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Using Twitter
2008-05-21 17:25:00
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 ...
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Should You Put Your Keywords In The Name Field When You Comment?
2008-05-11 17:17:00
There’s an interesting discussion going on at Problogger: Should you add Keyword s 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 ...
More About: Google , Word , Press , Keywords

Learn Affiliate Marketing With The Black Ink Project
2008-05-04 09:00:00
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 ...
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The Persuaders
2008-04-11 23:15:00
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, ...
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Moving Towards Business Ownership
2008-04-03 00:22:00
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 ...
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Making money from Open Source software
2008-04-02 00:12:00
Steven Lohrenz has taken a classic Open Source project, Php List, 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 making money on support. PhpList is a server-based list manager, which allows you to send email ...
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How to Become A Bum Marketing Genius
2008-03-05 15:11:00
If 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 ...
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Domain Names and Hosting
2008-02-29 11:18:00
When 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, ...
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A Cataclysmic Event in the History of the Internet.
2008-02-28 16:02:00
Qassia 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 ...
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Copywriting Blueprint Formula
2008-02-14 17:11:00
Trevor Crook is a copywriter from Australia, and he’s giving away a 10-hour audio training course - for free. Tellman Knudsen calls copywriting a “leverageable skill” - if you can write effective advertising copy, you can effectively create money out of thin air. You can make a living online, offline or both, you can write ad ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Copywriting Blueprint Formula ", url: "http://www.lxmarketing.com/copywriting-b lueprint-formula/" });

Competition for ClickBank
2008-02-12 07:37:00
It 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 than ideal. Firstly, that $50 setup fee. Secondly, the fact that they don’t allow the sale of physical products. Come to think of it, there are quite a few things that I don’t like about ClickBank. Click2Sell looks as if it may be what I’ve been waiting for. Here are some of the more interesting features: Click2Sell allows you to sell physical, downloadable and subscription products. There’s a wide range of payment options, including Paypal, Authorise.net and WorldPay. There’s no setup fee. You don’t have to wait for your sales page to be pre-approved. No restrictions on product price. Actually,...
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Long term vs short term goals
2008-02-10 18:31:00
When I read Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad a couple of years ago, one of the key points that stuck in my mind was the necessity of creating assets. Kiyosaki defines an asset as anything that puts money in your pocket. By his definition, a luxury car is not an asset, it’s a liability. The house you live in is not an asset, it’s a liability. These items cost you money every month. Of course, if you don’t own a house, you’d probably be paying rent - definitely a liability. Real assets are things like rental properties, stocks which pay dividends, book author rights or music rights which pay royalties. The great thing about assets - real assets, in the Kiyosaki sense - is that you only have to do the work once. Barring the unexpected, they’ll keep on making money, without your involvement. There are ways of making money quickly, but most of these require your continual, on-going involvement. A job is a good example. You can make a fixed amount o...
More About: Goals , Short-term , Long , Short , Term

Time For A Change
2008-02-01 16:28:00
It’s a new month, and that’s a good excuse for a bit of a change in the way the ol’ blog looks. I’ve used Cory Miller’s “Clean Copy 2″ theme - if it’s good enough for Michel Fortin and Terry Dean, it sure ought to be good enough for me!. Actually, I had to tweak ...
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James, James, James.
2008-01-19 14:04:00
BTW, 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 ...
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The Ultimate Web Marketing Strategy
2008-01-12 21:44:00
submit_url = 'http://www.lxmarketing.com/?p=69';Ed 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. Share This
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The Ultimate Web Marketing Strategy
2008-01-12 21:44:00
Ed 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. Share This
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How Blogging Regularly Can Increase Your Traffic
2008-01-11 07:41:00
submit_url = 'http://www.lxmarketing.com/?p=68';Both 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 ...
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How Blogging Regularly Can Increase Your Traffic
2008-01-11 07:41:00
Both 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 ...
More About: Traffic , Blogging

3 Article Marketing Services I Use
2007-11-01 06:17:00
submit_url = 'http://www.lxmarketing.com/?p=66';Articl e 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. ...
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3 Article Marketing Services I Use
2007-11-01 06:17:00
Article 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. ...
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James Brausch Special
2007-10-15 20:57:00
submit_url = 'http://www.lxmarketing.com/?p=65';James Brausch has a 24-hour special on at the moment. This one is really something special. You can get his “core” products, worth over $1000 (not an inflated price - I show his actual selling prices below) and his $1000-a-month website ranking software, for a mere $100. Trafficopia Traffic Selling software $105 Artemis Pro Unique Article Submission Software $105 Hermusa Automatic Link Creating ...
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James Brausch Special
2007-10-15 20:57:00
James Brausch has a 24-hour special on at the moment. This one is really something special. You can get his “core” products, worth over $1000 (not an inflated price - I show his actual selling prices below) and his $1000-a-month website ranking software, for a mere $100. Trafficopia Traffic Selling software $105 Artemis Pro Unique Article Submission Software $105 Hermusa Automatic Link Creating ...
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Blogrush goes live
2007-09-15 12:09:00
As 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 ...
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Blogrush goes live
2007-09-15 12:09:00
submit_url = 'http://www.lxmarketing.com/?p=64';As 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 ...
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Do not download this report
2007-08-28 06:14:00
submit_url = 'http://www.lxmarketing.com/?p=63';… ;unless you intend to use it. Michelle Macphearson has released her “Social Media Daily” blueprint, and you can download it for free. This is one of those free reports that makes you question the value of all the $47, $67 and $97 products you’ve already bought (well, if you haven’t bought them, it must have been me.) Michelle ...
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Do not download this report
2007-08-28 06:14:00
…unless you intend to use it. Michelle Macphearson has released her “Social Media Daily” blueprint, and you can download it for free. This is one of those free reports that makes you question the value of all the $47, $67 and $97 products you’ve already bought (well, if you haven’t bought them, it must have been me.) Michelle ...
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Stupid Is As Stupid Does - How Stupid Do Marketers Think You Are?
2007-08-12 18:53:00
submit_url = 'http://www.lxmarketing.com/?p=61';“ ;Stupid ity” is a movie. It’s a documentary about the “dumbing down” of America - American culture, American society and the evolutionary adaptation which seems to make stupidity a vital factor for survival. I found the DVD of “Stupidity” in my local DVD store, just after bumping into another movie called ‘Idiocracy”. This one is a feature ...
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Stupid Is As Stupid Does - How Stupid Do Marketers Think You Are?
2007-08-12 18:53:00
“Stupid ity” is a movie. It’s a documentary about the “dumbing down” of America - American culture, American society and the evolutionary adaptation which seems to make stupidity a vital factor for survival. I found the DVD of “Stupidity” in my local DVD store, just after bumping into another movie called ‘Idiocracy”. This one is a feature ...
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Little Green Bars
2007-07-29 08:27:00
submit_url = 'http://www.lxmarketing.com/?p=60';As any fule kno, PageRank is merely a huge scam perpetrated by the not-evil geniuses at Google. Certainly, Google uses PR to rate the “worthiness” (sponge-worthiness?) of websites - but their internal PR algorithm is a far cry from the little green bar we see on our desktop (if we’re desperate enough to install the ...
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Little Green Bars
2007-07-29 08:27:00
As any fule kno, PageRank is merely a huge scam perpetrated by the not-evil geniuses at Google. Certainly, Google uses PR to rate the “worthiness” (sponge-worthiness?) of websites - but their internal PR algorithm is a far cry from the little green bar we see on our desktop (if we’re desperate enough to install the ...
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