"ShoeMoney" Offers Free 12-Week Internet Marketing Course

ShoeMoney (c'mon, who can resist that nickname?) is giving a FREE 12-week marketing course. The url is http://bit.ly/cq4ohB -- more info below from the man himself. 

But first I will tell you what I know about ShoeMoney. The iconic image of ShoeMoney is him holding this monster check from Google for his AdSense earnings of some $132K (this is taken from a screen shot of his web site:)

 

I first  met ShoeMoney at an eBay Developers' Conference where I interviewed him and his colleague Dave Dellanave for AuctionBytes about their AuctionAds product which won an eBay award. (They sold the co. for what I believe was a tidy sum - the price was not disclosed; http://techcrunch.com/2007/07/27/mediawhiz-buys-another-ad-startup-auctionads/). The interview is here: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y207/m07/abu0194/s02

He and Dave talked about their product which seemed like a win-win for eBay and eBay affiliates alike, and I was impressed. Since then I have followed Shoe's blog when I have time...it's a fun blog to follow, with lots of readers and comments: http://www.shoemoney.com/.

So when this guy gives away free info, it's worth grabbing it. Details are below. Or go right to http://bit.ly/cq4ohB.

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Hello,

I'm Jeremy "ShoeMoney" Schoemaker and for 13 years I've been building successful online businesses. For the past five years I've been working hard writing a book to help others get started online. I recently decided that there is just too much great information in my book to exclude people from reading it. I have now backed out of my major book deal and turned it into a completely FREE 12 week guide to Internet marketing. No strings attached. Enter your email and start receiving the weekly guides directly in your inbox!

Week 1 - The Beginner's Guide To Internet Marketing

Week 2 - Affiliate Marketing 101: Everything You Need To Know To Start Promoting Products

Week 3 - Market Research: How To Crush Your Competitors And Discover Hot Niches

Week 4 - Introduction to Pay Per Click

Week 5 - Advanced Pay Per Click

Week 6 - SEO Tips, Tricks, and Tactics

Week 7 - Content Creation: How To Create Articles That Attract Users And Increase Sales

Week 8 - Marketing: How To Use Social Media To Spread Your Brand

Week 9 - Make That Cash: 10 Ways To Monetize Your Site And Increase Profitability

Week 10 - Testing & Tracking: How To Optimize Your Site & Make Sense Of The Figures

Week 11 - Building Your Team: How To Network With Others And Find Long Term Partners

Week 12 - Launch Day: How To Kick Start Your Business And Manage Your Projects

http://bit.ly/cq4ohB

eBay DevCon 2007 Wraps Up; Pierre Omidyar's Coffee Talk

Can eBay DevCon 2007 really be over already? I have to say I think they did a really good job with the conf. this year. This morning I covered the Coffee Talk with Pierre Omidyar and Bob Kagle, one of the earliest venture capitalists in eBay, and now a general partner at Benchmark Capital (moderated by eBay Marketplace President John Donahoe) for AuctionBytes. I'll post a link to the article here soon, but for now here's a pic:

     That's John and Pierre on the left. Is it my imagination or is Pierre's hair a little longer?

John, Pierre, and Bob Kagle.

It was really funny to hear Pierre and Bob reminisce about the early days...especially the first demo Pierre gave Bob, where Bob said the site kept crashing (Pierre later disputed this, in his jovial way, saying that in a classic marketer/developer style he thought it was just page slowness and attributed it to a lot of traffic on the site.  Hmm...)

They both opined about the potential of eBay Anywhere, and the empowering nature of the technology, and how it would be nice to see Nairobi drumsmen selling goods to people in Japan (drums?) And one guy who runs a language translation site got up and said there are some 400 million cell phones in Africa. Pierre agreed this was a great opportunity and he was excited about the mobile platform. (I'm paraphrasing there).  Well, look for my article on auctionbytes.com because it will have a lot more detail. :)

Will Chumby be Your Chum? "eBay Anywhere" at eBay DevCon 2007

Yesterday's afternoon keynote brought a handful of speakers, but the one who fascinated me most was Steve Adler (V.P. of Business Development for Chumby Industries), who unveiled the cutest little electronic device since the iPod. It's called the Chumby, and it will allow you to do all sorts of cool Internet things like hear Internet radio, check on your eBay auctions, get bidding alerts, etc etc.  Well, Ina Steiner and I went up to take a photo of an actual Chumby so let's just go with a visual here:

That's the Chumby, sitting in all its glory on the podium at the eBay DevCon. I think people here are going to get a chance to play with actual Chumbys (Chumbies?) today, too.

Below is a shot of what they showed it would look like with eBay running on it:

Well, it may be hard to see in the pic, but that's eBay running on it. You can click on the pic to get a better look at it.

Chumby will cost around $200 -- you plug it in, and it's "always on," kind of like your broadband Internet connection.

It runs over your wifi connection. It can bring you any content/service from the Internet. So if you don't feel like schlepping your laptop around to hear the latest AuctionBytes podcast, now you can listen to it from the cuddly comfort of your own lil' Chumby.  (At least it looked cuddly to me..the thing looked like someone had wedged a tiny computer into a hackysack).

A little more about eBay on the Chumby, paraphrased from the presentation:

- get your eBay anywhere

- check auctions at a glance

- bid directly from Chumby

- tightly integrate with eBay and other related affiliate services.

So what do the developers want to know? Chumby is an open platform, like the firefox browser. It's a widget platform built on top of flash 3.0. Chumby is building developer and widget partner programs.

The first 2 chumby and eBay widgets are up and running.

When is Chumby coming? This summer, in late July. The price he threw our was $165. It will be "a new footprint in the consumer household."