Shoemoney - Skills To Pay The Bills
By Jeremy Schoemaker

At BlogWorld in a couple weeks in addition to the big money baller panel I am also going to be on the “How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers & Sock Puppets” panel with John Chow and Patrick O’Keefe which will be moderated by Conference Founder Rick Calvert.

Rick has asked me to come up for a format for the panel and I thought it would be best if the panelists were just asked basic questions on how they deal with Trolls, Spammers & Sock Puppets.

Here are the questions I thought of off the top of my head…. If you have any pertaining to the subject of How to Deal with Trolls, Spammers & Sock Puppets please contribute it below!

1) Tell us about a time someone on the internet tried to make your life hell. How did you deal with it?

2) Have you ever taken legal action against someone on the internet over something they said about you.

3) How do you deal with people posting anonymously or by being a “sock puppet”

4) Do You moderate comments on your site?

5) Do you censor people on your website that do not agree with you?

6) Where do you draw the line between someone attacking you and disagreeing you (if it matters)?

7) What is your biggest tip for dealing with comment spammers?

8 ) Lots of times when asking for feedback someone may post a link to a site. How do you determine if this is spam or not?

What other questions do you like to see asked of the panel?

Very cool card for tonights fights.

I like Chuck Liddell over Rashad  and Hammil to Upset Rich Franklin.

Fighters.com has credentials for the UFC88 event and have some awesome interviews:

Chuck Liddell:

Rich Franklin:

Rashad Evans:

Matt Hammil :

btw check out my shoemoney fighters profile here

Our next Behind the Scenes segment takes us to Denver, Colorado to visit the affiliate company Media Breakaway (parent company of CPA
Empire).  We were able to schedule the segment to coincide with their “Breakaway Event“, so we got to see their offices as well as spend some time with some of their affiliates at the conference.

Overall the trip was awesome.  We had a great time, and came home with a ton of footage.  After a lot of work, we were able to cut the footage down to 2 segments.  One segment is filmed at their offices, and the other is at the event.

We flew into Denver on a Wednesday, and had a not so great flight.  Probably could have drove it quicker than we flew.  They put us up in a hotel that was next to their offices, so we got up Thursday morning and filmed all day at the Media Breakaway headquarters.

After we got done filming, we moved hotels to the conference hotel which was more downtown Denver.  And we spent Thursday night and Friday filming the conference events.  The Breakaway Event that they threw for their affiliates was crazy.  Between the great food, free drinks, and clubs that they reserved for our private event, they went all out.

Below are both segments of the behind the scenes.  These are the shortened versions, but you can view the full length versions here.

We’d like to thank Media Breakaway for showing us such a good time.

If your company would like to fly us in and have us do a “Behind the Scenes” meeting your staff and asking what makes your company tick then please use the contact form or email tigh at shoemoney.com for more information.  We are already booked through October with more behind the scenes segments.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Graphics-Illustrations.com is a cool Photoshop graphics site. They have brushes that you can buy for Photoshop, as well as tutorials and other things to help you make some sweet graphics.

Thanks for the shirt!

If you would like to see your website or company featured on Free Shirt Friday click here

SEO ThinkTank  THE Seo event of the year takes place in San Diego on September 26th, 27th and 28th.   Its a fantastic event filled with no bullshit Internet Marketers and Business Owners who have built successful companies, having a fun time, partying and networking.  Its not your typical conference with 1,000 SEO’s working for agencies bragging about their clients trying to impress each other…   The ThinkTank attendees  are mostly made up of top notch self made entrepreneurs who actually know what works because they do it every… single… day…

Anyway I was talking with DK and we were talking about how much value there is in an event like this.  Its just something you have to experience.

I love to give back and give people this kind of experience.  I feel it can really be a life changing event for the right person….

 SO….  I would like to give one of YOU that experience!   Thats right!  I will pay for YOU to attend.

This contest is pretty sick. Three days hanging out with the crew in San Diego, scoring great food, and free drinks. SureHits is sponsoring MMA training by Shawn Tompkins. Epic Advertising (Azoogle Ads) is throwing an awesome sunset BBQ on the beach on Sunday. SEO Intelligence is sponsoring an amazing online game using and winning real money and also sponsoring a killer Sunday Brunch for everyone. SEM Journal is throwing a pool party and a Mongolian Stir Fry in the park looking over the surf.

Well now, here’s the catch. Most of these guys attending are my friends, and I don’t want to give this prize to someone who is just going to take, take, take all weekend and be a pain.

The whole event is about helping each other, solving problems, make money online and giving tips so we can all be even more successful. It’s for high end guys only, or those on their way there. Invite only by the way.

Write a blog about how you can help the other guests at the Purpose Inc ThinkTank. I know you will learn a ton, and hang out with the biggest names in the business by the beach, playing games, trading secrets and on and on. But what can you offer the other guests? 

So write a blog post about yourself and what you have to offer to the attendees of the 2008 ThinkTank.

Ping me or leave a comment below with the url.  There is no lame link requirements… thats it.  Just tell me why I should shell out $4000.00 to send you to this event.

I’ll pick the winner and announce it here on Friday September 12th.

Here’s what the winner gets.
- A plane ticket from a major airport near you in the continental U.S. to San Diego and back
- Transportation from the San Diego airport to the ThinkTank
- The $2499 entry fee to the ThinkTank.
- A room Fri and Sat night at the Del Mar Motel right on the water (The original hotel sold out).
- Transportation from the ThinkTank to Pacific Beach.
- You also get Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights free hotel, after the ThinkTank at the Surfer Beach Hotel right on the water in Pacific Beach, a cool beach town in San Diego.

A total Value of $4100.

* If you’re under 18 I’ll buy a plane ticket for one of your parents and they have to come along. If you are under 21, you won’t be able to drink.

Best of luck to those who enter!

The last 3 people that have told me they can’t ever get good Adwords Quality Scores were all direct linking to the affiliate offers they were promoting.  They all said their quality score was fine for a couple days (good ctr and stuff) then boom…  I suggested they use a jump page and when they did they were able maintain their good quality score.

Here is the thing… do you guys know that most affiliate companies auto geotarget for you?   Do you also know that most of the humans at Google that check Adwords ads are not in the USA?  In fact most are in India (from what people inside Adwords have told me).

So use your own jump pages when possible and when not possible do your own geotargeting to show non us users a jump page but us users the jump page.

I don’t know that I have been this nervous or excited for a conference in a loooong time. I leave next Tuesday to spend a few days “behind the scenes” at Market Leverage and then its Izeafest time!!

I will be the keynote speaker on Friday. Its the first time I will be giving a keynote speech. The speech on SEO that I gave at Ebay Live! last year felt a lot like a keynote being I was the only person on stage… it was a hour long… and I was all wired up like Steve Jobs.. anyway I am super excited!

So the July-August comment contest which started out as just something I thought I would try seemed to have went over pretty well… we sent out over 65 ShoeMoney shirts world wide to 14 different countries!  Our grand price winner Margie took home the MacBook AIR!

As far as blog traffic the traffic was up about 30% overall and comments increased a decent margin also.

We had many companies offer to sponsor the next contest but I gave Neil Patel over at QuickSprout the option to sponsor again and he said that he loved all the traffic from the first contest and would be happy to give away another Macbook AIR.

I pitched it to Market Leverage and they agreed!

But I wanted to also do something more… so this month we are also giving away a Regular Macbook (yes the one with 2 usb ports and a cd/dvd dual layer).

So the Grand prize winner will now have their choice between the MacBook Air or the standard Macbook and the runner up will get the other

So how does it work again? Each day we will randomly select 1 commentator from that days posts. That person will go into a pool that will be choosen from at the end to win the grand prize or one of the other many prizes we will have. You can check the official comment contest page for more details (and listing of daily winners).

If you or your company would like to donate a product for the next comment contest giveaway please use our contact form. Your prizes must be available to anyone anywhere in the world (where legal).

This contest just like the last is open to anyone anywhere in the world as long as its legal for me to ship to you ;).

About 3 weeks ago Nate from Unique Blog Designs contacted me about giving my blog a little touch up. I was receptive of course ;). About 2 weeks ago (right before I left for SES) I implemented the changes.

So whats your feedback on the new design?

Now also I would like to hear your feedback on the comments? I switched from the Brians threaded comments to wordpress threaded comments and did some custom ajax stuff too… I really like the new comment system. Its a very easy barrier to entry for users to comment. What do you think?

Also if you have not heard Unique Blog Design is having a contest:

So go check that out too!

Google appears to have soft launched this site for Google Chrome, its open source browser, which is slated for release on Windows tomorrow.

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