The Life of an Online Marketer [Pic]

Written by Pablo Palatnik on December 7, 2007

Someone asked me, “What’s the life of an online marketer like?” I mean, if you work for yourself in terms of either doing affiliate marketing or have some clients, you can make your own hours, work from home, etc.

But if I had to put it into a picture, here it is:

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Amazon Selling Nintendo Pirate Tool from China

Written by Pablo Palatnik on November 28, 2007

The Nintendo DS has a new enemy and it’s called the R4 chip. So, what the hell is a R4 chip?

UK Times Online reports, “The R4 looks like a simple piece of plastic. It is just a couple of centimeters square, a few millimeters thick and unbelievably easy to use…Made in China, available for sale over the internet and now doing a roaring trade on the streets of Tokyo, the R4 has emerged as perhaps the ultimate video game piracy tool.

Costing a little more than £20, the device is a virtually unlimited passport to illegally downloaded software titles for the Nintendo DS – the handheld games console that has taken Japan, and much of the world, by storm.”

Here is the kicker which is very odd, Amazon is actually selling this product…YES…Amazon.com. You can find the R4 chip HERE. You can actually purchase this for $59.99 and I suggest you do so soon.

The PalatnikFactorPlex - Where Blogging Magic Happens

Written by Pablo Palatnik on October 19, 2007

So, here is what the home office set-up looks like with a view of the place.

Whenever I have time, Tiger calls me up and we’ll do a game of 18 holes. Just nice to look at.

This is the home Set-Up:

America Online: The Decline of an Empire

Written by Pablo Palatnik on October 16, 2007

Back in the early 90’s or mid 90’s I should say, my life changed. My friends turned me on to this thing called the internet which connected through a phone line. As I always used it at friends’ house, I got my own CD, installed it, and happily paid the $29.95 membership monthly it cost to join.

AOL became the hottest thing around because of its chatting instant messaging features, email, search, and more all in one program. Few people I knew didn’t have AOL if any. The company was on top of the world by mid to late 90’s with MILLIONS of registered users. MarketingVox reports AOL hit its peak in September 2002 with 26.7 million registered users but I think it was more personally, unless it’s been a service where its always had people sign up and sign out. I also remember AOL being the one internet stock that was a craze kind of like Google is now but never reached that price of course. The merger with Time Warner was as big of deal as it got with AOL (and may have been the decline.)

AOL was know for its instant messaging system that came with the software but MSN, Yahoo, and others all came out with its own chatting platforms. AOL also decides to make its instant messaging system a stand alone platform with AIM being a downloadable program on the computer and guess what? It was free and you didn’t need AOL to use it. Bellsouth and other companies came out with dial-up services and then making the big move to DSL, high-speed broadband.

AOL has drastically fallen in the past few years. It now has about 10 million registered users left and laying off thousands. It has been on its way down for several years now and may not be considered an empire, but I thought it was. It is now resolving to be a global ad network which should do well on its own. It does own Advertising.com and several others. AOL is also rumored to buy ValueClick, but that won’t happen until VC gets legal issues taken care of.

The world of the internet moves at such a fast pace now with new and upcoming companies on a daily basis, it’s not easy to survive and maintain a following. AOL did rough it out through some tough times…could this happen to Google?