Nick Temple - Personal Blog

Whatever else you may think, no one can argue Joe Clayton has always been creative with his marketing.

Today when I checked email, I received the message:

“Creative Software has just sent you $0.04 USD with PayPal”

Yes, it was real.

It seems that Joe REALLY wants to get your attention for his latest offer, and so has sent a series of small payments to people to make them sit up and pay attention.

Well, it worked with me. I read the message and clicked on the link, and read the offer as well.

I’m curious to find out if this type of marketing … sending small payments and then marketing messages in the notes … will continue to work, or if PayPal will have something to say about.

Is this the beginning of a trend? What do you think?

I found a post by that I found intriguing about a color test:
http://www.ingmanndesign.com/2008/09/test-your-color-iq.html

I took the test and scored a 26 (lower is better). Though in reality I’m not sure what the number means, as there’s no hint of a median or even average score.

I’ve always considered myself somewhat “color blind”, but I’m rethinking that. Maybe just because I can’t name more then 3 colors doesn’t necessarily follow I can’t _see_ them.

Also … I’m not sure exactly exactly what the test measures, but I found myself using my natural intuition and worked from my gut need for consistency.

I’ve just uploaded some photos to my Facebook profile.

As you can see from the pictures, we didn’t suffer much damage (the kids swing has to be rebuilt), but there is a lot of cleanup to do as well as laundry, grocery shopping, etc, from being days without power and hot water.

Some of our neighbors weren’t so lucky, and still without power as well as damage to houses and vehicles.

I’m now back online … but it will be a few more days before we’re functioning 100%.

Please Note: I am recommending SSE2 and the “Net Effect” based on the copies I have reviewed. I do not necessarily recommend, and I have not reviewed, the “bonuses” that just got added. Your mileage may vary.

I just got finished reading my press copy of the “Net Effect” and came across a sidebar that intrigued me - the old “coolest guy on the planet” contest was mentioned.

No, I’m not doing that yet again … I came in second (and third), once, a long time ago, and that’s enough time wasting for me:

But it did get me thinking …. I am pretty good at this SEO stuff, how can I help other people with this stuff?

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Clark talks about what he’s looking for when building websites, moving over to Joomla! and why the Installer is a good fit for his needs. http://www.clarkosaurus.net/2008/09/joomla-update-bliss/

He says it better than I ever could, and being included in a group of smart people doesn’t hurt, either :->

I’ve seen a disturbing trend … people have been signing up to various sites I own with a new service called “trashmail.net”. They are presumably a mail forwarding service, so you can hide your real email address.

[There are millions of ways to accomplish the same thing, without compromising your messages.]

The problem is that you have no clue what this service is doing with the mail being sent through it.

Or do you?

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