Archive for the ‘Commanding Influence’ Category
The Growing Power and Force of Social SEO
Posted on February 12, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot36 Vibrant Responses
With Google’s recent launch of social search built into their search results, they confirmed what many search engine optimization specialists had already believed to be true. One of the growing factors that search engines uses to weigh the value of any given page on the Internet…
Are You A Credible Online Authority?
Posted on February 11, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot43 Vibrant Responses
One of the things that I’m growing to detest is the concept of the self-proclaimed online authority. Those who pretend to be the all-knowing gurus of their respective fields are quickly boring me with their nonsensical drivel.
Now don’t mistake what I’m saying. You should be striving to become an online authority. You should be…
How to Build a Powerful Blogging Alliance
Posted on February 9, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot58 Vibrant Responses
I’m an Infantryman in the United States Army. In the army we have what we call battle buddies.
If I get pinned down in a fire fight, I need someone to yell to me what they see, to provide cover fire for me, and to throw grenades for me from their position…and I strive to…
The Marathon of the Blogging World #2
Posted on February 7, 2010 - by Don Gilbert10 Vibrant Responses
This is part 2 in our series. Be sure to check out The Marathon of the Blogging World #1 to get caught up.
There will always be people ahead, and there will always be people behind. Every day the number of runners grows. All of them coming out of the gate at a different…
Group Discussion: Customers or Community?
Posted on February 5, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot30 Vibrant Responses
In our current era of internet marketing, we’re becoming bombarded with the concept of building community oriented websites. And rightly so. Facebook, Twitter and other online communities are bringing in users by the millions. Communities are where it’s at.
But the customers pay the bills. So why waste time focusing on…
The Marathon of the Blogging World #1
Posted on February 3, 2010 - by Don Gilbert30 Vibrant Responses
The Blogging world is like an enormous marathon. It’s not a sprint, but a cross country endurance race.
There are around 100 million runners in this race. Every day, new runners are joining, but they are forced to start at the beginning. Every day, all day, these people are running against each other. But because…
Blog Marketing is Relationship Marketing
Posted on January 31, 2010 - by Olusegun Adedokun23 Vibrant Responses
In this third and final post of the series, we look at relationship marketing and sum up all valid points
Internet Marketing has always had very little human interaction involved – with everything prewritten, prearranged and published without really truly connecting with the end user. At last, bloggers now have an awesome opportunity to correct…
How to Start a Blog #1: Choosing a Niche
Posted on January 28, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot50 Vibrant Responses
FTC Regulations and Your Blog (Part 2)
Posted on January 27, 2010 - by Olusegun Adedokun11 Vibrant Responses
In part one of this series, FTC Regulations and Their Impact on Your Blog, we talked about the Federal Trade Commission’s new rules and the issue of mandatory disclosure. We now continue here.
The second part of the announcement is a more enormous issue, however. It covers Testimonials.
Before the new regulations, people used…
FTC Regulations & Their Impact On Your Blog
Posted on January 24, 2010 - by Olusegun Adedokun36 Vibrant Responses
There has never been a more exciting or a more scary time in history than now.
A lot of things have changed faster in the last two decades than in all of the 17th and 18th centuries combined. How people get and digest their information is evolving quickly. Old Media companies are having a tough…
