No nonsense Internet Tips

Have you Heard About Mobile Marketing with StomperMoblie

Bruce Hopkins — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:16:15 +0000

I’ve been working at StomperNet for about six months now and during that time I’ve seen some cool marketing stuff, but nothing like is coming up with StomperMobile. We have been talking about it for a while and its going to change the way people marketing their businesses. Whether they are marketing online or offline, [...]

Will Google’s new ranking mean the end of Trend Blogging

Bruce Hopkins — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:05:11 +0000

Well its a new year in Internet land. The past year has produced a lot of items that IMers need to be thinking about especially in the area of how Google ranks websites. There has been a lot of talk about Google Caffeine and many people are already seeing the results of the combined search [...]

Making money during the Holidays

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:23:04 +0000

I was just over at DatMoney where my good friend Jay posted about making money during the holidays. Its actually a pretty good post, but I’m going to have to disagree with Jay on one point. Now Jay recommends using sites such as shopping.com to find a hot niche or product that people are searching for [...]

What have I been up to lately

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:31:06 +0000

What have I been doing lately? Well even though I said I would never do it again I took a job. Its not an average job, but one which puts me closest to some of the best minds in Internet Marketing. I was looking around Craigslist and saw an add that peaked my interest. The [...]

What is Social Media

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:34:56 +0000

This is one question that many people think they know, but the sad thing is the vast majority of marketers do not know how to effectively use Social Media in their business. Most Internet Marketers get on various social sites and try to start selling stuff right away. This is the wrong mentality to take [...]

Fired to Free

Bruce Hopkins — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:39:04 +0000

One thing I’ve been doing a lot of lately is CPA marketing. This is a very lucrative market if you do it correctly. One thing that almost everyone will tell you that in order to earn any serious money from CPA networks you must spend money on PPC campaigns. Well I did not believe that PPC [...]

Improving Efficiency

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:21:09 +0000

One issue I’ve had since going fulltime with IM is with efficiency. Seems like sense I now have more time to work on my Internet Business, I’m not as effective as I was when I had less time since I had to spend 70 hours a week at my day job. This is very strange, [...]

Go Big or Stay Small

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:00:06 +0000

Go big or stay small is a question which has been on my mind for a while. I could not verbalize it until yesterday but this pretty much sums up a lot of things with Internet Marketing. Its really a question we all should be asking ourselves in this life. We all have choices in [...]

50 tips to be a better tweeter

Bruce Hopkins — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:43:10 +0000

I just attended a stompernet webinar on Twitter and there was some great information shared. I came out with 50 tips that are great for social media in general. Most for the tips are for twitter thus the title, but there are some for other social media sites such as facebook. Of course you can always [...]

Generating Traffic to Blogs

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:25:09 +0000

I have not written about traffic generation in quite a while. I read the posts I made on this a couple of years ago and realized how much my views how changed over the past couple of years. While the post is still relevant, my techniques for generating traffic have evolved over the years. The [...]

Understanding Trend Blogging

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:41:47 +0000

Long term readers of this blog know I have a bunch of blogs besides this one and on several of those I practice trend blogging. I’ve thought several times of writing about trend blogging, but I always thought I should probably create a product on this topic. I’ve seen a couple of products on how [...]

Keyword Elite 2 Review

Bruce Hopkins — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:22:42 +0000

I’m not sure if you have been watching the upcoming launch of the new version of Keyword Elite 2.0, but this program is really impressing me. I for one will be one of the first to pick up a copy when the doors open tomorrow. I don’t normally jump on any product like this. I [...]

Do attractive women sell better online?

Bruce Hopkins — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:57:06 +0000

This is a warning some people may think the following as sexist, but really its all about marketing. I know a lot of people as they are selling online will use images of attractive females to hopefully entice a response and get a sell, but does this really work? The reason I ask is because [...]

My views on Internet Marketing Conferences

Bruce Hopkins — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:37:51 +0000

Since I started working fulltime online, I’ve been to several Internet Marketing conferences. If I had written this post a year ago, I would have said these where a waste of time. Of course I had never been to one so I would not have been talking about actual experience. Well I’ve been to two [...]

Maxblog Ninja Affiliate Review

Bruce Hopkins — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:20:41 +0000

I don’t know if any of you have heard of the Max Blog Press Ninja Affiliate plugin, but its very cool and a must have plugin for anyone who runs a Wordpress site and wants to sell affiliate products from your site. This plugin allows you to easily change any of the text in your [...]

Clickbank Pirate Review

Bruce Hopkins — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:21:13 +0000

Its no secret that a lot of people make a killing promoting Clickbank products on the internet. Clickbank is so powerful because of the digital nature of its products. I was recently given a copy of a new product my two friends Soren Jordansen and Cindy Battye are getting ready to release. If you are [...]

Building Backlinks

Bruce Hopkins — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:04:36 +0000

Many people consider building backlinks to a site one of the most important things you can do to help increase search engine rankings. I would say after creating interesting and unique content that this is true. Well really if you build backlinks you don’t have to worry as much about creating unique content. With enough [...]

100 Dollar a Day Challenge

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:28:54 +0000

I was cruising over at the Warrior Forum yesterday and came across this interesting post about Steve Crooks who started a challenge to see if he could take a brand new blog and have it earning 100 dollars a day with Adsense within 3 months. I love to see these types of challenges as they [...]

Do you Twitter

Bruce Hopkins — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:24:47 +0000

I have to admit that I’ve pretty much resisted this entire twitter craze going around, but I think I may have been missing out. Every time I went on twitter I was bombarded with people selling this or selling that and I did not see a lot of sense in it. I see people with 100s [...]

$2049.43 with Adsense in a single day

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:51:49 +0000

Is it possible to still earn money with Adsense? A lot of the Gurus will say no, but I disagree. I’ve been trend blogging for a little over a year and I’ve learned a few things about this technique and it pays off for me. Now those of you who know me know I don’t [...]

Growing your Blog through development of readers

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:04:37 +0000

There is a really interesting post over at TechCrunch today on development of your readers. Neil makes some very valid points and offers some ways you can better engage your readers and as a result create more loyalty. This is something we probably do not do enough of. Of course we are always obsessed about out [...]

Making Business Decisions Count

Bruce Hopkins — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:04:21 +0000

I may change this theme very soon. I have a couple of reasons, the first is because I don’t like this one and second I’ve had some changes in my life which has prompted me to change my frequency of posting to this blog. Some of my long term readers know I have not been [...]

Selling on Ebay

Bruce Hopkins — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:49:35 +0000

Many people overlook the power of ebay to an online business, but the truth is many people earn a full time living from selling items on Ebay and many more supplement their incomes. Most brick and mortar business even have started selling on eBay and for many it means the difference between success and failure. [...]

Marketing to Marketers

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:49:43 +0000

Marketing to other marketers to make it easier to make money is great but many of the buyers never use the products and just try to pawn them off on other marketers. So you wind up with all these people selling scripts, programs, eBooks, and more to other online marketers and they profess how great [...]

Cost Per Action Affiliate Networks

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:21:12 +0000

You will hear a lot of people tell you you need to diversify your internet income with multiple programs. I’ve always been a huge supporter of this philosophy. Not only does participating in various programs increase your revenue avenues it also provides a richer experience for your visitors. I know a lot of Internet Marketers [...]