The peacemakers may be blessed, but do rabble rousers have more influence? It's well-known that controversial blog posts make great traffic magnets. Get people riled up, and they'll post more comments, write opposing posts on their blogs (getting you more links), deride (and link to) you more in Twitter, etc. Picking a charged topic and...
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One of the worst mistakes I ever made in my online business was waiting too long to start building a mailing list. My next biggest mistake was waiting too long to start using it right. For several years, I gave away a free version of one of my products without capturing email addresses. Thousands of...
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When I heard the other day that Jason Potash and Jason Katzenback are launching a new autoblogging course/system, it caught my attention. Not because I'm planning on becoming an autoblogger, but because I wondered how any big-name marketer could be pushing autoblogging these days. I downloaded their "free report" and gave it a read. It...
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Terry Dean posted an article on his blog today about how drastically the words you use can affect how your message is received. He drove the point home with an interesting example: Apple currently owns phone with their iPhone. Google launches the Android. ... The Android talks about how they have an OPEN system while...
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Today, Ryan Healy posted some advice to his blog that most of us have ignored before: If you're building your business solely on top of a fickle web-based business like Google, Facebook, or Twitter, I strongly advise you to BE CAREFUL. All it takes is one tweak of an algorithm... one revision of the Terms...
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