Articles from July 2008

JV with Willie Crawford, Odinn Sorensen and David Schwartz!

Willie Crawford, Odinn Sorensen and David Schwartz have joined forces to create a very unique giveaway called the Viral Rebrandable Money Machines Giveaway. The theme is that all gifts have to be rebrandable. As of right now, you can join as a contributor to submit your rebrandable gift. This is an excellent way to get your products out there and have other people promoting them! The giveaway will launches on August 12, and be live for two weeks. This giveaway is backed by internet marketing legend Willie Crawford, giveaway expert Odinn Sorensen and David “the tool  wiz” Schwartz .

Amazon S3 For Marketers

If you are not yet using Amazon’s latest service, prepare to be enlightened! I learned how to use the S3 Services from a great guide called How To Use Amazon.com To Store Your Multimedia Files. Yes, I know it’s a long title, but an excellent guide! The official description states “Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.” Why does this matter to you? Their data storage and transfer prices are outrageously cheap! Even if you have a small site, it is well worth offloading some of your media such as pictures, slideshows, and most importantly video to the Amazon S3 servers. Heck, I host some sites on a dedicated server, and even I still use the Amazon S3 services for a lot of media files. Imagine what happens if you run a small site with some videos or big graphics, and suddenly you get to the front page of Digg….will your website handle the traffic? Will you be able to afford the bandwidth charges from your hosting provider (assuming they don’t shut you down first…)? The prices are really amazing, and you can see the pricing structure at the official Amazon S3 Website.