2 Simple YouTube Traffic Tips
Firm nailed for fake testimonials and forum posts
New York cracked down on a plastic surgery firm that was posting fake testimonials and positive comments on the web. That firm will enjoy paying $300,000 in fines for their sleazeball actions.
Better idea: Have a good product that real people make positive posts about.
Full details from the Office of the Attorney General.
Please comment below...Finding “free to use” images in Google
Google now has a way to let you search for images that you can use for free, based on the creator’s usage rights. Read more on Google blog.
Looking forward to your comments...42 Seconds to my FaceBook URL
Was I lucky? It took me just seconds to get my FaceBook URL. I was expecting a slow crawl and crashed servers. Instead, it was smooth and quick.
ClickBank Blog links to my video on How to Increase ClickBank Conversions
ClickBank just released a blog post with a link to my video about how I increased ClickBank sales 22.8% using a simple 5-minute tactic that I teach in my QuickieProfits site.
As ClickBank says, “There are no tricks or gimmicks here: Jeff’s technique just increases customers’ willingness to buy by increasing their level of trust and making sure they know what to expect throughout the sales process.”
http://www.clickbank.com/blog/2009/05/22/an-easy-way-to-convert-more-sales/
Or go directly to the video at:
http://www.quickieprofits.com/public/186.cfm
Post a comment below...Marketing Quickies 3 released
Marketing Quickies 3 is a “business in a box” that gives you, for a significant investment, the rights to sell memberships to a site that provides marketing quickies similar in concept to my own QuickieProfits.
Owners get a complete membership site set up and ready to go, plus three new videos each month.
What about you? What do you think?$100 Million says pay attention to Microsoft Search
According to a recent Advertising Age Article Read here Microsoft plans to spend between $80 and $100 million on an ad campaign slated to start in June of 09. The idea is to boost Microsoft’s search share up from the paltry 8.2% of all consumer searches as measured between February 2008 to February 2009. During the same period, Google grew its share 7% to 63.3%, and Yahoo was up 5% to 20.6% share, according to ComScore.
What does that mean to you? If you can do some SEO to help out your results on MSN search – now would be a good time to plan ahead. If you haven’t advertised there, it might also be a good time to experiment so you can benefit when the ad budget kicks in.
Will advertising pull Microsoft out of the cellar?
That remains to be seen, but Microsoft is betting $100 million that it will. Probably not a bad idea to make some plans to capitalize on that.
Please! Take 27 seconds to leave your comment below so I can get the ten comments I need to keep updating this blog...Watch out for this email virus
I just got this email:
I’ve seen a couple of these come through, and these are NOT LEGIT.
Notice the email address in the FROM: field.
I have no doubt that if I opened it and unzipped the file, I’d be installing a virus on my PC.
This is an especially easy scam to fall for if you are a marketer and you do actually send product through UPS. I do, and it almost got me.
So, what is your thought on this? Let me know!Do you Tweet to an audience, a bar booth or an earlobe?
Some people treat Twitter like they are speaking from a stage. Some like they are talking to friends in a booth at the local bar. And some like they are whispering in your ear.
How do you Tweet?
As I look at those I’ve followed and unfollowed, I think the ones I like best are the bar booth types. They treat Twitter like a conversation among not-so-close friends. Sometimes its a bit personal. Sometimes it’s a good joke. And sometimes they tell me something valuable I didn’t know before.
Audience tweeters seem to talk like they are on stage. Big statements. Authoritative pronouncements. Like they are trying to get quoted or retweeted with every post. Gets a bit tiring. Like the guy who monopolizes conversation at the PTA meeting.
Whisperers are too personal for me. I’m interested in you – but not that interested. I like to know what you are working on, what good resources you use, and every once in a while something funny you come across.
I don’t really care where you drink what coffee or what time you go to bed (every night). Not worth the mental bandwidth I have to spend to read it all.
But the interesting thing about Twitter is that what works for me might be different for you. That’s fine. We each find our own path.
I do think it bears some thinking as to what path we take, and that some consistency is good.
What do you owe the people following you? I think you owe them some time, effort and attention. Finding the balance that works for you is the challenge, and I think it’s different for everyone.
Are there other kinds of Twitter users I’m missing?
Make sure to comment below!7-minute interview: What should I do in internet marketing?
I am frequently asked by beginners, “What should I do in internet marketing?”
In this 7-minute interview with Ryan Lee, I talk about the first things a beginner should think about.
Note: The first thing is NOT to run out and buy the next shiny new product out there. Think first.