Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) rocks.. I thought perhaps you’d like to check our a pretty good resource I found:
NeuroMarketing – Top 7 Insights To Unlocking Your Customer’s Brain For Instant Sales.
NeuroMarketing – Top 7 Insights To Unlocking Your Customer’s Brain For Instant Sales
Thursday, August 13th, 20098000 Visitors On A Sunday?!
Monday, October 6th, 2008Yesterday was Sunday. And as much as I really dislike working on weekends, I was forced to…
One of our sites, NetHackz.com, was mentioned on BBC World News!
So what did we do? We started promoting that BBC article through the social media circuit – namely Digg.com.
The result was over 8000 unique visitors coming through BBC to check out NetHackz yesterday alone! It doesn’t take a branding expert to figure out that you can’t buy that kind of promotion.
http://traffickd.com/capitalizing-on-social-media-for-maximum-traffic/
And to learn how to do social media promotion yourself – check out Traffick’d!
To Your Success!
Jason
How To Tell A Story And Win New Business
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Image via WikipediaPress releases have long been a mainstay in business. To this day, a simple press release can generate more “actionable” traffic than any other marketing medium.
But so many people do press releases wrong.
They see a big blank sheet of paper and think they need to fill it up with information about their business. They take the opportunity to write about what their company has been up to and what they believe in – but seriously, who cares?
The media doesn’t care. Bloggers don’t care. They care about the next big thing. They are all scrambling to deliver some new twist on an already noteworthy topic. That’s how they put food on the table at home.
Take the newest movie release, “Iron Man.” Do you have a process or a product that can be tied to it?
I know that you’re thinking. “My company doesn’t build flying space suits or crazy jet packs.” And my answer is – it doesn’t have to.
I bet your company does do something relevant though. You might do some of the filming techniques used in the movie. Or maybe your specialty is the special effects in the blockbuster or the design work for the posters.
To win at press releases you need to tell a story. You have to tell clients how you are going to solve their problems. It isn’t 600 words about you and 100 about your solution; it’s 700 words about your solution that tease them in finding out more.
[via MarketingHackz]
Use Your Microblog To Your Advantage
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Microblogging is on the rise at a rapid rate right now. If you don’t believe me go to Alexa.com and look up the stats for Twitter.com. I think you would be hard pressed to argue after what you will see. Based on this I think it is a good idea to provide readers with real information that they can use to their advantage. If I’m just giving you trivia info, we are both wasting our time.
So here are 5 great microblog practices that every microblogger should be using. These apply to any and all that microblog, whether you are simply giving play by play announcements of your day (you would be amazed at the number of followers Twitter accounts like this have) or you are using it like some airline companies and updating customers with real-time information.
5 Top Microblog Practices
1. Add your Pownce feed to your Tumblr account so you only have to post once. Pownce outputs an RSS feed and Tumblr allows for direct RSS submission. And use Twitterfeed.com to add it to your Twitter account. Twitterfeed.com allows you to auto post to Twitter from an RSS feed.
2. Use Tools to find friends and followers. There are two other applications that I really like that will help you expand your network: Twubble – which looks at your friend’s friends and recommends other people you could follow. Twits Like Me – which looks at your updates and finds other people talking about the same thing. Find others like you and follow them. You can find both of these tools at www.WebWorkerDaily.com.
3. TwitThis: Let others use their Twitter accounts to spread the word about you. With this handy little tool they can share what they find on your site with an automatically created short url and their own description right from your blog posts. Find it at: http://twitthis.com/
4. Stay on Top of Your Twitter: I recommend using Twhirl, found at www.twhirl.com. Twhirl creates widget like plugin for your desktop. You can update and configure various items, and monitor multiple accounts at the same time from Twitter without your browser. You can also update your Pownce account directly from Twhirl simultaneously.
5. And Last but Not Least: Remember to reciprocate the follow. Try to follow others that are following you. It simply builds good repoire.
If you aren’t microblogging yet, you should be. It’s fun, easy, quick, painless, and best of all it is a great way to socialize with customers in ways never before possible. And customers across the world are eating it up!
Smart Commenting Makes All the Difference
Saturday, May 10th, 2008Becoming active on others’s blogs in your niche is nothing new and certainly not a new idea when it comes to marketing. But being the 718th commenter or leaving comments like, “Great post!”, just don’t cut it.
The first thing you need to be doing to be a smart commenter is start using Google Alerts. This allows you to get updates from across the web on topics you decide on based on keywords; and you can get them as they happen. Using alerts like these allows you to be frequently first in the commenting on sites. And being first gets you noticed.
If you’re missing the point on why commenting is such a big deal, think about the fact that most blogs give you the opportunity to leave a URL when you comment. Your name, when displayed, will then link back to your site.
Smart Commenting
So now you have you a way to get in first on the comments of blogs in your niche. But again, cheesy comments like the aforementioned won’t do you much good. On a highly trafficked blog, you will see probably 500 of these at least. Commenting is your chance to show others’ readers that you are an authority on the topic also.
Therefore, your comments should be commentary on the topic at hand. This can include opinion, fact, reference to information, additional information not touched on in the post, and more. But it should always be topic oriented.
The Results
Many people, for whatever reason, still do not see the benefit of niche related commenting, so I am going to show you!
I put a WordPress blog about three months ago, did some posting to it for the first two months sporadically, had no ping list, and virtually no other marketing or SEO, and then let it sit. I would get maybe 2-5 visits a day (not new visits, total). I did this to get a base line.
Yesterday I began using Google Alerts and commented on every blog post that came into my email, frequently first. This is the only thing I have done differently. Below you can see the results:
Now I know these results are not great by any means, but all I did was leave 10-15 comments and they weren’t on super, highly trafficked sites. With a little good research, the proper search terms, and hitting the big sites in a niche, just this tactic can have insane results!
10.05.2008 Internet Marketing Comments