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Social Investments
Some time back at a conference in London, a fellow translator shared with me and everyone else in earshot that she was done using Twitter as a professional tool. She claimed to have invested way too much effort and time with virtually no return...
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10 Things
to Do in Order to Obtain Lots of Website Traffic from Facebook
Every
business owner understands how significant an online presence is
for the success of his/her business. This fact is demonstrated by
the number of websites cropping up today. However, it is not only
owning a website that is a prerequisite today for the success of
any business…
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Twitter Etiquette
Philosophies regarding social media networks, such as Twitter,
can vary greatly. But similar to email, an unspoken etiquette has
emerged for these social websites as well. The etiquette for these
social sites does not consist of hard and fast rules, but is simply
a list of guidelines for posting...
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How to Participate in Forums
The Internet has become a highly interactive medium. In order
to participate in discussion forums and newsgroups, it is important
to be familiar with standard and accepted Internet forum etiquette.
Here are some tips to help make your forum participation more productive
and beneficial...
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Why Do the Marketing Gurus Stop
Using Twitter and Other Social Media?
Social media has long been touted as the latest and greatest
Internet marketing tool that will bring new people to any online
business seeking new customers. For most online marketers, the social
media environment appears over-hyped and ineffective... Between
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Stumble Upon, and Delicious, online
marketers waste plenty of time trying to tap revenue from these
social platforms...
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5 Facebook Marketing Mistakes
There are about ten common Facebook marketing tactics. It may surprise
you to learn that five of these tactics don't even work - that's
fully half!…
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How Facebook can be used in your
business
Quite simply, to increase your business or organization’s exposure
these days, you need a Facebook page. Facebook is a free social
network platform that allows you to post updates on events, showings,
products or your own thoughts to gain more exposure, empathy, and
popularity…
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How to advertise on YouTube
Advertising on YouTube can be a very successful marketing strategy
for your business. You can reach large numbers of relevant, potential
customers and specific audiences by targeting “buzz videos” which
are the most popular videos at any given time, in real time. Another
way to reach large numbers of people on YouTube is by advertising
on YouTube’s home page. While the site does not guarantee impressions,
YouTube has been showing 30 million impressions and eleven million
unique visitors a day in the US alone…
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Warning To Direct Marketers:
Asking These Questions Will Kill Your Conversions
For those marketers who labor tirelessly, though fruitlessly, oblivious
to marketing history, and unversed in copy that brings home the
bacon—please take note: this article is for you…
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20 Simple Ways To Get Massive
Traffic To Your Web Site
Embarking on an Internet marketing campaign doesn't have to be difficult,
tricky, or complicated. Here are a few simple ways (twenty in fact)
that you can easily implement to get tons of traffic to your site
right now!…
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How I Got 70,000 Useless Visitors
To My Site In One Day!
(One Internet Marketer's Analysis of Social Bookmark Traffic)
Recently, a page on one of my websites was bookmarked or listed on
Digg, a popular social bookmark site. It gave me the perfect opportunity
to study and analyze the traffic coming from these social media
sites. Read to discover the advantages and disadvantages of social
bookmark traffic and how it can be applied to your own online marketing
or site…
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24 Killer Press Release Secrets
1. Your press release should sound like news, not an ad.
2. You should only send your press release to the media related
to the topic of your press release
3…
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Social Bookmarking Quiz
What Is Social Bookmarking? Social bookmarking is a web 2.0 fad where
users indicate that a specific web page, article, podcast, video,
or other content is of particular value. The "bookmark"
is seen as a vote for that item. The more users who bookmark an
item, the more pronounced (popular) the item becomes within the
social bookmarking network…
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10 Seldom Used Freebies That
Can Increase Your Traffic And Sales
1. Checklists - Create a list of things to check for a particular
process related to your business’s topic. Ex: a checklist
for creating a web site.
2. Templates - Design a template that will make a certain action
easier for your target audience. Ex: a template for writing a resume…
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Using Social Media Marketing
to Promote Your Specialist Information Website
Before I get started, it is worth defining social media. It has become
a widely used and abused term that means different things to different
people…
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Online Business Press Release
Writing Tips And Ideas
Press releases are one of the most cost-effective ways to get promotion
for your online business. Many entrepreneurs ignore this type of
promotion because they don't know how to write a press release.
It's important to promote your online business with press releases
because of the media all over the internet. The following is a list
of some common press release writing tips…
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The Three Must-Have Marketing
Pieces
You've designed your logo. Now you need to create some great marketing
pieces to promote your business. But what pieces to create? There
are so many options available that it can be difficult to decide
which pieces will be the strongest and best way to publicize your
business. No matter what that business is, we recommend these pieces
as a first step toward marketing it…
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How To Increase Targeted Online
Traffic To Your Web Site Leveraging Free Internet Video Streaming
Services
One of the most significant milestones on the web this year has been
the popularity of the use of videos on the Internet. There are a
number of free services that enable Internet users to easily upload
and store videos on the Internet for free. These videos can then
be broadcast (streamed) free over the Internet, to be viewed and
shared by other users…
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18 Reasons To Write An E-book
And Then Give It Away For FREE
1.
People will visit your web site to get the free valuable information.
2. Advertise your products or services in the e-book…
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20 Ways To Increase Your Traffic
And Sales With eBooks
1.
People love to get free stuff. A free eBook is perfect. They will
visit your web site to get the free valuable information…
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10 Ways To Promote Your Web Site
While Doing Non Business Tasks
1.
Have a bumper sticker printed up with your web site address and
other business information. Place it on the bumper of your car.
People will see it when you're driving…
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10 Ways To Get Your Ads Or Messages
Noticed
Do
you post to message boards, e-mail discussion lists, classified
ads sites, FFA sites or newsgroups? People will usually read the
subject line before they read your ad or message, so it's important
they get noticed. Below are ten simple, but powerful tips to get
your ads or messages noticed…
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10 Ways To Indirectly Get To
The Top Of Search Engines
There
are millions of web sites trying to get listed in the top 20 spots
of the major search engines. That amounts to a lot of competition!
I say if you can't get listed at the top, indirectly get to the
top.
How do you do this?…
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10 High-Impact Viral Marketing Strategies
Viral Marketing is allowing people to giveaway and use your free product or service in order to multiply your marketing quickly over the internet. The idea behind viral marketing is that you include your…
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10 High Powered Ways To Increase Your Traffic
1. Trade links with other web sites. They should be related to the subject of your web site. Instead of trading links, you could also trade banner ads, half page ads, classified…
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Untapped Linking Tactics
Links
are the pathways by which all information on the Internet is connected.
Whether you are traveling your preferred search engine or your favorite
website, your paths are directed by the links you come in contact
with.
Because of this, links have become the lifeblood of the Internet.
Major search engines like Google evaluate your incoming links to
help determine your search engine positions…
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Why Aren't You Using LinkBait?
You've
heard of the olden days when people would hunt for potential link
partners. Well, those days are long gone and smart web masters are
moving on to greater things, while decreasing their reciprocal link
building effort…
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The
Misunderstood Marketing Method
How
do you hide a tree? Put it in a forest.
This is what many authors have effectively done when they suggest
that you should use articles to promote your website. The technique
that these authors suggest can be summarized as follows: write something
you know about, add your resource box, submit your article to tens
of thousands of free reprint directories and distribution groups,
and wait for publishers to pick up your article…
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The A to Z Guide to Getting
Website Traffic
In
September of 1999, Brett Tabke wrote "26 Steps to 15k a Day" in
the Webmaster World forum. A lot has changed since then, and now
is the time to consider a new 26-step plan that meets the current
needs of webmasters in 2006. Some of the old ones still apply (writing
new content everyday, for example), and some don't (submitting to
the search engines is no longer necessary), and we're here to tell
you which is which! As you probably already know, bringing in traffic
is not easy - it takes hard work, determination and lots of elbow
grease…
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Social Bookmarking for Traffic
A
while back I wrote an article commenting on Yahoo's public declaration
that they were effectively conceding to Google in the search market.
The point of the article was that Yahoo was not necessarily giving
up as a business, but rather focusing its efforts on more modern
forms of search. And what are these more modern forms of search?
In a word, social networks which includes social bookmarking and
variants on social bookmarking…
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The Myth Of 101 Ways To Market
Your Website
"101
Ways To Market Your Website" is the title of a book found at
a cheap publisher's outlet in town for about three quid and purchased
out of interest.
So, we sat down with a cup of coffee and worked our way through
the index, see what these people thought was useful, and if there
was something new there…
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Duplicate Content Filters to
Destroy Article Marketing? In a Word, No
Rumors
are circulating that recent search engine updates are threatening
to penalize web sites carrying articles by niche industry experts
due to wide distribution and use of those articles on multiple sites.
Not so…
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Advertising Like Its 1999
Starting
a website used to be relatively easy. Register a domain name, get
a virtual hosting account, setup a basic looking website, then choose
from the literally hundreds of marketing agencies that were willing
to send traffic to your site for a relatively small price. A lot
has changed since 1999 on the Internet, and maybe nothing so much
as the way we market our websites…
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The Rise And Rise Of Article
PR - What Are The Implications?
Already
a very popular method of achieving a high search engine ranking,
article PR (aka article submission) has now entered the mainstream.
As such, its popularity is increasing at a dramatic rate. While
this is great for SEO copywriters like myself, there are some side-effects
that need to be addressed if article PR is going to remain a viable
search engine ranking technique. This article discusses some of
those side-effects, along with how they might be addressed…
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Seven Offline Viral Marketing
Ideas
Recently
I participated in a forum discussion about offline marketing – that
is using more traditional marketing offline to drive traffic to
your website or blog. I can still remember the first time I saw
a URL in a TV commercial and how cool I thought that was…
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7 Secrets To Building Your Online
Credibility
In
a way, the Internet may be compared to the Wild Wild West. (Where
do you think the acronym 'WWW' came from?) There is no real central
authority that is in charge and many scam artists take full advantage
of this…
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Ten Tips To Keep Your Website
Unnoticed on the Internet
If you are a person who likes to
keep up with current trends you will know that it is important to
have your own website. After all anybody who is Anybody Important
has a website of their very own. However one of the dangers of having
a website is that someone browsing on the internet might discover
it one day and what is worse, actually pause to visit your site
and read its contents…
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Want To Make Money Online? Market
A Service To Businesses
Don walked across the street from
his house to mine to announce he had finally retired. "But
I'm not ready for the golf course," he said. "I want to
make a living on the Internet. What can I sell?"…
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Successful small-business on
the web
Stripped of all the hype and hard
sell, it's still realistic for the average small business to expect
to make money by selling products or services on the web.
Don't expect it to be easy, though. Making money on the web is (and
always was) hard work. This article discusses how to avoid the many
pitfalls that await you…
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Web Site Promotion:
Free Web Site Traffic That Produces Leads and Sales
Sure, you can pay for ezine advertising
and PPC listings and get targeted traffic all day long. But wouldn't
you like to have a stream of free quality traffic (at no extra cost)
bringing you interested web site visitors at the same time that
your advertising is running? Web promotion, when done correctly,
can bring you that stream of free, targeted traffic…
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Managing
The Cost Of Doing Business Online
Have you spent a boatload of cash
on advertising for your web site, only to end up with no sales and
an empty bank account? Managing the cost of doing business online
can give you the results you are looking for, without going broke
in the process…
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How
To Get Free Promotion For Your Website...
There are many benefits in
getting your name exposed by writing articles for the internet.
It is one of the best free promotion methods you can use to grow
your business. This is a step-by-step lesson on how to write your
own promotional articles, and what to do with them once they've
been written. The article should be targeted to your particular
niche customer. It will promote your website or free course, so
it must be written with that him/her in mind…
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