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Post by Larry Brooks
First, let’s get one thing out of the way. A blog alone, no matter how popular, isn’t enough to score you a book contract. It’s not quite that simple.
In other words, it doesn’t quite work the way it does on television.
“Did you hear that Random House gave me a million dollars for [...]
Post by Penny C. Sansevieri, penny@amarketingexpert.com
THE BOOK MARKETING EXPERT NEWSLETTER.
Embarking on an Internet marketing campaign doesn’t have to be difficult, tricky, or complicated. Here are a few simple ways (twenty in fact) that you can easily implement to get tons of traffic to your site right now!
1) Write articles: believe it or not this is [...]
Post from Denise Wakeman- Internet Marketing Tips
Susan note: Video is all the rage and my colleague Denise offers the latest cutting edge suggestions.
You know how I’m always telling you to integrate video into your marketing mix? Well, what do you do with all those videos? On Build a Better Blog I shared my system for [...]
The New Frontier Workshop with Susan Levin
Saturday, October 24, 1-5pm, $99, Marina del Rey, CA
Social media has profoundly altered the way we market and communicate.
Social Media Marketing is the use of technology combined with social interaction to create or co-create value.
Content + Context + Connections + Community = Social Media Marketing
Marketing on social [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Susan Note: Great post it is all about relationships. All about the connection. And connection is the new currency. Read on…
BTW: Speaker Services offers up to date media lists so that you can reach reporters directly with your pitch letter. See http://www.speakerservices.com/services/media-lists.html
This post was co-written by Len Kendall and Dave Fleet. Dave heads the [...]
by Donna Gunter, The Online Biz Resource Queen (TM)
Amazon’s Kindle is a electronic book-reading device that allows people to purchase and download electronic versions of books, newspapers, and magazines. Now, you can have your blog available to Kindle readers, as well. Best of all, you can get paid for this strategy. However, you don’t get [...]
Great post by Penny Sansevieri
If you’re trying to pitch yourself to bloggers you may have found the dead silence at the end of your email exchange. Why? Well, let’s face it. The top bloggers in any market probably get a ton of email. Most of it fairly useless. I know this for a fact [...]
Denise Wakeman
Biz Tips Blog: Internet Marketing Tips
Use of social networking sites has exploded during 2008. Millions of business professionals are now connecting through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other sites that make it easy to post messages and attract like-minded people.
While no one really knows which sites will end up being staples in your business’ marketing [...]
The following post if from my colleague Donna Gunter, The Boomer Biz Queen™
Increasing online visibility is the goal of most online business owners. After all, without visibility, you have no traffic and thus no business. However, when you start to research how to increase your online visibility, you discover so many options, yet have so [...]
The following post comes to us from http://www.marketingprofs.com by Brent Altomare
What first started out as a consumer phenomenon has turned into a growing corporate trend: Blogs now provide opportunities for organizations to interact and share their stories and thoughts online. As of 2007, there were a reported 100 million blogs; and as of July 2008, [...]
Great tips from Donna Gunter, The Boomer Biz Queen™
“So, what do I blog about each time?” is a question I often get from clients. To keep your blog active and healthy, I recommend blogging at least 3 times per week. However, that notion is overwhelming for many. Even though you may be an expert in [...]
Angela Wills
Looking for a quick, easy and low cost way to get a website up and running? Then you really should consider using Wordpress.
You’ve probably heard of Wordpress as one of the most popular blogging platforms but it can do so much more then use let you post a few entries to your blog. [...]
The following post is from Denise Wakeman of the Blog Squad.
When you think of Twitter, you may not think about list building. You probably think about instant messaging on steroids, building relationships via 140 character “tweets” that connect you to your followers and allow them to get to know you and your business.
And, Twitter [...]
post from Denise Wakeman, The Blog Squad
Seth Godin does it again. Here’s a brilliant lesson from the master of permission marketing and author of Purple Cow.
A couple of months ago I received an email inviting me to apply to be a member of Seth Godin’s new social networking site, Triiibes – For people who want [...]
I posted the following question on several social network sites. LinkedIn, Twitter, FaceBook and to my e-mail list after I had blogged about it.
Q: Know what blogging and speaking have in common? Find out http://tinyurl.com/53tqll
I noticed it caught a lot of interest and varying points of view.
Here are some of the responses or comments that [...]
by Michael W. McLaughlin, Contributing Editor of Rain Today
Many consultants ask if they should start blogging to add power to their market presence. Blogs certainly are pervasive. In fact, if you listen to the experts, you get the impression that everyone should be blogging.
It is tempting to jump on the bandwagon. But only you can [...]
Mark Hayward
http://northxeast.com/blogging/like-it-or-not-blogging-is-public-speaking/
Do you get sweaty palms, an increased heart rate, or feel like you are going to faint when you have to make a presentation in front of an audience? Would you like to improve your public speaking skills and enhance your blogging at the same time?
Public speaking and blogging are similar in many ways [...]
Quick! Answer this question: What do you think of when you hear the term “relationship marketing”? If the only things that came to mind were your local business networking group, local chamber of commerce, or service club, you might not be aware of new strategies in 21st century relationship marketing.
There is nothing wrong with any [...]
I just was explaining to my friend this morning about the way things have changed in the world of marketing when the following post be Karen Saunders showed in my google alerts. Thanks Karen this is a great explanation and overview of relationship marketing and I am sending it my friend too.
Take it away…
Quick! [...]
Posted by Angela on March 6th, 2008
Using Wordpress is a great way to build a website.
Why?
Oh there are so many reasons. But first, let’s talk about what Wordpress is and what it isn’t:
Wordpress is a Blogging or CMS (content management system) platform. You can use WP to build a blog as an addition to your [...]
We are getting ready to shoot 15 people on November 8th, 2009 in LA. If you are in LA and curious as to our methods come on down and be in the audience to see how a 3 camera video demo is created. We are at the Marina del Rey Hotel, MDR, on Bali Way [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Talk Up Your Business was a great success here are a few short video snippets that I took with my flip video camera.
Jack Barnard talks about Branding
Here I am talking about ways to make money as a speaker and working for a training company is one of the ways.
At the Speakers’ Bootcamp we include branding, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )from the Blog Squad Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff Biz Tips Blog
contact- denise@blogsquad.biz
On our 5 Traps of Internet Marketing teleclass yesterday, almost 1000 people registered and we got some interesting questions. You can listen to the audio replay here. Here’s one:
“I have a website that was created about 3 years ago. Of course, [...]
Great suggestions in todays post by C J Hayden. Article writing is a terrific lead generator and can bring tons of folks to your website. BTW: did you know that some of books have been created from blogging and have become best sellers? Also, consider offering a series of articles as a PDF Special Report [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Here’s some more ways to use video clips for authors.
1) Have you been You Tube’d? If you haven’t this is the #1 place to load your book video.
2) Put your video on your own website, don’t let a single visitor land on your site without getting the touch and feel of your book.
3) Send a [...]
Today’s post is from The Publicity Hound’s Tips of the Week- Joan Stewart
http://www.PublicityHound.com
http://www.publicityhound.net/ (Blog)
I totally agree with Joan and we have been encouraging our speakers and authors to create video.
At the end of this post you can see a few videos I shoot today at the Women’s Small Business Expo with my new baby [...]
I posted the USA Today article on April 10 about Web Video Marketing Gold. Even though we have been offering one and three camera shoots for many years I see that people are finally getting it. So I been thinking about it alot and wondering how I could integrate more video into my services.
I have [...]
The story was on the front page of the Business section in USA Today on April 4.
By David Lieberman
I was thrilled to see it as Speaker Services has been offering one-three camera shoots for the past ten years. I have been encouraging business folks to get video on their websites. Now with video blogging, [...]
Many of our clients are just learning about blogging and the value of offering a blog while others are further along. Blogging is a wonderful way to reach your target market or “your people”. It is like a special interest club. Not only can you share information but it is a lead generation technique and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )by Donna Gunter
You may have heard the saying that “the gold is in your list” for your online business. I’ve found that to be the case, despite any number of social marketing techniques like blogging, MySpace, etc. It’s always extremely helpful to have a list of people to whom you can market.
How do you [...]
