Today I met with a large and established non-profit agency who wants to raise their donor awareness profile. Of course I suggested blogging as a way to blast open online communications. Here’s a non-profit blogging, podcasting and social media resource site for those who want to get going and posting. You do, don’t you??? If…
It will always be the first Saturday in November. "It" is Sleep Out Saturday, a county-wide effort to raise funds and awareness for Bridge Communities – DuPage county’s oldest and largest provider of transitional housing for homeless famlies. Visit our online Sleep Out Saturday media guide for more event information. Every $25 donation delivers 24…
Okay folks. This was ridiculously easy. All you do is click on list posts in Typepad, then import/export, go to export, then right click on export, save the file to your computer and then upload on Word Press. Voila! Two blogs in one. Now the question is, which do I write for – or do…
My Typepad blog’s been up and running since this summer. It’s easy to use, I love the stats and I love my layout. So, why am I here? Because everybody who’s anybody in the Internet marketing world says this is the only place to be. It’s amazing to see how many sites run off of…
Up for a challenge that will stomp out your Internet marketing frustrations? Well, here’s a big one for you . . . The Internet Marketing Game is completely unlike anything you’ve ever seen on the Internet before. Harris Fellman’s joined forces with Nick Dunin and Richard East to come up a sort of Wheel of…
As Halloween trends into a major holiday, why not tap into the promotion potential and be part of the revelry? For the past two Halloweens, I’ve promoted my business by posing as a PR Witch. How do I get visibility? By judging the Glen Ellyn Chamber of Commerce’s costumer parade, of course. That’s me over…
Sylvie Fortin was first up with "Outsourcing Mastery," making a good case for the need for outsource management vs. outsourcing task by task. Sylvie said top Marketers have 4 things in common – have voracious appetites for information products, they can’t wait to see what’s coming next, they know it’s the only…
Let’s start with the end of the evening – the awards dinner – and work our way backwards . . . The big announcement . . . Alex Mandossian is leaving AM2Gold to form the Electronic Marketing Institute. Name stays. Armand stays. Updates today. Meeting tomorrow. Is joining AM2Gold worth the $500 monthly membership? Well,…
How do I condense 23 pages of hand-written notes and an 8 page Word file into one post? I can’t – not this morning anyway. These events are pretty much all on, all the time. So, today’s schedule will be much like yesterday’s: meet up at 8:30 and turn in around 12:30 – a.m. Armand…
If I had any doubts about whether or not to come to Atlanta, they’re all gone. I just got back to my room after an opening reception hosted by Power Pay. My traveling/teleseminar partner, Jenny Hamby – The Seminar Marketing Pro, had dinner with me before the reception to talk about our strategy and goals…
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Today’s the last day to distribute a press release for free via PR Web. According to David McGinnis’ letter, PR Web now offers 3 contribution levels: SEO – $80 Basic with integrated SEO tools SEO with Social Media – $120 Better with TrackBacks/PingBacks and PR Tag Clouds, Technorati tags, pull out quotes and social bookmarking….
If you read my previous post about Liz Ryan, whom I dubbed the mother of list building, then it’s only fair that I tell you about Tellman Knudson, the Godfather of List Building. Founder of List Crusade, Tellman Knudson is also the creator of My First List, an information product that tells you how to…
Congratulations to Bruce on completing his 71st marathon – this one in Chicago. Phoebe and I went downtown to surprise him at the finish line today. Our La Salle Bank Chicago Marathon wristbands got us into the Medalist tent – and to a few other places we weren’t supposed to be. Like the Victory tent…
“They’re too long. Go back to the video,” was one of the responses I got today when I asked my a few colleagues what they thought of my ezine. Watch a sample video where I talk about “What’s on My Whiteboard.” One of the demos we saw in our meeting was of me teaching the Video Marketing…
"They’re too long. Go back to the video," was one of the responses I got today when I asked my VM Direct colleagues what they thought of my ezine. Watch a sample of helloWorld’s product in this video where I talk about "What’s on My Whiteboard." One of the demos we saw in our meeting…
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Thanks again to my talented friend Jenny Hamby for writing a killer sales letter to promote our call last week. And . . . to all of you who listened on the call. . . I’ll always remember you as among the first to buy one of my products. High five to everyone who’s reading…
Thanks again to my talented friend Jenny Hamby for writing a killer sales letter to promote our call last week. And . . . to all of you who listened on the call. . . I’ll always remember you as among the first to buy one of my products. High five to everyone who’s reading…
A few times a day I check in to see who’s hitting the blog and where they’re coming from. Nine times within the last few hours someone’s stopped by to check out my post Get Listed Locally – Online about a service called List and Found. Let’s give the people more of what they want,…
Trolling through my Google reader, I found a press release about Haystack Network Directory by Cerado. According to a quote from Red Herring on the site, "Haystack gives businesses the ability to build social networking capabilities into their websites, encouraging customers and sales reps to create more personal connections. Haystack can also be used to…
First saw this story about SecureGive’s ATMs in churches on Boing Boing – the Chicago Tribune picked it up over the weekend. Imagine being able to walk into your house of worship (or non-profit headquarters), swipe your debit card, punch in your PIN, enter the amount you want to give and get a receipt. There….
My fascination with the 9/27 episode began early when the 9/22 episode aired as a rerun. It kept building until it hit a crescendo early Wedneday morning when Lori Lizzard – a fab underground fashionista, called to tip me off to the Project Runway portfolio on the Olympus Fashion Week site. Lizz kept exclaiming, "It’s…
My fascination with the 9/27 episode began early when the 9/22 episode aired as a rerun. It kept building until it hit a crescendo early Wedneday morning when Lori Lizzard – a fab underground fashionista, called to tip me off to the Project Runway portfolio on the Olympus Fashion Week site. Lizz kept exclaiming, "It’s…
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