Marketing

Forum Spam Sucks! Learn Forum Marketing the Right Way.

February 22, 2009 Forums

I was just going through one of my forums and noticed something I hadn’t seen in a few years. A 3 year old forum post was brought back from the dead by a brand-new member of the site, whose comment had NOTHING to do with the discussion at hand. While his post was not any [...]

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Important Features for Mailing List Software: Suggestions Needed

September 19, 2008 Marketing

I’ve been using the same mailing list software for close to five years now, a platform called Dada Mail, which is a perl script. While the software is free (GREAT!), it has a lot of limitations. I have little control over bounce rates, click tracking, and other essential bits of data which are important for [...]

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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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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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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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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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How to Network Using Social Media Sites; Improve Your Networking

April 8, 2007 Entrepreneurship

Technology can be a blessing and a curse. In terms of networking, it is absolutely a blessing! Over the past few years I have connected with so many people from my past and I owe most of that to social sites I’ve participated in on the ‘net. I thought it migh be nice to share [...]

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Cool Tools & Articles About: Wikipedia, Link Love, Site Popularity, Social Search Engines

April 7, 2007 Blogging

Here are some useful and very cool tools and resources for any webbie: Maki, author of the extremly cool blog (which I just discovered today) Dosh Dosh writes an extremly thorough article aka The Ultimate Guide on How to Get Your Website Listed in Wikipedia which really is what it says. If you’ve ever wondered [...]

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Are Alexa And DMOZ Down For The Count?

November 22, 2006 Marketing

What is going on with Alexa and DMOZ. Both have been having problems for weeks now. Alexa simply does not load most of the time. Are they in the midst of a major update? I’m shocked that they have not addressed the problem publicly! So much for PR. DMOZ has had problems with their submission [...]

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Increasing Search Engine Rank with Trusted Links

November 21, 2006 Marketing

Most SEO experts will likely agree that gaining inbound links is one of the most important steps in growing your website. The methods for gaining those links continue to evolve with time. In the old days, we used to email other webmasters and request reciprocal links. That faded as the ‘net grew and people started [...]

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