Neal has sold everything from hundred thousand dollar private jet flights to Avon lipstick and Kirby vacuums. He learned how to use the internet while attending NYU during a class held by Sree Sreenivasan. Neal started to use the internet to find a more efficient way to find leads and prospects after visiting Search Engine Watch, following a link posted on Sree's site. After Googling his first keword, Neal hasn't logged off since. Find his latest video interviews on nealrodriguez.com/vlog/

Blog Entries by Neal Rodriguez

The Human Body on a Good Day

Posted January 6, 2010 | 12:33 PM (EST)


As long as your oil is changed regularly and your feet get rotated when one is leaning too much, the human body should be performing the 15 following actions; otherwise, buy your friends a bottle of scotch they could pour on the floor for the friend who wont be here...

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The Ugliest Christmas Sweaters Money Should Not Buy

2 Comments | Posted December 22, 2009 | 09:26 PM (EST)


Buy a gallon of Caladryl and dive into the itchiest and ugliest sweaters on the planet, compliments of PicClick Ebay search engine.

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17 Million Barrels of Oil Used to Produce Water Bottles Yearly

Posted December 11, 2009 | 01:08 AM (EST)


I am glad my mother got me a water filter; thus my skin complexion is a shade closer to the Hulk's. Are you healthily hydrating at the expense of the Earth's health?

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Is Cyber Monday the Biggest Online Shopping Day of the Year?

Posted November 26, 2009 | 06:11 PM (EST)


First and foremost, happy Thanksgiving! I hope everybody kicked off the holiday season appropriately; I hope you threw on some body armor, so you didn't get trampled by the Black Friday stampede. And while we're on Black Friday, lets hear the talking head discuss shopping trends through Cyber Monday...

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Baratunde Goes Mad Scientist on Twitter

Posted November 23, 2009 | 07:49 PM (EST)


I bumped heads with Baratunde, the Onion Editor, and host of PopSci's Future Of, at the Gary Vaynerchuk book signing in New York City. Baratunde gave me a quick account of what projects he had lined up.

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Digg Founder And President Advise Entrepreneurs To Do It Themselves

Posted November 20, 2009 | 07:15 AM (EST)


I filmed Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson discussing new and concept features on which the company is working. They included some tips on how start-ups can execute a solid web marketing campaign speaking before the Web 2.0 Expo audience which comprised many entrepreneurs. Rose repeated the act...

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Strike a Pose with Daffy's Dancers

Posted November 18, 2009 | 11:03 PM (EST)


Daffy's launched an advertising 2.0 campaign with their live "Fitting Dance" mini-musical. Prior to a screening of the new film Amelia, Daffy's dancers try on clothes to music on screen. The same performers finish their dance clothed with a Daffy's outfit live on stage.

Now I want to see...

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The Evolution of Digital Music

2 Comments | Posted November 9, 2009 | 07:47 PM (EST)


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Courtesy of Mint.com.

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Ben Huh Drives 1 Billion Pageviews Every 4 Months

Posted October 15, 2009 | 09:20 PM (EST)


I caught up with Ben Huh at SMX East 2009 after his keynote. Ben told me that his Cheezburger Network grows by 1 billion pageviews every 4 months. Ben performs no outreach, advertising, or marketing; Ben does give his users the ability post and modify their pics on

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Junk Mail in the U.S. Accounts for over 100 Million Pieces of Mail

1 Comments | Posted October 14, 2009 | 09:50 PM (EST)


You could choke a demolition shredder that tears up monster trucks with that much toilet paper. No wonder your pop doesn't have enough room in the green bin for his porn mags.

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Courtesy of thecoolprint.com

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Gary Vaynerchuk on How the Web Changed the Planet

Posted October 14, 2009 | 08:57 PM (EST)


I kicked in the door on the Gary Vaynerchuk book signing in the Borders at Columbus Circle, New York City. I had to hop on his new book, Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion,

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8 Ways How Sex Compares to the Job Search

Posted July 14, 2009 | 04:09 PM (EST)


You could populate the moon with the amount of unemployed in this country. You're laid off after gluing your eyelids to your forehead to stay awake at the job for decades. You just graduated, and that tech job you had lined up got outsourced to 10 people overseas who just...

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Mobile Apps Which Keep Business Owners from Pumping Gas

Posted July 13, 2009 | 04:20 PM (EST)


Deciding on business spend during a recession could make any CFO, budget planner or small business owner jump off the Golden Gate. You need to smack yourself with rotten fish until you're wide awake, regardless of the state of the economy; unless you'd like to flip burgers until you're promoted...

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The History of the Electric Guitar as Seen by 3 Rock Legends

24 Comments | Posted July 9, 2009 | 07:43 PM (EST)


"The earliest documented performance with an electrically amplified guitar was in 1932," according to Wikipedia. The electric guitar was used by Hawaiian Style musicians. George Barnes reportedly recorded the first 2 songs with the electric guitar in 1938.

Now, Rock 'N' Roll without the electric guitar, is a...

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10 of the Hottest Girls @Twitter

Posted April 7, 2009 | 09:10 PM (EST)


Alright gentlemen, throw on some Michael Phelps goggles, so your eyes don't pop out of their sockets. These ladies put the brain back in sexy. Here's the inside track on these angelic Twittettes. They run their own Twitter feeds as efficiently as a Core 2 Duo assembly line, these...

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How a Social Network Becomes the Heartbeat of Social Finance

Posted April 7, 2009 | 09:00 AM (EST)


Financial social network, Tip'd, is launching a new set of features that is potentially positioning the platform as the web's heartbeat of social finance. Tip'd 2.0 promises to offer a robust data set comprised of stock quotes, social resources profiling companies featured on Tip'd, and in the spirit of...

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Five States with Unemployment Rates Under 5%

Posted March 31, 2009 | 04:00 PM (EST)


Although Iowa has reached its highest unemployment rate in 17 years, its current rate is at 4.9 percent. Iowa's workforce dropped by 22,000; however, their rates are almost half that of the national average. Government Chet Culver pulled an Obama move and launched Recover.Iowa.gov;...

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Are Real-Estate Online Tools Shifting the Paradigm?

Posted February 21, 2009 | 03:19 PM (EST)


New Jersey home sellers have had to slash their prices by up to 25 percent. The New York Times cites a ranch that was purchased for $709,000 in July of 2005 had to be sold for $528,110 in the spring of 2008.

Gene Riede, a real estate...

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250,000 Jobs Will Still be Lost Monthly

Posted February 18, 2009 | 04:52 PM (EST)


Arnold Schwarzenegger terminated 10,000 people yesterday in a state-wide layoff that threatens to double today. "The governor, facing a $42 billion deficit, was prompted to move on the layoff notices after lawmakers missed a Monday night deadline to reach a budget deal, McLear told CNN late Monday."...

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BART Cop Who Punched Oscar Grant Should Resign

Posted January 27, 2009 | 11:59 AM (EST)


BART is investigating Tony Pirone, the officer that punched Oscar Grant in the face prior to Grant's shooting on New Years Eve. According to, U.C. Berkeley law school professor Franklin Zimring, the district attorney may not charge the officer who punched Grant because the DA "may need that...

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