When Business Want To Go From Zero To Hero
Posted in blog on Jan 13th, 2008
Hi Rob
Thanks for completing the survey. You said:
I already have using your electronic newsletter marketing advice: I’m tinkering around and thinking of using a website hosting service for the above. Alternatively, an off-line facility with my own website using FTP protocol (I’ve done it before, the site was OK but the concept targeted the [...]
Posted in newsletter on Jan 13th, 2008
Hi Jaco
Thanks for the question.
You emailed me:
Good morning Johan One question for you… How do you get your newsletter to look so organized?? And Do you type every newsletter out specifically ?? My newsletter doesn’t look anything like yours… Why?
The first issue is that yours is created by a free service from You must be [...]
Posted in blog training, free articles on Jan 13th, 2008
Yes your local community blog will die if you are trying to get the “kiss on the first” date. Yes your blog will die if you focus on selling. And I am happy to say that other bloggers agree with me. Let me summarise the article and add some of my own spice:
Stop boring your [...]
Posted in plugins on Jan 12th, 2008
Ok. You have decided to start a blog a iLocals.Info and you are a premium blogger then you qualify for a forum; you now have a forum on your free blog; a place where your community can come an meet; a place where they can tell you what’s going on; a place where you can become [...]
Posted in plugins on Jan 12th, 2008
I am amazed by Wordpress, the software I use for HelpMeToBlog.Com and all the sites on iLocals.Info.
I needed a way for readers to navigate my site. And I went searching for a plugin to do it for me. I found it and installed the plugin and now I have a table of contents. The plugin is [...]
Posted in traffic on Jan 11th, 2008
Ok. You want your blog to be seen by google. This is one of the strategies you must use.
Search google for all your major keywords. For example if you have a blog for Somerset West start by searching for Somerset West. The top ranking sites will be at the top. Open these sites and see [...]
Posted in marketing on Jan 11th, 2008
Cold calling may not be dead but…..
Cold calling is dying a slow death.
It’s associated with the kiss on the first date marketing principle.
And above all it is intrusive.
Does it mean that you and I should not do cold calling?
It must be handled with care.
It should only be used in extreme cases.
There [...]
Posted in marketing on Jan 8th, 2008
So you want free publicity for your blog with a press release. You done the cold calling bit, you mined your diary for contacts and now you want more. Well a press release is one of the free ways you can generate leads a lot easier than what you think.Yes. I know there’s a lot [...]
Posted in marketing on Jan 8th, 2008
Well…..initially it is a waste of time to try and get into Google or any other search engine. But then the question remains: Why do we all want to get into Google (or indexed by Google) when we just started a new blog?
Do we want to get the kiss on the first date? Do we [...]
Posted in blog on Jan 7th, 2008
Who knows how to get indexed by Google. All we know is that it can take you six days to three months and more. The best advice is to feed the dragon lots of nourishing food; good quality content at regular intervals.
But there are a few ideas and I use them because someone said [...]