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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 20:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I recently founded Codemy.com to teach people to program computers (to code) online. Students can sign up for individual courses on various programming languages. Each course consists of a series of 20-30 videos and one main project that the student &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/codemy-com.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOC&#8217;s are all the rage right now&#8230;and for good reason. But they don&#8217;t seem to make decent money&#8230;or often any money. Many of them follow the &#8216;freemium&#8217; business model by giving away their course content &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/how-i-started-my-own-profitable-online-school.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I built ElderAcademy.com to teach people Internet Marketing through a series of courses built around videos, pdf text books, and hands-on help. The site is basically a membership site, where people can sign up for specific courses and then log &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/elderacademy-com.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Should Marketers Learn To Code?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most marketers I&#8217;ve come across over the years have a certain swagger to them. I don&#8217;t want to say that they think they&#8217;re better than other people, but there&#8217;s definitely a sort of &#8220;All income flows from me&#8221; kind of &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/should-marketers-learn-to-code.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>I&#8217;m Learning Ruby On Rails Because I&#8217;m Weak-Willed And Stupid</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve done it&#8230;I&#8217;ve finally folded to peer pressure and decided to learn the Ruby programming language and&#8230;Rails too&#8230;I suppose. I&#8217;ve railed (no pun intended) against it for a few years now simply because I&#8217;m absolutely positive that it&#8217;s just &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/im-learning-ruby-on-rails-because-im-weak-willed-and-stupid.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>MarketingFool.com</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Towards the end of 2011 I started a blog to follow my Adsense and Affiliate marketing Journey. I had recently built several thousand thin Adsense/Affiliate websites and they started to make a lot of money so I decided to set &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/marketingfool-com-blog.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[SEOFool.com is my repository of Search Engine Optimization knowledge. I&#8217;ve been involved with SEO since late 1996 and seofool.com is basically where I talk about it. The blog mainly consists of SEO articles that teach people the basics of SEO. &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/seofool-com.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Recently I created a project called You Look Good Together! (YouLookGoodTogether.com) which is a dating/gaming website that matches people based solely on their looks. And all the matches are done by other people, namely our website visitors. It&#8217;s the worlds &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/youlookgoodtogether-com.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shoplington.com</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shoplington.com is a shopping site that aggregates affiliate products from Amazon.com shopzilla.com and others in a fairly unique way. It has a price comparison engine built in and a low price finder feature. The site is monetized primarily through affiliate &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/shoplington-com.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>MyBlogBootcamp.com</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MyBlogBootcamp.com is a simple wordpress site that I built in connection with my &#8220;Blog Bootcamp&#8221; course over at ElderAcademy.com that teaches absolute beginners how to start their own blog. The website is a simple tutorial site with six or seven &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/myblogbootcamp-com.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>AveryGlobal.com</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Avery &#038; Co. Publishing (AveryGlobal.com) is a publishing Corporation I formed somewhere around 2003 or so. Initially, it mainly acted as a distributor for certain established marketing books, as well as my own personal publishing arm to publish some marketing &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/avery-co-publishing.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was digging through a box of old stuff the other day and I came across my very first programming book. I couldn&#8217;t believe that I still had the thing. It instantly sent me tumbling down memory lane&#8230; Back when &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/what-was-your-first-coding-book.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>I&#8217;m (re)Learning The C Programming Language</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the last few days it&#8217;s been like 110 degrees outside here in Chicago. Since it&#8217;s entirely too hot to do anything outside, I thought I&#8217;d learn something new. After several very intense minutes of soul searching 😛 I decided &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/im-relearning-the-c-programming-language.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>That&#8217;s John &#8211; We Don&#8217;t Know What He Does Here&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I was in high school our library got a new computer lab. By &#8220;computer lab&#8221; I mean like 10 old computers networked together (but not connected to the Internet because there wasn&#8217;t really one yet) stuck in a tiny &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/thats-john-we-dont-know-what-he-does-here.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Facebook IPO Most Successful In History</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Despite What Everyone Says &#8211; Facebook&#8217;s IPO Was An Insane Success&#8230; It&#8217;s crazy that there were SO many stories this week about how Facebook&#8217;s IPO was a gigantic failure. Seems like just about everyone is pissed off for one reason &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/facebook-ipo.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recursive chmod Fun From The Shell</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here at Flatplanet Media, I run a network of a couple thousand affiliate websites. These sites are monetized two ways: Adsense Ads Amazon Affiliate Commissions I use a program called phpZon to handle the amazon affiliate listings on each site. &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/recursive-chmod-fun-from-the-shell.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>EspressoShack.com</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 19:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2010-11 I started building affiliate marketing websites, which are basically just websites centered around products with pages full of adsense ads and amazon.com affiliate links. EspressoShack.com was one of my first big ones. I wrote over a hundred articles &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/espressoshack-com.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>National Marketing Council</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 18:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The National Marketing Council, LLC (NationalMarketingCouncil.com) is a sort of trade group for the Marketing Industry. I started it with a focus towards Internet Marketing but quickly expanded into all forms of marketing. The original idea was to create a &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/national-marketing-council.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>SEO Quick Index Software</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 18:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I created the SEO Quick Index Software as a freebie to give away in order to induce people to subscribe to my seoFool.com blog (also free). Basically it would take a newly created website and post a link to it &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/seo-quick-index-software.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Submission-Spider Search Engine Submission Software</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I built my very first website back in 1996, I needed a way to get traffic to the site. There were hundreds of search engines back then, and 20-30 major players. Just like today, search was the main funnel &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/submission-spider-search-engine-submission-software.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>WebPromotion-Weekly &#8211; Internet Marketing Newsletter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 13:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Somewhere around 2002-2006 I published a weekly newsletter about Internet Marketing called WebPromotion-Weekly (webpromotion-weekly.com). I published each issue on the website and sent it out to the subscriber list via email every week on Mondays. At It&#8217;s height there were &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/webpromotion-weekly-internet-marketing-newsletter.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bannerclicks.com Banner Exchange Network</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 03:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in 1997 I created one of the Internet&#8217;s earliest advertising companies. It was a banner exchange network&#8230;remember those? Basically it worked like this; if you owned a web site, you could sign up as a member to BannerClicks.com and &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/bannerclicks-com-banner-exchange-network.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>VitalBio.com Vital Information For The Biotech Community</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 03:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shortly after I sold my banner advertising network (1999 or 2000-ish) I built VitalBio.com and the story basically unfolded like this&#8230;   When I sold Bannerclicks.com I had two groups competing to buy it.  The second group was made up of &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/vitalbio-com-vital-information-for-the-biotech-community.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Award-Me! Submission Software &#8211; Win Some Awards!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 02:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Around the same time that I built the Submission-Spider Search Engine Submission Software, I built the Award-Me! Award Submission software at Award-Me.com. I owned a few web sites and figured out that if I submitted them to some cheesy web &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/award-me-submission-software-win-some-awards.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>InsiderSEOReport.com</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 02:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[insiderSEOreport.com was my members only newsletter and support group for the SEO industry. Through running thousands of websites and developing popular Search Engine Submission Software, I&#8217;ve come to know as much about SEO (search engine optimization) as just about anyone &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/insiderseoreport-com.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>SEO Academy</title>
		<link>http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/seo-academy.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 02:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[theSEOacademy.com was a project that never got fully implemented, but I may work on it soon. It was going to be an interactive online class (of sorts) for teaching people search engine optimization. I came up with the idea four &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/seo-academy.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Web Promotion 101 eBook</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 02:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Web Promotion 101 was one of the first major eBooks I ever wrote. It&#8217;s been downloaded and read over 50,000 times since 2001 or so. The information is incredibly basic, but back then Internet Marketing and Website Promotion were a &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/web-promotion-101-ebook.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Google Secrets eBook</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 02:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Google Secrets was a very short ebook that I wrote a long time ago about getting a website listed at Google. By short I mean like 20 pages. It was filled with the most basic information you can imagine, and &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/google-secrets.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bump Your Way To Internet Riches eBook</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 02:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bump Your Way To Internet Riches was a little eBook I wrote about something I call &#8220;Order Bumps&#8221;. It was a really short ebook that I gave away for free. The concept is simple, and as old as marketing itself. &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/bump-your-way-to-internet-riches.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pro Headlines Software</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 02:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ProHeadlines was software that I didn&#8217;t actually write myself, but somehow obtained the rights to. I created a software box graphic for it and threw up a website offering it for sale; and actually did pretty well promoting it to &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/pro-headlines-software.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>[ Boob·tionary ] : Over 1,000 Words And Counting!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 02:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Boobtionary.com is an absurd and slightly offensive site that I built after watching an episode of Coupling on BBC America one day. The character Jeff refers to Hors d&#8217;oeuvre as &#8220;things with sort of things on them&#8230;&#8221;, which prompts the &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/boobtionary.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Marketers In A Box &#8211; The Ultimate Upsell</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 02:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is essentially one of my favorite things of all time&#8230;&#8221;Marketers In A Box&#8221;. Basically it was a piece of desktop software, written in visual basic, that was nothing more than a text box and submit button. It allowed people &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/marketers-in-a-box-the-ultimate-upsell.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Link Wizard Pro FFA Submission Software</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 02:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I built the Submission-Spider software, I needed an Upsell so that when someone was checking out with their Spider software order, I could say &#8220;Wait, if you add this other software to your order, I&#8217;ll knock 80% off it&#8217;s &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/link-wizard-pro-submission-software.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Yip! Submit Software</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 01:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Around the same time (early 2000&#8217;s) that I started Submission-Spider, I cranked out Yip! Submit (YipSubmit.com). It was basically a multi-site search engine submission software for Windows written in Visual Basic. Submission-Spider would submit one site at a time, but &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/yip-submit-software.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>May 2012</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 19:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just finalized the sale of espressoshack.com and twelve other websites in May 2012 and am not currently selling any of my portfolio of sites at the moment, but check back in the next few weeks and I may have &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/may-2012.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>WhyThere.com</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WhyThere.com is a sort of product search engine that I&#8217;ve been puttering around with in my spare time. It&#8217;s not very complicated at the moment, it returns results mainly from Amazon.com. The site is monetized via Google Adsense ads, Shopzilla &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/whythere-com.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Often Did You Study In College?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Elder]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back when I went to school at Washu in St. Louis, studying was a competitive sport. In fact, it was just about the only &#8220;sport&#8221; that anyone really recognized (you mean we have a football team? Get out of here!). &#8230; <br><a href="http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/how-often-did-you-study-in-college.html">Keep reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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