Email Marketing Is About Trust

Marketing via email can be very productive. Indeed, many Internet marketers make more money from their email list than they do from their web pages. But, with “open rates” and “click through rates” going down the whole time, how can you make money from your list? Well, as always there …

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Search Engine Marketing Can Waste Your Time

Many businesses want to get to the top of Google. They spend hours, days, weeks attempting it. They are competing against millions of other pages and will try any of the latest “tricks” to get an advantage on the other web sites listed by Google. Then Google changes the rules, …

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Businesses need to look to psychologists for help

Several years ago I sat at a lunchtime event in an upstairs room of a small cafe in Nebwury, Berkshire, UK. Not a very posh place, but it’s where Vodafone announced to the local business community that it was working on something called “GSM” which would take mobile phones into …

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Title tags boost Google ranking significantly

Something dramatic has happened to my web site’s listing within Google – and it’s not good. For the past umpteen years if you searched for “graham jones” this web site (www.grahamjones.co.uk) was always Number One on Google – both the .com and the .co.uk versions. Yesterday, www.grahamjones.co.uk completely disappeared from …

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Australian athletes will not do well at next Olympics thanks to blog ban

The Australian Olympic Committee has banned all the country’s athletes from blogging whilst at next year’s Olympics in Beijing. The BBC reports that the Australian Olympic Committee believes blogging would “erode the sanctity of the Olympic village”. What tosh! I know several people who have competed in the Olympics and …

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Day Job Killer proves value of offline marketing

Day Job Killer has gone “live”. It’s a 69 page ebook that explains how to make money online using Google Adwords, amongst other techniques. It is solid stuff and worth buying as it is packed with good tips and hints on making money online. However, type “day job killer” into …

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Blogging from meetings

Yesterday I was presenting at the National Meeting of the Professional Speakers Association and noticed that several members of the audience were taking notes. All very well, you might think. But in American meetings I’ve been to, several people would have been making their notes public – they would have …

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Web sites need to shout

If you have a web site it needs to shout out loud to its visitors; it needs to say fairly quickly what the site is about and what people should do with it. The headlines on this page (hopefully…!) tell you quickly that this site is about online success. If …

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Jeremy Jacobs proves you can blog easily

Just a couple of months back, the presenter and public speaker Jeremy Jacobs didn’t have a blog. Now, he has a vibrant, well designed, readable and interesting blog that is clearly attracting readers. In the time he has been writing his blog, his web site has risen over one million …

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Blogging and public relations

It’s fairly obvious to most people I meet that blogging has real benefits in terms of establishing and enhancing reputation. In other words, it’s a great public relations tool. If you agree, you’re not alone. The PR industry itself reckons that blogs are a highly effective tool for business to …

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Online retailers are doing it wrong

There’s been a load of cheering recently for the success of online shopping. At Christmas, for instance, many High Street stores in the UK reported lower than usual sales with less footflow than the previous year. But their online counterparts reported record sales. So everyone was happy. What tosh. The …

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How to avoid Internet marketing misery

Every day I meet people who want to make their fortune online. They all dream of earning money while they sleep. What they want is a “quick fix”; they want to make a large profit with very little input. “What’s the secret?” they ask me. “How do you earn money …

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Small web sites make more sense for Internet marketers

New research has discovered that advertising gets more click throughs from smaller web sites with less traffic than big sites with millions of visitors. What does this tell me? It suggests that the lower traffic sites are more focused on specific niche topics that are relevant to fewer people. But …

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