promotion
Why Should You Start An Affiliate Program
Businesses depend on sales to keep the lights on and the doors open. No sales, no business. Most businesses acquire new customers and sales using expensive advertising or by employing an expensive sales force. To make a profit, traditional companies have to bring in more money than what they pay for their expenses, like advertising and sales. However, online it’s possible to get both advertising... More...
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...
Using Twitter to Wish People Luck
Wishing people luck has always been a popular thing to do, but with social media tools like Twitter at our finger tips, wishing someone luck on Twitter has taken on a whole new meaning. Recently I got the opportunity to help out with the Epic Change TweetLuck Project that’s using Twitter to raise funds to help expand Shepherds Junior school in Tanzania and it gave me a whole new perspective on... 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...
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...
How To Attract Twitter Followers Using Video
Can I be honest with you? Your Twitter page is boring. Oh, I know it’s not your fault. By design there is nothing overly exciting about anyone’s default Twitter page. Even the little about me square in the upper right hand corner of the page is boring and doesn’t really offer enough space to tell prospective followers anything about you. So, wouldn’t it be great if you could... 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 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...
BrightKite Improves On Twitter Style Social Networking
Online social networking is still a very young industry and because of that there is still a ton of room for new ideas that can stretch and grow the current social landscape. BrightKite is a new social networking player that’s bringing fresh ideas to the table. BrightKite combines a Twitter like social update service with mobile technologies to create a better networking experience. Through... More...
What Do You Twitter About
UPDATE: Either I was smoking crack when I wrote this or these guys have changed their domain. Since I’m too cheap to afford a nasty habit like that it must be the other so, here is the link to TweetScan that works. I’ll go ahead and update the links in the post from twitterscan.com (which does show a listing in the WayBack Machines archives) to tweetscan.com. Today’s Microtween is... 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...
Blog Promotion Using The BlogCatalog Social Dashboard
What would happen if your newest post was Dugg and all your friends at BlogCatalog knew about it? And then what would happen if they Dugg it too, letting all of their friends know it. That would be pretty powerful, right? That was the first few lines of an email that was sent out by the BlogCatalog Team at 3:30 this morning where they announced they will be adding a social dashboard to the BlogCatalog... More...
