Online Internet Marketing Strategies

Have You Plurked Today? (And Celebrating Our 100th Post!)

diane — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:46:31 +0000

The world is full of ingenious people, and those that bring these geniuses to our attention. Tonight is no exception when I came across first Rockfuse, and then followed that post on to The Sleepy Geek. Both blogs are talking about a new Wordpress post updater called (no surprise here), the Plurk updater. So what in [...]

Peace of Mind For Those Software Downloads You Just Have To Have

diane — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:43:03 +0000

This morning, catching up (I write that phrase a lot!), a new friend of ours over at blogcatalog has a post that caught my attention. If you’re like us, getting good software is always a treat. However, more often than not, we are guilty of not reading the fine print as the thing is installing. I [...]

Why More Serves You Better Than You Might Think

diane — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:58:22 +0000

So they came! Hooray! But are they staying? Today’s discussion is about how to encourage people to dig deeper on your website and/or blog to get at the truth, value, potential of what you have to offer. Website owners have the ability to quickly move us around their pages with simple click on links and a bit [...]

Resource Often Overlooked By Bloggers To Build Their Subscriber Lists

diane — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:34:20 +0000

Today’s resource is one that few bloggers think about when it comes to building their lists. The reason may be that not all co-ops except blogs, but My Wizard Ads is the exception to the rule. When you have content worth sharing, and the ability to add new subscribers to your list yourself (even if the [...]

No More Excuses Now Your Comments Mean Real “Cash” Credits

diane — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:06:14 +0000

By now you know how much we harp on commenting on blogs. Not only is it easy to do, but it’s absolutely, positively the best free form of marketing for yourself and your website - and a great way to gain a backlink (in most cases) in the search engines to your website link. And now, [...]

The Internet Has No Secrets (Traffic or Otherwise) - Or - When To Stop Buying Into Things And Just Do It

diane — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:47:23 +0000

NOTE: Before you get going, the title of this post is “secrets” not “methods.” People come up with all sorts of new ways of doing things, and open all sorts of new social media areas, and we give credit where credit is do. But they aren’t “secrets.” * * * * * * * * * [...]

What To Do When All Your Marketing Falls Flat On Its Face

diane — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:08:33 +0000

One of the things a person must have control over in order to make money online is the landing page for what they are promoting. When you join an affiliate program you need to keep in mind that everyone is using the same page. Nothing unique there. And, maybe, just maybe, the landing page you’re [...]

What Were You Doing When The $135 Offer Was On the Table?

diane — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:19:50 +0000

Yesterday, while Entrecarding it, I came across Michael’s So-Called Life. And… his July 8th post most certainly caught my attention We’ve talked here on this blog (and will continue to talk) about various ways to make money as a blogger (see our numerous postings in search form here). We even spoke about our testing of [...]

Get Your Feet Wet With This Easy To Do BlogCarnival

diane — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:05:56 +0000

A while back we did a post about blog carnivals, and not so strangely, here’s one that is so simple to do you’ll kick yourself for not participating. Techtreak is hosting a blogcarnival with some great incentives just for following a few quick steps. First, let me tell you what you could win by participating: $100 [...]

Jumping Back to Jumptags For A Real Boost in Backlinking

diane — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:44:05 +0000

Four prior posts, to date, have discussed the advantages of using Jumptags as a social book marking tool for your website and/or blog. These posts have included proof that just taking a few seconds of your time each time you make a post - or even add a new page to your website - to log [...]

Facebook Replacement? Try This New Small Business Social Network

diane — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:32:37 +0000

Networking is a must if you plan to run any type of successful business online. Even if your goal isn’t to “make money” you still need resources that help you locate like-minded individuals. Sta.rtup.biz, with a current Alexa rating of 150,312, has the potential to be the next “Facebook” for online business owners. Boasting an Expert [...]

The Untapped Mystery Resource Almost Guaranteed to Make You Money Online

diane — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:41:18 +0000

Bear with us and read this entire post if you’re truly interested in the whole “make money online” thing. The question comes up quite often, “How do I monetize my website or my blog?” More often than not, most people have done the obvious and joined a program either like Google’s Adsense or that program itself. Joining [...]

The Antics of Margie & Edna For Sunday Fun

diane — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:33:10 +0000

Woke up this morning and, as always, (thanks Entrecard users!) we had requests from advertisers through the Entrecard service. Logged in, did my approval thing, and then started dropping cards. I try very hard to make numerous comments as I do this - sort of the whole point don’t you think? Sometimes I can, sometimes I [...]

Twitter Finally Useful With New Twellow Tool

diane — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:54:22 +0000

Just a bit ago, I received Websitepro’s newsletter and they have “exciting” news! They have developed their own “search Twitter” website, which hopefully, will allow like-minded people to make contact (and make it a whole lot easier to do). If you use Twitter this should be right up your alley. Or, if you never saw [...]

Why Your Two Cents Is Worth More Than It’s Weight In Gold

diane — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:58:44 +0000

Everyone, everyday, has the ability to dramatically boost their positioning in the search engines. It doesn’t matter if you are a blogger, a website owner, or an affiliate homeless at the moment promoting other people’s products (though we recommend at least a redirected domain name to that product). And, not so strangely enough, this marketing technique [...]

When Ducking A Guru Might Be The Wrong Move To Make

diane — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:03:21 +0000

If you’re tracking stats on your own blog, and you should be, there will be posts that you make where you notice lots of activity. Ideally, you (like us) have your hopes up each time you post that your readers will do more than read (which is always cool), and stay to strike up a [...]

Fired Up Becomes Fireworks With SocialSpark

diane — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:59:20 +0000

Remember the other day when I did a big writeup about SocialSpark? I was going to do it anyway, but found just the fact of writing about SocialSpark could earn our blog $5.50 (and a huge bonus if it was chosen as the “best” post somewhere down the line). Well yesterday the CustomerLove team approved that [...]

How One Thing Takes A Back Seat For Another - Blog Stats Hunting

diane — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:11:44 +0000

I’ll have to pull today’s post idea (it’s already written lol!) and make that one tomorrow, because this is just too good not to pass along to you right now. As many know, Wordpress is right up there at the top when it comes to choosing a proper blogging platform. While they have a freely hosted [...]

Fire Up Your Online Earning and Advertising Potential With SocialSpark!

diane — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:30:45 +0000

(If there had been room in the title I would have also added “and make money or advertise” with this great Alexa Traffic Rank 8,567 service.) A while back we signed up for SocialSpark one of those rare social media marketing websites that give both bloggers and advertisers a central location to either make money (bloggers) [...]