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Pop Ups – Do They Bug You Too? Post Them Here!

Andrew Anderson — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:49:55 +0000

Do Pop Ups Annoy You Too?

OK, Pop Ups annoy me. I know that they can used to make you money but I am not convinced they do any more. Because as I have noted, when I go to a site, usually as sales site, I try and leave the page. If they have one, I don’t bother ready the rest of it accept on very rare occasions.

I put them on my you just wasted a couple seconds of my life list and I don’t want to have anything to do with whatever you are selling list.

Pop Ups are kind of like the Disco Balls, they were really cool for a little while, but if you put them everywhere they are a bit annoying and it is like having one in your office to show how “cool” you are.

So, if you visit a site that has one, please post a comment with a link to it here. Some of them are more annoying than others. The ones that you have to keep clicking to leave.

Here is one I got via email. Lovely…

Jeff Paul $1,805 in 10 daysl

Will post more as they come in and you do the same!

Cheers,

Dim Dim Is Dumb Dumb

Andrew Anderson — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:25:46 +0000

I normally don’t like to knock other people’s products but I just used, or I should say I tried to use Dim Dim to do a Webinar and it was Dumb, Dumb. Not only that but it auto-loaded itself at start up and it took me four tries to uninstall it.

The only reason I am putting this out there is I have seen a ton of ads in my email for a free 30 day trial for lately for it. While I am truly not happy with the pricing for the other products out there, as all of them have raised their prices without any improvement in service, Dim Dim is not ready for prime time yet.

Inc. Magazine even supposedly said is was the best Web Conferencing. For whom? Ex-crack heads? Whoops, I had better be careful about saying that, as there are too many politicians that had admitted to using crack. Or maybe that explains it!

Seriously though, I think they need to spend another month or two in development before they go out again. But then again, perhaps they are following the Microsoft model of, let’s get it out the door and fix it later.

Dim Diim has more bugs in it than a dog at a flea circus. Looks like it has potential, but don’t use it unless you want to be frustrated and to have your attendees have a bad experience. It is not intuitive, and the” show screen option” is not re-sizable and the recording of Webinar is clugey. If they fix it, I will gladly repost. Dim Dim, if you want to contact me to help fix it, please let me know. I will give you the friends and family rate. Seriously, I do think it could be a great product once they get the bugs fixed. But it is not there now.

In the meantime, they should pay you to try their free 30 day trial. Arghh…

Cheers,
Andrew

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John Stossel And Ayn Rand

Andrew Anderson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:06:52 +0000

As a dyed in the wool Capitalist and a fan of Ayn Rand, I thought I would put these videos of John Stossel’s New Show up for you. Interesting viewing for sure.

In it he discusses Atlas Shrugged, the book by Ayn Rand with a number of people and he talks about the similarities that are going on today.

I am including all 6 videos.

If you want to read the book, I suggest that you don’t watch the videos until afterward.

Would love to know what you think if you have read the book. Enjoy!

Cheers,
Andrew Anderson

Domino’s New Pizza Marketing Campaign Is Doomed To Failure And Here Is Why

Andrew Anderson — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:39:14 +0000

Odds Are Domino’s New Marketing Campaign Is Doomed To Fail And How You Can Learn A Lesson From It.

In case you have not heard, Domino’s Pizza has a new marketing campaign going on and it is doing a wholesale change across the board on its recipe for its pizzas beginning December 27th, 2009. They are changing everything about their pizzas. The sauce, cheese mix and crust. It will now be “new and improved”.
The Short Version…

A little bit longer version

Regardless of how great it is, the odds of them seeing their sales go down are about 98% to 99% and going up only 1% to 2%. This is actually predictable if you have the knowledge of behavior modeling of your purchasing base or just a fancy way of saying, knowing your customers. But, there is a special area of study that most marketers do not know about.

Would you like to know why? If so, I am about to let you in on a very little known secret that could have saved Domino’s millions of dollars in research and more than likely 10′s of millions of dollars in future lost sales.

If you have read my blog for a while here you have heard me speak about Marilyne and Wyatt Woodsmall. They are some of the world’s leading human behavior modelers.

Marilyne and Wyatt created and developed a system called Personality Language. They modeled how people make decisions, what motivates them, how they communicate with others and the best way to communicate with them to get people to do the things you want. Pretty powerful stuff that only a select group of marketing wonk’s and top end performers in various fields have heard about.

There are also some sales rules they are breaking that will add to the situation.

Now I hate to be a tease here, but I will give you a more detailed explanation on why I predict a train wreck for Domino’s and how they can fix this error for only $5,000.

So, I put it all in the video above. I promise you my explanation will all make sense and you won’t want to miss the rest of this story. Plus, you will see why you never, ever want to do what Domino’s is doing. Let me know what you think!

Also, I got a taste of the NEW Domino’s Pizza and I tell you what I think about it.

Cheers,

Andrew Anderson

PS Here is the link I speak about in the video www.PeoplePatternPower.com .

Here is the link for the interview I did with Marilyne Woodsmall that I speak about too, along with a link to the book I mention, Personality Language.

Global Warming Hoax And Stupidity… And Lessons Learned And Coke Once Again… Arghh..

Andrew Anderson — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:30:53 +0000

Global Warming Stupidity May Finally Be Over

If you are planning on starting a business in any Eco friendly niche that depends on Global Warming, you had better think of something else. Man made Global Warming or Anthropological Global Warming has finally been put of my misery ( I am sick of silly people telling me “but it is real ” when they never have looked at the real data and this info proves that data was made up… LOL). The Hadley CRU observations which much of the so called data came from, has been exposed to have been made up and worse.

The Earth has been cooling since 1998!

They also falsified data used in Al Gore’s now infamous Hockey Stick graph… but most people knew that was falsified data anyway and even Al Gore admitted in an interview that it was OK to lie to make a point in something as important as this… LOL

I’d also be dumping any stock you have in “alternative energy” companies too and quickly.

A Hacker or an internal whistle blower released data from their computer network and found emails and other data that admits they were cooking the data and that they did it on purpose to promote the man made global warming theory. Not only that, they were figuring out how to get rid of the scientists that were not going along with the fraud. The funniest email that I saw was the one where they say, ” we have to figure out why global temperatures have not gone up since 1999 as it is a travesty why our models can’t account for it”… LOL Perhaps because they are wrong..Duhhh.

The fact that Billions of dollars has been spent on a hoax and not spent on saving millions of lives with vaccines or just put back in your pocket is what bothers me most about this. This is money that you and your family need. That and the fact that most politicians have known this for years. OK, maybe not, most of them are pretty stupid.

But the truth is only a small portion of scientist were buying into it anyway. At least serious ones. As a weather Geek the whole theory has been laughable for some time as the non-cooked data from the satellites have shown that we quit warming up in 1999.

If you are a little bit geeky, you can go here for some info on that. http://www.Wattsupwiththat.com Great blog by and ex TV weatherman out of Chico, CA won the science blog of the year last year. Great source for kids and anyone that really wants to know what is going on from a Meteorological standpoint.

Here you if you have not heard about what went on with the Hadley CRU here you go. As far as I know this has not gotten a lot of coverage in the Lamestream Media.. Click Here to check it out.

By the way, Fox is the only cable network that would put any of the scientists that could dispute it. The rest have been bought and paid for, for quite some time by the status quo

And God forbid if you want to talk about that lack of science behind it. You will get called names first and foremost…. always the first thing that those without logic do… destroy the messenger… facts be damned.. LOL.

Here is probably one of the best videos explaining how damning what they did really is in layman’s terms.

It shows how they covered up the actual decline in temperatures… That is right, the temperatures have been going down since 1998-1999.

And also how they kept out dissenting views from being published even though there are only about 2,500 scientists that believed the theory and over 30,000 that do not.

Here is a link to the Petition of 30,000 scientist that dispute global warming. Here is the founder of the Weather Channel disputing Global Warming…

http://www.petitionproject.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHW7KR33IQ

The kicker is these folks are out to steal you and your children’s money and future…. plain and simple. You don’t have to let it happen and in fact I think that it really is finally dead.

Here is link to a video as to why…. personally I am not that keen on doubling my electric bill or ending up like the UK or the rest of Europe for that matter.

http://online.wsj.com/video/copenhagen-collapse/C76E3358-3479-4455-98C2-FC99FF28E2DC.html

Here is an excerpt of a post that lays out in layman’s terms what has happened.

This is from http://www.norcalblogs.com/commission/archives/2009/11/men-behaving-ba.html

Thanks Lon and I hope you don’t mind the traffic!

Men Behaving Badly….

Page views for Anthony’s www.wattsupwiththat.com blog. Friday his blog was number one on WordPress beating others like CNN and People Magazine.

I’ve watched with fascination over the last couple of days as our own Anthony Watts has become part of a national media story. What was once a tiny Chico, CA blog now stands in the robust current of global issues. A British climate research unit had its computer system hacked, and the purloined emails and files quickly spread throughout the Internet. News stories then popped up on the New York Times, NPR, Fox, Drudge, UK Guardian, the BBC, and many more sites.

While Watts did not post the files, they became a topic of discussion that generated immense interest at his blog. When other web sites that cover the topic of climate change began to shut down due to traffic overload, Watts’ site remained online. This pushed him to receive over 180,000 page views on the day the story broke.

What’s the hubbub? It all comes down to men behaving badly. Emails and files related to top scientists that support man made global warming theory were released in the hacked files. These scientists have authored/co-authored many of the studies relied on by the UN IPCC, and world governments. The studies have been used to pronounce global warming an immediate, and therefore taxable, threat.

Here are some of the highlights of the documents released.

1. The scientists colluded in efforts to thwart Freedom of Information Act requests(across continents no less). They reference deleting data, hiding source code from requests, manipulating data to make it more annoying to use, and attempting to deny requests from people recognized as contributors to specific internet sites. Big brother really is watching you. He’s just not very good at securing his web site.

2. These scientists publicly diminished opposing arguments for lack of being published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. In the background they discussed black-balling journals that did publish opposing views, and preventing opposing views from being published in journals they controlled. They even mention changing the rules midstream in arenas they control to ensure opposing views would not see the light of day. They discuss amongst themselves which scientists can be trusted and who should be excluded from having data because they may not be “predictable”.

3. The scientists expressed concern privately over a lack of increase in global temperatures in the last decade, and the fact that they could not explain this. Publicly they discounted it as simple natural variations. In one instance, data was manipulated to hide a decline in temperatures when graphed. Other discussions included ways to discount historic warming trends that inconveniently did not occur during increases in atmospheric CO2.

4. The emails show examples of top scientists working to create public relations messaging with favorable news outlets. It shows them identifying and cataloging, by name and association, people with opposing views. These people are then disparaged in a coordinated fashion via favorable online communities.

What the emails/files don’t do is completely destroy the possibility that global climate change is real. They don’t preclude many studies from being accurate, on either side of the discussion. And they should not be seen as discrediting all science.

Kudos to Anthony for being there online, and being prepared to handle the traffic this topic generated. I would hope that this event would precipitate a greater openness regarding publicly funded research. It would be nice to see better adherence to scientific method. At the very least it has exposed some well funded, ivory tower thinkers, behaving very poorly.

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Arghhh. OK from and Entrepreneurial standpoint…. Don’t lie about data…. Don’t follow the herd or Sheople… And if you are a big company like Coke… don’t run TV Ads supporting Global Warming and spending Millions of dollars on something that you think will pay off on something that you could have found out not to be true or at least more than likely not true months ago by having some of your wonderful scientists just look at the data. You may have seen it… The Hopenhagen…..

Anyway… back to more money making stuff shortly… But the whole Global Wamring Fraud has had me frosted for years…

Coke Gets First Ever 21to21.com Darwin Website Design Dodo Award

Andrew Anderson — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:19:43 +0000

Design Dodo Award

Coke-Cola’s main Website has won the first ever Darwin Website Design Dodo Award ™ for their design of www.Coke.com .

This award is handed out for Website designs that show the best of why Dodo’s are now extinct and only live on in books and stuffed in Museums. These designs have no branches in their family tree of design and are perhaps best represented by a stick.

The reason why Coke has received the first design award is because of what I thought was a mistake, but Coke’s PR department proceeded to send the following email:

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Hi Anderson,

Hope that you are well.

I’ve confirmed there is not an error on the web page, it was an intentional stylistic design decision.

Have a great afternoon.

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I ended up contacting both Coke and Berkshire Hathaway which is Warren Buffett’s Company which is Coke’s largest stockholder.

The Darwin Website Design Dodo award is not given to necessarily to honest mistakes or even ugly designs, but for those designs that defy common sense. In this case, they have consciously covered up part of a Logo that could arguably be said to be worth Billions based on whimsy or someone actually not catching it. For this, Coke’s Website Designers receive the soon to be coveted Darwin Website Design Dodo Award for a Website.

Here is a picture of it. You be the judge… Click on the Image to see it full size.

You can go here to see the Coke Website Design Live for yourself.

The reason why I feel qualified to hand out this design Award is that I myself have designed some pretty darn ugly and bad designs and this will help remind me and others, perhaps even you, not to do these types of things on a Website.

If you have other designs that you would like to submit, please make a comment below. I am thinking about awarding a Darwin Website Design Dodo Award on an as needed basis, perhaps even Monthly.

Would love to hear your thoughts…

Cheers,

Anderson

PS I have to say that the PR people at both Coke and Berkshire Hathaway were very nice and helpful. I never did speak with the Website designer at Coke though. Would like to know what was running through their mind when they did this wouldn’t you?

Coke and Coke-Cola are registered trademarks of The Coca-Cola Company

I Am Calling Coke And Warren Buffet Again Tomorrowt

Andrew Anderson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:20:36 +0000

Werror Day 6

I Am Calling Coke And Warren Buffett Again Tomorrow….

Ok, this was funny at first, but how in the world can you explain how one of the worlds most well know companies can have an error on their Website (Werror) for going on a month now?

I could understand it if it was some Mom and Pop operation, but this is a multi-billion dollar company for Pete’s sake.

Has incompetency in the Corporate world reached that of the Government Level? Man, I sure hope not.

I have to say I am sadly disappointed. Aren’t you? Ok, well not really. Perhaps just a little bit anyway.

Now please note I am picking on them because it is so easy and as the old saying goes, you can hide the truth in plain site or is that on your site? LOL

So I will try and call both Coke and Warren Buffet (Cokes single largest stockholder through Berkshire Hathaway) again tomorrow and I will let you know the outcome.

And just to keep this in proper perspective, in the scheme of things this is not a big deal, but I hope that if I do something like this, that someone lets me know.

Cheers,

Anderson

Day 22 Of The Coke Werror

Andrew Anderson — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:54:31 +0000

Day 22 of the Coke web error or werror and counting…And I have still not heard anything back from Coke or Warren Buffet.

The funny thing is that Fast Company is doing a story on Coke design this month.

I am posting the video, the picture, and the iframe so that you can see of which I speak. Basically, their nav bar covers up the bottom 1/4 of their logo.

I did the vid a few weeks ago to explain what I am talking about…

Click On Image To See Full Size

This should be a live iframe of Coke to see if it is still there. If you hover over the logo, you can see what is going on.

Anyway, we shall see how much longer this continues. Who would have thunk it would be like this for over 3 weeks and no one at Coke would catch it?

Have you seen any other Werrors out there? If so, let me know about them and we will post them here. I am thinking about doing a regular feature on them once a week.

Cheers,
Anderson

Coke Has A Web Error For 20 Days And Counting

Andrew Anderson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:52:03 +0000

Coke has now had the error on their web page or as I call it, werror, on their page for 20 days now and counting. Is it the end of the world? No…. Is it a rather silly thing for a multi-billion dollar company to have something like this going on for that long? You tell me…

And no, I have not heard from Coke or Warren Buffet yet…. will let you know….

You can click here to see exactly what I am talking about…

Day 15 And Coke Website Error Is Still There… :)

Andrew Anderson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:01:33 +0000

Day 15 And Coke Website error is still there. The Werror continues….. No word from Warren Buffet. We are still pulling for you!

Day 14 of the Coke Web Error

Andrew Anderson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:22:39 +0000

Enough said about Coke and their stupid web page gaffe. Jeeze Louis, is anybody awake over there? Apparently they are going for the record on Werrors.

Coke Werror Day 11

Andrew Anderson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:02:46 +0000

Coke still has not fixed the werror on their main page…. Never would have thought it would have taken this long did you?

Coke Werror Day 9 And Counting

Andrew Anderson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:06:15 +0000

I think that I am going to quit doing a daily update on the whole Coke werror and just let you know when or if they ever get it fixed. Coke still bubbles on…

Day 8 Of The Coke Werror…. Geeshe..

Andrew Anderson — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:04:10 +0000

OK, I am getting bored here posting about this now. Can someone explain to me how a major company can have an werror on the main Web page for at least 8 days? This could have been like this for weeks or months for all I know.

Now I don’t want to fling stones here as I have said before I have pulled similar mistakes before in the past and have taken steps so that we don’t do that anymore. But this is a multi-billion dollar company, geeshe.

OK, I am done now. Have some cool things that I am working on at the moment and may get them posted by the end of the day..

Day 7 Coke Werror

Andrew Anderson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:11:27 +0000

Werror still on main Coke site. OK, looks like they might not ever fix it…. Coke, it is the real thing.