WebSite Waves

New FTC Regulations Take Effect December 1 for Affiliate Marketers

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:22:26 +0000

I can’t say it better myself than this article about how the new FTC regulation will impact affiliate marketers everywhere. If you’ve heard about the changes but they just didn’t make sense to you, check it out. Personally, I believe the FTC will go after the heavyweights making false claims. But, then, the other part of me [...]

Improve Internet Marketing Results for Your Business or Company with These 7 Tips

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:19:07 +0000

Either have your own business or work for a company if you are reading this post. You’re beside yourself why your Internet marketing efforts have produced stagnated results. You’ve spent hours building followers on Twitter but no one seems to care about what you tweet. Your lead generation has come to a screeching halt and [...]

7 Steps to Getting Started for New Internet Marketers

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:31:44 +0000

Getting started on the Internet seems to most to be a hugely daunting task. But, with a few good guidelines, you will be amazed how easy and fun it really can be. Here are 7 steps to getting started for new Internet marketers: 1. Know What’s Selling Online - If nobody’s buying it and nobody’s made [...]

Why Attend a Seminar? 101 Reasons

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:03:50 +0000

Seminars, like the one I’ll be speaking at in Chicago November 19th and 20th, are designed to give you tons of usable content on a variety of topics. The other purpose of a seminar is to get you introduced to several experts in a short amount of time. When you hear someone you like who is [...]

Sending Unsolicited Email Can Still Get You in Trouble

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:21:21 +0000

Today a client asked me how he could get a list of emails for his market and send spam to them promoting his website using iContact. Here was my response: I just got off the phone with a list provider I’ve used in the past called InfoUSA.com and they have a list of 888 total contacts [...]

Hot New Website for Coupons at Ask.com

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:41:09 +0000

Coupons for any business and any product are getting hotter and hotter. Not only should every business owner be looking for a coupon before buying anything, we should also be offering coupons for practically anything we sell. This importance of coupons is evident in Ask.com’s launch today of Ask Deals, which apparently scours the web [...]

How to Choose Which Seminars to Attend

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:33:43 +0000

Up until about a month ago, the seminar business was in a severe hole. Economy-struck attendees put their wallets away in fear of spending a red cent for travel or education. Webinars attempted to fill the learning gap but we all soon realized there is just no substitute for joining as a group in person. That’s all [...]

New Way of Using Social Media to Promote Seminars

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:32:30 +0000

I’m slated to speak at the Thrive Super Conference on November 19, 2009 in Chicago. The organizer just sent an email to me to login to his promotional page at Ning.com. Now, I’ve used Ning to create a few of my own social network sites, but never to promote a seminar. It’s a great idea [...]

3 Trends I’m Seeing

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:44:30 +0000

Every couple of months I start to feel these sort of “hunches” about what’s happening on the Internet these days. So I do a little research and sure enough, trend tools verify my hunches. Here are three of those hunches: 1. More people are producing 1-way posts on social networks than actual discussions. “5 Ways to [...]

Click Fraud for Paid Search On the Rise with Bahama

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:59:20 +0000

It’s been rather quiet on the click fraud front for the past few months. Either less people are worried about saving money and factoring it into their conversion rates, or they’re just so worried about the economy that they just figured less people are buying per click. ClickForensics thinks otherwise as they have discovered a [...]