Archive for February, 2010

Posted by Ross Vaughn On February - 25 - 2010

Optimizing a website for search engines requires a lot of consistent effort. Many internet marketers expect immediate success in ranking high on search engines, and they soon realize that this is not possible.
This article presents the common mistakes which people make in search engine optimization (SEO).
- Failure to apply constant effort in optimizing [...]

Posted by Ross Vaughn On February - 25 - 2010

In the beginning, e-mail was the one way that viral marketing was started. Since that long ago day, viral marketing has gone from a marketing strategy to an art form and there are many ways to accomplish the objective of creating a successful viral marketing campaign. Seven of those ways are:
1. E-mail: It was first [...]

categories: viral marketing
Posted by Ross Vaughn On February - 24 - 2010

Created for Miami Advertising Agency Crispin Porter and Bogusky by The Barbarian Group, the Subservient Chicken is a viral marketing promotion of Burger King’s line of chicken sandwiches.
The campaign is based on a web site that features a person in a chicken costume. The actor performs a wide range of actions based on a user’s [...]

categories: viral marketing
Posted by Ross Vaughn On February - 22 - 2010

E-books are the future and the future is now. The printed word on paper and bound into books used to be the only way information was given and received. They were great, you could take them with you and put them on shelves and they do still exist and will continue to for the foreseeable [...]

categories: viral marketing
Posted by Ross Vaughn On February - 19 - 2010

Your website is where your business resides — it’s like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practise good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.
Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation [...]

categories: Web design
Posted by Ross Vaughn On February - 18 - 2010

If a person visits your website and leaves, chances are that he or she will not come back, especially if there are no compelling reasons to do so. After all, we all behave rather impulsively on the Internet, so much so that we can easily forget where we were 10 web pages ago.
But the bottom [...]

categories: Listbuilding
Posted by Ross Vaughn On February - 17 - 2010

Can you ever avail of free website promotion? Is that even feasible?
Of course yes! Nowadays, your baby website can amass huge traffic in no time thanks to free website promotion.
How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are things to be done?
1. Enlist your website.
Look for the hottest Internet directories and enlist your [...]

categories: Advertising
Posted by Ross Vaughn On February - 16 - 2010

One of the powerful tools in online “email” marketing is to build an opt-in mailing list. An opt-in mailing list is a database of peoples’ names and email addresses that have subscribed to an email list via a web form giving that list owner permission to send them periodic emails on the topic they are interested in. The best gift of this powerful tool is the possibility of being able to talk to people who are particularly interested in your product, service or organization.

This gaining popularity of building opt-in mailing list is known as Permission Email Marketing.

There are do’s and don’ts in starting your opt-in mailing list. Here are some of the most important tips worth mentioning:

categories: Listbuilding
Posted by Ross Vaughn On February - 13 - 2010

You’ve written and compiled an ebook. Now you have to decide how much to charge for it. Finding the right price is essential to the success of your product. If you charge too little, people will think it’s of little value, and they won’t purchase it, or even it they do buy your book, you [...]

categories: product creation
Posted by Ross Vaughn On February - 12 - 2010

The first time you set up your own blog, your only intention was to start a new hobby something that would keep you busy during long, insomnia-filled nights or slow, lazy days at the office. You didnt care about blog traffic and how many readers your posts got. You wrote and posted only for your [...]

categories: Blogging