The first and most important point to understand is whenever you sell, or give away any item online, you MUST get your customer’s name (first name will be fine) together with their email address. So before you allow a new customer to download, for instance, a free e-book, they have to supply you with their [...]
Newbies Hints and Tips : Building Your Opt-in List
Filed Under: Marketing, Opt-in list Tagged With: customer list, double opt-in, newsletter, Opt-in list, trust
Social Media Mistakes
With so much talk about social media these days, everyone is jumping on board and trying it out. We are seeing some common mistakes out there and I thought it was important to address these mistakes to help eradicate them in the future. Don’t get me wrong, there will be a learning curve – we [...]
Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: fake profile, Opt-in list, Social Media, social media mistakes, users
How To Keep Your Website Visitors Coming Back For More
Driving great quality traffic to your website can be a pretty tough task, but getting those visitors to come back is even tougher. The worse thing you can do is let your visitors come and go without attempting to intervene. What are the odds of them returning? Not very good at all. That’s where opt-in [...]
Filed Under: Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, Webmaster Tools Tagged With: ebook, online marketing, Opt-in list, website traffic
4 Reasons Why Most Internet Marketers Fail Miserably
An often-quoted statistic is that that 95% of all Internet businesses fail. The reality is that the vast majority of businesses in the offline world fail too, so the picture is not bleaker online. In-fact, it’s better online since most aspiring Internet marketers could never even find sufficient capital to start a business in the [...]
Filed Under: Advertisting, Marketing, Social Media Tagged With: advertising, online marketing, products, time management, willie crawford
Twitter Metrics
WHEN I first heard of Twitter, I thought about it much like many of you probably still do. It’s just noise. Who needs to know when someone is having a pizza? But I’ve had a few epiphanies along the way that have changed my thinking. The general background is on my professional blog with link [...]
Filed Under: Advertisting, Marketing, People, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter Tagged With: tweetlists, tweetvolume, twinfluence, Twitter, twitter metrics, twitterrank
Social Aggregation: The Next Logical Step In Social Networking
Social media is already an obsolete term – on the web you are either social or dust. No one pays attention to the “me, me, me” tune. The “you, you, you” is losing ground too. What matters today is “us” and how we “share data”, communicate and interact. The first steps towards a more social [...]
Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: aggregator, Facebook, friendfeed, profilactic, second brain, Social Media, Twitter, web 2.0, web 3.0
Content Management Systems & SEO Revisited
Two years ago, I wrote an article entitled “Content Management Systems Equal Business Suicide.” The basic premise was that at that time, CMS applications were inherently devoid of basic SEO functionality. Building a new site, or converting an existing site to the existing CMS versions of 2 years ago was rapid way of consigning those [...]
Filed Under: Content Management System, HD Publishing, Marketing, Ranking, SEO, Training, Webmaster Tools Tagged With: cms, Content Management System, google map, keywords, meta-tags, SEO
15 Innovative Uses for Twitter (That You Probably Haven’t Thought Of)
Those of us who are daily Twitter users already grok the power of the application and it’s potential. But there are still a lot of Twitter critics out there, as well as those people who just don’t understand how to use it. I recently saw this comment on a blog: “I’ve been tweeting but… from [...]
Filed Under: Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter Tagged With: innovative twitter, Twitter, twitter application, twitter uses
