Social Marketing

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.
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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. [...]

When I first got started trying to earn money online about 6 years ago, I did the whole paid survey thing. Among other interesting opportunities. Remember Madame Cleo? I’ll tell that story another time.
But the survey thing is actually legit. Everyone always asks me.
While you won’t make a full-time [...]

I’m super-stoked about this!
The WP-PlugIM Wordpress plugin is available, so anyone can drop it in their ‘plugins’ folder and have a shiny PlugIM votebox on their posts (see upper left of this post for what it looks like).
Your blog readers do not have to be registered at PlugIM to use the votebox and they [...]

I submit my blog posts to all the social bookmarking & “story submission” services out there.  It’s another method of Web 2 organic traffic generation, and the backlinks at those places that don’t use “nofollow” don’t hurt either.
So, submitting to Digg, Reddit, etc. is all good, but for actual traffic to my site?  PlugIM is [...]

I’ll be at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco April 15-18. It neatly coincides with a visit we have to make to catch up with family, show off the baby, etc., so I’ll take an extra day and get drunk on Web 2.0 stuff.
I’ll also do my best to report back here, realtime, [...]