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How to Quickly Screen an SEO Company in Less than a Minute

September 21, 2008 Advertising

What does a SEO Company Do? I know, it sounds like a simple question, but someone who doesn’t know what an SEO professional does is likely to get screwed by some con man looking to rip him off. Most people will do a few minutes of research and find out that people who help others [...]

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Start Your Month Off By Looking at Last Month: Traffic & Profits

June 1, 2007 Advertising

I’m always excited when a month comes to a close because it presents me with the opportunity to look back at what happened last month. This is especially important because I have the opportunity to see how I’m doing in attaining my goals for my sites. In particular, I’m most interested in traffic and financial [...]

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Are Large Corporations Resorting to SPAM for Marketing? Yes They Are!

May 10, 2007 Advertising

Ready for another rant? Seems like I’ve been doing quite a lot of that lately. This time, it is about something that I’m sure all the bloggers can relate to: Corporate Comment Spam. It seems that the corporations have indeed resorted to non other than comment SPAM to promote themselves In the past 3 days, [...]

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How to Support Your Fellow Bloggers & Favorite Websites

May 8, 2007 Ad Networks

I found an article through Kevin at BloggingTips about how to support your favorite bloggers. This article covered quite a few great points and I thought I’d go into 2 of them with some more detail. Both of the steps I mention can really make a difference for your favorite sites, and spreading the word [...]

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Affiliate Sales Model or Guaranteed Ad Purchase: Which to Choose?

May 3, 2007 Advertising

I was approached this afternoon by someone who was interested in promoting their real estate-related program to my site’s users. This advertiser wanted me to promote an online webinar and was willing to give me a commission for any sale made from people who went through the seminar and purchased their service. While the commission [...]

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Creating an Effective Business Logo Design

April 25, 2007 Advertising

One of the first things that you’ll need to do when starting a business is to create a logo to represent your company. It seems like this may be a simple thing, but it is often more difficult then you think! Some Logos Are Timeless There are certain logos we’ll never forget: Apple, CocaCola, McDonalds, [...]

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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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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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The Top 6 Keyword Search Tools to Help You Pick the Right Keywords

April 9, 2007 Advertising

Keyword Marketing SEO aka. Search Engine Optimization is an art. For those of you who don’t know what SEO is, it is the process of optimizing a webpage/website so that that page/site ranks higher in the various search engines. Higher rank=better traffic. There are many keys to proper website SEO, and one of the main [...]

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The Two Models of Online Advertising & How to Deal with Potential Advertisers

April 8, 2007 Ad Networks

You can apply one of only two models when it comes to dealing with online advertisers. Establish a high set of standards and eliminate anyone who does not fall in that set. Keep your standards lax and let pretty much anyone advertise with you. MODEL 1: Keep High Standards Those people who use the first [...]

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Text Link Ads Needs to Make a Change

November 28, 2006 Ad Networks

I’ve been using Text Link Ads (aff.) for some time now, and I have to say that I’ve been extremely happy with the service. I do have some suggestions, though. As it stands, publishers can choose to approve individual advertisers on their site through the network. The problem I have is that there is no [...]