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, how [...]


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 [...]


Who You Surround Yourself With

I am sitting in my hotel room over in Scottsdale, Arizona at the moment. I am here attending a Launch Masters Retreat at Harris Fellman’s pad. We’re talking internet marketing, chowing on food, working the open bar he has set up, riding around in a Hummer stretch limo and basically hanging out.
Yesterday was the first [...]


Internet Marketers on "Mass Control" Like Flies on Shiznit

As a guy who is very active in Internet business, I stay in tune with what’s happening out there. Of course, I like to conduct business in the old-fashioned way - produce something that is of value to people and sell it to them. I just started PCMech EDU, for example, and while I am [...]


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 [...]


Getting Popular by Being Crap

As one that spends a lot of time online, and also pays attention (somewhat) to the national news, one pattern seems to stand out: If you are a pile of crap, people pay lots of attention.
Let me explain.
Have you seen the Chocolate Rain video on Youtube? If so, watch it. I should say, watch it [...]


Using Facebook to Improve Your Business

It has now been established that Facebook is new, different and all around cool. But, what is it’s impact in the world of internet business. Can it help you make any money?
Internet Marketers Should Take Notice
Internet marketers are all about people. Social networks, especially popular ones, have lots of people. So, yes, Facebook would be [...]


Digg Effect - In Living Color

A few days ago, I posted an article saying that I got “Dugg”, meaning I got an article onto Digg.com and it sent me a big traffic spike. This was for an article called “Can Linux Replace Windows?” published over on PC Mechanic. I thought I would share with you the stats from the Digg [...]


The Digg Effect

I have written in the past about how to use StumbleUpon to promote. Shortly after I wrote that article, I got over 10,000 page views to one of my articles on PC Mechanic in one day. Just to one article. Since then, I have hit a few other little “sweet spots” with StumbleUpon and gotten [...]


TubeMogul Offering Video Posting to Multiple Sites

Anybody in the online video arena probably posts to multiple video websites. Or tries to. The problem is that it is usually a pretty arduous affair to get this done. You have to have profiles on each video site and then individually post to each one.
To get the most bang out of your online videos, [...]