By Christine Churchill

John Marshall Steps Down From Top Spot at ClickTracks

I was catching up on my reading over the weekend and learned on Avinash Kaushik’s Blog that John Marshall, long time CEO and Founder of ClickTracks, was leaving his job. Like many who commented on the post, I equated ClickTracks with John Marshall. My company KeyRelevance is a reseller of several analytics tools including ClickTracks so we work frequently with ClickTracks and know that John was a major influencer of the tool. We wish John the best in his next endeavor.

Spotted at Search Engine Roundtable and worth the read if you manage Google PPC accounts.

Heck, we are already blocking some of those babies as this is being written.

Google just released a new feature for AdWords advertisers. Advertisers can now specify if they do not want their ads to show up for specific IP addresses.

Visit the Search Engine Roundtable post or Google IP Blocking Help for more…

Jim Gilbert

“Stumbled” across a post at “Stuntdubl’s” blog today ( Confessions of an Advertising Man ) and feel everybody should read it! By the way it was originally written by David Ogilvy whom I do not know personally but gained a lot of respect for.

I mean, just consider some of the quotes from his book:

• The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn’t even verbal. It requires “a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconcious.”
  Strong statement… it can be learned (if you have what it takes), but nobody can teach it to you.
• They copied all they could follow, but they couldn’t copy my mind,
  And I left ‘em sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind.
  I’m telling you all… the best Internet Marketing tool on earth is still the BRAIN!

Of course there are a few good ole East Texas common sense quotes that were possibly missed, but unless you are from Texas you probably will not notice. Like these that tend to get handed down from father’s to son’s (Hey… it’s a guy thing):

• Damn Son! If you don’t have time to do it right the first time, when the hell do you think you’ll have time to do it over again?
• Hey Boy! Quit thinking so much of yourself…… even blind hogs find acorns ocassionally.

There are a few more REAL good ones, but I’ll reserve them for the next meeting in the bar.

Oh how we “loved” Firefox! They seemed to do EVERYTHING right with each new update and version………. Until Now!

With Version 1.5.0.12 we began encountering “strange” things:

* Can’t seem to get complete control of the tabbing. Acts like it has a mind of its own.

* Slow? Seems slower than ever.

All of a sudden ( and I really hate to admit this ) we switched our default browser back to I.E. 6. Not 7 though — we are not that crazy.

If you knew us (me) you would really understand what a drastic change this is (moving back to I.E.).

Please… somebody tell me it’s an isolated issue.