Runing a business from home has it’s advantages. You may enjoy working in your pajamas and make your own schedule.

I on the other hand have always struggled with working from home. Not only managing my own time was an issue. But the comfort of working in my pajamas resulted int he fact that many days I had no idea what was the weather like outside.

Since the launch of my Interpreting and Translating business over a year ago other factors began to influence my desire to move my home based business outside of my home. And while my primary focus will be my interpreting business, I plan to continue to share my experience in affiliate marketing as well.

Today I am writing my first blog post in my new office. I feel very fortunate because I realize that not every blogger and affiliate marketer can afford to have an actual office, not to say that many are not enjoying working from home. I am double fortunate because my office expenses are next to nothing- besides the cost of my internet connection I really have no other expenses.

Originally I did not anticipate to move into this office until December 1st, things went much batter and faster then I thought or planned.

If you are ever in the area feel free to look me up and stop by.

Finally I would like to thank all of my friends for the support and advice that made this move an absolute pleasure.

LeadPress, the premier builder of search engine optimized Mortgage Lead Generation Websites for Mortgage Brokers, Loan Officers, Net Branches, and Lead Aggregators, just launched an affiliate program. If you are interested in promoting LeadPress and it’s products you have a chance to earn up to $249 per lead for life time license. The subscription options pay affiliate commissions in a form of a 50% of the plan’s price plus 10% of recurring monthly commissions.

Who is behind LeadPress?

LeadPress is the brain child of Trace Richardson, a well known blogger among real estate professionals. Trace is a licensed Real Estate Broker in the state of California. His experience in online marketing, social media and lead generating industry serves as assurance that if you join the LeadPress affiliate program, you will receive an unsurpassed attention from the founder himself should you join LeadPress’ affiliate program.

I would also like to to take this opportunity to congratulate Trace on the launch of the affiliate program. I very proud to consider him my friend and wish him and LeadPress much success! Well done!

Disclaimer: This post is entirely my personal opinion.

Not so long ago LeapFish.com lunched their own affiliate program. LeapFish is a search aggregator that displays the results from Google, Yahoo, MSN and some other websites. They strip down the sponsored ads from the search results provided to them via APIs by Google, Yahoo and MSN while inserting their own ads instead. Ad can be purchased on LeapFish.com for a set price with 5% yearly renewal fee. According to LeapFish the average price per keyword is $1,499:

Is LeapFish Affiliate Program Promoting The Wrong Product?
It appears the LeapFish affiliate program is aimed at gaining traffic to their website and the sale of keywords is left to often overly aggressive sales executives- which in my opinion is a mistake. It sends the wrong signal, in my opinion, that LeapFish.com is really in desperate need of traffic and exposure (see my take on their linking payola below). According to their FQA an affiliate will make $0.05 for each search performed through a search widget provided by LeapFish. As I pointed out in my comment at 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Forums to LeapFish affiliate manager, I believe LeapFish should have linked their affiliate program to the sales of keywords instead, it would have helped them on the following levels:

• eliminate partially or completely the need of sales executives
• saving money spend on hiring and reimbursing the sales executives.
• finally at 5%-10% commission, it will automatically make LeapFish one of the most competitive affiliate programs out there, if they had a product worth buying that is.

LeapFish Affiliate Program Will Suffer From Bad Reviews
In my opinion, LeapFish.com did not go far enough nor were they sincere in apologizing for overly aggressive sales person who committed click fraud trying to “scare” potential client into advertising with LeapFish. While LeapFish reacted by firing the employee, the LeapFish blamed TechCrunch for misrepresenting the entire event and treating LeapFish unjustly. The problem with a such bad publicity is that many affiliates will pass the opportunity to make money with LeapFish once they learn about the above described click fraud fiasco. Many affiliate marketers use extensively the pay per click advertising across major search engines themselves and the click fraud episode will serve as a huge turn off for many of them.

The true irony about this is that, according to Spyfu, LeapFish started to run pay per click campaigns in June. It contradicts their sales pitch that “the prices on PPC have skyrocketed therefore you need to advertise with LeapFish”.

LeapFish Affiliate Program is Nothing More Than a “Linking Payola” scheme
Their affiliate program seams to be focused on “linking payola” as their search widget code contains a SEO friendly link back to their search engine. Since I am not an affiliate with LeapFish, I do not now if removing the link or at least adding a “nofollow” attribute to it is against their TOS. It is my opinion that the best way to gain incoming links is to provide services that your clients and/or users will rave about.

LapFish Search Widgets Might Be Misleading To Visitors
The search widget may confuse some of the visitors, . Many websites integrate search box for the purposes of searching their own website- one of the reason I have implemented Lijit on my blog. The LeapFish widget issues no warning before taking away the visitors to LeapFish.com search results page. If you have two search widgets one to search your own website and another is to search LeapFish it may get even more confusing.

LeapFish Affiliate Program’s Payout is To Small To Attract Affiliates. Will Mac Air Giveaways Do The Trick?
Considering the pay out of $0.05 (five cents) per search performed, I am skeptical that any average blogger will be able to make $500 or more per month. LeapFish is trying to get new affiliates by holding a contest at the end of each a winner will receive a Mac Air (note the amount of astroturfing done on Twitter by LeapFish management and employees). While this incentive may attract some affiliates, in my opinion LeapFish’s plan is rather shortsighted- I see many bloggers and website owners taking the search widget down after the contest is over. Unless of course giveaways become regular.

Leaders in “Make Money Online” Niche Will Never Endorse LeapFish Affiliate Program.
Not sue if I would ever get involved with an affiliate program offered by a meta search engine. But to be honest I have never heard of one before. Personally I am always excited to learn that a company’s marketing plan includes affiliate program. LeapFish, in my opinion, introduced their affiliate program too little too late and had been scarred beyond hope by the feedback resulting from high pressure sales methods- some of those contacted by LeapFish sales associates compared conversations to the episodes from the movie “Boiler Room”. I seriously doubt that Shoemoney, Problogger, Zac Johnson, Ian Fernando, John Chow, Jason Katzenback or any serious affiliate or internet marketer will start promoting LeapFish any time soon. The giveaways can generate some temporary interest, but much more is needed to keep their affiliate program afloat- a product worth investing into.

Ever since discovering Disqus, I have been keeping an eye on their product. For some periods of time I have used their commenting system across my blogs – yet for some reason or another would revert to WordPress‘ default commenting system or try other services like Intense Debate. I have more than few complains about the speed of their plugin – one of the main reasons I would stop using it.

But things at Disqus have changed. Not only they gained a powerful ally in Andy Beard, whose opinion is respected and valued by the thousands in the blogging community, they have also dramatically improved their product from the time I last tested it.

If you are dissatisfied with the you current commenting system on your blog, here are my two cents on why you should seriously consider using Disqus on your blog.

• Disqus allows your readers to comment using their Facebook & Twitter Credentials.
• Disqus allows you to reply to comments via e-mail.
• Disqus allows you to manage multiple blogs from one account.
• Disqus integrates well into Blogger.com powered blogs. If you share my sentiment, you probably do not comment often on Blogger- their native comment system needs some major overhaul. Using the Disqus on blogger can probably increase users interaction via comments.
• Finally Disqus folks at Diqus are really paying attention to what other people are saying about their services. They also seem to be implementing things gathered from the feedback from users.

In the past I often questioned using a third party commenting system. Now I am becoming more and more convinced that Disqus is actually one of the very few systems capable of providing real value to it’s users.

I doubt anyone from 1 and 1 Internet will ever read this rant. But if you do, this first two paragraph should be sufficient for you to discover why I think you are the worst hosting company in the world. It will only take 5 minutes of your time.

You suck not because you sent me to a collection agency- it was never my intention not to pay you, canceling my credit card was the only way to insure my hosting account with you will be canceled. I knew you are going to send me to collections, you have made it clear in our phone conversations. You suck because you failed to satisfy a potential client who was willing to pay you $1,200 a year for indefinite period of time. This potential client also was your affiliate, but no longer do I wish to promote your products. In fact I will use every opportunity to tell my colleagues and friends about my experience. You guys need to get your act together and at least make an attempt to show you care about your clients.

Now the longer version for rest of my visitors. I have to point out that this issue has nothing to do with the quality of their services or their hardware, it is about complete and utter failure of their customer service side of business.

Back in December, I was faced with an urgent need of a dedicated box, which actually proved to be a false “alarm” since my shared host handles double amount of traffic now. I decided to give 1 & 1 Internet a try. One thing worried me at the time of moving my websites to 1 & 1- their MySQL version was older from what my current shared host was using. With some hesitation I went ahead and ordered the dedicated box. I was impressed by the attention of a sales rep with whom I spoke on the phone. That was the only time I received any attention from them by the way. So I went ahead knowing that I would have to spend considerable amount of time and effort to work around the issues of exporting MySQL databases and reverting them to the older version. At the end it proved to be beyond my expertise and my patience. After a week of unsuccessful attempts I decided to cancel my account being fully aware that I will have to pay an extra set up fee associated with set up fees- if I stayed with 1 & 1 the set up fee would have been waved. I was also assured in the conversation by the sales representative that I should have no problem to cancel my account. So I did. I logged into my account and canceled my plan. Little did I know that in order to cancel your dedicated hosting plan with 1 & 1 you need to fax in or mail in the cancellation request and it is impossible to cancel your account online.

One month went by – I noticed a charge to my credit card but did not make an issue out of it. I just presumed it was the set up fee. Another months goes by another charge. Call to customer support reveals that I did not follow the procedure properly in canceling my account- it was canceled only partially the domains but the dedicated box. You see 1 & 1 has fine print in their TOS- a nice way to say that your customer is always wrong. There in the fine print it says that you can’t cancel your plan without faxing such a request with your signature to 1 & 1. No kidding! It took them 5 seconds to process my card via their websites at the time of the sign up….

I called several other times in attempt to speak to a supervisor or some one who had an authority to help me. Guess what, never got to speak to any one like that. I felt that their customer service people are trained to dump you once you ask for some one in the higher up position. I also Tweeted to my friends on Twitter and they tried to refer me to people they knew at 1 & 1- but all my efforts seemed to run into an endless circle of one person passing me onto another. The end result? The 1 & 1 Internet send me to collection agency since I canceled my credit card after I was charged three months in the row for the service I never used and in good faith believed to have canceled it.

In my opinion 1 & 1 is the worst web host I have ever caame across and I am sure I will never consider them in the future.

Since some time in 2005 I have been developing a good (but so far “online only”) relationship with Matthew Brown and blogger form United Kingdom. While benefiting greatly from his friendship, I certainly feel that I did not give back enough.

I can’t describe the feeling I had when I learned that Matt has been in search of his son for the last 5 years. Needless to say that I also felt ashamed it took me 4 years to find out about Matt’s heartache….

In September 2004, Matt saw Jono (Jonathen) for the last time. Jono’s mother made a decision (on the value of which I rather not dwell) to take him away from his father and his other relatives. Jono is about 9 years old now and I pray and hope he is well taken care off in spite of the terrible decisions adults may have made on his behalf.

As Matt mentioned in one of his blogs, you only six handshakes away from every person in the world. It is in light of that I am writing this post…

Jono, if you ever come across this post, you should know that your dad is looking for you and is trying to tell all the world how much he loves you and how much he misses you.

To every one else who may come across this post, please help spread the word about Jono. You may learn more about him by visiting the For Jono website created by his dad Matthew Brown. If you are a member of Facebook consider becoming a fan of For Jono page and share it with your friends. Every little help matters. Every little help is a big help. Every little prayer is a big prayer.

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Over the last few years I have tried several different solutions that allowed me to create affiliate websites featuring thousands of products from my merchants. Two of my favorites so far were a) WordPress Datafeed Import Script – a script for WordPress that allowing you to import merchants datafeeds creating a blog post for each product and b)AffiliSotre- a stand alone script that also allowed you to easy create affiliate websites using datafeeds from your affiliate networks and merchants.

One of the big tasks associate with both above mentioned scripts was the preparation and cleanup of datafeeds before adding them to your websites, since every network has their own way of formating their datafeeds. Needless to say when I came across Datafeedr- I was sold immediately.

If you are inexperience programmer like myself, Datafeedr maybe the way to go. It does however require some basic knowledge of WordPress and it is not free, but good folks at Datafeedr are rather confident about their products and offer a 30 days money back guarantee.

Since the Datafeedr is the most expensive solution I have used so far. I will spend considerable amount of time writing about my experience with this plugin, it’s features and even their affiliate program. While I am immensely impressed with some Datafeedr features, there are few features I would like to see improved or added.

If you would like to read more about my experience with Datafeedr- make sure to subscribe to my blog or follow me on Twitter.

I do. When it comes to Twitter, I see absolutely nothing wrong with following thousands of users- or as Maki puts it “mass follow”.

One of the way to achieve that is through automatically follow those who follow you. (I delegate this automation to TweetLater). Yo might run the risk of following a bot or two – but TweetLater allows you to “vet” your new followers offering about 72 hours to block bots and spammers.

In the past, before finding a suitable Twitter client, it was very difficult to “filter” the noise in the main time line. Recently, with the help of Seesmic Desktop, I have graduated and moved my Twitter activity away from web. If you have more than 100 active followers I would recommend you to try one of the Twitter Clients.

Meanwhile I have experimented with autofollow feature of TweetLater, disabling the feature (while unfollowing everyone who did not follow me back) and re-enabling the autofollow feature again:

I probably should stress that my manual to auto-follow ratio is 5%/95%. Over the period of last month I followed manually about 5% of Twitter users while I “auto-followed” 95%.

I would love to know what (if any) tasks do you automate for your Twitter account and what tools are you using for doing so?

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• @Overstock Good morning, same goes for you as well. in reply to Overstock #
• @LaniAR I am using it only for DM my phone would go off every second and there is no option to choose whom to follow on txt/sms it seams in reply to LaniAR #
• @joelcomm Common Joel, without a TwitPic it not as transparent! in reply to joelcomm #
• RT @NewspaperGrl: New blog post: Lotus Jump SEO Tool Reviewed http://tinyurl.com/cedl5e #
• Currently reading http://tinyurl.com/dnercm #
• Does Pandora have an affiliate program? #
• RT @jrdorkin: Now comes the remix to West Side Story . . . presenting “Worst Slide Story.” http://bit.ly/13P8UV – Enjoy the fun! #
• RT @tyropearl: RT @doshdosh Homeless man in Winnipeg jumps into river to save teen. Never judge a book by its cover. http://is.gd/wSnz #
• @BransonPro Doing great Cole. What’s new in Branson? in reply to BransonPro #
• @joelcomm Happy Birthday! Hope you liked the video I left on your FB Wall in reply to joelcomm #
• SwineFlue dominates the trending topics on Twitter… #
• @BransonPro Hey if it’s bussiness that keeps you buys, keep on going man! Did the LeapFish asked you to retract the post yet? in reply to BransonPro #
• @TomRoyce Did not notice any change today… have to pay attention next time I go out. Is the market doing ok lately? in reply to TomRoyce #
• RT @joelcomm: Imagine drinking filthy water as a daily part of your life? We can cange that! http://waterislife.com – You can help! #
• Do you write your tweets mindful that some one may retweet it? leave extra space for retweet to happen smoothly #
• @BransonPro Good, remeber to keep us posted. They like to threaten and sue – saying this based on my personal experience. in reply to BransonPro #
• @BransonPro Cole did you ever try to use Twhirl, Seesmic Desktop or any other Twitter client? Try them out, I promise you will like them in reply to BransonPro #
• RT @ianternet: It’s a NEW Post! AdChap, Worst Way to Monetize Social Traffic http://cli.gs/2qW6ET #
• Hope this will brighten up your day – http://tinyurl.com/2vk9sw #
• @NewspaperGrl Cogratulations! Is that the final round? When does it go on sale? in reply to NewspaperGrl #
• Decided not to use seesmic desktop for Facebook for now- maybe in the future #
• @mattkeegan That is really said. Why not concentrate on wind and solar power instead? Althouhg, I am sure there are dowsides there as well #
• @mattkeegan so you think the renewable sources is a waste of effort? I am not talking only about Wind and Sun… #
• @mattkeegan ture…. going back to horses will be the safest for every one #
• SEO tip for beginners never dismiss the power os a “sitewide” backlink- case study in progress. #
• @jrdorkin I have no issuses using Seesmic Desktop. in reply to jrdorkin #
• http://bit.ly/101phl – Twitter Psychic anyone? Some things just crack me up #
• RT @jangro: I just signed up for CJU. And welcome to Twitter @CJNetwork (about freakin time!) http://bit.ly/Y4GKM #
• @ChrisKnight If you asked me, long time overdue in reply to ChrisKnight #
• @CJnetwork – Commission Junction finally joins the Twitterverse #
• @kateblogs probably good thing they don’t have a free promo and don’t post their readings out in the public lol… ooooor do they? in reply to kateblogs #
• RT @mattkeegan: Bank rips down 16 new SoCal homes instead of selling: http://tinyurl.com/cgbqvf #
• @mattkeegan My absolute pleasure, it’s re-tweets are easy & addictive from Seesmic Desktop lol in reply to mattkeegan #
• @jrdorkin http://desktop.seesmic.com – it runs on Adobe AIR so you might want to iunstall it first in reply to jrdorkin #
• @jrdorkin I think it is similar to TweetDeck but Seesmic client works well on Linux. in reply to jrdorkin #
• @jrdorkin fi you have separate account for BiggerPockets for example you might enjoy seesmic desktop in reply to jrdorkin #
• @jrdorkin you are #5 on my list http://www.go-beyond-mls.com/top-100/ in reply to jrdorkin #
• RT @tweetmeme How to Integrate Twitter to WordPress Blog Comments http://bit.ly/I2UFO #
• RT @alicam: Pro tweeter tip: A recip. follow from an elite Tweep does not constitute an invitation for you to DM them with RT favours! #
• RT @problogger: Reading: Twitter Do’s – I Don’t Care If You Feel Lousy Before You’ve Had Coffee – http://is.gd/xcyr #
• RT @AndyBeard: SEO, viral marketing, Twitter and duping Techcrunch http://bit.ly/KxSQX #
• @kateblogs is the “plot” you mentioned already live? Where is my link?! in reply to kateblogs #
• @crst9305 good for you Sis … TweetDeck? I am impressed. If you have time give Seesmic Desktop a try in reply to crst9305 #
• Whend did Google Alerts began to include inmages? #
• RT @jrdorkin: BiggerPockets Blog: Social Network Marketing: Can You Have Too Many Profiles? http://bit.ly/9PAzJ #
• Can anyone explain to me the benefit of protecting your updates on Twitter? #
• @Daethian I wonder if I were to protect my updates, would my current friends continue to recieve them? in reply to Daethian #
• @Daethian I chose Seesminc because it integrates well in Ubuntu… I don’t particularly care about Facebook option just yet. in reply to Daethian #
• @ianternet I have them on few websites as publisher…. you have to be very carful whe using them as advertisers in reply to ianternet #
• @ianternet are you going to use AdBrite to advertise? in reply to ianternet #
• @ianternet be precise with GEO targeting otherwise you might get many useless clicks in reply to ianternet #
• @ianternet They send you a lot of traffic but I am not sure I liked the quality. But I have not used them since September. in reply to ianternet #
• @ianternet I appears in the past they have better quality publishers. Although if you have enopugh cash you can probaly place ads on Alexa in reply to ianternet #
• @wmraul doing good Valentie…. on my way out to doctors. We’ll catch up later or via e-mail, ok? in reply to wmraul #
• @ianternet not quiet sure. I think they might be behind on stats, don’t know how much. in reply to ianternet #
• ok tweeps need to step out. see you soon. #
• @doshdosh thanks for the (re)follow #
• in the waitin room in Brick Hospital #
• @brokerscience you’ve got mail #
• @tracerichardson thanks trace following you on this account as well…. in reply to tracerichardson #
• @kateblogs Maybe Donald got a little tan … summer is around the courner after all in reply to kateblogs #
• @kateblogs I finally succeeded to comment on your blog…. Disqus just does not like me lol in reply to kateblogs #
• @disqus nothing passes you guys lol….. it took forever to establish the link with Facebook Connect in reply to disqus #
• @disqus this is the blog where I had probelms http://foritisi.blogspot.com in reply to disqus #
• Done for to day. Hope to leave you smiling though http://bit.ly/ERHuA L I can’t get enough of it. #
• I will definitely by her book — Is Aid Killing Africa? Dambisa Moyo talks about Dead Aid on ABC http://bit.ly/18MBtT #
• @eprussakov That is the plan It took me two days to bring the blog up to speed. I have not touched it months! in reply to eprussakov #
• @eprussakov it has but I need to do serious clean up… and the linklove is comming your way in reply to eprussakov #
• Ok tweeps going to sleep. Was exiting day. Tomorrow will finish up with Datafeedr – will blog more about it. Good night every one! #
• You know that $7 billion taxpayers have dished out for Chrysler so far? Per bankruptcy filing the loan will be forgiven: http://bit.ly/shzcx #
• This is funny! A guy wants to follow him so I can learn “sectrets” of Twitter – Following 1387 – Followers – 55 #
• RT @debohobo: RT @BrettBorders 10 Simple Ways to Show Kindness Online http://bit.ly/jkBK7 #
• SU users I would greatly appreciate a thumb up on this one http://bit.ly/jRJOD #
• @kateblogs Well, I do some automation as well (shhhh ) but this is rather extreme… and entertaining #
• @kateblogs Kate, can you stumble this for me? http://bit.ly/MgFmu Thanks in reply to kateblogs #
• 1&1 Internet sent me to collection for the service they never provided. Leaving their affiliate program plus writing a review. Way to go 1&1 #
• Did they pay you to say that? #
• @davidrand I am not sure they will stay in business long if they treat their customers this way.And I was a paying customer if eve for 1 mo in reply to davidrand #
• @jangro That’s why I watch soccer (or the real football) in reply to jangro #
• @JeanneZ just made me some killer buffalo wings … yummmmm! #
• @kateblogs Thanks Kate and thanks for the retweet as well. Much appreciated. in reply to kateblogs #
• I am contemplating to shave my head …. any causes out there this time of year? #
• RT @tracerichardson: New LeadPress / Trace Richardson Facebook Page – Hit Me Up!: I have a new Facebook page. http://tinyurl.com/c32y76 #
• RT @tweetmeme Twitter & Tell-A-Friend Viral Hell http://bit.ly/JMyQr #
• @ianternet I am afraid to cut myself… besides I have a big head and enourmous ears lol… in reply to ianternet #
• RT @wmraul: @stuartstirling @OmarMartin @problogger @SorenJordansen @ericstips @joelcomm @understandniche @mattuk @lawgurl #followfriday #
• @ianternet Do you know how to change the daily spend limit on Facebook ads? I need to quick test something but $10 is not enough. in reply to ianternet #
• @ianternet It only allows me to change CPC can’t don’t seee the daily budget option. in reply to ianternet #
• @ianternet under the billing settings it says my daily limit is $235 but on the ad level it says only $10. Come on FB, work with me! lol in reply to ianternet #
• @FacebookAds Thanks guys! You rock I did not know you are on Twitter. Truly pleasant surprise! in reply to FacebookAds #
• @TomRoyce Thanks Tom! in reply to TomRoyce #
• @SweetSoaps Follow me up, I can tell you a few things about them. #
• @ianternet yes I did that @FacebookAds were helpful as well…. I can’t bring my CTR up though… not sure what I am doing wrong in reply to ianternet #
• Watching Happy Feet #
• Love the acent of the elder penguine #
• @jrdorkin thanks for the #followfriday shout out! in reply to jrdorkin #
• RT @andybeard Why Tweetmeme Sucks For Marketers http://bit.ly/oupyb (via @tweetmeme) #
• http://twitpic.com/4v2ye – at my nephew’s little league baseball game #
• http://twitpic.com/4w4el – my summer haircut just made it my profile picture on Twitter and elsewhere.. #
• @Daethian lol you think??? I should have seen my wife’s face earlier in reply to Daethian #
• @Daethian thanks…. just sent the request to follow @gibberishmuch in reply to Daethian #
• @Daethian I surprised many people today, and even more will be surprised tomorrow in my church…. It feels good though #
• @gibberishmuch Good morning to you as well… thanks for the follow in reply to gibberishmuch #
• Happy Mother’s Day To all twitter moms! #
• @ianternet @bennytejeda @mverver I hope to get more vitamin D this way… in reply to ianternet #
• @Daethian No, never shaved completely…. this is first time. in reply to Daethian #
• @kateblogs Happy Mother’s Day! in reply to kateblogs #
• @kateblogs it’s summer hair cut some one yesterday called it a recession haircut…. just trying to get more vitamin D in reply to kateblogs #
• One more time a huge shout out to all Mothers in Twitterverse! You Rock! Happy Mother’s Day! #
• @PhxREguy Dangerous question! in reply to PhxREguy #
• There are number of interesting articles, you can start with one at TechCrunch – http://tinyurl.com/chfvst #
• @AndyBeard It was rather boring without you in action to be honest in reply to AndyBeard #
• In order to justify an investement of $1,499 per keyword LeapFish neds 5 million monthly pageviews one year from now…. #
• …. and if you are paying $60 a click you should fire your whoever manages your campaign. #
• What a beautiful day today! #
• El Talisman by Rosana ? http://blip.fm/~5zxde #

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