Confession Of An Internet Marketer

I need to confess something I hope you don’t mind listening while I admit to this. As an internet marketer, I’ve worn a lot of hats. I’ve coded. I’ve optimized for search engine traffic. I’ve made sites more usable. I’ve networked and socialized and monitored and analyzed and adjusted and … well, you get the picture. I’ve learned a lot over the years. But... read more

Four Simple Words Describe My Most Successful Online Marketing Strategy

Want to know my most successful online marketing strategy? The one that has consistently generated more income than anything else I’ve ever tried? No? You don’t want to know? Ok, never mind, then. Oh, wait, you were saying yes, not no. Well that’s different then. Good because I have the entire strategy outlined for you in a step-by-step post that I’ll link to after you read... read more

Why I’m Really Not A Blogger

Someone recently commented on a post that its topic was not “just for bloggers”. The implication was that I had posted the information just to bloggers, when in actuality I had not. I can only conclude that the commenter thinks of me as a blogger, and by extension, assumes that what I write about is “for bloggers”. Unless I specifically say that a post is “for bloggers”,... read more

Is It Easy To Learn Affiliate Marketing?

The following is a guest post by Lena Morrish and Dima Nikolayenko. Affiliate marketing sounds like something that should be relatively easy to do. Sign up for an affiliate program, paste some links and banners around on the Internet, and start earning money. But is it really that easy to learn and to do, and create the multi digit incomes that everyone says you can earn in just a few days? How to be... read more

Bait and Switch Lead Generation Is Just Wrong

I was contacted recently by someone who wanted to share a video with me. This was an hour-long video that he created himself, in which he described a certain internet marketing “secret”. This video was free to watch, and he suggested I share it with all of you. I don’t plan to do that because I won’t be responsible for sharing tactics that I believe are unethical. I also won’t... read more

5 Marketing Ideas That Will Not Get You Labeled As Annoying

A common marketing tip is to capitalize on your existing customer base, because it is easier to sell more product to an existing customer than it is to find new potential customers and then have to convince them to buy. That’s a large part of why so many Internet Marketing “Gurus” stress the importance of building your list. (See List Building Glossary – Terms and Definitions if you are... read more

eBusiness Tips: Content Marketing Thoughts

I’m one of those online marketer types that tends to forge my own path, rather than follow the same paths that other Internet marketing “gurus” have trampled before. That probably stems from the fact that I’m also a search marketer, and we almost always forge our own paths. But one thing all smart search marketers agree on is that good content makes the marketing process much... read more

One Method To Create Good Content Without Hard Work

Good Content = opportunties to: rank in search engines draw links from other sites convert More Good Content = More opportunties to do the above Good Content = Hard work More Good Content = More hard work Based on those assumptions, many site owners decide to take shortcuts to increase the content on their site, without putting hard work into the process. Some of those shortcuts might work, especially... read more

Coupon Code for SEO Dojo Community

This post is for those of you who who are interested in SEO. I’ve been a pre-member of Huomah’s SEO Dojo community for a while now and it is opening up to new members as of today. What is the SEO Dojo? It is a closed door, gated community which gives search professionals and those wanting to learn more about search engines a safe haven to study and collaborate. There’s some serious... read more

Review: Profits That Lie Hidden In Your Website

As you might imagine, I get a barrage of requests from people wanting me to review their products, hoping I’ll like them and recommend them to you. I can tell you that 9 out of 10 times, I read the ebooks or test the application, and decide it’s not worth letting you know about it. Many of the ebooks are fluff and hype, and the applications are usually not worth spending money on. Today,... read more