automation
Stopping WordPress Spam Comments
Is comment spam taking up your time and bringing down your server? Even if you don’t get enough spam to take down your server, I bet it’s still pretty annoying. Almost all WordPress bloggers run into this problem at some point, but most don’t know that there is an extremely simple WordPress plugin solution that will solve 99.9% of their automated spam comment headaches. The plugin... More...
Uploading Videos Once To Multiple Video Sharing Sites
Tonight I’m in San Antonio Texas for a few days of fun and sun with the family at Sea World. It’s about a five hour trip from where I live so I had some time on the road to listen to audio books and think. I took in about four chapters of The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss and I can tell you it’s worth the read, or download and listen in my case. Tim often refers to people... More...
How To Automate Your Call List
If you run any type of offline events to promote your blog, and you collect phone numbers from your meeting participants, then you might want to take a look at phonevite.com. This handy service helps you automate your call list so all you have to do is record your event announcements once and then have them broadcast to your call list automatically. This would even work if you had an online membership... More...
Thank You For The BrightKite Invite
Well, it’s been four days since I posted about BrightKite and now I’m in. Someone was kind enough to send me an invite. I’d like to give a big thanks to whoever it was. The invite didn’t tell me so unless you speak up, it will just have to be your secret. I’m looking forward to exploring BrightKite and reporting back what I find. One thing I can already see is the use... More...
Obama and Hillary Use Twitter For Social Networking
Today I got an email update from Twitter and some of the featured links they provided highlighted Twitter profiles for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The 2008 presidential contest has been probably the most interactive political event in history with videos being posted on YouTube, debates being held on CNN/YouTube, bloggers speaking out, and new forms of social media growing like crazy. So it only... More...
How Starbucks Sells More Coffee
In Robert Cialdini’s book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, he talks about all the many ways that we influence and are influenced by others. It is this psychology of influence that allows both offline and online marketers to sell products and services. If you have not read Cialdini’s book I highly recommend it. I am about half way through it myself and I find myself amazed at how... More...
How To Automate An Up Sell And A Cross Sell
Recently I bought a new car and I used an online lender to fund the deal. Throughout the whole process I noticed that the lender was using sales techniques that all of us could learn from. So, I am going to highlight seven key points from the experience and examine how we can use these techniques in our own Internet Marketing efforts. 1. Getting Started Is Easy While I was researching my choice of... More...
Four Tips For A Search Engine Friendly Blog
Are you interested in tweaking your blog to get more readers and generate more money. If so, here are four tips that will immediately help you build communication channels to bring more blog readers to your website. Once you have read about these simple tips, be sure and implement them into your blog. Remember action is more important than collecting information. You have DO something to GET something.... More...
Stop Using Outlook For Commercial Email Blasts
Recently I had the opportunity to share some Internet Marketing resources with local business owners. What I learned from them concerned me so much that I felt it was extremely important to write about it here so that the information would help as many people as possible. It seems that some of these small business owners are still using Outlook to send out commercial email campaigns (email blasts).... More...
Cross Selling ClickBank Products
Summary: Learn how you can leverage clickbank to make money online. Would you like to start selling products online? Do you wish you had a product to sell now? Do you think you have to wait until you’ve created your own product to start selling? Well think again. You might not realize it, but there is a whole market of existing products on ClickBank just waiting for you to promote them. It’s... More...
