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Bonehead Marketing 101
You probably don’t want to be a bonehead marketer. So let me tell you exactly how I was one recently, to help you avoid the condition. It started when I was asked to give a presentation on integrating Twitter into WordPress for the Dallas Fort Worth WordPress Meetup Group. Public speaking is something I like to practice whenever possible and I knew exactly what materials I wanted to talk about.... More...
Interview With A Love Kung Fu Artist
Can being a Love Kung Fu artist help you increase your customer base and make you more efficient too? Well, I can guarantee anything, but it has certainly worked for Mark Berry of LoveKungFu.com. Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark and he told me about several creative ideas he’s used to build up his online life coaching business. Using word of mouth advertising, teleconferencing... More...
Internet Marketing Events In Dallas Texas
Coming up this weekend is the World Internet Summit in Dallas. In case you haven’t heard of this event, it’s one of the premium places to go to connect with other Internet marketers and find joint venture partners. There will also be a list of well known “guru” marketers there that will be presenting information on how to make money online. Here’s a pre-event video describing... 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...
Blogging Gear from WordCamp Dallas 2008
Here is a short list of items that I took to WordCamp Dallas 2008 to document the event and post updates to the web. Of course, the list doesn’t include cables and adapters, but for the most part every thing I carried fit into a single school size backpack, including the 160 GB external mobile hard drive I carry for video editing. Here’s the list: iPhone for taking pictures, emailing,... More...
WordsPress Review From WordCamp Dallas 2008
Here are some of the new announcements from the WordCamp Dallas 2008 event here in Frisco Texas. Not only is WordPress.org getting a refresh, but WordPress 2.5 was also released today. Media Management: Media upload is totally redesigned with the ability to upload multiple items at one time. Image Handling: You can tag your images on your desktop and then upload them to WordPress and it will pull out... More...
Let’s Meet Up At WordCamp Dallas This Weekend!
You may have heard about the South By SouthWest event down in Austin Texas. It was a week long event that has historically been a music related event, but has added topics around blogging and media. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend, but I heard a lot of popular blogging names were there. It would have been a great chance to mix it up with other motivated people because getting to know people... More...
Running A Contest To Attract Positive Attention
Without question, word of mouth advertising is absolutely and indisputably the best form of advertising that has ever existed. This has been the case, good or bad, for a very long time. No one can deny that word of mouth advertising is, in it’s most basic form, free and highly effective. In most cases the people who hear the advertising message are usually listening to someone they trust when... More...
How To Build Positive Customer Relations
Does your marketing message make your customers give you the shirts off their backs? If so, is this a positive relationship building activity or something else? Here’s a fun blog post from ImprovEveryWhere.com that features 100 men who all take off their shirts at the same time and shop in an Abercrombie and Fitch store on 5th Avenue in New York City. Apparently Abercrombie and Fitch is willing... More...
How You Can Have A Free Personal Assistant
Recently I acquired a great personal assistant. She posts to my blog when I ask her too and she reminds me about important things I need to remember. The best part is she hasn’t cost me a dime, she’s available 24 hours a day, and she’s available to you too. What I’m talking about, of course, is posting to twitter using Jott.com. Jott is a speech to text method of getting posts... More...
An Easy Way To Track Click Thru Rates
Tracking clicks can be an important part of any online marketing but not everyone has the nerd muscles to set up their own click trackers. There are a number of scripts out there and home grown solutions for tracking clicks, but I want to give you a quick overview of a tool I like to use for tracking specific click events. The tool I like to use is BoldURL.com. At first glance BoldURL looks like another... More...
How Do You Build Blog Traffic From Scratch
A few really good questions about how to get blog traffic have recently come in my email so I thought I would share the answers with you. To answer the questions I am drawing from my own personal experiences so if you have other suggestions or ideas, please share them in the comments for this article. I am sure others will appreciate the community feedback and my blog doesn’t use the nofollow... More...
Use Blog Catalog Sites To Get Blog Visitor Traffic
Are you social. Sure you are! Well, in case you hadn’t noticed, there is a lot going on in the social media space these days. And, whether you think it is all fluff or not, you have to admit that there is evidence of some real website traffic mixed in with all those widgets and toolbar buttons. Yet, everyone I talk to about using social media sites to get visitor traffic has been very interested... More...
Using Meetup.com To Build Website Traffic
There are a number of recently popularized social media methods of getting website traffic, but many of these methods involve activities that are very technology focused and don’t leave much room for real social connections or direct personal feedback. If you’re looking for a more personally connected way of generating website traffic, then consider starting a group meeting on Meetup.com.... More...
