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Joel Comm (born 1964) is an American author, public speaker, and Internet marketer. In 2006, he published The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You about Making Money with Adsense, which was a New York Times  and BusinessWeek  bestseller. 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 iFart Mobile, an iPhone application that spent three weeks as the iPhone’s highest selling app, generating over 350,000 sales by mid-January 2009.

WorldVillage
Comm is the publisher of 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.

Yahoo! Games
In 1996, Comm formed a joint venture between himself and gaming site SpringerSpan.com. Relaunched as ClassicGames.com, the site attracted the attention of Yahoo!, which for a seven-figure sum bought out Comm and his partner, Eron Jokipii (who became Yahoo’s Chief of Games), integrating the service into its own platform as Yahoo! Games. An avatar on the service with a red cap and goatee beard is based on Comm.

The AdSense Code
In 2004, Comm began using Google’s AdSense advertising program on his network of websites. After initially failing to generate significant revenues, he tested different approaches, producing a number of optimization strategies based in part on smart ad unit placement, careful keywording and ad embedding that increased his advertising income to several hundred and even $600 a day. In 2005, he shared his knowledge in an ebook entitled What Google Never Told You About Making Money With AdSense. The success of that book led him to publish The AdSense Code the following year, 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.

Professional Speaking
The success of The AdSense Code led to a series of invitations for Comm to address business, Internet marketing and entrepreneurial conferences around the world. Comm is now a regular speaker at events that have included Armand Morin’s Big Seminar, Chris Howard’s Wealth Symposiums, T. Harv Eker’s Never Work Again and Anthony Robbins’ Wealth Mastery.

The Next Internet Millionaire
In 2006, a conversation with film producer Eric Holmlund led Comm to consider creating 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 but DVD boxed sets have since been made available at national bookstore chains.

Click Here to Order
The success of The AdSense Code and The Next Internet Millionaire brought Comm into close contact with all of the Internet’s leading marketers. After hearing their stories, Comm chose to document the history of Internet marketing by focusing on the Internet’s largest promoters and the techniques they inspired. Click Here to Order: Stories of the World’s Most Successful Internet Entrepreneurs was published by Morgan James Publishing in 2008.

Twitter Power
In September 2008, Comm was invited by Matt Holt at John Wiley and Sons Publishing to write the definitive guide to Twitter, a microblogging service on which Comm had already picked up several thousand followers. Comm produced a manuscript of Twitter Power: How to Dominate your Market One Tweet at a Time within two months ready for launch in mid-February 2009.

iFart Mobile
In addition to publishing websites and writing books, Joel Comm also runs a software company, Infomedia. At the end of 2008, the company released iFart Mobile, a 99 cent iPhone application that replicates the sound of bodily functions. The app spent three weeks at the top of iPhone’s application charts.

Personal Life
Comm lives in Loveland, CO with his wife and two children and is a Christian Conservative. He has been criticized for using his professional blog to share his political and moral views. He is also an avid gamer and occasionally blogs about World of Warcraft.