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Marketing Ideas 101 Blog Carnival, December 18, 2012

Marketing Ideas 101 Blog Carnival

Welcome to the December 18, 2012 edition of the Marketing Ideas 101 Blog Carnival. Blogging Bill Smith presents Breaking The Barriers Of Language With Wordpress Transposh posted at Captured Technology, saying, "Some websites have good content … [Continue reading]

Banned by Fiverr for Exposing Fiverr Scams

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I’m continuing some consumer protection work covering Fiverr scams and the manner by which the popular Internet company continues to defend and support these scams. The initial portion of this post began as a response to a rather long thread in the … [Continue reading]

How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

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Driving traffic to your blog can be one of the most difficult things to do.  With so many blogs starting up each day, it’s difficult to differentiate yourself and your blog from the others online and to culminate an effective online presence.  … [Continue reading]

How NOT to Drive Traffic Using Fiverr

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(Subtitled: Beware the $5 Traffic Gurus) I thought I was being smart. I thought I could pay someone five bucks and they would work their magic and funnel all sorts of traffic to my new blog. Of course, I was experimenting, but I had no idea what … [Continue reading]

How to Make Money Blogging

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Ah, to make money blogging. It's one of the holy grails of the Internet community. We write, therefore we are--but we would rather our loquacious posts pay the bills too. Really, is that too much to ask? Want your words working for you? Here are a … [Continue reading]

Did Motorola and Verizon Miss the Mark?

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I'm not sure this ad achieves what Motorola and Verizon hoped to achieve. I don't see people untethered by longer battery life; I see a digital culture of disconnect. No one is actually looking at each other. All eyes are on their phones. Yeesh. Is … [Continue reading]

How To Work Keywords Into Your Website

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One of the most important things you can do to improve your rankings in the search engines and directories (Google, Yahoo, Bing, DMOZ, et cetera) is to ensure your website is optimized in accordance with the keywords and key phrases you are looking … [Continue reading]

Marketing Idea #202: Pretend You’re a Celebrity

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LOL. From YouTube: "On the night of July 27th, 2012, a huge prank was pulled in New York City and this is the video of what took place. Brett Cohen came up with a crazy idea to fool thousands of pedestrians walking the streets of Times Square into … [Continue reading]

Marketing Idea #9: Match Competitors’ Prices

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Offer to match your competition's prices. Bargain shoppers thrive on being able to bring in your competition's ads to have you beat the prices. There are a few things that work to your advantage here: Your regular patrons will be less likely to … [Continue reading]