Posts Tagged ‘Marketing’
Interested in Creating an eBook? 9 Outstanding Resources
Ebooks are a great way to market your site. If your ebook is full of some great content and you give it away for free, generally people will talk about it and link to it. Basically giving you a ton of great back links.
If the purpose of your ebook is to make some money, than you can make it a little longer and sell it online. At a lot of publisher sites, you can set up affiliate programs which will allow others to make money by promoting your book. Whats better than that?! I have compiled a list of resources from how to write your ebook, places to publish, and how to market it.
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Tags: ebook, Marketing, Resources
Boost Your Marketing Through Facebook, Email, and Social Media
Today I want to focus on setting up your marketing or advertising campaign. Promoting your site or business is a must if you want to stay around and it’s imperative to making any kind of money. Luckily there are quite a few was to market your site or business online.
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Tags: email, email marketing, facebook, Marketing, Social Media
Reap Loads of Traffic Through Effecient Marketing
There are a lot of social media sites and a lot of different kinds. There are social news sites like Digg and Reddit. There are also social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. With so many different sites and so many different genres, how do you know what site to target for traffic with your articles?
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Tags: Marketing, Social Media, traffic
HOW TO: Measure Social Media Marketing Success
One of the hardest parts of marketing through social media is measuring the success or failure of the campaigns. If you are just running a blog you can measure success or failure by the amount of traffic you receive. When you traffic starts to boom after a recent social media campaign, obviously it was a success. If your traffic stays the same, you need to try something else.
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Tags: Marketing, measurement, metrics, Social Media
4 Essential Articles About Marketing
This week I’m going to focus on marketing and today I have four articles for you. There are many different aspects of marketing and I’m not going to fixate on any particular angle but provide you with a bunch of articles which you can choose which direction you would like to go.
Social Network Marketing: Getting From Zero to Critical Mass
This is a great article from Andrew Chen. In it he talks about building a social network and how difficult it can be. If you are looking to start a social network or a forum or even a newsletter, than this is a must read article.
The Economics of Giving it Away
This article is from the Wall Street Journal and basically talks about why people give things away and why it’s important. Back in the day (which the author describes as anything before September of last year) someone would come up with a great idea, raise money to start it, let as many people use it for free, and then sell it to a bigger company. MySpace fits that model to a T. Read this article if you planning on starting a business online.
Top 10 Social Media Myths Busted
If you are looking to market through social media than read this article about social media myths. Who knew that naked avatar pictures and mass replying on Twitter was a bad thing?
Marketing: Social Media’s Hidden Bubble
Assuming that you have been around social media sites and have been reading blogs, you most likely have heard about social media consultants and experts. Are there really experts in something so new? Anyone can be a consultant for anything and then charge astronomical amounts of their opinions but it’s hard to tell who actually knows what they are talking about. Check out this article and be skeptical before you start forking out the cash to a social media expert.
Tags: Marketing, Resources, Social Media
Build a Community, Connect With Your Readers
If you are looking to make an impact in the very saturated blogging world, you need to create a community around your blog. A community that is involved in your site will add extra information through their insight in comments and on a forum if you site has one.
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Tags: community, Marketing, Social Media