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1. You shall… Never, ever “out”, “call out”, “rat”, or “snitch” on what another SEM is doing.
2. You shall… Never be stingy with links.
3. You shalll… Never use a condom, they just don’t feel right. The only exception is to prevent comment spam.
4. You shall… Attend conferences… make allies… buy allies a beer… if they happen to tell you what they are making a goldmine on refer back to #1.
5. You shall… Never stop learning. You should be reading for a couple of hours a day at least, because you’re not as smart as you think you are.
6. You shall… Work in your bathrobe at least 2 days / week.
7. You shall… Work 7 days / week. The Internet never sleeps.
8. You shall… Obsessively check email, Digg, SEPRS, commissions, leads and sales. When you’re not at home you shall use your “crackberry”
9. You shall… Constantly complain about GOOG and how it sucks for screwing you.
10. You shall… Find a new service or site and immediately figure out a way to game it.
I just wanted everyone to know where I stand on certain subjects that affect our community, no big whoop. I feel like I need to “blog tag” somebody with this… but I’ll refrain since nobody knows who I am yet 
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January 2nd, 2007 at 2:41 pm
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January 5th, 2007 at 10:14 am
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January 5th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I love it, that’s a really nice list! Rock on.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:24 am
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January 13th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Great list! I’d add staying up til three in the morning on Saturday night dissecting data.
One note, though - last time I tried #6 my coworkers were a bit put off. Next time, I will schedule my bathrobe days for when I am not doing a presentation… Something about “business casual…”
January 15th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Nice T-bo. See you in Delhi.
April 8th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
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