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Archive for August, 2009

Oprah Sues Acai Affiliates!

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Finally, Oprah and Dr. Oz are filing suits in the state of Illinois for “deceptive advertising practices” for all the fake blogs out there!

Why did this take so long and so many people being scammed for the celebrities to take a stand? Who knows, but at least they’re finally taking action to shut that stuff down.

Key takeaway: Don’t mess with Oprah. Add value to the Internet and don’t scam people. You’ll end up making more money in the end, and you’ll never have to worry about super-rich people fighting you in court, the FTC doing everything in their power to shut down your “business model”, or any other nonsense like this.

Fantastic Website Templates for Cheap

Friday, August 7th, 2009

I’ll keep this one short:

If you are looking for templates or blog themes for your websites, and you’re sick of paying $40+ for generic templates you have to tweak to no end (with very little assistance from the creator), there’s only one site you need:

ThemeForest.net

I love the Envato marketplace in general, but ThemeForest is by far the coolest website template gallery I’ve ever found. I’ve gotten a couple people asking me about the design of this blog in fact, and guess what…I paid $12 for it on Theme Forest and spent a couple hours tweaking some things (with TONS of help from Sara, the designer).

The only thing I don’t like is that you have to deposit fixed amounts of cash to your account, and you will inevetibly have some dough left over (which only encourages you to get more templates, of course). Overall, ThemeForest.net is a great site, and I highly recommend it.