A few days ago I posted a tweet that I’d get my hair col­ored for the first time in my life. Well, Je­remy (Jezhunt) sug­gested I should go […]

How would you tell your cus­tomer to look for your con­fir­ma­tion email do­ing it Barack Obama style? Last night I was work­ing on the Ger­man trans­la­tion for a cus­tomer ser­vice text. I got side­tracked - be­cause for about a week now I’ve also been study­ing the rhetor­i­cal tech­niques of Barack Obama. Then I flet I need some prac­tice … and a few hours ago the ‘Cus­tomer In­struc­tions, Barack Obama Style’ came into existence. 

Here’s a funny video - I knew some­thing good had to come from the fi­nan­cial crises. My fel­low Ger­man and com­poser Jo­hannes Krei­dler com­posed mu­sic fol­low­ing the up- and down move­ments of ‘pop­u­lar’ bank­ing cri­sis and stock mar­ket charts.

The world is chang­ing. The peo­ple and the lead­ers of the world em­brace web 2.0 and so­cial me­dia and we can’t even be­gin to imag­ine the con­se­quences this will bring. 2 days ago Pope Bene­dict an­nounced his Youtube Channel. 

Here’s a great ar­ti­cle on how to go vi­ral with Twit­ter. It’s based on de­tailed re­search on shows you 5 pre­cise el­e­ments your Tweet needs to go vi­ral. It’s a must read if you’re us­ing Twit­ter for mar­ket­ing your business.

Imag­ine you had a list of 800,000 peo­ple (like Willie Craw­ford does), how would you de­cide what prod­ucts to pro­mote? In this ar­ti­cle Willie Craw­ford shares with us 14 cri­te­ria how he de­cides which prod­ucts to pro­mote and why those cri­te­ria mat­ter. This will help you if you’re look­ing for joint ven­ture part­ners for your own prod­ucts, or if you’re try­ing to de­cide which af­fil­i­ate prod­ucts to will promote.

If SEO makes you feel over­whelmed, check out this SEO ar­ti­cle. What qual­i­ties are com­mon in Aaron Wall and all the SEO ex­perts that new SEOs can adopt, to come closer to peo­ple like these in ex­per­tise? Where do most new SEOs go wrong when they set learn­ing priorities?

Since the one and only goal of the ar­ti­cle re­source box is get­ting peo­ple to ac­tu­ally click the back­link, it is es­sen­tially a call to ac­tion. Here’s how to cre­ate an ar­ti­cle re­source box that won’t go un-clicked!

The ar­ti­cle body needs to pull your reader through to your re­source box and to your money mak­ing back link. Here are a few point­ers how to do this.

With af­fil­i­ate ar­ti­cle mar­ket­ing, grab­bing your read­er’s at­ten­tion with an at­trac­tive ar­ti­cle head­line is of ut­most im­por­tance. If your head­line sucks they won’t read it. If they won’t read it - you won’t make af­fil­i­ate money.

Key­words are im­por­tant – that can’t be stressed enough. Con­sid­er­ing that search en­gines are still the pri­mary way in which peo­ple look for any­thing on the in­ter­net, it means that peo­ple who are look­ing for things in what­ever niche you’re in, are go­ing to be do­ing so on search en­gines. Thus, when talk­ing about po­si­tion­ing your ar­ti­cles, it es­sen­tially means po­si­tion­ing them in the rel­e­vant searches, so that they’re more likely to be found by the right people.

The ‘Af­fil­i­ate Ar­ti­cle Mar­ket­ing’ Se­ries shows a step by step process to build a con­stant stream of af­fil­i­ate in­come with articles.

Here’s a pow­er­ful tool to SEO-an­a­­lyze com­pet­ing web sites and to re­search mar­kets: Aaron Wal­l’s SEO tool­bar for Fire­fox. With­out doubt a must have tool for in­ter­net marketers.

A Long Tail Key­word Phrase? Here’s the real twist… Some of the mar­keters who do get lucky and get a high list­ing for one of their main key­word phrases still don’t see the long-term re­wards they had thought they would achieve with a top search en­gine list­ing for a pop­u­lar key­word. And it’s all due to not fo­cus­ing on the „long-tail”.

If you run an In­ter­net Mar­ket­ing Blog you’re in­vited to post a link to the post that you con­sider your best writ­ing. Chose a post that you re­ally think is worth shar­ing, that you’re proud of. You can ei­ther just post a link, or you can take the chance to present your­self and to tell us why your post is worth reading.

An ef­fec­tive email cam­paign does get peo­ple back to your web­site. In fact, email mar­ket­ing can work in many ways to gain you re­sources in­clud­ing higher sales potential. 

An of­ten-quoted sta­tis­tic is that that 95% of all In­ter­net busi­nesses fail. The re­al­ity is that the vast ma­jor­ity of busi­nesses in the of­fline world fail too, so the pic­ture is not bleaker on­line. In this ar­ti­cle Willie Craw­ford re­veals ‘4 Rea­sons Why Most In­ter­net Mar­keters Fail Miserably.’

To­day’s ar­ti­cle in the ‘in­ter­net mar­ket­ing strat­egy’ se­ries is about email mar­ket­ing. If you in­vest a lit­tle time in it, es­pe­cially in writ­ing these emails, chances are good you will get great prof­its from it.

To cre­ate a suc­cess­ful In­ter­net mar­ket­ing busi­ness, you need to get your prod­uct or ser­vice in front of the client. You want those that find you on the web to come to your web­site and a lead cap­ture page. Here’s how…

In­ter­net Mar­ket­ing Strat­egy, Part 3 of 7. Any Busi­ness owner can ap­ply the lessons learned to their own In­ter­net busi­ness. There are three main parts to de­vel­op­ing a […]

What if your in­ter­net mar­ket­ing strat­egy could cre­ate a ‘Storm’ on the in­ter­net? Barack Oba­ma’s cam­paign has been called ‘The Per­fect Po­lit­i­cal Storm’. We’ll an­a­lyze it and then we’ll cre­ate a strat­egy for you to boost your web sites. 

Here’s the be­gin­ning of our 7 part se­ries about the most suc­cess­ful in­ter­net mar­ket­ing strat­egy ever seen. Dis­cover a 3 step in­ter­net mar­ket­ing strat­egy that’s guar­an­teed to drive thou­sands of new cus­tomers to your business. 

So you’re a proud owner of a twit­ter page - but what’s next? Here are 6 ideas and a few un­ac­counted tips ;-) what to post to your twit­ter page and how to get peo­ple look­ing for your tweets.

So to­day I cre­ated my own Twit­ter ac­count and I made a screen record­ing of it. It needs some edit­ing, then I will post it here in a […]

To­day’s Twit­ter se­ries’ is­sue re­veals 4 ways to use Twit­ter to jump­start your busi­ness, get new sub­scribers and fresh er­aders to your blog. You’ll also dis­cover how to find prof­itable prod­uct ideas and how to tap into a never end­ing stream of con­tent for your blog.

Twit­ter has to­tally changed the way that peo­ple com­mu­ni­cate on­line and it should be an in­dis­pens­able part of your over­all mar­ket­ing plan for your web sites and blogs. If you’re brand new to Twit­ter, or even if you’ve been around on the site for some time, in this Twit­ter ar­ti­cle se­ries you’ll find out how you can use it to cre­ate a whirl­wind of traf­fic to your blog and open the doors to a flood of new subscribers.

When it comes to traf­fic, noth­ing beats vi­ral mar­ket­ing. Find out all about the ben­e­fits a vi­ral mar­ket­ing cam­paign can bring to your business.

Does ‘Vi­ral Mar­ket­ing’ sound con­fus­ing and un­healthy to you? Well, the good news is: it is­n’t. :-) A suc­cess­ful vi­ral mar­ket­ing cam­paign is the best thing that could ever hap­pen to your busi­ness - it brings tons of vis­i­tors to your sites while oth­ers are do­ing the pro­mo­tional work for you. Read this ar­ti­cle to find out what ‘vi­ral mar­ket­ing’ re­ally is.

Want to find the hottest books for en­tre­pre­neurs? Dis­cover the mega­trends in in­ter­net mar­ket­ing and what will hap­pen in the in­ter­net mar­ket­ing niche? Learn from my suc­cesses and fail­ures and save your­self time and money? Then check out the mas­ter­mind­ing sec­tion, it’s the most per­sonal sec­tion in this blog.

Dis­cover dozens of prof­itable in­ter­net busi­ness ideas. Find out how to or­ga­nize your busi­ness to live the in­ter­net lifestyle and cre­ate the life and busi­ness of your dreams.

The most traf­ficked sites on the net are the web 2.0 sites. How can you profit? Read In­ter­net Busi­ness Mas­ter­mind’s ‘Web 2.0’ Sec­tion. It re­veals the lat­est strate­gies on so­cial com­mu­ni­ties and all im­por­tant web 2.0 sites.

Can your web site re­ally com­pete with more than 1 Tril­lion pages on the web? Here’s some good news: Un­like what most peo­ple think it ac­tu­ally is­n’t that hard to get a good search en­gine po­si­tion. There are 3 sim­ple things every web site owner can do to in­crease his vis­i­bil­ity on the search re­sult pages…

Your web site’s traf­fic is in a coma? Here’s help! What if you head a step by step con­cept for a su­per suc­cess­ful site pro­mo­tion? The 5 pil­lars of web site pro­mo­tion are all you’ll ever need to make search en­gines and vis­i­tors fall in love with your site. Check out this ar­ti­cle and boost your site’s traf­fic through the roof.

Did you know that in 2008 there were al­ready more than 1.5 bil­lion peo­ple us­ing the in­ter­net? Now think about that it only takes a few thou­sand cus­tomers to make a liv­ing on­line. How hard can it be to get a few thou­sand of 1.5 bil­lion? Not hard at all - any­body who takes con­sis­tent ac­tion is guar­an­teed to make money from the internet. 

More than 1.5 bil­lion peo­ple have in­ter­net ac­cess. All of them are po­ten­tial cus­tomers for you and me. Heck - we’d have to screw up badly not get enough cus­tomers for our busi­ness out of 1.5 bil­lion peo­ple, right? Learn about the best web strate­gies to get new cus­tomers for your business.