Internet Marketing Tips & Tools
Product Pre-Release Success: Using Twitter to Kick-Off a Buzz Building Campaign
“Buzz Building” is an important part of any product sales campaign and today I’m going to teach you how to leverage Twitter in your favor. Remember the few weeks before the iPhone was release? Apple spent millions and million of advertising dollars to get the word out that a hot new phone – unlike anything else on the market – was about to release. They teased us in their promotions. They showed us many incredible features of the phone, accompanied by catchy music and smart marketing messages. Buzz Building is essential to a sales campaign because you’d want to start your sales off with a bang on Day 1. The results of Day 1 will carry you through upcoming weeks and months. All of that success truly starts with the pre-launch Buzz Building.
New WordPress Plugin, Scribe, Takes Bloggers to New SEO Level
This morning I got my usual ProBlogger blog post email. Inside were details about a new WordPress plugin called “Scribe“, a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) evaluator and booster. After doing research and taking the Scribe plugin tour, I bought it and am testing it out as we speak.
Here’s how it works… Scribe has a killer special right now to get their highest package for only $27 per month (that’s the same price as their smallest package!). You download the plugin, then upload into your website. The beauty of this package is that you can use this plugin on Unlimited websites…Imagine the possibilities. Then, activate the plugin and start a blog post. You’ll notice a new section in your Add Post page called “Scribe Content Optimizer”. As I do certain SEO tasks, I see green checkmarks appear that I am on track to having a highly optimized blog post.
Protect Your Business By Increasing Security on Social Networks and Your Website
A well-known Denver speaker and coach (and very good person to her core!) called the other day out of sheer desperation and unknowing of what to do. Her “web guy” turned on her. A promise of building her website in 3 days for $200, turned into 3 weeks with little communication – meanwhile, enjoying his new $200 profit.
She attempted to get her money back via PayPal and not only did that not happen, but he found out and threatened to bring her down. He seemed to beam with pride in the past, she told me, when talking about how much he knew about coding and what potential he had to make or break someone.
Email List Building
Opt-in Newsletter Signup Box Examples
You’ve seen them all over… especially within the past year. Website owners are catching on that building a list of email subscribers is the most valuable online asset.
What Have We Learned?
- Make your Opt-In box *stand out* on your page. Visually direct your visitors on what you want them to do
- With everyone asking for your email, you’d better have a worth-while offer as incentive otherwise you won’t be getting many visitors. A newsletter won’t cut it anymore unfortunately.
- Don’t ask for too much information. A name and email (or email field alone) is all you need, and all your visitors are willing to give away.
Google Personalization on Your Seach Results Plus How to Turn it Off
I don’t know about you, but I’ve already started to see the changes. More and more social networking links are climbing to the tops of search results for all sorts of keywords but more than that, Google’s “personalized search results” are kicking into affect.
“When possible, Google will customize your search results based on location and/or recent search activity. Additionally, when you’re signed in to your Google Account, you may see even more relevant, useful results…” – Google Support
Top 15 Ways People Use Facebook
I saw the most interesting post on Facebook last night and it made me wonder how many ways I could come up with that people use Facebook. Too much time searching Facebook later, I came up with the top 15 ways people use Facebook. As you go through these, I hope you start to look at Facebook in a new light, to help spread your message even faster. The first one below is the post that caught my attention last night.
People Use Facebook to…Do Ask Campaigns!
People Use Facebook to…Promote Job Opportunities!
3 Unusual Tips for Creating a Quick Product
Marty Dickinson’s 12/8/09 issue of “Tuesday Triplet”:
This morning marks the day our HereNextYear client project manager, Amber Ludwig (My nickname for her is “Bring It ON!”), has launched her first ebook after a year of working with me.
It’s an exciting time for her and there’s about a 1,000 pound pie of pride around here for her accomplishment.
She calls it “Online Evolutions” which is a compilation of blog posts she’s made at her website at InsightfulDevelopment.com.
Check out how Amber has assembled her sales page at http://tinyurl.com/yaugfdd and then read the rest of this email so to consider emulating what she has done for your own business.
Step-by-Step Instructions for Recording Audio
Audio and Video have become very popular on the Internet in the past few years. If you are just getting started on the Internet you should read this post carefully and record Audio to put on your website or blog today!
One of the tricky things about the Internet is that you have to try much harder to create a “human presence”. In traditional brick-and-mortar businesses, people could walk into a store and *see* you, get a sense of if you are a good businessperson or not. Do you see how that is more difficult to achieve online? Then you could even kick it up a notch and add your picture AND an Audio clip.
14 Online Product Ideas You Can Create Cheaply to Make Money Online
More and more businesses are quickly trying to get their name and business online. Domain names are being swiped up as if from a hoover vacuum and competition is in plain view now. According to World Internet Usage Statistics there are currently 1,668,870,408 internet users worldwide. From the years of 2000-2009, we have seen a 362.3 % increase in growth.
How are you supposed to stand out? What can you possibly sell?
Custom Twitter Backgrounds to Attract More Twitter Followers
Custom Twitter Backgrounds (see below for examples) can hands down increase your followers! If you are using Twitter to get business exposure then you need as many followers as you can get your hand on.
What if I get a follower who doesn’t appear to be interested in my Twitter topics?
It doesn’t matter. When “SarahJ” becomes a follower of you, your tweets show up in her Feed (where all of HER followers can see what tweets SarahJ’s followers make). So, naturally, someone else in SarahJ’s network will be interested in what you have to say…then that person will follow you too. Now you are showing up in that person’s feed where even more can see what you have to tweet. See how it snowballs??
