Its been a while since I posted to this blog. My time has been focused on learning about how Social Media Networks can help increase targeted traffic and be a useful tool in my marketing efforts without distracting from my business development. Read more

Social Media Marketing is the big buzz in the Internet Marketing world right now. I have recently been testing some new ideas behind driving targeted traffic to my sites and found a simple process revealed recently by Michael Campbell in his IMS newsletter. Anyone can make this work and pick up good traffic. Here’s all you do:

1. Create a new post on your blog or add a new page to your website
2. Go to Digg, Propeller or any combination of news aggregation sites and submit a snippet of your post
3. Go to Del.icio.us, Reddit or any other social bookmarking site and bookmark the URL of the snippet you created when you submitted it to the news aggregator (an example of this would be http://www.digg.com/my-new-snippet)
4. Ping the social bookmark RSS feed and watch the traffic roll in.

With this technique you are filtering for traffic that is interested in the post and notifying the search engines of your it in almost real time. If you are targeting specific keywords then make sure they appear in the title of the post, the title of your snippet and in the social bookmark as well. When I started using this technique I saw my targeted traffic triple. What would that do for your blog?

Over the last several months we have been learning and researching the most effective ways to develop a web site for your business. The process has been tedious simply due to the fact that understanding the most effective way to develop a web site and garner traffic has a vast amount of variables attached to it.

From the extensive research we have been doing over the last several months, we plan to release a free course for Small Business Owners on how to develop a web site presence for your business without any prior knowledge of web development, SEO or internet marketing. This course is not an going to be a course on Internet Marketing; there are already thousands out there, most of which are worthless.

Instead, this course will walk you through the step-by-step process of setting up a professional looking website for under $100. It will include both hard copy documentation and video to provide the best experience possible. As the release date for the course gets closer, we will be giving more information about the course and where you can obtain a copy.

Until then, we will do our best to provide links and information to the best resources we come across that will assist you with creating a web presence for your business, as well as what things to steer clear of. If you want more information or want to be participate in the development of our course, subscribe here. Your personal information will be held in the strictest confidence.

As a business person or a marketer, your energy is directed at producing a result based on a need. This is something that is essential for success. And those that are able to produce a product or service that satisfies this need the best, find themselves being rewarded. Read more

Sometimes if you look very closely at something, you can see the hidden beauty in it. For instance, take gold mining. Prospectors spend days dredging sludge off of the bottom of a river and running it through a series of sieves to find tiny flecks of gold. Read more

How many days can we go without encountering the fanfare of a product launch. These days it seems your inbox is plagued with the latest tool or ebook or artifact that proclaims to help you get rich. Just take a moment now to look in your inbox and count the number of products being promoted to help your business succeed. Really, do it! How many did you find? Read more

Internet Marketers are an interesting lot. Everyday a new way to make money, NOW! This program is guaranteed, that program makes money fast, just get your great aunt on our list, through referral from your list and you will make MILLIONS. Read more

There is so much information available for free these days, especially on SEO and Internet Marketing. I have taken to burning CD’s I can listen to in the car of audio from some of the best minds in Internet Marketing. I have read countless ebooks on the subject of SEO, Internet Marketing and the like. I spend hours daily, burying myself in the information that is available. Read more

Seth makes a great point about having a web presence for your business. More often than not we go overboard with our Internet Marketing “tactics.” The KISS principle is alive and well. So if you are a small business owner who thinks that you need a flashy site to attract customers, ask yourself two questions:

1. What do I want my web site to do for me?
2. If I make the investment, will I get a return?

If you can type a letter in Word and use a browser, you can have a very nice website for under $100. If you can read a blog, you will have all the instructions you need to establish your business on the Internet. Check out Seth Godins blog entry here.

Jim Morris challenges us to be students of other marketers by studying their techniques. After all, every marketer on the internet is just giving away their secrets.

Over the last year I made a conscious decision to study Internet Marketing. Because the internet is a vast storehouse of information, it seemed to me that it would become relatively simple to get the kind of eduction I would need to become an effective internet marketer simply by observing other successful marketers.

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