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Stephanie Lichtenstein Message on Affiliate Tax

Hello everyone,

Some of you may have already seen the awareness badge on several blogs. This is an effective and easy way to spread awareness. This is an icon displaying our concern against the advertising tax as well as all the states being affected. Please feel free to add this to your blog or site.

The most important thing you can do is link the awareness badge to an educational resource that relates to the advertising tax. There are many you can link to such as:
http://affiliatevoice.com
http://performancemarketingalliance.com
Our Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=77931506576&ref=ts
Affiliate Tax Law Forum: http://forum.abestweb.com/forumdisplay.php?f=543
You can even link to an advocate blog such as Melanie Seery: http://nyaffiliatevoice.com/

Link where you wish, the idea is to spread awareness and education about the harm that the advertising tax causes.

Here are the banner HTML codes:
<a href="http://affiliatevoice.com/"><img src="http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu100/nexusaware/sitebadge125.gif" alt="Oppose Advertising Tax – Support Small Business" width="125" height="125" /></a>

<a href="http://http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=77931506576&ref=ts/"><img src="http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu100/nexusaware/sitebadge160.gif" alt="Oppose Advertising Tax – Support Small Business" width="160" height="160" /></a>

<a href="http://performancemarketingalliance.com/"><img src="http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu100/nexusaware/sitebadge250.gif" alt="Oppose Advertising Tax – Support Small Business" width="250" height="250" /></a>

I have added different website links which you can edit. The awareness badge looks like the new facebook group icon but it is flashing with the affected States along with their Bill numbers. A big thanks to Joel Garcia for creating this for us. If you have any ideas on how to help, run with it! Every little bit counts.

As you can see in California we were victorious. We still need to keep an eye on things. As for Minnesota, we need more affiliates in this State to step up. Connie has been working hard and would love some support from other MN affiliates. Please feel free to email me with any questions or ideas.

Thanks and have a great weekend!Thank You Stephanie for the hard work you and the many others that have been putting into this. I’ve posted a badge and pass the word along to some of the local groups I attend.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-03

We are living in exponential times.

2008 Latest Edition – Did You Know 3.0 –

This is a wake up call to all those in the marketing space, the workplace, in school, preparing for higher education and those that just want to know.
Great list of facts about our ever increasing world of technology, information and population.
When they ask you did you know, you answers may not be what you would have expected Did you know how fast things are progressing and evolving? This video should leave you at least somewhat in shock and awe.

The Premiere Domain Name LINECOOKS.COM is Listed at TRAFFIC

The Premiere Domain Name LINECOOKS.COM is Listed at TRAFFIC

Auction Download Full Domain Catalog  for Moniker’s TRAFFIC

Domain Info:
Linecooks.com is in top 3 of Google for the key word cooking jobs, cook jobs, linecooks, linecooking jobs, out of over 21,000,000 results.

The opportunity to save in ppc advertising is enormous.

  • The domain has a custom job hunting site built around it that RECEIVES 2-10 sign-ups per day and has over 800 members.
  • Linecooks is the most common name used for a commercial kitchen cook.
  • When you hear Linecooks some think Gordan Ramsey and his brigade of cooks all down the stations of a kitchen’s line.
  • When commercial cooks think about cooking jobs they often think of the Family of Darden Restaurants, Olive Garden, Red Lobsters, Chilies, TGIF and their other chain restaurants.
  • Applebees, Cracker Barrel, Red Robin ,Long John Silver’s, Hard Rock Cafe and many professional chains can benefit over the long term with such a valuable piece of Internet real-estate.
  • Smaller chains and independents have the opportunity to enter this market with such prime Internet real-estate.
  • There Excellent opportunity to add a chefs forum and marketplace of chef & cook supplies to the current job board. In the proper hands this name’s potential is unlimited.

Where to go to get this domain Property

AUCTION SCHEDULE
Live Auction: April 29th (Wed) 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. PT
Extended Online Auction: Running online from SnapNames.com, April 29th (Wed) until May 7th (Thurs) 12:15 p.m. PT (3:15 p.m. ET)

Don’t let your competitors get this Premiere Generic Domain Name.
This is a category killer for the cooking industry.

Hope to see your bids. No travel needed. Online bidding and phone bids are welcomed!
Any questions please feel free to contact me:

Below are some further details:

Pricing:
The Pricing is has been set  and accepted  for auction by the professional domainers at Moniker and those that run TRAFFIC.
There is a reserve, but for legal reasons I cannot disclose, but bidding starts at $50,000.
Depending on the value and expected ROI you place on acquiring either a job seeker or employer will factor into what a name is worth to each person/company/network etc.
There has been no paid advertising outside of gathering links. This is all organic.

User Stats:
Database of users is 750+ chefs/cooks/ managers etc growing (daily by 2-10…it jumped by 100 in the last month) in the job seekers category and around 65 Employers.
About 75% that join add their resume. The software settings can be adjusted to force resume at sign-up .

What you receive:
Sales includes the entire website & software and license  to run it on only this domain, all graphics, and the domain name LINECOOKS.COM (all other TLD extensions taken in both the singular and purl)tarts at $50,000.
Depending on the value and expected ROI you place on acquiring either a job seeker or employer will factor into what a name is worth to each person/company/network etc.
There has been no paid advertising outside of gathering links. This is all organic.

User Stats:
As of this posting the database of users is 800+ chefs/cooks/ managers etc growing (daily by 2-10…it jumped by 100 in the last month) in the job seekers category and around 65 Employers.
About 75% that join add their resume. The software settings can be adjusted to force resume at sign-up .

What you receive:
Sales includes the entire website & software and license to run it exclusively on this domain, all graphics and source files and the domain name LINECOOKS.COM

Any further questions I’ll be happy to try and answer
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Webinar – Thought Leaders Forum by Ten Golden Rules

Just a reminder of the up coming webinar:

We are getting prepared for our event tomorrow. Business and Internet marketing experts will be presenting, “Thought Leaders Forum – What’s Next in Internet Marketing.” The event begins at 12:30pm EST. and you can participate and listen from your desk.

Presenters include:

  • Ten Golden Rules CEO, Jay Berkowitz
  • Author Rohit Bhargava
  • Facebook Goddess Mari Smith
  • PeoplePond Founder David McInnis
  • iClarity Founder Maria Harrison
  • Search Specialist Joe Laratro
  • Semantics Expert Richard Stanton

Remember, there is no charge for this event thanks to the University of San Francisco Internet Marketing Course, USanFranOnline.com and new Opportunity Matchmaking site Bintro.com. Course Registration is limited so please reserve your space now.

Oregon Publishing Website Launch!

The countdown has come and gone and I was way to tired to try and post about this yesterday, or even hold a countdown.
The time has arrived that I finally launched this work in progress. It’s by no means finished, what website is ever finished.

I lost count of all the different redesigns and mark-ups I went through over the past 2 months. Yeah, that’s how indecisive I was about putting up one of my own creations to represent such a fine domain name (and my own name!).

The site is coded in CSS and XHTML and validates at the W3C. The site’s template is constructed into three sections. The PHP is calling includes for the header and footer, while the center portion, where the content changes, is static.

I also have been having my share of fun playing around with the multitude of jQuery scripts & tools and the various plug-ins that can be added to it. The home page use a basic coda-slider that I have added the reflection plug-in to. That may change up to some type of carousal, but I’m happy with it for now.

I still need to update much of the site with all the resources I use and have found online for domaining, affiliate marketing, designing, and advertising online.

Projects Page: (not up yet as of this posting) There is still the major portion of what Oregon Publishing will function as in the future: an AD SERVER that targets the state of Oregon, but I’m still thinking about what plan of action to take and if i’m limiting myself or not. Niches are good, but I still feel that the potential is great for a national ad sever platform. There are several other projects that will go on the projects page, like what Eugene Advertising will evolve into…a business portal and link directory for the city of Eugene, at some point when time and capital allow for growth.

Back to work now. There are still a few lines of code that need to get done 😉

Oh,  if you need to hire me to do your website, or updated it or make it look “pretty”, you use either the Contact page or Request a Quote

I also  do Banner Ads Designs to help with your online marketing campagines.

Corrupt preferences file in photoshop

Photoshop acting bugging on you?
It started to do so to me today.

My particular Foobar reared its face in the form of “invisible images.”
That’s where you open a file and you can see all the layers in the Layers Pallet, but the work area is blank. Just an empty gray background just as if you had not even opened anything.

Ok the fix is much simpler than pulling out the install disk and going through all of that mess. Besides that would require you to save all sorts of plugins, brushes, action scripts, hotkeys, and anything else you have made custom to you give you a more productive and creative workflow.

Just erase your current preferences file and see if that fixes your photoshop woes.
Here’s how:

After starting Photoshop DO NOT WAIT for the the splash screen, and quickly press and hold <Alt><Control><Shift> simultaneously, if you are on a windows system. On a Mac press and hold <Option><Command><Shift>.

That little fix seems to fix about 85% of photoshop woes.

Oh, be sure to note any changes you have set-up in your preferences file, like scratch disk, units & measurements etc. Those are what you are resetting!

Happy Designing…

IE CSS :hover needs link reference

I noticed another silly IE CSS quirk when styling links.

In this particular case I was using a CSS Sprite and on mouseover the Sprite-image should slide up to show the hover state to the next link in a jquery coda slider type display.

The Sprite’s CSS attribute :hover worked fine in FireFox, but when testing in IE there was no reaction to the CSS :hover state.

Turns out that you have to add a hyper link reference or IE will not recognize that there needs to be a switch.

I applied the href and now the silder arrow button-images are  is working great in IE7

Example:

This worked in FF but Not IE  :<a class=”prev”></a>
This was the fix <a href=”#” class=”prev”></a>

Don’t you just love messing around with cross-browser compatiblity.

This little nugget of info only took me about an hour and half to figure out….after I had adjusted much of my CSS code to figure out what was going on.
Nope the CSS was fine…geez.