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9-11 good for some people

Politics written by Doug Scott

Who Profited from 9/11?

The attack on the U.S. on September 11, 2001 was one of the most tragic days in American history. After 9/11, the world changed. For the better for some………

The Carlyle Group, a private equity investment firm and defense contractor is well connected to the Bush family, since former President George H.W. Bush (as well as James Baker III) is an advisor and has vested financial interests.

The U.S. State Department has stated that it is unable to account for approximately $1.2 billion paid to DynCorp International, the largest contractor working in Iraq. This money was provided for the training of the Iraqi police. DynCorp received an additional $1.1 billion contract to train police in Afghanistan. DynCorp, for its part, was to recruit U.S. police trainers, build facilities, and provide room and board for Iraqi recruits. Unfortunately, these goals have not been completely met and many believe that most of the money has gone straight to the contractor’s profit margin. Despite a history of questionable or illegal activity, DynCorp continues to be given billions of dollars to complete critical programs that have been outsourced to profit making companies.

Halliburton is a corporation that specializes in energy, oil and military contracting. In 2001, Halliburton received a contract from the Department of Defense to supply “emergency services” to the Pentagon. The contract process followed proper procedures, with Halliburton outbidding four competitors. However, the contract is considered by some to be a total scam. A contract such as this one in which Halliburton is to provide “emergency services” to the Pentagon creates a huge financial windfall, worth billions, under one explicit circumstance. If a major war erupts, the requirement for “emergency services” will inevitably be substantial. Ironically, in case of war, Halliburton cannot provide many of the services, at least not immediately. Naturally, other work can be completed, including work in the oil fields. As a result, the Iraq war has been worth billions of dollars to Halliburton. The Pentagon continued to supply Halliburton with work once the war broke out, claiming that Halliburton is the only company qualified to complete the necessary tasks.

Doug doesn’t have the money

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How to do ppc affiliate marketing

Affiliate Money Grabbers written by Doug Scott

1. Find merchant
2. Do keyword research
3. Load up keywords
4. Turn off none performing keywords
5. Goto 1

If brand bidding group then skip step 2:)

Doug twidlling his thumbs

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Who’s going to turn that affiliate channel off

Affiliate Money Grabbers, Uncategorized written by Doug Scott

A scenario that may happen

1. Dodgy affiliates and networks have been delivering a PLC merchant a large number of sales for year.
2. One day merchant affiliate staff find out that system has been being abused easily for years.
3. Merchant affiliate staff are paid a bonus based on sales
4. Network are paid based on sales
5. Affiliates are paid based on sales
6. Who tell senior managemnte at merchants that we have been stupid for years???

Doug messing round

As a silly conversation we are talking about channels so I hope I can mention cross channel ferries a new site of ours

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Matt Wood – affiliates4u and existem

people you should know written by Doug Scott

Matt Wood

established and manages the major affiliates network forum, www.affiliates4u.com, and also runs affiliate marketing company Existem from their Bristol office.

Matt worked in an abbatoir and did loads of useless jobs, no change there then:)

He was doing some dodgdy seo and ppc stuff, it is alleged…….and then setup Affiliates4U to create a community for people in the Affiliate and online marketing sectors. So now he moderates lots of whingers.

Matt established Existem Ltd in early 2003, to be the holding company for his variety of seo, ppc and cashback sites. He then setup A4UExpo.com, which runs the major UK affiliate expo.

Matt is married and he enjoys alcohol, eating, playing golf & watching Formula 1. He travels widely and is particularly fond of Las Vegas. He also spent sometime teaching in Asia.

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electric.co.uk launched

What we are doing written by Doug Scott

Still all very early days, but it’s now in the world.

As I keep getting bored I thought I would do something different so we are launching and electric and electricity site

www.electric.co.uk

Doug

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Utter rubbish but it made me laugh

Fun written by Doug Scott

and on a more serious note:

Doug employs foreigners, including the Welsh

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Satish Jayakumar – AdJug

people you should know written by Doug Scott

Satish is a a big cheese at (and joint founder of) AdJug.

He has several years experience in online publishing and is an authority on contextual online advertising…..wow did I say that:) He can sell anything to anybody….no coal for me mate:

Some official blurby stuff now:

AdJug is an online advertising marketplace where advertisers and publishers buy and
sell ad space directly. Satish has a BA(Hons) in Business Studies from Robert Gordon University
(Aberdeen), and started work as a sales manager for Mitsubishi Electric in their
Space & Satellite Systems division….now I did not know that

In 2000, Satish was a co-founder of Espotting.com – with only a small number of shares though…shame. He was was responsible for the development and launch of Europe’s first PPC syndication platform……..in my humble opinion he created that business which grew espotting massively. Some may say he helped some google spammers, but not me.

Moving on from Espotting, Satish founded Nixxie.com in 2004. Nixxie was the UK’s first contextual advertising platform….basically they sold Yahoo ppc datafeeds, because Yahoo were too hopeless to do it themselves. He took the company from 1 to 12 employees and created a turnover of £15 million within three years of launch.

Post-Nixxie, Satish became Director of Strategy (Europe) for MIVA, (Espotting in another name). In 2007, Satish left MIVA to create AdJug, with Michael Stephanblome, the ex Md of Gumtree.

He has been listed in the UK’s top 30 young entrepreneurs by ‘Growing Business’
magazine and has also been featured in the Courvoisier Future 500…..the what magazine?
He lives in London with his partner, and his interests include Golf, drinking, talking,
talking, talking, talking about golf and drinking – but not reading.

His Blog can be found at http://carnelite.blogspot.com/

AdJug can be found at http://www.adjug.com

Doug still does not understand what Satish does:)

Adjug

Adjug com

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Share your data with google and let them use it against you

Affiliate Money Grabbers, Google written by Doug Scott

So following on from this post:

http://www.asapventures.co.uk/blog/google-to-launch-comparator.html

So ppc clients give google conversion data, Google work out where the cash is and then build comparators/competitors in that sector:)

Lets be honest and not hide behind the legal rubbish, that just feels wrong.

Google – do no evil was a term they once used – it has got to be time to change that one guys.

Doug

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Do you review your staffs performance – why bother

Jobs written by Doug Scott

Most people think they do a good job, even if they don’t!

So if everyone thinks they are doing a good job what happens when you do a review of staffs performance?

The ones who are doing a good job just get told they are doing a good job, which is what they expected to be told anyway.

The ones who are doing a crap job expected to be told they are doing a good job, so they then feel demoralised. So over the next few weeks moral drops, people mope round and then some people resign.

People then feel they should divide into camps, the good review camp and the bad one. The bad camp feeling jealous of the good one.

Doug has never done reviews….. If desperate for discounts to feed your staff try these specialist sites Pizza Express Vouchers Pizza Hut Vouchers Toby Carvery Vouchers . I always seem to end up buying….

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I am becoming a band manager

Fun written by Doug Scott

Well not quite but I now have 3 of these guys working (?) in my office, so if you are looking for a band in the midlands to play at your bar mitzvah, then contact them:

http://www.thevouch.co.uk/

And yes before you ask they are that ugly.

Congratulations to Josh, who 4 months ago had no seo knowledge, he just won our office competition of £250 by getting a site into the top 5 in google for lots of targetted keywords in a niche but lucrative sector. Well done to Adam who came second in a similar niche…..he gets £150 I think.

Doug Bowie

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