March 2011 Blog Posts (39)

The World of Social Media Marketing

Let’s start with the statistics to set the stage.

65% - Marketers who have been using Social Media for 1 month or less

14% - Businesses who outsource any part of their Social Media Marketing

9% - Marketers that are saying they are planning to decrease the use of MySpace

6 Hours – Average number of hours per week the majority of marketers are suing Social Media

85% - Marketers who say exposure is the best benefit of Social Media

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Added by Howard Larson on March 31, 2011 at 3:00am — No Comments

Pre-QUALIFY YOURSELF before joining any MLM or Network Marketing business.

You will find virtually all dicussions are about finding the right home based business thats got the right fit, the best pay plan and the product thats the next comming!

These indeed are important items you do need to consider carefully, however the most important question is about you.

Most ads for MLM's confine themselves with words like: automated, self generating, no effort etc.

Here in lies the biggest hurdle in the industry.

Fire your Boss,…

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Added by Ramsay Distributing Inc. on March 30, 2011 at 3:30am — No Comments

How’s Your Key Word Usage?

Using different words that mean the same thing can make your web page or blog post more interesting for readers and followers. It can also help you from making search engines think your site is all about some random overused term. I can across this (and quite a few other tools in my work the in the last week. This tool, the Keyword Analysis Tool helps you take a look at your use and possible under or over use of any given word or words.

Just provide the tool with a URL, and…

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Added by Howard Larson on March 30, 2011 at 2:49am — No Comments

Effect Of Universal Search Planning

Local search, natural search, paid search, pushing your web site to get higher and higher, that’s what it’s all about.

In working towards higher rankings on this level will if nothing else decrease the overall visibility of your competition. The more you “own” of the search page ranking pages the less there will be for other companies web sites. Do I need to tell you who their loss of visibility is a good thing? Additionally your ad and blog copy can start to be pushed up…

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Added by Howard Larson on March 26, 2011 at 3:15am — No Comments

Positioning Yourself For The Top Spot

That coveted top search position, so tantalizing makes my mouth water.

Now with universal search including images, product links, shopping links, social media commentary, video, news outlets to name a few of the new searchable items in the last 9 months,

Web searches and ranking has become more complex when going for a higher listing what is a search engine marketer suppose to do?

I would suspect that most of us underleverage our abilities in the area of natural…

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Added by Howard Larson on March 24, 2011 at 6:37am — No Comments

Network Marketing: "The Good, Bad and the Ugly"

My name is John Ramsay and don't think I dislike networking by the title of this blog.

I started in this 60 year old industry in 1984.

I knew nothing about MLM's, networking or network marketing. You choose the name.

I started before cell phones, tweets, facebook or pagers. You wanted to share your business, you called them on a land line or got in your car and drove to see them. That was the bad part. The good part was there was no one in your business you…

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Added by Ramsay Distributing Inc. on March 22, 2011 at 9:31am — No Comments

The Latino Market

I'm always trying to stay ahead of the curve and understand whats happening in the online world. There's a conference going on now in N.Y. at the Hilton named, Focus Latino and its all about the Latino online market and how and why companies should reach out to the Hispanic Marketet. Google made a move that shook the ground in Latino Marketing, Google knows that companies are just scratching the surface as far as reaching the Hispanic Market online. Hispanics are throwing up big numbers online.… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on March 22, 2011 at 12:39am — No Comments

8 Ways To Test Your Website

Some handy tips here from Infusionsoft.

It's a great idea to get into the habit of looking at your website regularly with 'fresh eyes' - as though you are a customer looking at it for the first time. What do you see?

Lindy

8 ways to

Test Your Website

Your…

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Added by Lindy Asimus on March 21, 2011 at 10:45am — No Comments

Googles New Social Media Site Circles

I'm not sure if this rumor is true or not because Google hasn't admitted to it yet,

this rumor started last Sunday and if the rumors are true, Google is about to

launch a Social Media site named Circles. This is supposed to be one of Google's

top secret projects where you can have multiple Social Circles named immediate

family, co-workers, extended family, best friends, old friends and so on. You can

set it up so all your circles can view… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on March 20, 2011 at 12:41am — 2 Comments

Where are your Back Links (and other stuff)

As a piggyback from yesterdays blog today’s [post is a Free SEO Tool called

Backlink Analyzer for search engine optimization. The SearchBliss Backlink Analyzer will report the total backlinks for your website and list the top (up to 100) URLs by value linking to your site.

It’s like putting your kid’s pictures up on your refrigerator or office wall but now it’s your business that you want decorating search engines walls and offices with awards and certificates, people…

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Added by Howard Larson on March 19, 2011 at 1:49am — No Comments

Marketing Bill Of Rights For Newbies

We should have a Bill Of Rights For Newbies, actually we do, its called (TOS) or

Terms Of Service on Marketing sites. Don't get me wrong, we were all guilty of spam

at one time or another, especially in the beginning. I didn't have a clue and

wouldn't listen to anyone so I was a loose cannon myself but the longer I was

online and began to see how annoying spam could be and how instead of gaining

respect I was gaining enemies, I began to see… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on March 19, 2011 at 12:05am — 2 Comments

Have You Hit A Marketing Ceiling?

I know you've probably been through this before, working like a dog and at some point feeling like all your hard work is all for naught. Well I'm here to tell you that its an illusion and that your mind is playing games with you because we have at our disposal 2 of the most powerful Marketing tools ever invented and those 2 things are YOUR COMPUTER and THE INTERNET. The possibilities are endless, my revelation came when I thought I had hit a marketing ceiling and sat back and thought about the… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on March 18, 2011 at 3:00am — No Comments

Watch Your Back. . . Links

Social Networks Backlink Checker is a Free SEO Tool for search engine optimization. Social networks have become important part any SEO campaign. Check any website's back links on the major social networks with this SEO tool, including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and more for free

At the most basic level, search engines try to find results that are useful to real people. For that reason, social signals of linked in sites are starting to carry more importance. So if you want to…

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Added by Howard Larson on March 18, 2011 at 2:34am — No Comments

What Is a Rumor Worth?

Marvin Gaye

I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Ooh, I bet you're wondering how I knew

About you're plans to make me blue

With some other guy that you knew before.

Between the two of us guys

You know I love you more.

It took me by surprise I must say,

When I found out yesterday.

Don't you know that...

I heard it through the grapevine

Not much longer would you be mine.

Oh I heard it through the grapevine,

Oh and I'm just…

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Added by Howard Larson on March 16, 2011 at 3:43am — No Comments

Stepping Up Your Marketing Game

We've all heard for years that, CONTENT IS KING and I agree totally, content will always be king even if they change the protocol from http:// to something else. The problem seems to be that, you can have the best content in the world, the best blog, articles and so forth but if you don't know where to place that content its a waste of time and energy. In other words are you a member of the correct Marketing sites that offer powerful link love? Below is a few ideas which may help you with this… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on March 16, 2011 at 2:44am — No Comments

Home Business Hopper Syndrome

I'm sure I will piss more than a few people off with this post, but so be it because I'm trying to save a newbie from wasting time and money here. If you throw a rock into a crowd of people, the only one that will scream is the one who got hit. This is a serious problem in the industry and below I'll show you why.

1. Learn your computer functions: Your mind shouldn't even be on a Home Business if you don't know your computers basic functions and I don't care what people tell you or… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on March 15, 2011 at 1:50am — No Comments

Is Your Marketing Balanced?

This can be a problem if you're all over the place with no sense of direction like I used to be until I settled down and formulated a plan of action for my product and services. Below are a few of the techniques I've incorporated into my Mental Shift Marketing campaign and s0-far it seems to be working, I know its relieved a lot of stress I used to have every morning.

1. Who's buying your product? If you don't know who to target, how are you supposed to know where your market is? You… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on March 15, 2011 at 12:59am — No Comments

Mental Shift Marketing Ideas

I'm under the impression that we as Marketers and business owners have a responsibility to our customers, it can't be just about money, money will come if you help enough people get what they need as far as Zig Ziggler believes and I totally agree. There has to be a Mental Marketing Shift in my opinion and we all have one, there's no way we can continue with the old ways of marketing that were so successful in the past. People are too computer literate and the information age has arrived, they… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on March 14, 2011 at 2:09am — No Comments

Parallel Marketing

There are millions of Marketing techniques out here and while some techniques work for some, some work for others. I'm in the process of creating my own unique parallel Marketing techniques that fit me and my direction, we may all have different avenues to reach our destinations but we're all headed in the same DIRECTION I feel, how we get there is up to us and what we feel comfortable with. We can use systems that are already in place and adjust accordingly and in my case I didn't invent… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on March 14, 2011 at 1:10am — No Comments

Think Outside Of The Box

The other day I was asked what strategy do I use in my Marketing scheme and after

careful thought my answer was, my strategy is choosing what not to do. The

marketing competition is getting fierce out here because people have so many

choices, thats why I think I made the correct choice in getting involved with a

company that had a Shopping Mall, I have the ability to give people more choices.

Instead of telling prospects what my service and… Continue

Added by Paul Hines on March 13, 2011 at 1:04am — No Comments