Written by Brandon on March 9th, 2010 | 0 Comments
This is going to be a quick post, but I will do another one afterwords. I just came across this ad on Digg.com and found it a bit funny. It’s an advertisement by Toyota promoting a guide on how to fix your gas pedal!
If you didn’t know before, Toyota is going through some hard times right now as the gas pedals on some of their cars are sticking and causing accidents. I just find it funny how they are doing this!
Today in my Risk Assessment class, we actually touched on this and how holding data could be a potential risk. Yes, believe it or not, I was paying attention! Companies are required to hold on to their customer records and all data for at least 7 years. After that time, they are allowed ti dispose of it. Here’s the thing, if they do not dispose of it and a court asks for data from the last 20 years, if they do have it they MUST give it up.
Okay, but how is that a risk? Lets say Toyota has customer records from everyone who bought a certain car all the way back until the year 2000. Now, there is a class action lawsuit against Toyota for all owners of that car and everyone that has one will be granted $1000. The courts ask Toyota for their customer records back until the 1980s, obviously not expecting 30 years worth! If Toyota only had 7 years worth of data, they may only need to pay put $500 million in fees. If they kept data for the 10 year period, they would be paying out even more since they have more records of customers. There’s a little Risk and data management lesson for you!
Okay, I went a little off topic, this was suppose to be a small post just containing a picture! Any-who, here is the picture:
Written by Brandon on February 28th, 2010 | 0 Comments
I haven’t had much time to blog as much as I would have liked to recently. I have been working on quite a few projects! One is the new system…I planned on having BETA users by this week but that probably will not happen. There is news of Twitter coming out with its own ad network in the summer, and they will be shutting down the public api.
If Twitter creates their own advertising network, how will that effect the other ones? I am not too worried about that, it is the shutting down of the public API that I hope doesn’t happen! If they are to do this, it will force all applications to work through oAuth. This will prevent some applications from working, as well as allow Twitter to easily shut down any application they want. I have had 2 shutdown, without reason myself.
Today I started working more with CPALead which is an affiliate incentive network. I was with them for a few months, with just a single video on YouTube bringing me in less than 20 uniques a day. $70 in just a few months for doing absolutely nothing is not bad at all. I launched a new campaign today, but I don’t expect to earn much from that. It only cost me 90 cents for the domain and an hour of my time to do some writing. Just a few hours ago, I got 3 domains registered and am currently building back links for them. They will be using CPALead in the future as well as something unique I thought of. I will not spoil the niche, even though I have the best keyword domains in them. I will keep you all posted on how it goes!
Also, the @BrandonBlogs Twitter account was removed again, for no reason. I contacted Twitter about this and it says it may take up to 30 days for them to get back to me! In the meantime. I will be tweeting them on @Bncapps.
I have a week off school, so hopefully I can get a whole lot done. If you have any comments related to CPALead, such as your success, please leave them below! Also, what are you working on? I seem to always be busy and not have enough time in the day, do you all have that feeling too? Too much to do, not enough time…or the feeling that you MUST hop on board a certain money making scheme before its too late?
Leave a comment below with your thoughts! Remember, if you leave a valuable comment, you gain a back link!
Written by Brandon on February 24th, 2010 | 2 Comments
If you have a brand name, or a username on Twitter that is related to your website, you would always want to have this. What if your account gets deleted, maybe for building your Twitter followers too fast?
There is a simple solution in order to remake this account…renaming it! Just log into the account, go to the settings tab and change the username. After that, you will be able to register a new account and follow me.
