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Sgt Peterson’s Boot Camp Reviews

Below is my review of Sgt. Peterson’s Book Camp personal training. I’m not interested in spending money with a company that spams the City of Minneapolis with illegal snipe advertising. In Summer 2010: Sgt. Petersons littered South Minneapolis with illegal signs along boulevards, including East Lake Street. I sweep up Tim Peterson’s litter and leave [...]

Experienced Web Users Don’t Generate Ad Revenue

If there was one thing that makes me question the financial viability of online media businesses, it would be the differences in revenue generated by visitors to websites who use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser, vs. the rest of the planet. Here’s what this looks like on TheDeets.com: What I’m seeing: Visits via Internet Explorer [...]

Thanks you, Michele Bachmann, for Your Financial Support

Ryan Lyk has been pretty quiet on Minnesota Democrats Exposed lately. Apparently, his time has been taken up with Tweeting about watching and rating video games on YouTube: He recently found time to take a break from his video game watching and rating activities to act outraged about an algorithmically served ad on MNPublius. As [...]

Google AdSense Revenue by Sources of Traffic

I’m not saying that search engine traffic is important for advertising revenue. I’m just saying that it plays a significant role. In the case of this site, it accounts for around 80% of AdSense revenues. Your numbers may vary. For example, if your site is not search engine friendly, you’ll probably earn a larger percentage [...]

Backpage Categories Under Review

Anyone know what’s going on here at Backpage? Here’s the note they’ve published: Under Review This category has been temporarily placed under review. We are currently working hard to improve the category’s safety and security for our users and plan to re-open it as soon as possible. Thank you, minneapolis.backpage.com What inspired this review? Strangely, [...]

Qwest Denies Request to Opt-Out of Print Mail Spam

Update: Problem solved. As some of you know, I’ve been slowly working on a hobby startup in my spare time called Junk86 that’s designed to help people get off of print mailing lists in order to return their mailbox to something with a more sane signal to noise ratio. Sadly, we find ourselves living in [...]

PR Spam vs Information Sharing

Ninety nine times out of one hundred, when I receive unsolicited press releases via email from PR professionals, I respond with something like this: Unsubscribe. One quick word that is meant to communicate that I’m not interested in what they sent me, nor am I interested in receiving similar communications from them in the future. [...]

The Deets Welcomes New Advertisers for July

Looks like I picked up 98 new advertisers in July: 012global.com/CallBrazil/ 3.dk 3elskersmartphones.dk americatel.com.pe/promo amoelcine.com annapurnazindadil.com apac.sec.samsung.com apps.facebook.com/fifasuperstars apps.facebook.com/iwannafamous/ apps.facebook.com/NikeWomen_Dream Arts.Fairfield.edu axedry.se/ axxess.co.za bc-backpain.com canon.co.in CapitalFord.com castrol.com Centrum.Pucp.edu.pe/MbaVirtual chimei.com.tw chiwe.anow.com.tw Colossal.MaybellineArgentina.com.ar Cramster.com/Homework_Answers crucialupgradeyourlifesweeps.com cute4ushop.com DogCatSupply.com/ DonateLife.Gov.Au engagecsutransfer.com ettusais.mycosme.com.tw facebook.com Facebook.com/Jellies facebook.com/ten.chinesego.com.my FaceTheme.com falsk-alarm.dk Felden.dk Force18.co.uk Fotos.IG.com.br fr.grepolis.com fr.smartdate.com gamesoid.com gjensidige.com Gmarket.com.sg gorila.sk Hoonur.com HoustonAreaBuickGMCDealers.com howardwilson.com/ [...]

Qwest’s Direct Mail vs Yellow Pages Opt-Out Systems

While Qwest Dex is fairly incompetent when it comes to maintaining (or, more likely, honoring) an opt-out list, it looks like their direct mail marketing team understands that it does no good to deliver marketing materials to people who are not interested in receiving them. For example, here is the response I received after contacting [...]

On the Receiving End of Social Media Campaigns

Here’s an example of a typical email I receive multiple times daily from social media experts on behalf of their clients. The company that sent this one says on their website that they, “track, measure and analyze everything – making sure our team delivers exactly the right message, authentically and transparently, to the right audience.” [...]

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