Marketing

1. We’re in a unique early phase of social media marketing history, ripe with opportunity. And it’s cheaper now than it will be later on. 2. Audience building comes before monetization. 3. How you will monetize the audience becomes clear during the audience building phase – not before audience building. You have to build the [...]

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If you are writing articles for your web site or blog with the intention of getting rankings in the search engines, you’ll need to write keyword optimized content.  Writing articles is not enough when you are aiming at higher rankings in Google: You must also know how to write in an SEO-friendly way. Here are [...]

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Since the Internet began, some 40 years ago, most of its content has been free to access. Today, that is still the case. However, paid content is one of the fastest-growing areas of Internet business, generating more than $15 billion in revenues in 2009 in the US alone. The question that thousands of experts, bloggers, [...]

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How to Write an Author Bio

by Barbra Sundquist

Even though writers have a natural ability to put words together, most writers find it excruciatingly difficult to write their own author bio. This article gives practical guidance on how to write an author bio. Let your author bio brand you Here are some points to consider when writing a short author biography. 1) Think [...]

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I got a promotional email today from someone who presumably is an affiliate of the Rapid Mass Traffic product. Normally I just delete these types of emails and unsubscribe from the list, but this email caught my attention. It was GOOD. Here’s how it started out: Hi  Barbra, I want you to be honest with [...]

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Are you an entrepreneur at heart? Me too. I love figuring out how to make businesses work. Over the past 2 years the income from my bio templates site has rivaled that of my coaching practice (talk about passive income!). It’s been going so well that I’ve decided to cut back on my coaching business [...]

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Are you getting the most from your free reports? Or are they sitting in a corner of your website collecting virtual dust? To get more exposure for your reports, be sure to get listed in the “free stuff” directories on the web. If your report has real value, you can get listed on these directories [...]

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(L)earning From an Ebook Launch

by Barbra Sundquist

In an article today titled $72,000 in E-Books in a Week – 8 Lessons I Learned, Darren Rowse of Problogger points out that launching a new e-book is time-consuming, especially from the customer service end of things… the number of emails that I’ve personally replied to this week must have been quite a few hundred. [...]

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One of the reasons I recommend Aweber over ConstantContact for newsletter and mailing list management is because Aweber has a much more robust autoresponder feature. With Aweber you can set up as many autoresponder lists as you want, with a virtually unlimited number of emails in each autoresponder. In contrast, ConstantContact only allows you to [...]

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As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, this is the FREE blogging course I recommend to anyone who wants to get started blogging in order to make money online. It’s written by Caroline Middlebrook, who is an excellent teacher of online marketing techniques. Caroline’s course is split into 49 self contained lessons. I’m currently on [...]

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