Marketing

Action Comments Gets An Upgrade

Some news I wanted to pass on this morning… The Action Comments plug-in for WordPress has been updated with a bunch of new features. In short, Action Comments allows you to capture the name and email address of people who post a comment on your blog and add them to your mailing list. This allows [...]

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How To Create a Landing Page With Viral Potential

If you’re going to consider yourself a PROblogger, it won’t take long for you to realize that sometimes the blog isn’t the best place to make an offer. Inevitably, you’re going to find yourself using a landing page. A well-designed landing page that asks for an opt-in (for example) is going to have a MUCH [...]

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Using Ustream To Make Money

I have been a user of Ustream for some time in order to put together a live broadcast online. Have you ever thought about doing it yourself? Did you know that you can use it to make some money? Here’s how.

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Free Versus Paid? When Do You Charge?

Blogging is, by nature, the business of giving away free content. And it cannot be any other way. However, in order to make money, you’ve got to charge people for something. So, where is the cut off?

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The Case Against Auto-DM’s On Twitter

The Twitter footprint into our society has been growing like crazy. Celebrities and news organizations are now parading the word “Twitter” around as part of our normal lexicon. Of course, this means Twitter is a huge communication platform now…for everybody….not just for the early adopters.

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How To Get Blog Traffic By Pissing Off Your Audience

It has been said that you never want to upset your customers. However, I’m here to tell you that sometimes there is a place for it. IF you do it strategically…

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List Building Tips For Bloggers

Mailing lists are important. So, you throw one on your blog. You place an opt-in form on the blog sidebar and wait for the influx of subscribers. Hardly anything happens. What went wrong?

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5 Tips for Getting a Blogger To Review Your Product

If you are a blogger with traffic, you become a person of interest to anybody out there looking to attract eyeballs to their product. I get requests routinely for both of my main blogs to check out and review various products. Unfortunately for them, I don’t really respond to most of them. Why?

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Internet Marketing And The Power of Trust

At my last mastermind meetup here in Tampa, I was talking with some people afterward. One of my local readers (JR Griggs) made an interesting comment. And it got me thinking…

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Twitter Marketing: Insider Tip

Chances are that you’ve heard about the potential of using Twitter to develop your brand. It works wonders if you use it correctly. You can also find clients using Twitter. The trick (if you really want to call it that) is to find people in their moment of need.

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