Posted in blog, blog training, free articles on May 17th, 2008
Today I want to share with you the problems you may have in cultivating your list of contacts. I also want to share with you a solution to easily take your list of contacts and get them to know, like and trust you…you get a web site and a newsletter and I do all the [...]
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Posted in free articles, marketing, newsletter on Apr 26th, 2008
People, new to blogging, always tell me that they don’t have time to write articles and blog them. Then I ask them, "how much time do you need to blog?" and they cannot tell me.
Let me ask you a few more questions:
How much time does it take you to get a new client?
How [...]
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Posted in free articles, marketing on Apr 25th, 2008
Let’s say you are a business person and you do what’s called brick to brick business. You don’t use the Internet at all. Ok, you use email and you may surf the Internet from time to time. But you don’t have an online presence.
You know about web sites and have heard of blogs but you [...]
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Posted in free articles, marketing on Apr 22nd, 2008
We always want good news. We all want to be liked. And being liked give us the energy and inspiration to continue. I have said many times that we need to collect testimonials from people who we meet.More on testimonials and more.
These testimonials ensure that both parties stay committed to the contract and to the [...]
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Posted in free articles, marketing, traffic on Apr 21st, 2008
Can a book club make your blog go viral? In other words can a book club story become a free marketing tool. Yes and I will share the story with you.
I have a community blog here in Simon’s Town South Africa where we sell real estate using a blog.
My wife is an avid reader of [...]
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Posted in free articles, marketing on Apr 21st, 2008
I made a mistake and dropped three consecutive emails to people who gave me permission to communicate with them. Ouch!
Lesson 1) Most people will justify the mistake and I wanted to stay clear of that.
Lesson 2) The reason for the mistake is not the issue because then I justify and I hate justifications.
Now that I [...]
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Posted in free articles, plugins on Apr 12th, 2008
To continue from my post on why should you have a community forum I want share with you an interesting observation from my blog traffic logs. I am using the Simple Forum plugin (that’s one of the many plugins installed for you on my Free Blog Platform).
Before I tell you how Simple Forum brings [...]
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Posted in free articles, plugins on Apr 10th, 2008
If you are in a active community like Simon’s Town you’ll find people and groups involved with many issues concerning the community. But they are using traditional methods to discuss, escalate and resolve the issues; email, phones and paper. And when they get a solution they have no way of making it public.
Let me give [...]
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Posted in free articles, marketing on Apr 9th, 2008
Today I want to share with you an off-line marketing tool you you can use to promote any of your businesses even your blog. And make money on the side that can make your advertising costs virtually zero. The publication I will discuss is called Coffee News.
What Is Coffee News?
Coffee News is a [...]
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Posted in blog, free articles, plugins on Apr 3rd, 2008
Why I twitter to my blog and get twitter updates to my blog
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