Ad Age released its first Search Engine Fact Pack in a 52 page .pdf loaded with stats – and a few ads. This report is a search marketing must-download, even if all you’re after is the top 12 SEO strategies on page 38. In September 2004, the Glen Ellyn Chamber of Commerce asked me to…
Technorati’s third quarter report on the State of the Blogsphere gives a healthy content population growth forecast: 100,000 new blogs are born every day with 54,000 fresh posts going up every hour. And, the size of the blogsphere is doubling every 230 days. So, jump in! Knowing that Technorati trac ks over 57 million blogs…
Technorati’s third quarter report on the State of the Blogsphere gives a healthy content population growth forecast: 100,000 new blogs are born every day with 54,000 fresh posts going up every hour. And, the size of the blogsphere is doubling every 230 days. So, jump in! Knowing that Technorati trac ks over 57 million blogs…
Here’s the list we use to post events to online community calendars in Chicago . . . CBS Channel 2 News NBC Channel 5 News ABC Channel 7 News Fox 32 News WGN Radio Community Calendar – 6 weeks in advance WMBI Moody Radio Chicago Tribune 2007 Event Sponsorship Guidelines WLS Radio Post…
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…
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…
"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…
“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…
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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….
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My call with Jenny Hamby is less than 2 hours away and I’m having a hard time pulling myself away from the research about the future of PR. Getting ready to present motivates me to run down the latest, the freshest, the most provactive research. And, most of the time my audiences comment: "Wow! I’ve…
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