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…
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…
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…
When your blog is new, no one wants to hang out with you, but this can be turned around. You too can become the popular kid by knowing how to leave awesome comments that get noticed. If you have your own blog, and you get comments,…
Comments are the life blood of a successful blog. They are the evidence of a thriving, robust online community. Comments are great for you and your website, but there are a lot of principles that many bloggers fail to understand when sharing comments on other sites. If you…
Links make the internet go around. They’re the roadways that guide us to new sites, to new resources, and to new opportunities to engage, interact and learn. But we’re not the only ones who draw guidance from the many links scattered around the net. Search engines like…
One of my personal blogging pet peeves is the act of people leaving comments but refusing to put any semblance of a real name in the name field. By replacing your name with a phrase like how to make money online, it tells blog authors that you are…
I’m convinced that the number one issue bloggers seem to be facing today is the simple challenge of driving traffic to their websites. We’re driven to believe that more traffic equals more comments. More traffic equates to more money. More traffic translates to more everything.…
Stumbleupon: You’ve heard of it before, right? It’s that social network that allows users to quickly find websites that they’ll like. But is that all it is? Most certainly not. To us bloggers, StumbleUpon is one of the best promotion techniques available. Here’s why: