With countless companies in the usa taking visits in cash flow, there may be one that will be in fact booming and supporting individuals save money concurrently. The auto these recycling marketplace isn’t getting smaller, its expanding and there are many main reasons driving this increase in business. A vey important just one requires salvaging the average consumer a considerable amount of money car repairs.

Just brutal and why any company would want their website or brand associated with an article like this is beyond me.

Oh,Pick Me!

One of the first things I learned early in my career is that when you are selling something, you will never make a sale unless you ask for the money!  Just like the famous expression from Jerry Maguire, “Show me the money”.

So we all agree that every website and preferably every page of a website should have some sort of call to action in order to convert a visitor to becoming a customer.

But when is it too much?  I came across the below web-page and even though I am involved in digital marketing on a daily basis, I was overloaded and clicked the back button within one second….then of course I came back to take a screen-shot, count the calls to action and write this post.

On the page below (and I don’t mean the whole page, just the initial visible area) there are 47 requests for action and I just find that to be way too many.

My advice would be to limit this to 10-15 total actions per visible area of your web-page, preferably less.  In my opinion you have a way better chance of getting the action you want with less choices and if you present too many choices most people will be overwhelmed and the only likely action will be the back button of the browser or the close page X.

It seems this story has gone viral WORLD-WIDE!  The smoking gun has called it out as fake after some research (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/poop-tattoo-story-is-crap-8764319)  and same with snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/photos/bodymods/poo.asp)

One story even called my web site sketchy but hey, it was all in good fun and it will be interesting to see how these new links effect the long-term growth of my website.  Here is a short list of websites carrying this story, from Germany, Mexico, Italy, China, Nigeria and across North America!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2011/11/30/is-revenge-poo-tattoo-just-an-elaborate-internet-hoax-115875-23599827/
http://perezhilton.com/2011-11-29-a-revenge-tattoo-artist-puts-poop-tattoo-on-his-cheating-girlfriend#.TteL2bKZU8E
http://www.fox26medford.com/entertainment/kiah-online-dish-boyfriend-tattoos-poop-on-cheating-girlfriend-story,0,405638.story
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067810/Is-Rossie-Brovent-suing-ex-boyfriend-inking-flies-buzzing-excrement-back.html?ITO=1490
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3967502/Tatt-poo-for-cheating.html
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474980838750
http://www.metro.us/newyork/Life/article/1036923–rossie-brovent-and-ryan-fitzjerald-is-this-poo-tattoo-the-ultimate-revenge-debunked
http://abovethelaw.com/2011/11/love-hurts-especially-when-your-boyfriend-brands-you-with-a-tatt-poo/
http://globalgrind.com/news/stinks-ex-boyfriend-tattoos-pile-poop-girlfriends-back-photo
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/Poo-54092.html
http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2011/11/30/poo-poo-tattoo-tale-is-doo-doo.htm
http://www.northwestohio.com/news/story.aspx?id=692114#.TteRDbKZU8E
http://informe21.com/actualidad/mujer-engana-su-novio-se-venga-tatuandole-excrementos-moscas-su-espalda
http://noticias.terra.es/2011/sucesos/1129/actualidad/su-novio-se-venga-de-ella-tatuandole-un-excremento-en-la-espalda.aspx
http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/notas.asp?nota_id=544774
http://www.cnbc.com/id/45481067
http://world.huanqiu.com/roll/2011-12/2223727.html
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20111130_028
http://dunya.milliyet.com.tr/dunyayi-aldatan-fotograf-/dunya/dunyadetay/30.11.2011/1469320/default.htm
http://www.sigmalive.com/news/perierga/442763
http://www.nownews.com/2011/11/29/91-2761900.htm
http://www.net1news.org/ex-fidanzata-con-tatuaggio-della-cacca-una-bufala.html
http://www.fakt.pl/Zrobil-dziewczynie-okropny-tatuaz-Uwaga-ohydne-zdjecie,artykuly,138238,1.html
http://noticias.r7.com/esquisitices/noticias/tatuador-faz-coco-nas-costas-da-namorada-20111126.html?question=0
http://virgula.uol.com.br/ver/noticia/inacreditavel/2011/11/28/289137-namorado-traido-tatua-coco-gigante-nas-costas-da-ex-amada
http://www.bellenews.com/2011/11/30/world/us-news/rossie-brovent-poo-tattoo-story/
http://www.nollywoodgossip.net/2011/11/30/see-what-a-man-tattooed-on-his-girlfriend%E2%80%99s-back-for-cheating-on-him-photos/
http://kissfm969.com/the-girl-with-the-poop-tattoo-story-is-a-fake/
http://www.deceptology.com/2011/11/outrageous-poop-tattoo-prank.html
http://whatsgoodington.com/2011/11/30/sadly-the-narnia-poop-tattoo-is-fake/
http://www.examiner.com/culture-events-in-chicago/a-tattoo-revenge-saga

I was told by a friend this evening that he heard about this news story on The Howard Stern Show Thursday morning, I just confirmed it by looking it up at http://www.marksfriggin.com/news11/11-28.htm#thu – it seems Howard and Robin talked about this on her news feature at 8:50am and then then Howard mentioned that the news was a hoax at 9:35am.

December 7, 2011 update – As you can see below the news story is still going strong but it has spread so far that I am no longer being noticed as the original source.  Traffic on my site is down to just a couple of thousand a day.

Here are the results so far

The website usually gets 200-300 visits a day.  The 86k requests I could not serve kinda sucks but I was not really expecting this to go as viral as it did.  I will update this after the 24 hour mark.

30 hour update!

Referers.

From the moment I saw it I new it was cool and had a shot of going viral but these days it is really hard to tell what might work and what might bomb.  I recently came across the video below while doing some research on a stop motion video project for a client.  I just find it amazing that almost 5 million people have watched this over the past 4 years…..

Just to recap our conversation, wanted to reach out and see if you’d like to restart your advertising in the xxxxx xxxxxx Newspapers.  You had mentioned getting business through Google but why not capture both markets, Internet AND Print?   Doing so helps you get the best of both worlds.  Remember, only 21% of people have internet worldwide!

We are located in a major metropolitan area and I would guess the statistic here is 98% of households have Internet access.

It seems the gossip around the blogesphere is mixed, many think Schmit did a good job at deflection the accusations and many more think Google is going to be facing an official inquiry by the FTC shortly.  My personal belief is that Google will come up with a proposal to self-regulate because they definitely don’t want the government dictating what they can do.

Forbes had a good article that was mostly against Google and some of the statements were very powerful, like this one:

The grand disconnect at the Google hearing was that Google was oblivious to the concern that they represented their business as non-threatening with no competitive conflict of interest in order to gain content owners trust and business, the bait, and then they violated that trust by flipping their business model mid-game and switching to be the most serious competitive threat these companies could face – all while publicly denying that they are now competitors at all.

Full article here http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcleland/2011/09/22/googles-bait-switch-deception-exposed-at-hearing/

This whole bait and switch conspiracy might be a tad far-reaching but there are lots of factual examples to back it up.  I think Google would be smart to make a move to bury this whole thing before it reaches the general population because soon the pitch-forks will come out.

Read the full submission by Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of Yelp here.