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The Power of an Attractive Woman

Talk about funny timing. I have been working, with my designer, on creating a series of new landing pages. The intention is to use Google multi-variant tester to test every conceivable aspect of the page. Yesterday we finished art selection.

Today I popped open my reader. On the home page was a link to Neuromarketing. The post: A Pretty Woman Beats a Good Loan Deal. Interested, I clicked. There was the photo we had just selected for OUR attractive woman.

While using the same stock art really only means that we both use iStock, it will be interesting to see if our results agree with the results discussed in the post.



This photographer is doing some popular work. I have several of my competitors also using their work.

Suburban Vancouver Enters Middle East Missile Race.

Fearing that Iran could indeed have long-range missiles, suburban Vancouver WA countered with their own Photoshop missile launch.



Cue "Team America: World Police" team.

And just so you missile building punks out there know, that actually is my back yard.

For those who missed it there has been a few stories circulating about Iran's official missile launch photos. To get up to speed go here.

Swag II: Google Reaction 08 Invite

Got a call from my Google account manager two weeks ago wanting to confirm my address. A week later, I received a package. This was printed on the outside:



On the inside was a lab coat and goggles.



But much cooler was the invite to attend a conference at Google's Headquarters in Mt. View California. The conference focuses on b2b marketing and has a list of great speakers. Don't know if I can attend yet, but it would be really really cool.

Swag: Yahoo Presses the Easy Button

If ever there was a "Me Too", this is it. Yahoo totally ripped off Staple's idea. What happens when you press the button? It goes, "Yahoooooo!" If you have heard their TV or radio comercials you know what I am talking about.

I might post a short clip of the sound, that is if I can bring myself to turn it back on.

Jerry Yang, Get bent, asshat?

WOW, Mr. Honan thinks Yahoo is going down. If you are a Yahoo employee, he wants to help you leave the company with style.

Check out the DIY Yahoo! Resignation Letter at http://yahoorezinr.com/.

When you hit submit, you send an e-mail directly to jerryyang AT yahoo dot com with the subject line "Get bent, asshat"

This has to be the funniest thing I have seen in a while.



I might be wrong but Mat Honan appears to be a freelance writer and contributing editor to WIRED.

Notes from the Search World

Sometimes we write things we regret

The Amateur Gourmet felt bad about overly flaming some poor food joint because we all make posts we are not proud of. Just check out some of mine. Some are good, some are steaming piles of... Anyway Cornwallseo who it apparently some big shot copywriter/linkbaiter gave his entries for a headline writing contest. The contest is in Ad Words or at least requires Ad Words formats. But mister Cornwallseo apparently had not ever written AdWords copy.

Don't feel bad, I made that mistake all the time when I was a noob.

Obsession with Battle Star

Check out this Twitter.

dannysullivan frak! hulu takes down old battlestar episodes? because then i'll buy them on itunes? no, i can't do that either. hate old media dinosaurs 23 minutes ago from web

Makes we wonder if the obsession for BSG in Internet geek types is nature or nurture.