by Brian Carl on June 15, 2009
This is really last minute but starting today is a ton a webinars all about web 2.0 marketing at inboundmarketing.com. Courses include SEO, landing pages and calls to action, blogging, Facebook and LinkedIn for business.
Professors include:
Chris Brogan (New Marketing Labs), Brian Carroll (InTouch), Mack Collier (MarketingProfs), Rand Fishkin (SEOmoz), Eric Groves (Constant Contact), Ann Handley (MarketingProfs), Jeanne Hopkins (MarketingExperiments), Lee Odden (TopRank Online Marketing), David Meerman Scott (New Rules of Marketing & PR), Marshall Sponder (Monster.com), Elyse Tager, (Silicon Valley American Marketing Association) and Mike Volpe (HubSpot)
There are a lot of names up there of people I respect and look up to in this field, so I have some high hopes of this being a really good series. Most of the webinars I have been to in the past are basically regurgitated versions of other webinars I have seen with no additional insight.
Also at the end of the program there is a certificate that you receive. I don’t hold a lot of weight in that, but it’s kinda fun. The webinars are all week and then finish on Monday and it’s all free. It is a big time commitment, but they are also going to be e-mailing you the saved webinars as they pass.
Is anyone else attending?
by Brian Carl on January 8, 2009
Get it??? time??!?! HAHALOLHA!!
Honestly I feel we have come so far in technology that nothing is shocking anymore. Most things Ive seen are just smaller then their predecessor, so CES this year isn’t as exciting as it has been in the past. Nothing really has blown me away, except the LG Watch Phone!!
The thing I find the most amazing and disturbing about the Watch Phone is the fact that it is seems surprisingly useful and user friendly.
It’s touch screen, has a built in music player, and most importantly for anything you that is strapped to your body, it has stereo bluetooth. As appealing as having wires running down from your face to your wrist, I feel the Bluetooth is probably how most people will use this, but there is a speakerphone on it so I am just waiting to see someone walking around the mall yelling at their arm. This could be potentially as annoying as anyone who has ever used a Nextel bleepity bleep phone in public.
Now if only this thing wasn’t ugly………. (just like me)
by Brian Carl on October 16, 2008
There has been way too many political posts on this site as of late. This website is briancarl.com not BarackObama.com but anyways I thought this was awesome so I had to continue the trend.
Barack Obama is running ads about himself in EA sports games on the XBOX 360 in swing states that allow early voting. Unfortunately we can’t see them in either New York or Connecticut so I’ll have to settle for seeing them on the internet.
In response John McCain is running his own ads in sports videos games as well. So pay attention next time you decide to fire up your Atari 2600 and you might see McCain’s head as the ball in pong.
by Brian Carl on September 27, 2008
I don’t know if anyone else watched the debate last night, but I thought it was pretty interesting.
The most interesting thing I noticed I’d like to point out. It seems to me that all the politicians seem to wear only power colored ties. It’s a pretty boring system, Republicans usually wear red and the democrats normally wear blue and occasionally green. It’s split right down political lines and the lines of the force.
Well last night Barack and Roll decided to change all that. He said I ani’t goin out like no punk.
The force was with him when he came out wearing his purple tie. I don’t think it is a coincidence that the first black Jedi, Barack Obama, and Samuel L. Jackson in Star Wars decided they could break the political mold and rock the purple.
So hear my words of warning Barack. Do not let history repeat itself. I know you have the only purple tie in the Senate, but if you see McCain start shooting force lightening, RUN BITCH.
No matter how much you say that you didn’t want to go down like a punk Sammy, you did, you did.
by Brian Carl on September 9, 2008
So I installed Ad Blocker Plus the other day on my firefox. It’s not that ads really bother me, I really just did it to be an elitist. “pssshh your computer shows ads ?!?! *puts fingers in shape of an L on my forehead*” But now I am having second thoughts.
Basically what the program does is it just blocks most ads from showing up in the browser, but in turn by not showing the ad your not giving back to the website. I know the logic is kinda crazy, especially since I believe my vote doesn’t even count (unless I vote Nader), but i feel like I should be giving them their half of a cent by me looking at their website.
It’s also not good for porn sites or torrent sites, since half the porn on most of the sites is in the ads.
(Note: Adblocker plus blocks all the ads on BrianCarl.com, so I urge you DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS PROGRAM. Before this post a quater of the readers began using the program and my gross profits went down a whopping 20% to $0.78 a month. Before you download this program think of the cats. If they have to wear homemade Halloween costumes this year it will be on your heads)
by Brian Carl on July 31, 2008
So I saw the new Batman movie and it was great, but this is even better….
Police say Joker look-alike attempted to rob movie theater
So the guy goes out of his way and dresses up like the joker (without cutting his face up mind you, the wimpy way out if you ask me) and attempts to steal movie memorabilia from the Batman movie.
Up to this point it’s all fine and dandy, but the guy get apprehended by movie theater employees. Really??… If you’re gonna dress like a super villain, act like a super villain. You do anything not to get caught even if it means taking children hostage. If you are not up for that for god sakes don’t get beaten by civilians. If it was a super hero I would understand. It didn’t even have to be a good one, like she-hulk, but by a normal person???
What is this world coming to……
by Brian Carl on June 11, 2008
I get it Hollywood is spent of ideas. HecklerSpray has an article about the new smurfs movie and that it will be live action.
It worked for transformers and Alvin and the chipmunks, so they figure what other cartoons from that period can we recreate.
- Well Thundercats?? Nah putting cats in human clothes is more effort than its worth.
- DinoRiders? They are saving that for Jurassic Park 4.
- Bucky O’Hare? Hero movies are trendy. but nobody respects rabbits.
I just picture this movie being the Blue Man Group combined with Honey I shrunk the Kids and my grandfather chasing them down with Eiffel 65 playing in the background.
If I could see one 80′s show as a live action movie it would definitely be Pirates of Dark Water. That show was awesome, but really they could only ruin it.
by Brian Carl on June 10, 2008
So I am sure everyone heard about the new 3G iPhone announced yesterday. Yada yada yada no need for a post about that, I think the real question that no one is addressing is when is the price of the Touch going to go down.
The new iPhone costs 199 for the 8GB and 299 for the 16GB, while the Touch costs 299 for the 8GB and 399 for the 16GB. Is this a discount on the iPhone like with normal phones on a new contract?
Regardless it seems backwards to me that the iPhone costs less than the Touch eventhough it’s just a dumbed down version.
Long story short I want an iPod Touch and I am whiney.
by Brian Carl on June 3, 2008
So I went away for a few days over the weekend to Harford. I knew i was going to be going away for like 4 days so I left out the auto cat feeder and auto cat waterer. So anyways, I come home and the cats are just being rebellious. I believe they were trying to usurp me.
So I thought about it long and hard and I feel it came down to the food and water. They thought they didn’t need me any more. It’s like when animals are traveling in a pact and find a stream and plenty of fresh water they start to kill off the weaker animals, because they no longer need help and those weaker animals are going to run down the food supply. (On a side note, I assume this is what happened to Big Foot. And the Johnson family)
So long story short once they ran out of food, they realized who was the boss.
Me.
Brian Carl
by Brian Carl on April 23, 2008
Well I am sorry about the lack of posts lately. Most people who read this know I am moving to Hartford, CT next month and have been working on my resume and trying to find a job. Apparently this takes a lot of time. BUt fear not my loyal fans, there will be more posts to heckle me on shortly.
I am an online marketer in Hartford, CT. 
