Archive for November 10th, 2009

An Important Question to Ask Before Hitting Publish on Your Next Post

Here’s a question I’ve learned to ask on a daily basis at the completion of every post I write:
“Would this post work better if I split it into two (or more) posts?”
While the answer is usually ‘no’ for me I do semi-regularly get to the end of a blog post and realise that what I’ve [...]

Google Updates, Re-Updates Quality Guidelines

Google got all the local search experts talking last week with the release of an updated (and then re-updated) set of Business Listing Guidelines. Google hopes the new rules will help cut down on the amount of spam popping up in local search. But have they made things even more complicated for small business owners?
Grab [...]

Stop Using Whois Privacy

If you are not familiar with the term, whois privacy is a service offered by most domain name registrars that protects your information as a domain registrant from people performing a “whois” on your domains.
Here is a screenshot of a domain using that service:

And here is one of a domain without the whois privacy:

As you [...]

Starting Your Internet Business

Finding the market niche that you want and to drive traffic to your product. First, you need to know who is the clientele/customer? What type of person is this? Are they going to be a male or female? Where do they reside/live? What language do they speak? What amount of money do they make? All [...]

A Social Media Marketing Key

The common thread of social media marketers is that they connect with the world, the people, and their surroundings. These people are connecting, communicating and reach out to others. Always sharing and giving news and ideas. The main interest is other people, always sharing and being active in the interest of others. To be successful [...]

Murdoch to Google: Drop Dead

Okay, so News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch didn’t really tell Google to drop dead. That’s just an attention getting device like the classic headline in The Daily News back in the 1970s: “Ford to City: Drop Dead.”
What Murdoch did say in a Sky News interview today was that his company is considering [...]

Four Pitfalls Associated with any Social Media Marketing Campaign

The most recent phenomenon to hit the Internet Marketing scene in recent years is another form of Internet Marketing in its own right called Social Media Marketing. While Social Media Marketing has the capability to drive hordes of targeted traffic to your website there are still some pitfalls involved which you should try to avoid, [...]

Free Alternative Ways To Make Money Online

Guest Post by Jason VanTrees
With so many people looking for new ways to make money, it is no surprise that a lot of folks turn to the Internet to try and make money online. Unfortunately many people fail to generate income from online promotions. Many fail because there do not follow through with promoting which [...]

Social Media Marketing ‘ 5 Steps to Free Traffic

Social media marketing is a new, free and very powerful tool and it can serve you very well when you are searching for free internet marketing methods to promote your internet home business online.
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Social media site are called social for a good reason. This is a place for people from all over the world find [...]

What Purple Rain Can Teach You About Effective Online Marketing

Ever had an idea that couldn’t miss?
You took immediate action, created the perfect warm-up content, the best launch strategy, and the perfect offer . . . .
And then it totally failed.
So yeah, the film Purple Rain contains the consummate lesson on this one.
No, really.

The Lesson of Lake Minnetonka
Upon mature reflection, the album Purple Rain [...]