The Lockwood Letter

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Entries from April 2008

Don’t you just love false advertising?

April 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments

A few days ago I heard an ad on the radio for a gym, claiming “join by the end of April and pay no enrollment fee, no long-term contract, month-to-month.”
So I stopped by there today to get the details. Since the ad claimed there was no fee to sign up (based on my understanding of […]

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Tags: Offline marketing

Useful free audio content released

April 27th, 2008 · No Comments

There’s a page you can access, without signing up for anything, with useful interviews on subjects like

Web 2.0 and social networking
Creating products
Adwords
Info publishing and creating content
Teleseminars

Click here to go to the interviews page.

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Tags: Adwords · Free Stuff · Product Creation · Web 2.0

New York state oversteps its bounds: That’s Ridiculous

April 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

New York state is going to try to get “certain” out-of-state Internet retailers to collect sales tax from their New York customers, according to this report from CBS.
It’s not clear why New York thinks it has jurisdiction to get out-of-state retailers to do anything. Can someone please explain this to me?
My personal opinion is that […]

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Tags: Internet Marketing · News · That's Ridiculous