Here is one I submitted to YC under the cool non-computer hacks: In the early days of ppc advertising when it was straight auctions. I would call up all our co

Here is one I submitted to YC under the cool non-computer hacks: In the early days of ppc advertising when it was straight auctions. I would call up all our competitors and have them bid just 1 cent more than the previous guy so they wouldnt loose their place but dropped our cost per click to 1/4 what we were paying before (we were ranked first). I think Google changed there bidding system because of me :) Another one was where we replaced a site created by March 1st for over 1 million dollars with a Yahoo! store in 48 hours for about $50.00/month