Archive for September, 2007

Tool Time Friday | Ask you, Ask me, Ask eet?

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Yup, finally lost my mind.  It’s snapped about 5 minutes ago.  I hope it stays like this, cause then I’ll have a legitimate excuse for whatever.

“Ground control to Major Morgan, ground control to Major Morgan, take your protein pills and put your helmet on – Ground control to Major Morgan”.

At this site anyone, even me, can post a question about any subject, or answer an existing question.  Registration and use are completely free.

If you need an answer, ask your question, register to its RSS feed of answers, and just wait until your news aggregator pops out an answer.  Questions and answers can be rated, so that the most interesting questions and the most useful answers come first.  If you have knowledge to share, pay this site a visit from time to time, you might even earn some money.

Money!  I can make some money? Oh, I’m all better now.

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Should I Have Kept It My Dirty Little Secret?

Friday, September 28th, 2007

There’s a possibility that I’ve made a bad mistake, as my fellow Arrested Development fans would say. I look at Facebook and I see opportunity, as a business person, for every business. I see a way to strengthen relationships with people you do business with.

I see the ability to say yes, I do have time for you, even if my competitors don’t. I see social presence marketing and I’m in the minority. Most people use Facebook to waste time. And that’s great! If I’m going to waste time Anywhere online, it will most likely be on Facebook. It’s perfect for that.

And it’s also the reason that I suddenly have time to waste time in the first place. In my business, you spend about 10 – 25% of your time actually creating products, doing consulting or conducting training. If you want to make any real money though, whether you have an advertising budget or not, you spend 75% or more of your time marketing, until you get to the level where you can hire or outsource most of the leg work.

It’s the secret to making a decent living online for people like me. I outsource my mass marketing efforts like submitting articles, except where I’m on the staff of a publication. But you kind of have to do things like networking yourself.

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Tool Time Friday | Want your blog seen by millions of new readers?

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I didn’t think so – so see ya!

Just kidding. Sorta. Kinda. Maybe. Who knows. ??

If you’ve heard about this site and haven’t shared it, I don’t know if we should be angry with you or just chalk it up to your not wanting to let the cat out of the bag.

Well, tough. I’m letting the cat loose, so there.

Yes, I had thoughts of hanging on to this for a while, but that wouldn’t be friendly or nice, and as you know by now, I’m a nice guy.

So what is it, you ask.

Well, featured on this site, which places blogs on nearly 100 top-tier news and media sites, are: Reuters, USA Today, Gannett, McGraw-Hill Architectural Record, FoxNews and Internet Broadcasting, just to drop a few names. Not that I’d drop names.

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Tool Time Friday | Come here, it won’t hurt an itty bitty bit

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Have you heard about the “Bitty Browser”?

Well, check this out!

Bitty Browser helps you keep track of your favorite Web stuff by enabling navigable windows directly within your favorite sites – it’s like Picture-in-Picture for the Web.

For example – Try opening Bitty in: Google, Netvibes, Pageflakes, Windows Live, Protopage, Typepad, WordPress, webwag, 30 Boxes, Widgetbox, AOL’s AIMPages. (In a couple of sites you have to log in – but it’s no big deal). Or add Bitty to any other site or blog via a simple HTML copy/paste.

It’s also a platform to Widgetize and Syndicate activity – how cool is that?!?

For all you Web developers, bloggers, advertisers, publishers, Bitty Browser is a smart way to widgetize and syndicate interactivity.

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Traffic Method #253 | Screw the Unconverted

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

screw thatThat’s right. Screw em.

I don’t want to be on the front page of Digg like many of my friends do, and it ain’t sour grapes. I’m not even saying there’s necessarily anything wrong with Digg.

(Even though, yes, there is, that just isn’t what this article is about. On the other hand, Digg’s flaws created a cottage industry for Digg-like niche sites. Maybe I should thank them for the targeted, converting traffic I get?)

Hoardes of untargeted traffic to your site doesn’t help you. Even the bragging rights are temporary. The whole world is not your audience.

When I was first told this back in the late 90s, I thought that the big gurus were trying to trick me. They wanted the whole world of traffic all to themselves. Target my prospects? Why not just get my message to as many people as possible and let them get sorted out later?

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Productivity Day | Cut Your Article, InfoProduct or Blog Creation Time Down

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m having a productivity day here at the site. Normally, I’d be talk about search today. But it’s Danny Sullivan’s birthday, so my gift to him is observing a day of lazine celebration, hereby redirecting any search related inquries to the upcoming search news page at Sphinn, or to other expert search engine resource sites related to him.

My first productivity tip on speed reading, can either cut your research/reading time, or help you get four times as much done in the same amount of time if you get as good as I am at it, which isn’t hard.

If you spend 3 hours a day reading, whether it’s email, books, reference materials, feeds or blogs, imagine getting the same amount of work done in 45 minutes. Or think about how neat it would be to be able to process four times as much information in those three hours what it takes most people 12 hours to read.

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Productivity Day | Cut Your Reading or Research Time in Half with This Secret Weapon

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

People keep asking me how I get so much marketing and related tasks done in so little time. When I fell ill this past year, it took three people to stand in for me, and that was with no one assigned to the task of blogging.

If you

  1. make your own infoproducts,
  2. write your own blog posts,
  3. create your own articles,
  4. do extensive online or offline reading for business,
  5. do your own research,

or otherwise maintain your own authentic voice in your online personality and image, there’s a special type of training you can get that will cut your time expenditure for those activities in half, or even less. You’re probably heard of this one before and thought it was a gimmick, but I’ll tell you, it’s definitely real.

I had actually mastered this technique as a girl, but after being out of practice for a few years, never quite got back to my original level. However, just a bit of practice gave me the ability to get my research for blog posts and social sharing done in 25% of the time it takes most other people.

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Witness a Scandalous Sphinn Orgy, Currently Starring Me

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

The gauntlet was thrown down last week. The challenge?

Share my Sphinn love with the world. It was brought by Sebastian, who ordered me to name three bloggers I never would be reading if it wasn’t for Sphinn, but this is definitely all Donna’s fault for starting the whole love in.

Hippie! :)

Ms. Tamar Weinberg is my number one draft pick. She’s such a giving Sphinner that I didn’t realize she was “the” Tamar. She is indeed – assistant editor at a long time favorite of mine, SEO Roundtable [subscribe]. Her own blog is Techipedia[feed], a completely new discovery for me, and recently gave Digg a thumbs down for its new… stuff.

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