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Tools & Reviews

How would you like to have about 42% of the people performing a search for your keyword clicking on your site (and being given the opportunity to buy your stuff?)
Those are the type of results you get from being in the number 1 spot in the search engines!
Even if you’re in position 2 or 3, [...]

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Training on Internet Marketing Tools

by Michelle MacPhearson

As internet marketers we’re exposed to a lot of recommended internet marketing tools – some free, some paid, but all come with the promise that they’ll make up more productive. One can get overwhelmed just learning the tools without even getting into the actual business of internet marketing!
The tools below are indespensible to my [...]

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Max Banner Ads Demo

by Michelle MacPhearson

Max Banner Ads is a flexible platform on which you can manage your blog monetization strategy that I recommended to Crowd Mountain members recently and thought I’d share with you as well.
Some key features that make this Wordpress plugin a must have:

Ability to flexibly insert ads all over your blog without editing your theme’s code
Split [...]

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Easy Customer Feedback

by Michelle MacPhearson

There’s a new widget in town!  I’ve added it here to the blog at the bottom of the sidebar (if you’re in a feedreader, you’ll need to click through to the site to see).
The widget, by startup Uservoice, is intended as a feedback mechanism for your site visitors.  Right now, I’m asking blog visitors what [...]

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Blogging To The Bank 3.0

by Michelle MacPhearson

Market research & keywords
Optimizing Wordpress
Monetization structures
Developing, borrowing and outsourcing content
Article syndication
Link exchanges
Press releases
Forums
Buying links
Latent Semantic Indexing
Squidoo
Digg
Del.icio.us
Technorati
Outsourcing a blog empire
Selling your blogs
Getting indexed in 24 hours
Bonus modules (2 ways to get additional backlinks on the fly)

It’s had 3 incarnations because it’s the absolute best guide for newbies to get started with content publishing and internet marketing.
You’ll [...]

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Over The Edge 2

by Michelle MacPhearson

What an amazing conference!
(I’ve never bothered attending an internet marketing conference before, but I couldn’t resist this one).
Dan Raine & Ed Dale of the Immediate Edge did a fabulous job providing KILLER content – one technique I came home, fired up my computer and am killing a niche with RIGHT NOW.  I was so excited [...]

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I have a secret weapon that I’ve been implementing for about a month now.
It’s not a script or a tool… It’s like a brain re-write.
I’m erasing old habits (like the never ending stats/email/instant messenger checking circle we run in to avoid doing REAL work) – and replacing them with ones that move my business [...]

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#2 Most Popular Question From Friday

by Michelle MacPhearson

Right behind social media, the most common questions on Friday’s Q&A call were about time management and productivity.
I gave a run down on how I manage my time and keep focused, but to be honest, it’s an area that I am still learning in.
(Having a couple of kids and a husband home with me all [...]

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Systematic Wordpress Success

by Michelle MacPhearson

I use and adore Wordpress (and you should too), because:

Google loves Wordpress blogs, indexes and ranks them quickly
There are a crapload of plugins available so you can make it do just about anything
It’s already in your Cpanel’s Fantastico so it’s a breeze to install

On the pages linked here there is a step-by-step system for using [...]

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Store Stacker How To

by Michelle MacPhearson

Right now, I’m primarily using it as a back-end on brand centered Wordpress blogs.  I.E. I have a Wordpress blog that talks about “Sony” and then I’ll have a Store Stacker install that features Sony products.  Because Google LOVES Wordpress, my StoreStacker install is quickly crawled and indexed and ranks for the long tail, model [...]

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