Marketing

Case Study on Engineering a Viral Video

A good friend of mine, Ryan Wade, made a video. He and I have talked about it a few times. It really isn’t something that spectacular and he will freely admit that. The question is: why did this video get so many views on Youtube? But, here is the video:

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Aweber Pop-Over Form: Follow-Up Report

In my last post, I talked about using a pop-over form from Aweber to increase subscriptions. Above is a screen shot of the last few days of activity after re-implementing the pop-over form. You can see, clearly, that we have a nice increase. I should note that that last day is today, which means it [...]

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Using a Pop-Over Form To Collect Subscriptions – Is It OK?

I have said it before and will continue to say it – if you’re not building up a mailing list on your website, you’re wasting time. A mailing list is invaluable for any Internet entrepreneur. Obviously, once you have a list, you want to maximize the number of people who sign up for that list. [...]

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Twitter Marketers and Gaming The System

Like a lot of people who use Twitter, I have been getting what seems like an increasing number of internet marketers following me on Twitter. Now, I want to make a careful distinction here. Not all internet marketers are a problem. I know several internet marketers (a few personally) who use Twitter properly and are [...]

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Social Media & Internet Marketing: How NOT To Make Money Online

Anybody who is looking to make money online and wants to use social media as part of your marketing strategy…pay attention. Facebook. Myspace. Twitter. LinkedIn. These social media services are built on one thing: relationships. Now, if you were having a social gathering and somebody just ran into your room and started pitching their product, [...]

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Iphone Coverage: Damn, Apple. You’re Good

Hello my name is David Risley and am one of the few people in the tech community NOT buying an Iphone 3G today. In more proof that Apple is GOD when it comes to marketing, nerds everywhere are in line at Apple stores everywhere trying to get their phone. And, as usual, Twitter tells the [...]

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When Blogging Meets Internet Marketing

Last weekend, I was at Harris Fellman’s place in Scottsdale, Arizona. I was out there because I bought Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula through him and he set up a sort of retreat at his place for others like me as well as some people he invited. Harris Fellman is a classic internet marketer. He [...]

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OpenMac & Psystar Reeks of A Publicity Stunt

I was writing a post this morning over at PCMech about OpenMac and why it’s going to fail. As I wrote that post, I had this nagging feeling in the back of my head that this was a complete and total scam. It is a play to get a boatload of attention. Of course, I [...]

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Google Adwords Also Does Radio, TV and Print

Most people think of Google Adwords as a search engine advertising medium. Then, of course, publishers get to set up on the other end as an Adsense publisher and make money on the receiving end. It works well, too, and I personally make 4 figures monthly using Adsense. Well, Google is also getting in on [...]

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Web Video Marketing – Best Practices

TubeMogul has published a white paper of sorts which talks about the use of web video in marketing. In other words, how to get lots of people to watch your videos. The write-up starts with: Online video is one of the best venues to engage an audience – don’t even think about excluding it! This [...]

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