April 2007

Never Accuse Your Customer Without Having All the Facts! AND Don’t Steal People’s Content!

April 17, 2007 Commentary

Last week, I wrote an article about good customer service and used the example of how EzineArticles.com failed to live up to their promise to contact me about a situation. I am happy to report that I have finally been contacted by the company. The interesting thing is that the company broke another cardinal rule, [...]

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Improving Your Brand With Promotional Advertising

April 16, 2007 Advertising

For small companies starting out, one of the most important things to have, other than a great product or service, is a strong brand. The largest companies in the world spend billions of dollars a year to build or maintain their brand supremacy. It isn’t easy to establish your brand, but sometimes a few simple [...]

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Don’t Just Teach Your Friends to Make Money Online. Partner with Them!

April 16, 2007 Blogging

I recently read a webmaster forum post from a guy whose friends keep asking him to teach them how to make money online. There are a few approaches to take in this situation: Three Approaches to Dealing With a Friend Who Wants Free Advice on Making Money Online Tell him to piss off and figure [...]

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How Linkbait is Diluting the Accuracy of Search Engine Results

April 16, 2007 Building Traffic

Looking to increase traffic for your website? For a little over a year, the use of linkbait has exploded across the net. People have figured out little tricks for building traffic. some of which are very clever, but at some point, doesn’t it dilute the quality of ranking results? Gaming the Search Engines is Too [...]

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A Losing Battle with Blog Comment Spam? Is Share This Plugin at Fault?

April 15, 2007 Blogging

Failing to Stop Comment Spam For the past week I’ve been getting a ton of comment SPAM, and it doesn’t want to stop. I’ve got the Akismet and Spam Karma 2 plug ins up and running, and SK2 is set on MEAN! Unfortunately, as you can see: I’m getting hit by MP3 Ringtone spammers. The [...]

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This Blog Delayed by Possible Broken Finger

April 14, 2007 Commentary

I had a great post lined up, but my fat nasty finger has gotten in the way. I Jammed it earlier today playing basketball and can’t even find my camera to shoot a pic for posterity. I’ll be back when I can type a bit faster with 2 hands . . . tommorrow I hope!

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A Bloggers Rant on AutoBlog Losers

April 14, 2007 Blogging

I have a bit of a bone to pick here. Earlier today, I was looking around the DigitalPoint Forums and saw a post about autoblog plugins for WordPress. What on earth are these “autoblogs” good for, if not to let lazy, talentless people piggyback on the work of other people. NOTHING! Autoblogs are sites that [...]

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White House Somehow Loses Millions of Emails . . . Are You Joking?

April 13, 2007 Commentary

The White House yesterday came out claiming that a “potential 5 million emails (were) lost” ( See Full Story ) I have no intention of turning this into any kind of political blog, but give me a break! I’m sorry, but millions of emails don’t just disappear! For my mini web-empire, I’ve got data backup [...]

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Some Advice for Growing Your New Discussion Forum Community

April 13, 2007 Forums

Forums can be wonderful tools for users, especially if they are properly run and administered. I wanted to share some tidbits that newer forum administrators should find useful. Some Tips for New Forum Community Webmasters Establish a set of rules and guidelines from the outset that your users need to follow. If you have your [...]

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Don’t Let Your Inbox Get in the Way of Your Productivity! Organize Your Email!

April 13, 2007 Entrepreneurship

Is Your Inbox on Fire? I admit that I no longer find emailing to be a pleasurable activity. It is right up there with getting a cleaning at the dentist for me! Over the years I’ve probably received close to 100,000 emails since starting BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Community. It is absolutely mindblowing to think [...]

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The Power of Effective Follow-Up in Marketing

April 12, 2007 Commentary

In a post about using social media sites for networking a few days ago, I mentioned a website called Geni.com. As a result of the post I was contacted by someone at the company and they have now offered to send me some fun branded swag. It was never my intention to get cool free [...]

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Article Marketing with Ezine Articles: “What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate!”

April 11, 2007 Advertising

There are tons of different techniques for promoting your business or website, and one of the more popular ones is by using article marketing. Simply put, article marketing is the act of writing articles about a topic with the goal of getting the readers to contact you or visit your website. I will cover article [...]

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9 Steps To Growing Your Business Using Forum Marketing

April 10, 2007 Advertising

9 Steps To Successfully Market to a Forum Community In a previous post The Direct and Indirect Approaches to Forum Marketing we talked about the two approaches to forum marketing. I’d like to share the 9 steps you will want to follow to forum marketing success; this is basically a primer on indirect forum marketing [...]

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The Direct and Indirect Approaches to Forum Marketing

April 10, 2007 Advertising

Forums (aka. message boards or discussion boards) are incredible resources. Not only are they helpful for learning and helping others, but they can also be valuable tools for marketing your business or website. There are two approaches you can take in using forums for marketing; the direct approach, or the indirect approach. The Direct Approach [...]

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