March 2010

2nd Update: Content Marketing Experiment

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in Online Internet Marketing

Time for another update on my content marketing experiment. (Here’s the last update). Remember what the experiment’s about: I set up a travel website on 1st February, for the purpose of earning affiliate income through promoting tours to Asia. It’s built with WordPress and configured to look like a static website. The objective is to [...]

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Why You Don’t Want 20,000 Twitter Followers

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in Online Internet Marketing

In the forums I visit regularly I constantly see people asking how to get more Twitter followers, or the best way to get more Facebook friends. Inevitably they’re looking for a system that will rack up hundreds (if not thousands) of new friends or followers in the blink of an eye. For no effort. Those [...]

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How to Insert an Opt-In Form on WordPress With No Sidebars

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in Wordpress

Here’s an interesting question I saw recently: my theme is not widget-ready, so how do I insert an opt-in form on my WordPress blog? There are a couple of ways of doing that. 1. Using the What Would Seth Godin Do Plugin This plugin was originally designed to offer different personal greetings, posted at the [...]

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Social Media Marketing, Internet Marketing or Both?

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There seems to have been some noise recently about balancing Social Media Marketing techniques with traditional Internet Marketing. And just as well. For a while people who were traditional Internet Marketers, writing long sales letters that were full of hype and yellow highlighting, didn’t get blogging, Twitter and the rest. Thought it was all pretty [...]

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One of My Sites Was Hacked

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in Online Home Business

Seems like the hackers are after me at the moment: 2 weeks ago my Twitter account was hacked and last week one of my static web sites was hacked. Last week’s hack was particularly embarrassing. I’d sent someone the link to my Web Services site. On the web design page there are some links to [...]

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Yet Another Review of the Third Tribe

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in Product & Site Reviews

What do you do if you’re not making any money blogging and you don’t want to go down the cheesy ‘Yellow Highlight Brigade’ Internet Marketing route? If that’s you, you may be a closet Third Triber. And here’s your opportunity to come out. Affiliate Alert..! I’m an affiliate for the Third Tribe, which means that [...]

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How to Not Make Money Blogging…

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in Blogging

… use an auto-blogging application of some kind. For people new to working online there’s a tremendous attraction in the idea of automated blogging. Everyone wants quick results, with as little effort as possible. It’s human nature. And for people new to working online, the idea of an automated business, earning money on auto-pilot, is [...]

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Best of Create an Awesome Home Business

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in Online Internet Marketing

One of the problems with a blog is that the older an article becomes, the deeper it gets buried in the archives. And that’s a shame because it means that some very good articles are often never seen by newer readers. So I figured I’d do a ‘best of’ series. Once a month or so [...]

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