Marketing

Save heartbreak, check your domain before you buy

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You have developed your business model, set aside or acquired funding and set into motion the grandest of ventures ever known to mankind. You devote countless hours to your mission, tirelessly you plug away producing content and marketing your new site and often times working until 4am when you have to stop because your eyes a burning and your spouse is threatening to physically harm you if you don’t go to bed. Things are just starting to roll as you had hoped and dreamed, then something terrible happens.. Your fancy newSEO’d , keyword optimized, clean, beautifully designed content rich site is nowhere to be found on search engines, you know you have done your research and you should be owning your niche but nothing is there, no traffic, no results on the search engines so you start to cry and end up locking yourself in your bedroom drowning your woes with Diet Coke and Doritos, ending up broke, alone and 450lbs… Oh, why you say.. Why did this happen?[…]

Five Tips For Successful Internet Marketing

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With the rapid growth of the Internet today, the possibilities are unlimited for developing a successful Internet marketing campaign based upon your products, services or promotions. Each day more and more people go online searching for products and services on the global market, there aren’t many items on the market today that you can’t purchase over the Internet and in most cases have it at your door in days or even download instantly. This is creating an environment of monumental growth opportunities for businesses[…]

What is my niche? Do I have to commit to just one?

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I was reading my daily does of “OPB” or, other peoples blogs today and I got to thinking, what is my niche, what market am I focusing on, what are my goals for this site and do I really need to narrow my focus to one particular area of development? I decided, I don’t need to limit myself and I can blog about whatever I want on here as I am the one paying the bills lol.

There are millions of blogs on the Internet, approximately 180,000,000 at this moment, that is an astounding number. Now, of course there are a large amount of those that are stagnant or perhaps[…]

Keys to effective use of forums in your marketing strategy

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Some people complain that forum marketing is not very effective, but you know what, these people are badly mistaken. If you follow a few simple common sense guidelines when using forums as part of your marketing strategy it can be a very rewarding way to get your site, brand and products out there. It’s not rocket science, lets take a look at a few of the things people do wrong and how you can avoid making the same mistakes others have made time and time again.

One of the first things you need to remember is that forums can be a great place to gain publicity and to get highly targeted traffic in your niche to your site[…]

Win cold hard cash by commenting on my blog

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Hello everyone and welcome to the first of many contest that I plan on having here, the concept behind this is simple.

1. Sign up for my newsletter by submitting your email address in the form on the top right of my home page (and confirming your email address)
2. Comment on my blog with useful commentary that adds to the discussion and I will give you one entry for each approved comment between now and midnight April 30th, 2009.
3. One lucky winner will receive $25USD via PayPal after the drawing that will be held on May 1st, 2009. To win, get your name drawn and be on my newsletter list when I check and you get paid[…]

Diversification, don’t place all your eggs in one basket

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Diversification, yes it is a big word and one that is easy to misspell but it is a crucial element to any online business. Whether you are selling ebooks, promoting a product line or “enlightening” the world with your infinite wisdom, tips and tricks on how to make money online you should diversify. I was reading a post over at ryanmclean.net today and it got me to thinking, there are so many people that start off in their online ventures with a narrow focus and when that doesn’t product the desired 7 figure income in 3 months, they give up and are never heard from again. It is nice to see others in this industry that are focused and dedicated to acheiving their goals. I can say from first, second and third hand experience that if I had given up every time one of my plans didn’t take off as I had hoped, I would have stopped trying years ago and would be working retail somewhere[..]