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

10 May

Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Advertising, Blogging, Commentary, Marketing

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 […]

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How to Support Your Fellow Bloggers & Favorite Websites

08 May

Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Ad Networks, Advertising, Blogging, Marketing, Traffic Building

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 […]

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

03 May

Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Advertising, Affiliate Marketing, Making Money Online, Marketing

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 […]

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Creating an Effective Business Logo Design

25 Apr

Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Advertising, Marketing, Website Design

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

17 Apr

Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Commentary, Content, Marketing, Websites

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 […]

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The Power of Effective Follow-Up in Marketing

12 Apr

Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Commentary, Entrepreneurship, Marketing

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 […]

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

11 Apr

Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Advertising, Commentary, Marketing

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 […]