Pumpkin Head, or What People Will Do For Halloween

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The Fantasy Art of Dungeons and Dragons – Why Mialee Has So Many Pockets

Hi Everyone!
As you know, my website, Fantasy Art and Portraits, is focussed on the fantasy art of computer games. So you can imagine that I often run into tons of great art… but “can’t” use it. Here’s a sample from the roleplaying game, Dungeons and Dragons, specifically their 3rd Edition Player’s Handbook.
They’ve always had sample [...]

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The Fantasy Art of Dungeons and DRAGONS

Hi Everyone!
As you know, my website, Fantasy Art and Portraits, is focussed on the fantasy art of computer games. So you can imagine that I often run into tons of great art… but “can’t” use it. Here’s a sample from the roleplaying game, Dungeons and Dragons, specifically their 3rd Edition Monster Manual.
You’ll notice the “unimaginative” [...]

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WASP #3 – The Fantasy Art of Titan Quest

Wednesday Art Showcase Presents: The Fantasy Art of Titan Quest

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Fantasy Art and Portraits: A showcase of the fantasy art of computer games

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More site layout changes, and I finally got my hands on Heroes of Might and Magic IV

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Ever since the internet marketing seminar, I’ve blogged on nothing but. Just to let you know, though, I *am* working on site content. I finally got my hands on a pretty complete copy of Heroes of Might and Magic IV, including both expansions. Uploaded most of the art to Flickr yesterday (Flickr reports over [...]

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Link Popularity: Rank trumps Relevance?

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Last Friday I attended an internet marketing seminar, with the main instructor being Bud Lethbridge. For Search Engine Optimization, he instructed on four things:
(1) Search Engines are looking for primary keywords in the site name. If you can’t get just the word (e.g., www.taxes.com), go for memorable made-up words (e.g., www.taxinator.com, a play on [...]

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Looking for “the definitive” article on printing!

Hi Everyone!
I’d like to add a link on my website to “the best” article about getting great printouts from, say, screenshots or digital cameras. I’m open to recommendations as I’m far from a pro. I think my site visitors, who are all looking at great fantasy art both at Fantasy Art and Portraits and many [...]

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Marketing on the Fringe — Did it ever work?

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In yesterday’s post, I mentioned the seminar I attended in which Bud Lethbridge taught various internet marketing techniques. Another technique he demonstrated was Fringe Marketing. He went through three types of Fringe: misspelled words, mistyped words, and non-mainstream terms.
Mispelled Words are, for example, “calender” instead of “calendar”. There was no mention of how Search [...]

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Bud Lethbridge on How to be on Search Page 1 in just 3 days

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I attended an internet marketing seminar on Friday where the main speaker was Bud Lethbridge.
Here’s the short of how to be on Google and Yahoo search page 1 in just 3 days. Step1: Sign up on Overture (bought out by Yahoo for 1.63b and now called Yahoo Search Marketing… but just type in Overture). [...]

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The Shittiest Thing Said To Me = The Best Soft Sell Pitch?

“Simon, what saddens me the most
is that you can change your life,
but you’re going to walk out of here today knowing you aren’t going to do anything.”

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I went to an internet marketing / internet store hosting seminar today (and let’s be honest here, seminars are supposed to sell you something, right?). During the [...]

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