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Getting Realtime Analytics With Woopra
0 At the March WordCamp Dallas 2008 conference I was introduced to a new analytics package from Layered Technologies called Woopra. The tool offers realtime stats tracking and historical reporting of visitor traffic on your blog or website. Currently Woopra is in beta and usage is by invitation only. But, fortunately as an attendee of WordCamp, I received an invitation... More...
Blogging Tips From WordCamp Dallas 2008
0 Here are a few notes from John Pozadzides at OneMansBlog.com. He’s giving the presentation on 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog at WordCamp Dallas 2008. I’m not going to list all 45 tips in this update, but here are a few interesting ones for you. Use English Names for Images Descriptive and accurate titles are essential Use title elements on every hypertext... More...
Blogging Gear from WordCamp Dallas 2008
0 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... More...
Will Visual Search Kill Your Blog Traffic?
0 Would anyone visit your website if they could see it first? There are widgets today that will let you see a site before you visit them. But, they don’t easily let you compare sites side by side in full view. Well, there is a new visual search engine on the horizon that lets you pick through thousands of websites without actually visiting any of them and it... More...
Join An Internet Marketing Social Community
0 Today I’m opening up a brand new web 2.0 social networking piece for Open Source Marketer. I am totally excited about it and I want you to be a part of it too. The social networking site is geared at connecting Internet Entrepreneurs to help everyone learn how to market online as quickly as possible. There is so much going on these days that it just doesn’t... More...
Blog Promotion Using The BlogCatalog Social Dashboard
0 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... More...
Running A Contest To Attract Positive Attention
0 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... More...
Two Handy Blogging Tools For 2008
0 Here are two extremely useful tools that I am using in 2008 to help manage the information and media content I am producing and consuming. Anarchy Media Player – for adding video to your WordPress blog posts. This WordPress plug-in is extremely easy to install and use. I just uploaded the player folder to my WordPress plug-in folder and activated it. Now when... More...
How To Increase Blog Traffic – A Video Case Study
0 How would you like to increase your blog traffic by making a few simple changes to your blog? Of course you would. Visitor traffic is the life blood of any blog and knowing what works can save you a lot of time. To help emphasis some of the common mistakes that bloggers can make I am posting this video case study from Yaro Starak over at BlogMastermind.com. In the... More...
Does This Frighten You Or Excite You?
0 Have you ever considered running an offline business? If you have, then you’ve probably been overwhelmed at some point with a list of things that you need to consider like legal, accounting, advertising, marketing, production, employee training, payroll, client relations, and the list goes on and on. To avoid this list, you may have turned your attention to doing... More...
Is Your Internet Business Mobile Ready?
0 Internet Marketing is an ever changing landscape of technology and customer behaviors. Though it can be challenging to successfully match customer behavior with the use of technology, there are a ton of Internet Marketers who will gladly teach you what you need to know to establish an online business. But what will that business look like tomorrow? In a recent article... More...
How Starbucks Sells More Coffee
0 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... More...
7 Firefox Extensions That Make Life Easier
0 Please do not beat me! You were promised an article about how to use Del.icio.us to get more visitor traffic for your blog and it is really almost finished. The problem is there is so much to say that I keep re-writing parts of it. So, please don’t beat me. You will get your article and I will get to write the next article in the series. But, until then, here... More...
Use Blog Catalog Sites To Get Blog Visitor Traffic
0 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... More...
