Melih Oztalay says, “Since when do readers want to be insulted or put in a position of feeling stupid regarding pay-per-click advertising? Probably never. As an industry author and owner of a web-marketing agency, I keep up with industry news. I’ve found articles during the first half of this year that stress “mistakes you’re making.” This... [Read more]

Megan Ritter says, “Sometimes it can be difficult to choose the right social network for your business. Sadly, you can’t make this choice based solely on the popularity of a network, because each social site attracts a different kind of audience. When it comes to marketing, it’s important to know your audience, as well as know how to reach... [Read more]

ClickBank team says, “If you’re having trouble marketing your business, generating leads, and getting more sales just because you have a non-existent marketing budget, it’s time to re-think your strategy. These four tips will help you market your brand and drive more traffic to your website without spending a dime. Build a Blog If you don’t... [Read more]

Matt Bacak reports he usually earns over $500 per day from an email to writes a few minutes. He reports his finding that you have only 6 seconds to capture the readers attention long enough to get them to open and read your email. To get and hold attention, he uses what he calls “power words”. These are the words that the mind hears and... [Read more]

Arnie Kuenn says, “With the rise of business-blogging success in content marketing, it seems like every company has hopped on the bandwagon, which could be a great thing for audiences everywhere. Unfortunately, many companies are still missing the mark by using their blog as an extension of their product pages – just another place to talk... [Read more]

Ayaz Nanji says, “Nearly half of global marketers (45%) say the lack of an effective strategy is hampering the success of their marketing automation efforts, according to a recent report from Ascend2. Other factors seen as major hindrances to marketing automation success include budget limitations (44% of marketers cite as a challenging obstacle),... [Read more]

Sam Kusinitz says, “I’m sure you’ve heard that if you want people to share your blog posts, all you have to do is create exceptional blog posts. It’s that simple, right? Truthfully, it’s not that easy. Without optimizing posts for sharing and actually coordinating some promotion of your own, it’s very possible that they... [Read more]

Lance calls himself Warrior2008 because he joined the Warrior Forum in August 2008. He has been creating Warrior Special Offers (“WSOs”) for some time since then. Now, he offers you a surprising “all you can eat” bundle he calls WSOs for Life. For about $10, he is offering two of his current WSOs, training on posting WSOs and... [Read more]

Matt Assay says, “Amazon Web Services is already the 800-pound gorilla in cloud. It offers five times the utilized compute capacity of its next 14 competitorscombined and is arguably the fastest-growing software business in history. According to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, however, this isn’t nearly ambitious enough. AWS aims to become an... [Read more]

Sam Oakley says, “Five years ago if you were a brand and you wanted to make a video, you went to a video agency, begged them to make it more viral than h3n1 and paid through the nose for the privilege. If you wanted an infographic you went to a design agency, if you wanted to write editorial you went to a PR agency etc… Your content creation... [Read more]

Jerod Morris says, “So … how did you sell out all 400+ tickets three months before the event even started? What was your content marketing strategy? This is the question a friendly reporter asked me during the opening night party for Authority Intensive 2014. “That’s a great question,” I said, stalling. Truth was, I didn’t know exactly... [Read more]

CoolIce has just released his latest Amazon affiliate store. This one in the per supplies niche. Predictably, he calls it PetClone. He has done his usual thorough job of assembling Amazon products into an attractive store that you can customize in many ways. In your store, you can advertise and sell thousands of pet products that are in high demand.... [Read more]

Carmen Weeks says, “The MECLABS Conversion Heuristic is what we use when optimizing our Research Partners’ websites – and now for me as a research analyst, it’s become second nature to optimize every website I encounter. I say this because truthfully, it’s one thing to simply memorize and understand a formula. But when you’re able to... [Read more]

Bill Slawski says, “I’m going to be asking you to take over as Panda for a little while to see if you can identify the kinds of things that Google’s Navneet Panda addressed when faced with what looked like an incomplete patent created to identify sites as parked domain pages, content farm pages, and link farm pages. You’re probably... [Read more]

Peter Kafka says, “Twitter reports its Q2 earnings tomorrow afternoon, which means investors will be judging whether Dick Costolo has fixed his growth problem. One thing they won’t see or hear about, though, will be a new set of metrics from Twitter describing the company’s reach scale. While Twitter has had internal discussions about new... [Read more]

Doug Yuschalk, the creator, calls it “The Most Important, Vital, and Valuable Plugin Every WordPress Site”. Perhaps we must forgive a little parental pride, but he does have a point. This plugin creates the critical information every site needs, because the search engines are looking for it, and the Federal Trade Commission also expects... [Read more]

B2C team says, “74% of marketers now consider Facebook a staple in their lead generation efforts, showing how critical of an element it has become. In this article I want to share 7 tips I have found to be the most effective in my own Facebook marketing. Read on to discover how you can consistently drive new leads and engagement with your content... [Read more]

Will Critchlow says, “A few years ago, I wrote a post on my personal blog about MBA courses. I have a great deal of respect for the top-flight MBA courses based, in part, on how difficult I found the business-school courses I took during my graduate degree. I’m well aware of the stereotypes prevalent in the startup and online worlds, but I... [Read more]

Barry Schwartz says, “Data are wonderful things. Properly applied, data can provide insights into where to trim budget and where to increase it. Data will indicate what’s working versus what’s not, what’s a signal versus what’s an outlier. And, data help to determine the proper media mix for the overall campaign strategy. Data-driven,... [Read more]

For better or worse, the Warrior Forum is a major force among small businesses and individuals that do internet marketing. Thousands of people visit each day, many of them explicitly go there to find tools and training to help them do a better job of selling on the internet. That means that the Warrior Special Offers section of the forum is a fertile... [Read more]

David Moth says, “Experiential marketing, what is it good for? The premise is to create a closer bond between the consumer and the brand by immersing them in a fun and memorable experience. If a brand event stirs genuine positive emotions within people then they are more likely to associate those emotions with that brand, which is more effective... [Read more]

Jonathan Pavoni says, “The heart of the inbound marketing is about attracting strangers from across the internet and nurturing them into delighted customers. The question becomes how do you attract these strangers, and then build the necessary credibility and trust that is essential to a long term business relationship? The answer is content. Content... [Read more]

Pamella Neely says, “Some say 2014 is “the year of mobile.” While many have been saying “this is the year of mobile” since 2009, 2014 probably does deserve the title. Why? Because this was the year when Internet traffic to mobile devices will exceed traffic to desktops. Read that again: Mobile traffic now exceeds desktop traffic. And more... [Read more]

Mark Bishop, British online marketer, spent years looking for a simple way to earn a living online. He determined that he wasn’t going to get some blockbuster site that would make him rich, but he could make a profitable site in a niche, and then do it again, and do it over and over, in multiple niches. By using this “rinse and repeat”... [Read more]