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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Steven Lohrenz has taken a classic Open Source project, PhpList, and adapted it for use by online marketers. Following the model used by companies like Red Hat software and IBM, he’s released his modified version for free, and is [...]
How to Become A Bum Marketing Genius
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008If you don’t know what Bum Marketing is, you must have been hiding under a rock. It’s basically a new name for article marketing, except that instead of including a link back to your own website, bum marketers put in a link to an affiliate sales page.
There are some skills involved - the main [...]
Domain Names and Hosting
Friday, February 29th, 2008When I first started tinkering with the Internet, about 10 years ago, I did what every South African does, and signed up for a domain name and hosting with my ISP. I soon realised that this was less than ideal - what if I wanted to change ISPs? I’ve been through about 5 of them, [...]
A Cataclysmic Event in the History of the Internet.
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Qassia is a new social networking site, brought to my attention by Jack Humphrey.
Qassia describes itself as “a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory.”
You can add your websites, and promote them by adding what Qassia calls ‘intel’. Intel is anything from a paragraph of text to an academic [...]
Competition for ClickBank
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008It looks as if ClickBank has some decent competition, at last. I’ve never thought much of PayDotCom, mainly because of its reliance on Paypal for payments to merchants (South Africans still can’t receive payments via Paypal…)
Don’t get me wrong, ClickBank is pretty good. But there are a couple of areas where their system is less [...]
James, James, James.
Saturday, January 19th, 2008BTW, if you promote him on your blog, you can forget about getting any promotion from me in the future.
I’ve really enjoyed your blog over the last year or so. It’s been inspirational. And thanks for the offer to promote my blog. Unfortunately, I’ll have to turn it down, because I don’t like being dragged [...]
The Ultimate Web Marketing Strategy
Saturday, January 12th, 2008Ed Rivis recently mentioned that he’s taken his book, the Ultimate Web Marketing Strategy, off the market. He’ll be releasing a new paperback version shortly, and he’s promised his blog subscribers a free copy of the PDF version. Get over there and subscribe to his announcement list before he changes his mind.
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How Blogging Regularly Can Increase Your Traffic
Friday, January 11th, 2008Both Maki and James Brausch have blogged about the value of posting regularly. This is a powerful technique for generating (and keeping) blog visitors, and one which I have been planning to put into practice for some time, with less-than-spectacular execution (just compare the date on this post with the previous one.)
If you’d like to [...]
3 Article Marketing Services I Use
Thursday, November 1st, 2007Article marketing is one of the simplest ways to get free backlinks to your website. However, there is a bit more to it than just writing an article and submitting it to hundreds of article directories.
James Brausch says that the only reason the article directories exist is to provide spam content to other spam websites. [...]
Blogrush goes live
Saturday, September 15th, 2007As you can see in the sidebar, I’ve signed up for John Reese’s BlogRush Blog Syndication Network. Like all the best ideas, it seems really simple and obvious in retrospect.
It’s easy enough to get an RSS feed from, say, Google Blog Search, and have it appear in your sidebar - if you scroll down [...]