Is Brian Campbell Breaking The Rules?

Brian Campbell has created a new group on Facebook called P.R.I.S.M. – The Secret Social Media Alliance. You can read about it here: www.socialmediamarketingsystem.com/prism.html

That’s basically a sales letter aimed at getting people to join his group. Brian uses some startling images in that letter:

“There’s an elusive group of marketing elite secretly pooling their resources to collaborate against you [...] Continue Reading…

Posted in Copywriting, Social Media | Tagged brian campbell, facebook, Ian Chapman, joe sugarman, marketing techniques, P.R.I.S.M, social networks | 22 Comments

Intern Program

My intern program is now live. If you want to learn how to run an Internet business by doing the actual activities that are necessary, take a look at http://onlinebusinessintern.com

The intern program concentrates on procedures which generate traffic. You’ll learn how to write and submit articles, how to set up a Squidoo lens, how to set up blogs on [...] Continue Reading…

Posted in Online Business | Tagged Blogger, intern program, intern programs, internet business, social bookmarking, Squidoo, squidoo lens, Traffic, WordPress | 16 Comments

How To Create An Online Business

There are many ways to create an online business. Here are five key strategies that could help you to succeed.
Key #1: Choose the Right Market Idea
It’s expensive and time-consuming to create a new market. It’s also unnecessary. You should be searching out markets that already exist – product categories that people are already buying. Find a hungry crowd [...] Continue Reading…

Posted in Online Business | Tagged broad market, competition, content, Gary Halbert, hungry crowd, information products, making money, market idea, Michel Fortin, multiple streams of income, purple cow, seth godin, Traffic | 11 Comments

Blog Marketing: Establishing Expertise

If you are attempting to build an audience as an expert in your niche it is important that your blog posts show off your expertise.
Some people attempt to paint themselves as an expert by telling everyone what an expert they are. Unfortunately this approach–even when it is true–tends to create the opposite impression.
Here are some tips to help [...] Continue Reading…

Posted in Blogs, Online Business | Tagged Aaron Abber, Blog, credibility, experiences, true experts, ways to make money, ways to make money online | 22 Comments

Making Money With Social Media

Can you use social networking sites, like Facebook, to make money? Just ask Brian Campbell – he made over $25,000 in three weeks, using Facebook. And the techniques he used will work on other social networks, like MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn and Hi5.

So what’s the secret? I can’t reveal all of Brian’s secrets in this post – he created a [...] Continue Reading…

Posted in Online Business | Tagged Bebo, brian campbell, facebook, linkedin, profiles, social networking sites, social networks, video training | 8 Comments

Using Twitter

More than 2000 people a day sign up for Twitter accounts. Why? Well, Twitter has become genuinely useful. Dell Computer say that they have sold $500,000 worth of computer equipment via Twitter – by offering discounts and specials.

There’s a great guide at Marketing Sherpa about building your business brand and/or your personal brand with Twitter. Although there aren’t [...] Continue Reading…

Posted in Online Business | 8 Comments

Should You Put Your Keywords In The Name Field When You Comment?

There’s an interesting discussion going on at Problogger: Should you add Keywords to the Name Field when you Leave Comments on a Blog?

Some people get really upset about this. I can understand why – keywords in the name field do look spammy. But my feeling is – as long as they’re commenting, I don’t really mind the keywords. I [...] Continue Reading…

Posted in Online Business | Tagged commenter, DoFollow, Google, KeywordLuv, keywords, Problogger, Spam, spammy, WordPress | 228 Comments

Learn Affiliate Marketing With The Black Ink Project

Jeremy Palmer has opened his Black Ink Project to an additional 2000 subscribers.
The Black Ink Project is an affiliate success course which runs over 8 weeks starting tomorrow (Monday 5th May). There are 4 week-long modules, with 1 week breaks in between. The course will be presented in the form of hour-long webinars, with a 30 minute Q&A session [...] Continue Reading…

Posted in Affiliate Marketing | Tagged Affiliate Marketing, black ink project, Jeremy Palmer, quit your day job | 6 Comments

The Persuaders

I was thinking about persuasion, in the context of “How do I persuade more people to take advantage of my free membership at SqueezePageDossier.com?”

Then I remembered the cheezy 1970′s TV series, “The Persuaders”. I spent many happy hours watching Roger Moore and Tony Curtis beating up bad guys. Of course, this was before 1976, when television first reared [...] Continue Reading…

Posted in Online Business, Research | Tagged Authority, Consistency, joe sugarman, persuaders, power of persuasion, psychological techniques, Reciprocation, robert cialdini, roger moore, salesmen, Scarcity, social proof, tony curtis, Triggers | 9 Comments

Moving Towards Business Ownership

Richard Lee has a great post on his blog about task responsibility. As you move towards outsourcing every process in your business, your personal involvement becomes less and less necessary.

Eventually, you become a business owner, by Robert Kiyosaki’s definition – you can leave your business completely for a year and get back to find it running as well [...] Continue Reading…

Posted in Online Business, Outsourcing | Tagged business owner, business ownership, intern program, personal involvement, robert kiyosaki, task responsibility | 13 Comments