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The Third Tribe Screenshot

What do you do if you’re not making any money blogging and you’re determined not to go down the traditional ‘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 if [...]

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How to Not Make Money Blogging…

by Martin on 9 March, 2010

in Blogging

Making Money

… 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 hugely attractive.
But don’t [...]

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Celebratory Ballons

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 I’ll [...]

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WebHostingSearch

OK, here’s the second in my Interesting Interviews series.
Today I talked to Eva Vesper, who’s the Editor-in-Chief of WebHostingSearch.com, a site that offers reviews and evaluations of Web Hosting providers.
With the plethora of web hosting providers out there, and plenty of horror stories, I can tell you that WebHostingSearch.com is a gold mine of information, [...]

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Some Recommended Blogs for Internet Marketers

by Martin on 4 February, 2010

in Blogging

Thumbs Up!

I have a confession: because I’m building a new travel site I’ve not had time to research, plan and write my usual article for today.
So I’ve pulled together the top 5 blogs I follow on a daily basis.
These are the places to which I turn for inspiration and guidance. Some of them I’ve followed for [...]

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Crash and Burn

A couple of incidents recently reminded me of two important principles when it comes to launching websites:
Firstly: KISS
Secondly: GIOT
KISS stands for Keep It Short and Simple
GIOT stands for Get It Out There.
Despite my best efforts, the project I’m currently leading here in HK is in danger of failing because of KISS – or the lack [...]

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I Hate These People

by Martin on 19 January, 2010

in Online Home Business

It’s such a shame that people like this can’t channel their skills into something worthwhile, instead of screwing up other people’s PC’s.
A friend called me on Saturday morning because his PC had caught a Virus. Could I help him sort it out, he wanted to know.
We met up just after lunch and I switched [...]

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I was helping someone restore their blog the other day. They had tried to add a new domain to their Hostgator account and the result wasn’t pretty.
Their existing blog (the primary domain for their Hostgator account) was suddenly not available at all. In any guise.
We couldn’t navigate to it as a visitor and [...]

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I introduced some of the online Internet Marketing tools I use in this article, with the promise I’d review more.
So here they are.
Again, they’re all free to use although some do have some limitations. To get around them you’ll need to either upgrade or pay.
The cost is usually insanely cheap, though, and these are [...]

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In this post I described the primary desktop tools I use in my internet marketing business.
This time I’ll take a look at some of the on-line tools I use.
All these tools are free to use, although some have limitations – for example the sitemap generator will create free sitemaps for sites with up to 500 [...]

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I was helping a friend the other day and needed to get FTP access to their site. So they fired up the web based FTP tool provided by their hosting provider.
And it was one of the least intuitive applications I’ve ever seen!
So I showed her how to install Filezilla and it took us just a [...]

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10 years ago ‘build it and they’ll come’ worked on-line. Today it doesn’t.
Today there are so many web pages out there that any site that hopes to receive visitors has to be positioned well and promoted cleverly.
And the bar is getting higher all the time.
Someone with next to zero technical skills can sign up with [...]

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