This week I chat with online marketing expert and entrepreneur Damian Thompson (@damianthompson) about the verge article Scamworld and the Internet Marketing scene in general.

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Shouts

Dan Andrews - The entrepreneur's guide to audio content.

E Web Style - SEO Podcast

Justin and Jason from - Techzing Podcast

Mentioned during the discussion

Follow Damian Thompson - Twitter

Verge article - Scamworld

Danny Sullivan's response - Internet marketing isn't a scam, fix it please, Verge

Tyrone Shum on the Niche Pursuits podcast - Outsourcing and SEO services

Tech tip

LinkDiagnosis.com - Free high PR competitor backlink checker

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Hi, guys, welcome to Web Domination, Episode two, "Are all Internet Marketers Scammers?" coming to you today from the beautiful Gull Coast. Man, you have got to see the weather here. I'm going to chuck a pic up of how the weather is looking at the moment, and it's pretty much been this way for about three weeks. It's amazing.

On today's show, I'm having a chat to Damian Thompson about an Internet marketing article that came out last week called "ScamWorld" by TheVerge.com. Damian is a marketing consultant of about 20 years, entrepreneur, on-line marketing expert, these days, really, really smart dude. We're going to have a great chat to him about this article and Internet marketing in general.

Thanks so much to everyone who listened to the first show. I really appreciate all the feedback, and I had some positive comments, which is always nice, and some constructive stuff, which will likely be improved on this time, mainly the audio. So I got a few tips from a few people. Actually, Dan at [inaudible 00:01:21]NBA.com wrote a really good article on podcasting. There's a few things I got out of that so thanks for that and mentioned our podcast, which is really cool. Thanks for that, Dan, and thanks to other people who have said that they enjoy the show.

In general, I'm going to be trying to get these out on every Friday. I think this one might be a little bit late, because we're a little bit late on catching up on the i...