In: Blogging Help, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing

Earning a Living Blogging?

by Scott Frangos

One of the newer online business models is Blogging. That’s right. Nowadays there’s a good number of people earning a living from their blogs, and a lot more earning a good side income from blogging. How? Well it’s a combination of the old-school business… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Will Google Offer Amnesty To SocialSpark & PayPerPost Bloggers?

A new convergence of Social Networks, Bloggers, and Advertisers came together in the Izea service, “SocialSpark”, which was launched earlier this year. Here, an experienced blogger and Social Media Marketer, Andy Beard, expresses his concerns about how paid blog reviews, and their sources, are being penalized in search rankings, inconsistently in his view, by Google and other search engines.

by Andy Beard

Since the first real information came out… Continue reading

In: Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Advertising on a budget — Part 2: Thinking small

Advertising on a Budget in the newspaper

by Michelle PW

This is the second article of a three-part series. I’m illustrating the marketing challenges of a small business, PrescottWeddings.com. Here’s where you can find “Part 1: Using print to drive traffic online.

Our goal was to both build the PWC brand and drive traffic to the Web site. Advertising regularly was essential. Yet it was… Continue reading

In: Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Advertising on a budget — Part 1: Using print to drive traffic online

Often, BlogMasters and WebMasters forget the power of offline advertising in their focus on SEO, SEM, and other onlline marketing tactics. But offline advertising is still a very powerful way to drive traffic to your website(s)… just take a look at this case study that profiles how a Bridal Services website grew to 40,000 hits per month.

By Michelle PW

This is the first article of a three-part series… Continue reading

In: Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Seven Questions to Ask Before You Advertise

Advertising your Site

by Michelle PW

Most business owners and managers keep a fairly close eye on their marketing budgets.

And nothing throws a budget out of whack faster than advertising.

“Running small, inexpensive ads can be a good way to test certain marketing aspects before launching big, expensive, time-consuming campaigns.”

Advertising, or paying good money to get your message in front of your target market… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Copy Writing, Copywriting Matters

How Not to Write a Press Release

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As a writer, part of the “art” in your work involves dealing with clients. This article on writing a press release (or how not to write one) brings up an excellent point — you’re writing a release so that the editors who receive it will decide to publish it. Well, Michele “PW” is going to tell you all

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing

Social Media and Full Court Marketing

By Scott Lindsay

TalentDatabase.com Site Home Page
Above, the homepage for TalentDatabase.com is well thought out, and well designed. Each section (I looked at Comedy and Magic) has a well designed section graphic, and is populated already by a number of listings. [Ed.]

It would seem that the marketing potential of social media sites is a fairly open book. I came across a social networking site called… Continue reading