hodges, has been a busy beaver. He’s already conducted four seminars (nearly all of them spelled correctly) intended to help YOU make money.
So successful is Swin’s silky maneuvering on LinkedIn that the last free session MAXED OUT!
And if you doubt the gullibility of the world’s get-rich-quick desperadoes, note that the traffic to...
India Gon' Make You RICH!
A few days ago, someone with the amazing job of “Independent Internet Professional” sent me an offer to get rich quick on LinkedIn. I joked that the standards for joining LinkedIn keep dropping, since now you don’t even need a real job to give other people job advice.
Now I see this is actually a structured business.
From India.
Today, someone named Koyel Das — this...
Making Money Is SO EASY, You Can Totally Half-Ass...
What if there were a blog that generated money for you at the push of a button?
OH WAIT, THERE IS!!!
In fact, as your browser will confirm, it’s even called “blog.”
Jeff Ballew is so sure his blog can make you money, he hasn’t even bothered to include a video file or a phone number in his template! In fact, the most time anyone invested on this page were the precious...
Fear Your Babysitter!
I’ll tell you who I trust to provide me with ironclad personal safety advice: someone with impeccable grammar.
I know how Donna feels. I, too, live in constant fear of my cleaning women.
Fortunately, Donna has established Guard Yourself Today for the benefit of defenseless women everywhere. And if you don’t want to Guard Yourself Today, maybe you’d rather Guard Yourself...
10 Ways to Be a Social Media Asshole | Kerja Keras... →
#11 would have to be “stealing someone else’s blog post and passing it off as your own,” no? Well done, “Internet Bussiness Blog”…
They Finally Broke Twitter
The Further Ghettoizing of LinkedIn
Once upon a time, you had to at least have a job to get a LinkedIn profile. Now, you can invent your own title — like “Independent Internet Professional” — and then TEACH OTHER LINKEDIN USERS WITH ACTUAL JOBS HOW THEY CAN MAKE MONEY!!!
If You Love Your Kids, You'll Give Donald Trump...
What’s better than posting inflammatory headlines all over Twitter? Telling people they should join your great new health & weight-loss business, and then linking them to…
(… wait for it…)
… the same Donald Trump-branded marketing scheme as this guy (and countless others)!
Passive-Aggressive Link Farming for Fun and...
Tired of getting assaulted by overbearing marketers? Try the indirect approach!
HushCryBaby knows you’re too smart to click on obvious marketing links, so instead they post arbitrary links to articles about pop culture and charities, to make themselves seem human. ISN’T THAT FRIENDLY???
They sure hope so, because — as their bio states — the REAL reason they’re...
Nevr Heard of Us? Don't Worry: We're the...
451 Marketing may, in fact, be the best social media marketing agency EVER. But calling themselves “The Leader in New Media Communications” may be overcompensating just a bit, don’t you think? (Especially when their Twitter ratio is inverted.)
Pittsburgh: You're Smarter Than This
Something about the Pittsburgh Business Builders’ board of directors just doesn’t add up…
Related: Some troubling Google results for the company fronted by the PBB’s president:
Seriously? →
Clearly, the spammers on Twitter don’t read this blog…
Stop Wasting Time with MLM Strategies That Don't... →
This guy claims to have the magic bullet that will help every other MLM “professional” stop hemorrhaging money. If he’s right, soon there won’t be any actual webpages left on the planet because MLM will be a GUARANTEED SUCCESS!
How NOT to Plagiarize Chris Brogan →
This guy wants you to believe he wrote this blog post by Chris Brogan…
… AND this one by John Moore, among others.
(But wait, THERE’S MORE!…)
My Name Is Shelly Ryan and I Am Legion →
Fellow Twitterer @dacort noticed that Shelly Ryan is replicating faster than modern science can stop her.
This is how the world ends; not with a bang, but with a linkswap to turbocashgenerater.co.cc [WARNING: This is one of those sites that argues with you when you try to close the tab]. As opposed to the correctly-spelled-but-squatted-upon turbocashgenerator.co.cc.
Jeff Brown (PittsburghSprts) on Twitter →
Suggested by Bob Foley of VisitPittsburgh, here’s a Twitter account that has nothing to do with Pittsburgh or Sports, but everything to do with… acid reflux, eyelash tinting and black hair care?
Learn Social Media from Someone Who Doesn't...
I saw this FREE webinar offered through a LinkedIn Group I belong to:
And who is Swin Hodges, the person posting this information? Well, according to his / her LinkedIn profile, he / she is the ___ for Donels-Bass Trifold Media.
Want to learn more about Swin? Good luck, because Google can’t find any record of this person’s existence beyond that LinkedIn page.
(Did we mean...
Phil Stone REALLY Wants You to Help Donald Trump...
Do you know Phil Stone? What about Phil Stone? Or maybe you’ve heard of Phil Stone?
He (and his wife) have three different Twitter profiles (so far), all of which serve as identical link farms to this site, where you can apparently sign up to join Donald Trump’s multi-level marketing scheme.
Remember, kids: there’s no MLM in “classy.”
The "Twitter Bullshit" Post That Started It All →
When I accidentally stumbled into a cadre of douchebag marketers on Twitter, I found the experience objectionable enough to expose on my blog.
Here’s the full post that got the anti-marketing douchebag train rolling.
