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Are you link spraying or curating?
Published on 2012-12-18 04:05:48
7 Reasons Direct Mail Rocks
Published on 2012-12-12 08:03:18
Direct mail is one of those tactics which is typically overlooked while everyone is jockeying for attention online. And true to my nature, I’m always looking for the marketing tactics most people aren’t paying attention to in order to g
Testing CurationSoft
Published on 2012-12-05 12:24:19
I Talked about this in 2006
Published on 2012-11-08 13:50:23
..it’s why I’m so famous! Seriously though, Web Benders take note! This is one of the tactics in Bending The Web and it works. The guy on the right? Well he’s watched it happen to several of the people he’s worked with p
Today’s Friday Traffic Report: Content Development Tools, Tricks, and Strategy for Content Marketers
Published on 2012-10-05 15:02:44
Today we focused on some really killer content creation tools, ideas, and tactics you can use to boost your site with very high quality, buzzable content. A real must-see episode for anyone looking to save time and get rich sources of usable content to mix in with their original content! Check out everything we shared [...]
How to Track and Shorten Affiliate Links With WordPress
Published on 2012-08-27 18:36:02
Affiliate programs are notorious for giving affiliates long, complicated affiliate links. Ever since affiliate programs first came online, we’ve been thinking up neat ways to make links shorter. The other problem affiliates must figure out if we’re to be effective in our marketing, is tracking our marketing efforts. How many sales from the last month [...]
Two Rules For Success, With One Exception
Published on 2012-08-22 22:20:47
Found this on Google+. I laughed. Then I started thinking about what that statement, taken literally, would mean for online marketing consultants like me. I’ll start by telling you that I’ve never been offered any sum of money for everything I know about online marketing. People mostly come to me with specific problems for which [...]
Promoting Your Brand Online
Published on 2012-08-20 21:30:45
No matter what you do online, if you are marketing in order to get traffic that will in some way get you clients, sell products or sell your services, you should think of what you do as a brand. When you promote yourself, you’re branding! There’s a lot to this paradigm shift, and I won’t [...]
Back To Reality For Internet Marketers
Published on 2012-08-17 22:49:53
IMPORTANT NOTE: Your first instinct might be to click away from this article. A good dose of truth isn’t what most people come on the internet for. If you stick around though, you might just have the breakthrough that you’ve been hoping for in your internet business. If you can’t handle reading a little bit [...]
How To Get More Pinterest Traffic
Published on 2012-08-15 18:51:26
This post is itself an example of today’s Marketing Quickie. Pinterest devotees can only help you out with social buzz if you have graphics worth pinning. When you do, watch out. The fastest growing site in internet history can seriously blow up your stats when you strike a chord! Give it a try! Pin this [...]
How to completely remove comments and the comment form on WordPress
Published on 2012-07-14 14:32:11
There’s got to be an easier way, right? Well this is it. 2 WordPress plugins, a new graphic, and you can encourage your readers to do more social sharing, and you can stop worrying about getting people to comment the old way! Here’s how I completely wiped out the comment form on this site and [...]
Read my interview in this month’s Big G & Business
Published on 2012-07-13 12:31:51
In this month’s Big G & Business, I am interviewed by Kevin Lau on my Google+ strategy. You can check it out here.
This Week’s Friday Traffic Report
Published on 2012-07-06 21:41:40
7/6/2012 Hi ! There’s no Friday Traffic Report Hangout today. Jim is on vacation. So below are some of our special finds for this week. Enjoy and see you next week! (Don’t forget to Circle Friday Traffic Report on G+)
Google+ is 1 Year Old! Proud to have been there from day 1!
Published on 2012-07-01 01:10:00
This video is almost like a family home movie in a way. So proud to know all but one of the people in it from the early days of Google+. The astronaut? Talked to him on G+. Never would’ve happened on Facebook. Daria, the musician in the beginning? I was on her first live broadcast, [...]
Friday Traffic Report 6.22.12
Published on 2012-06-22 14:20:32
It’s mobile week! How do all the mobile users (with over 50% using their phones to access Facebook and a lot of the web) see and use your site? We’ll talk about that. Plus Twitter outages, Facebook use “dwindling” and mucho other tech and marketing news from this week! Catch all our finds from this [...]
If you’re one of the un-evolved marketers….
Published on 2012-06-17 16:53:37
…who truly believes that anything good can come from trying to do real business “in your underwear,” I have the following message for you… However, if you’re ready to get off the “Big Red Button” train and really get down to business with your online marketing, download this first.
Opportunity…
Published on 2012-03-05 03:11:52
The New Personal Branding Mag is Out!
Published on 2012-01-23 20:47:36
You’ll probably read the Ali Velshi and Patti Stranger articles first. I guess that’s to be expected. But right after that you can read mine: ”Developing Brand Evangelists.” In it I discuss the strategy for cultivating your inner circle of vocal brand supporters. If you were walking into a virtual club, who would your posse [...]
How to attract a decent following on Google+
Published on 2012-01-19 01:47:35
A client just asked me about getting started on Google+. Specifically, how to start attracting a decent following. Below is the email I wrote back to him. (With a little editing for your pleasure.) Glad you asked! There are tons of posts and guides on cultivating a [...]
How to get more followers on Google+
Published on 2012-01-19 01:46:12
A client just asked me about getting started on Google+. Specifically, how to start attracting a decent following. Below is the email I wrote back to him. (With a little editing for your pleasure.) :) Glad you asked! There are tons of posts and guides on cultivating [...]
A Quick Guide To The New YouTube Design
Published on 2011-12-04 21:01:26
YouTube has recently upgraded itself – massively. Here is the latest news to help you understand just why you should be paying attention. In short: YouTube is a traffic machine again. And the upgrades and additions with the new front page system and channels give marketers a ton of opportunities to be seen. Jim Stroud [...]
I hate it when people chime in on a conversation about an idea simply to show off…
Published on 2011-11-27 20:49:31
I hate it when people chime in on a conversation about an idea simply to show off that they knew about it or "it's nothing new." Everyone has seen them. Sometimes the "Nothing Newers" have a point that fits well into a discussion, like when someone is trying to claim it as their own idea. [...]
5 Simple Things To Do Right Now For More Blog Traffic
Published on 2011-11-24 08:03:30
We bloggers have collected more traffic-driving tips and tricks than we ever use. We read something and go “Oh! I have to add that to my list of things to try sometime.” And sometime often never comes for many things we’d like to do. Well today is “sometime” and here are 5 things you can [...]
Interview on Relationship Marketing 101: Curation
Published on 2011-11-22 12:26:26
I had a great time today talking with Ronda and Gina on Relationship Marketing 101 about curation and content marketing. In the interview we talked about the basics of curation (and some insider tips). Take a listen below! Listen to internet radio with DirectionsU on Blog Talk Radio I highly recommend following Gina and Ronda – they [...]
The Ultimate Trust Signal Is You
Published on 2011-11-20 22:53:49
A website is no longer a trust signal. Everyone in the world who has ever surfed the web is painfully aware of how easy it is for shady people to put up a site and use it for evil. Remember those old trust ranking services? We’d pay them money to put a little graphic on [...]
Curate or Drown?
Published on 2011-11-17 01:11:28
We have a problem. The web is getting messier. One big reason why: tons of new tools to turn non-geeks into publishers and sharers of information. Now everyone is a publisher. Now there’s too much on any moderately rich topic to keep track of. The need for curators is at an all-time high. And it [...]
How To Make Your Online Communications Stand Out
Published on 2011-10-30 20:22:50
Guest post by Andy Havard When’s the last time an email really caught your eye? I bet it doesn’t happen on a regular basis. The unfortunate email combination of junk + spammers + mundane responses has resulted in a lot of switched off, bored online users checking bland Inboxes. There’s virtually no Subject heading that could truly [...]
How to knock a freakin’ blog post out of the park!
Published on 2011-07-04 09:23:18
I’m still chortling (google it) about this one. And so are thousands of others. If you want to know what makes a personal blog worth visiting, at least for me, check below. It might say more about me that I loved this, laughed my ass off
The Internet Is Full. Thanks For Surfing.
Published on 2011-07-03 16:48:43
Are you freaking out about creating new content all the time? Stop! The web is chock full of content. The time is ripe for content curation. Search engines and social sharing are pretty good for discovering new content, but they both miss the m
Local Blogging Success Tips
Published on 2011-07-02 08:48:52
Local blogging, also called “hyper local,” and its associated services for local businesses such as search engine marketing and social marketing, is part of the last frontier of major opportunity on the web. Over the past few years a lot of hype
How To Get A Lot More Facebook Fans
Published on 2011-06-30 16:09:48
The whole point of creating a Facebook Page for your business is to build a fan base of people interested in your product or service, right? Facebook Pages are a great tool for interacting with your fans on a regular basis and for them to discover
11 Reasons Curation Is The New Killer Opportunity
Published on 2011-06-30 02:36:24
Curation is now a necessity. The web is full of content. More than a person could consume in several lifetimes if all they did was sleep a couple hours per day and surf the web, life after life. Google can’t help us with our internet A.D.D.
Link Building With Press Releases
Published on 2011-06-29 04:21:33
Press releases are one of the best kept secrets on the web for links and traffic. It’s a wonder why more people don’t use press releases regularly. Don’t get me wrong, hundreds of thousands of people do submit the occasional release
Google+ A Game Changer?
Published on 2011-06-28 16:09:49
You can read about it here: Google+ Is it a game changer? Does it sound like a collection of tools that will make your mobile experience better? Easier? More fun? All I know is, I went to the Android Market (because it still says ‘invit
Build Your Fan Army And Get More Links
Published on 2011-06-28 09:37:49
Sometimes I think people focus too much on search engine optimization. Actually, some people focus way too much on it. Search engine marketing is important. You cannot ignore such a rich source of traffic. What most don’t seem to understa
Blog Commenting Becomes A Killer Strategy Once Again!
Published on 2011-06-07 14:33:44
Have you noticed how even some of the most popular blogs on the web are getting fewer and fewer “on site” comments? You know, comments on the built-in commenting system, rather than Facebook comments and especially the “Like”
How to completely remove all traces of Skype when uninstaller is broken
Published on 2011-05-26 17:39:40
I have been going ALL DAY with a major Skype problem that just about pushed me over the edge. I’ve been near-Postal for the last couple hours. I am putting up this post to save someone else’s sanity so they don’t have to go through
I wish I was more diabolical
Published on 2011-05-25 23:38:14
So I check out the Warrior Forum tonight and in the Special Offers section this dude is actually SELLING the idea of guest posting. He doesn’t come out and say the words “guest posting” but anyone can read between the lines, right?
The Content Curation Guide for Bloggers
Published on 2011-05-21 23:02:46
Content curation as a blogging model is widely misunderstood by most bloggers and marketers. Many people would tell you that curation is about finding and posting links of related material around a certain topic or keyword. And they would be wrong
Anik Singal and the All-Remembering Internet Machine
Published on 2011-05-10 20:12:21
One of the best ways to know if an expert deserves to be where they are today is going back in time to see if they put in the work when they were starting out. “But,” you say “time machines don’t exist.” On the interne
Just opened on Empire Avenue, up 11% so far today
Published on 2011-05-08 18:03:49
This Empire Avenue thing is quite fun. But I’m not convinced it’s just a “social game.” In fact, I think that rap does it kind of a disservice. It did for me anyway when I first heard about it. I didn’t get in till this
Why Local Marketing Is Such A Big Deal
Published on 2011-05-07 04:51:04
For the last year, local marketing has been a big buzz word. You’ve probably heard a “little” about it by now. People have called local marketing the last great frontier in internet marketing waiting to be tapped. By all account
Get More Email Subscribers: Kill The Freakin Clutter On Your Blog!
Published on 2011-04-28 08:18:12
Starting a new, clean blog recently has given me a fresh experience of what it’s like to be lean and mean in my marketing. It is very difficult over time to resist the temptation of “feature creep” and loading your blog down with di
The job market, the economy, the price of gas, and your life
Published on 2011-04-26 21:25:24
Nothing but uncertainty out there these days. Gas is up to a national average of $3.87 per gallon in the United States today. The job market has been in such a state that the only thing people talk about is the unemployment rate. There is a nationa
Trouble Writing? Try Word Bitches!
Published on 2011-04-25 10:07:48
It’s the name of the blog run by Trish Loye Elliott, Elena Aitken, and Ironic Mom. And it’s a very cool blog to follow, whether to commiserate with fellow writers or to learn through the lens of other bloggers who’ve overcome writ