A programmer/marketer who’s really good at what he does sent out an email Thursday morning that I strongly disagree with. In fact, the word “strongly” doesn’t even come close to the way I feel. EzineArticles.com is having a contest starting Jan 1 — if you write (and publish on their site) 100 articles in 100 […]
Here’s the 8th part of our series on making article marketing work for you, I call it, Resource Box Secrets. Article marketing is a great way to use simple little articles to drive traffic to your web site. If you’re new to the concept, this is how it works (nutshell version): Write an article of […]
I just watched a promo video for something — I’m not sure exactly what since I closed the browser before it was done — that was simply embarrassing. First, I do not think you have to be *perfect* in your audio and videos. If you flub a little bit, or say “um” a few times, […]
My friend Millard Grubb has posted a new video on YouTube that’s relevant whether you’re aspiring to be an entertainer or an internet marketer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGTiLE5XC9o Take a couple minutes to watch it.
Here’s the 7th secret to making article marketing pay off for you, I call it Targeting the Buzz. This technique requires you to make regular visits to the forums where your target market hangs out. The problem with that is it can become a real time sink — there are thousands of people who spend […]
Everybody involved in ecommerce or internet marketing knows that reusing content is a smart thing to do, and while I pride myself on recycling my material in many different ways, one unique way to do that escaped me until just recently. Before doing a teleseminar about link redirecting for ad tracking purposes, I solicited questions […]
This post is proof I’m not a guru. Because a guru would never make this kind of mistake. And if he or she did, they’d never admit it. But I need someone to share my pain, so here goes… About a week ago I mentioned on my blog that my laptop had to go to […]
Everybody and their brother is putting video on their sites — one reason is that it’s proven to increase sales. Okay, so there’s obviously a place for video online, but don’t for a MINUTE think you need to shoot video in order to increase your sales, because audio has also been proven to increase sales. […]
I’ve released the audio and video versions of my article, “Article Marketing Tricks #6: Cranking Your Credibility” which are available here: Audio: Cranking Your Credibility Audio http://articlemarketingexplained.com/podcast/ Video: Cranking Your Credibility Video And if you missed the written version and would prefer that, it’s still available online at this link: Cranking Your Credibility Article http://ezinearticles.com/?id=3286659 […]
Today my laptop died. That’s my primary computer — my development machine. I do make very frequent backups so I should be able to recover everything when it’s fixed, but I will be almost computerless for the next 6-10 days. The Machaus in Wasilla was kind enough to give me a “loaner” machine so I […]