productivity
Simple Search Engine Optimization Tips
Are you getting at least 100 new visitors to your blog everyday? If not, it may be that your blog is not optimized for the search engines, which is where people begin their search for products and services online. Some “search engine experts” would have you believe that search engine optimization requires a lot of advanced techniques to rank well. But the truth is that even a little simple... More...
Using Seed Keywords For Search Engine Optimization
How would you like to know exactly what keywords people will use to search for a product of service? Maybe you’d like to launch a new website idea or promote an affiliate product and you don’t want to build a site and wait to see what your server logs tell you about your search traffic. What you need is a solution like the one I came across today. Imagine you already have a mailing list... More...
Stepping In Front Of Your Blog
Is it time to step away from your keyboard and get in front of your blog? This is a question I’ve been thinking about over the past several weeks and I’ve decided, yes it’s definitely time. It’s time to put a face to the words. It’s time to let people see you in action. It’s time to embrace the power of video so that you can create content anywhere you go using... More...
Are Facebook Applications Using Multi-Level Marketing
So, do you have six bucks and three friends? You’ll need at least that much to start using the new ChatToText Facebook application. The Facebook application lets you receive chat messages from Facebook as SMS text messages. You can reply to chat message using text messaging and your replies are posted back to Facebook instantly. The service costs six dollars a month and seeks to fill the gap... 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...
How John McCain Lost The Presidential Race
What can we learn as Internet Marketers from the 2008 Presidential race for the White House? Before we answer that, let’s look at how John McCain failed to leverage the Internet to promote his campaign. Was John McCain the victim of a biased news media during the 2008 Presidential race to the White House? Maybe so. But, what ultimately hurt John McCain’s campaign was how his message... More...
How To Become An Overnight Success
I am full up of over night success claims! That’s right, you heard me. FULL UP! And no, there’s no “until I tried this” or “wait till you hear about that” coming next. It’s ALL horse fertilizer designed to get people excited and draw them in for the sale, end of story. Here’s why. Nobody, not a fine art painter, a guitar player, a computer programmer,... More...
How To Fight Content Theft
Recently I came across yet another spam blog trackback in my moderated blog comments. I’ve tried to ignore these as they’ve continued to increase. But enough is enough and now I’m looking at ways to simplify the abuse reporting process. There are two simple steps you can take to hit a splogger where it hurts. You can report them to their web hosting provider, and you can report them... More...
Save Time Submitting To StumbleUpon
How many times do you bookmark websites and then forget to submit them to Stumbleupon? I know I forget all the time. So, I have a big list of Del.icio.us bookmarks, but my Stumbleupon profile suffers from lack of love. But all that changes today thanks to the urber geekls over at GreaseMonkey. If you haven’t heard, Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages... More...
Finding Creative Places To Advertise
Recently, while I was buying a Private Labels Rights (PLR) package from one of my favorite freelance writers, I had a self-proclaimed creative idea for advertising online businesses. I originally posted the idea in the Open Source Marketer Community Forum, but I thought it was worth posting on the blog as well. Basically, the idea is to put your product offer or advertisement at the end of someone’s... More...
Using Stumble Upon Exchanges To Get Blog Traffic
Recently, a member of my blog monetization BlogCatalog group mentioned using a Stumble Upon Exchange to get website traffic and it peaked my curiosity. In the past I’ve seen somewhat positive results from stumbling my own posts, so I decided to do a little experiment to see if using a stumble exchange could help compound the stumble effect and generate even more visitor traffic for a blog. The... More...
Adding 318 EMail Subscribers in 10 Minutes
Well Rich Schefren has started turned up the heat on the launch of his Business Acceleration Program product launch. Around 2 a.m. this morning he sent out an email to all of his Attention Age Doctrine subscribers to let them know that he would be giving away a bunch of bonuses ahead of the actual product launch. Part of the deal was that he planned to send out an email around noon on Wednesday and... More...
Breaking Down A Product Launch Blog Post
Rich Schefren’s Business Acceleration Program is set to launch this Thursday and Rich is really working the product launch cycle. He’s building anticipation, generating buzz, creating excitement with free give aways, reporting exciting response numbers, and posting to his blog like crazy. You and I could spend a month just breaking down all the pieces that have gone into the build up to... More...
How To Create Process Maps For Your Business
Do you own a business or a job? According to Robert Kiyosaki, if your “business” doesn’t function when you’re not around, then you don’t have a business, you’ve created a job. Creating a real business involves setting up systems with replaceable parts. As an example, if a software developer leaves your company, then you need to have a method for hiring a new one... More...
