Joel Comm
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Joel Comm is an American author and Internet marketer. In 2006, he published The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You about Making Money with Adsense, which were New York Times and Business Week bestsellers. He is also the author of Click Here to Order: Stories of the World’s Most Successful Internet Entrepreneurs and Twitter Power: How to Dominate your Market One Tweet at a Time
. In 2007, he was the host and Executive Producer of The Next Internet Millionaire, an online reality show. In 2008, his company, Infomedia, produced an iPhone application: iFart.
bought out Comm and his partner, Eron Jokipii (who became Yahoo’s Chief of Games), integrating the service into its own platform.
Comm maintains WorldVillage.com, a content-based website which began as a printed newsletter called The Dallas Fort Worth Software Review. The site offers blog content, reviews and news on a range of different subjects.
Comm also runs a small software company, Infomedia. At the end of 2008, the company released iFart Mobile
, an iPhone application that replicates the sound of bodily functions. The app spent three weeks at the top of iPhone’s application charts.
advertising program on his network of websites. He tested different approaches, producing a number of strategies that increased his advertising income. In 2005, he published an ebook entitled What Google Never Told You About Making Money With AdSense. The following year he published The AdSense Code, a traditional print book published by Morgan James Publishing. The AdSense Code reached third place on Amazon.com’s bestsellers, #6 on The New York Times Business Paperback bestsellers list and #8 on BusinessWeek’s Business Paperback bestsellers list.
In February 2009, Comm wrote Twitter Power
a guide to Twitter
, a popular microblogging
service. The book has been translated into Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. An updated revised edition, Twitter Power 2.0, was released in paperback form in May 2010.
In June 2010, Comm wrote KaChing: How to Run an Online Business that Pays and Pays. The book proposed and explained how to generate a part-time or full-time income by creating content-based websites monetized in a number of ways. Comm successfully marketed the book through online channels, but a December 2010 Huffington Post article demonstrated marketing books via television commercials was a waste of money.
’s Never Work Again and Anthony Robbins’ Wealth Mastery.
In 2006, Comm created an online reality show based on The Apprentice. Hosted by Comm, The Next Internet Millionaire
took twelve Internet marketing hopefuls and provided them with challenges eliminating contestants until just one remained. The winner received $25,000 and was offered a joint venture with Comm said to be worth a million dollars. The show was broadcast exclusively on the Internet and later printed to DVD.
's The Daily Show
. In September 2009, the two companies went public with their settlement, a jointly produced iPhone application called 'Clear the Air.'
Twitter Power
Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time is a 2009 book by Joel Comm, an Internet marketing expert, professional speaker, entrepreneur and author of the New York Times Best Seller The AdSense Code...
. In 2007, he was the host and Executive Producer of The Next Internet Millionaire, an online reality show. In 2008, his company, Infomedia, produced an iPhone application: iFart.
Business ventures
In 1996, Comm relaunched SpringerSpan.com as ClassicGames.com. Yahoo!Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
bought out Comm and his partner, Eron Jokipii (who became Yahoo’s Chief of Games), integrating the service into its own platform.
Comm maintains WorldVillage.com, a content-based website which began as a printed newsletter called The Dallas Fort Worth Software Review. The site offers blog content, reviews and news on a range of different subjects.
Comm also runs a small software company, Infomedia. At the end of 2008, the company released iFart Mobile
IFart Mobile
iFart Mobile is an application for the Apple iOS, distributed using the App Store. When launched, the screen displays a red button on a brown background...
, an iPhone application that replicates the sound of bodily functions. The app spent three weeks at the top of iPhone’s application charts.
Books
In 2004, Comm began using Google’s AdSenseAdSense
Google AdSense which is a program run by Google Inc. allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to automatically serve text, image, video, and rich media adverts that are targeted to site content and audience. These adverts are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google, and they...
advertising program on his network of websites. He tested different approaches, producing a number of strategies that increased his advertising income. In 2005, he published an ebook entitled What Google Never Told You About Making Money With AdSense. The following year he published The AdSense Code, a traditional print book published by Morgan James Publishing. The AdSense Code reached third place on Amazon.com’s bestsellers, #6 on The New York Times Business Paperback bestsellers list and #8 on BusinessWeek’s Business Paperback bestsellers list.
In February 2009, Comm wrote Twitter Power
Twitter Power
Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time is a 2009 book by Joel Comm, an Internet marketing expert, professional speaker, entrepreneur and author of the New York Times Best Seller The AdSense Code...
a guide to Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
, a popular microblogging
Microblogging
Microblogging is a broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregate file size...
service. The book has been translated into Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. An updated revised edition, Twitter Power 2.0, was released in paperback form in May 2010.
In June 2010, Comm wrote KaChing: How to Run an Online Business that Pays and Pays. The book proposed and explained how to generate a part-time or full-time income by creating content-based websites monetized in a number of ways. Comm successfully marketed the book through online channels, but a December 2010 Huffington Post article demonstrated marketing books via television commercials was a waste of money.
Celebrity
Following the publication of The AdSense Code Comm started to work as a public speaker, addressing business, Internet marketing and entrepreneurial conferences, including work for Microsoft, IBM and other corporations. He is now a regular speaker at events like Armand Morin’s Big Seminar, Chris Howard’s Wealth Symposiums, T. Harv EkerT. Harv Eker
T. Harv Eker is a motivational speaker and touring lecturer best known for his bestselling book, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind published by HarperCollins and his seminar company, Peak Potentials Training...
’s Never Work Again and Anthony Robbins’ Wealth Mastery.
In 2006, Comm created an online reality show based on The Apprentice. Hosted by Comm, The Next Internet Millionaire
The Next Internet Millionaire
The Next Internet Millionaire is an online reality show hosted by Joel Comm and written and directed by Eric Holmlund. Billed as the world’s first Internet reality show and based on the popular NBC show The Apprentice, the program was broadcast entirely on the Internet in 2007.- Premise :The show...
took twelve Internet marketing hopefuls and provided them with challenges eliminating contestants until just one remained. The winner received $25,000 and was offered a joint venture with Comm said to be worth a million dollars. The show was broadcast exclusively on the Internet and later printed to DVD.
Lawsuit
In February 2009, Air-O-Matic, makers of Pull My Finger, an iPhone app that also makes flatulent sounds, threatened legal action against Infomedia claiming trademark infringement. Air-O-Matic claimed that Infomedia had used the phrase "pull my finger" in its marketing material and demanded $50,000 in compensation. Infomedia responded by filing a complaint for declaratory judgement in Colorado District Court. The case between the two fart-producing companies became a caused calamity and was even featured on Jon StewartJon Stewart
Jon Stewart is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian...
's The Daily Show
The Daily Show
The Daily Show , is an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. The half-hour long show premiered on July 21, 1996, and was hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 1998...
. In September 2009, the two companies went public with their settlement, a jointly produced iPhone application called 'Clear the Air.'
See also
- The AdSense CodeThe AdSense CodeThe AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense is an Internet marketing book by Joel Comm - an Internet marketing expert, professional speaker and entrepreneur - published in April 2006. The book's cover was based on the cover design of Dan Brown's best-selling novel...
(book) - Twitter PowerTwitter PowerTwitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time is a 2009 book by Joel Comm, an Internet marketing expert, professional speaker, entrepreneur and author of the New York Times Best Seller The AdSense Code...
(book) - iFart MobileIFart MobileiFart Mobile is an application for the Apple iOS, distributed using the App Store. When launched, the screen displays a red button on a brown background...
(iPhone application)