Social Marketing

I’ve just returned from a visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, where I took the kids to see family and enjoyed the cooling fog for a few days.
While I was there, I worked on the Social Marketing Guide I’ve posted about, and it’s nearing completion.  But I have an incessant need to make everything [...]

The best kind of traffic is targeted traffic.
It doesn’t do you any good to have a bunch of people interested in losing weight coming to your blog if you write about internet marketing.
There are two websites online that are for internet marketers, by internet marketers who’s main goal is to send you targeted, quality traffic.   [...]

I will be releasing my “Social Marketing Checklist” - this being the initial blueprint I use to promote a site with social media.
It was originally intended for my employees, and as such requires some editing and finesse.  So that’s what I’ve got my head buried in right now.  I’m adding explanation, relevant links, organizing it [...]

Google has seemingly “slapped” Squidoo by decreasing lens SE results ranking - across the board. I was first made aware of the issue before it hit Income.com or other websites, inside The Immediate Edge, where Ed Dale lovingly coined the “Squidoo Slap” name.
Techcrunch speculates the Slap comes as result of Squidoo’s harboring, and allowing, [...]

A new update to the Wordpress Plug IM Vitebox plugin is available today, you can download it here.
When a users’ template used Wordpress’ “the_excerpt()” function, it’s disables javascript.  Since the Votebox IS javascript, that lead to nasty code being displayed in Category & Archive pages, instead of your nice votebox.The plugin has been updated to [...]

I discovered this service as part of my research into marketing music online, but it can be applied to any market in which you have a need or desire to be in touch with your prospects beyond email, blogs - well, beyond the computer as a whole.
As email deliverability wanes, marketers should be looking for [...]

The highly anticipated YouTube popularity software, Tubeinator, is available as a free demo download from Tubeinator.com as of today.
Tubeinator will help you help others find your YouTube videos - avoiding the dissapointment of uploading a videos and waiting for views… only to have them never materialize.
Use Tubeinator to add friends and leave comments on other [...]

This week I’m going to cover a bunch of free or cheap-o ways to generate traffic to your website. The focus will be on Web 2.0 methods, as that’s my forte, but we’ll delve into more traditional methods as well.
First, we all know that giving something for free - a “special report,” a demo [...]

An update is available to the Wordpress PlugIM Votebox plugin.  This update allows you to customize the position of your votebox.  Find it here.

Claims made at http://www.socialmediariches.info we’ll review:
“You can make cash by creating and uploading videos!
You can make cash by uploading pictures!
You can make cash by uploading music!
You can make cash by writing on blogs!”
Ya think? We’ll see…
We’re in another “golden age” of the internet. Tons of new startups popping up all over the place. [...]