Google Wave Invites. Yay.

So yeah. I have 18 more Google Wave invites. I may seem less than enthused, but it’s not because I don’t think Google Wave is/will be useful – I’m sure it will when enough people are on it for me to actually collaborate with. If they like it. And understand it. And aren’t already using something else. But seriously, I do like Google Wave, I just don’t have much of... [Read more]

UPDATED: Google Social Search and How It Impacts You #business #socialmedia #Google

(Sound problem on video has been fixed.) It’s a bit more clear how Google Social Search Impacts Your Business with visuals, as the video above “How Google Social Search Gives Your Social Media Efforts More Impact” will show. Here’s a quick summary of what you’re looking at, followed by a few points I didn’t make in that video. In the video I compare the search... [Read more]

Google, Social Media ROI, and Your Business

As we’ve discussed recently, there’s a lot of confusion around the issue of social media and getting a return on one’s time and social investment, to the point that some people think social media for business is ineffective. If you’ve been thinking that lately, think about how happy you’d be if social media helped you get into your target market’s path through Google.... [Read more]

Getting More Traffic and Exposure From Google News Part Three

In the previous post in the Getting Traffic from Google News series, we discussed how to get traffic from Google via Google News by leveraging the various ways to appear in a publication that is already featured in Google News. Now, let’s talk about the holy grail of Google News exposure – having your site BE a source of news for your topic in the Google News database.  If you’d... [Read more]

Getting More Traffic and Exposure From Google News Part Two

In Part One of Getting Into Google News, we talked about the traffic benefits of getting listed in Google News, and how to do so using a press release. Next, we’ll delve into how this can be achieved by having content in a publication that’s already in Google News, and what the advantages and pitfalls are. Before we do that, let’s address a common concern many people have with focusing... [Read more]

Getting More Traffic and Exposure From Google News Part One

Why Do You Need to Be in Google News? Because that’s where the eyes are. We know that reading the news is one of the top four things people do online, and that if you want to be found online as well as off, you need to be a part of that activity stream. Since more people get their news from Google News than CNN, that definitely includes Google News, if there was ever any doubt. It’s also... [Read more]

2010 Traffic Trends: 17 Top Traffic Sources for 2010

There are several basic low-budget and no-budget ways that websites and web publications can get reasonably expect to more exposure in 2010. While the objective remains the same – get in your prospects email, search, news or related favorite online hangouts – the methods by which you’ll be achieving those objectives shift from year to year. Leverage Business Relationships Create... [Read more]

2010 Traffic Trends: Bizstreaming Gains Popularity But Doesn’t Quite Mainstream

Lifestreaming has been around for a while, arguably longer than blogging. Where a blog is a collection of regular entries containing commentary around a certain person, topic, niche or business, authored by the people associated with it, lifestreaming is a centralized collection of the various streams about a single person, topic, niche, business or other entity. Though it’s been growing in popularity... [Read more]

How To Find Your Customers Online

Maybe you’re not an “online person”. Perhaps the only time you use your computer is to read your email, search for something on the Web, read the news, or see pictures and other updates from friends and family. It would make sense then, if you don’t really “get” how the web is supposed to help you sell more of your products and services. The truth is, it doesn’t... [Read more]

2010 Traffic Trends: Do You Want Visibility or Control?

Somewhere in a town far away (unless you live near Prince George’s County, Maryland), I’m getting ready to transport these Christmas gifts to my cousin’s Christmas celebration. This other part of me, though, is thinking about the New Year already, and what you need to know about the coming year. This past year, I’ve noticed that the people who are the most resistant to social... [Read more]

7 Social Media Tactics for Explosive Results in Your Business

First, let’s define the term Explosive Results for our usage. When you visualize something exploding, you think about a burst of energy, often associated with fire for some reason – probably the fault of our favorite action pictures. I love to see things blow up as long as I know no one really got hurt – not just in movies but in website promotion. And an intelligent social media... [Read more]

There’s 366 of These So Don’t Bug Me For A Year, M’Kay?

366 Ways to Get Web Visitors – I have decided to release a list of 366 Traffic Methods all at once. So now, you can’t ask me how to get traffic for a WHOLE YEAR. Go away! Okay, I’m just kidding. Really. The great thing about this guide is that it’s rebrandable. You can just put your own link on the front page, or you can do that AND join the free affiliate program and load... [Read more]

How to Earn Trust and Influence Sales Part One

There was a really important post at DoshDosh today called “An Essential Marketing Principle: Give Before You Try to Get“. It went over a very basic marketing principle that has somehow gotten turned into a gimmick – the idea that in order to get someone, anyone, to do something for you, that you must first do something for them.  It struck me, reading that article that everyone... [Read more]

[videos and an article] Real Traffic, My “Nakedness” – and Happy Birthday to me!

By the time this is published, it will indeed be my birthday on the East coast, where I’m currently located. And I definitely wanted to take some time out to celebrate that, so I’m planning on not working at all tomorrow. Yay me! What does that have to do with you? At some point in one of these videos I tell you exactly what you can do on my birthday to make me smile.   Okay, seriously... [Read more]

Quick Announcements Regarding the Facebook Videos & Status of Sites

Before we continue, I want to let you know I’m aware of the video embed problem with videos from my Facebook fan page. Apparently even if you embed a video to a page, which is supposed to be visible to Everyone even outside of Facebook, some people still can’t see it. So I’m uploading the videos to our free member site over at Leveraged Promotion, and using that embed code to feature... [Read more]

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