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Here’s a little video that I created since I started getting paid to blog from a site called PayPerPost. I think it’s pretty cool that people are able to make money blogging while businesses are able to advertise on blogs. Plus, I get paid more blogging than my sister-in-law gets paid babysitting a kid 8 hours a day.

Enjoy the puke green and the incredibly impressive animations:

The other day I ran across a very interesting idea called Freecycle. The gist of the idea is that you create email groups of freecyclers in your community. Then, when one of the freecyclers is ready to throw something out they just send an email out about the thing they were going to get rid of. Sure, many of you are probably thinking that all they’re going to give is junk. Well, you would be exactly wrong. I’ve only been on the list a few days and I’ve seen almost everything go through the list. Even large items like a king sized bed, couches, tables, a basketball standard and much more.

Honestly I was amazed how much stuff gets sent out every day. The only downside of this is that at least in the Las Vegas freecycle group there are so many people that sometimes when something is posted that person is swarmed with emails and only one person can walk away with the item. I still like the concept and can really see some great benefits to both people and the landfill.

Every business is doing or looking at doing internet marketing. If you aren’t doing internet marketing yet then you are making a very big mistake. I can’t think of any significant business that couldn’t benefit greatly from the right internet marketing campaign. However, I’m guessing that only about 1% of people should try to do their internet marketing on their own. The rest need to go out and find an Internet Marketing Agency. In fact, many should look for an Interactive Agency to cover all of their online marketing needs.

How do you choose between the myriad of Interactive Agencies? You could look at testimonials on the agency’s website. You could search google and see what google says is the top agency. Really, I’m not sure there is ever a sure fire way to cover all of your bases.

However, let me offer 2 things that I found one Interactive Agency called MindComet. First, if you are looking for an Interactive Agency to handle your online needs then you need to take a look at how that company has implemented online strategies on their website. If you look at the MindComet website you can see right off that their website is optimized to hit the keywords that are important to MindComet. Look at the list of important links that not only direct people to their services, but also show search engines what this website is about.

Many people may not know how to tell if a website is search engine optimized or not. If you don’t know then just ask the company some examples of things they do to optimize websites. Then, check the interactive agency’s website for those things. Do they as a company practice what they preach? If they don’t then maybe you should keep looking. If they do then you’re on the right track.

The next thing I liked about the Interactive Agency called MindComet is that they were recently inducted into Marketing Sherpa’s 2006 Viral Marketing Hall of Fame. Sherpa is a fantastic organization that puts out some of the best marketing material out there. The fact that Sherpa recognizes this companies skills is a good sign that this company might just be right for you.

Finally, talk to an interactive agency’s past customers. Those will be the best sources of information. It’s important that you research and pick the right company. Otherwise, you might be missing out on customers finding you online.

Take a look at this video of someone playing tetris in Japan. This is unreal. I think some of the moves require a button that I never had in my game. However, still impressive.