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A little Break From Blogging…..

May 29, 2008 at 7:13 pm in COACHING by ian · 2 Comments »

I’m taking a break from blogging. It occured to me sometime last week, that I simply don’t have that much to say. Sometimes silence is a virtue, and i’m thinking this may be one of those times.

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How Do I Make More Affiliate Sales? Easy Ways to Optimize Your Efforts

May 13, 2008 at 5:20 pm in COACHING by ian · 4 Comments »

I‘ve gotten a few interesting questions over the last few days about selling affiliate products, this one came in this morning and seems to cover a few good points that lots of people struggle with, so let’s cover it quickly and see if there is a little light at the end of the article marketing tunnel for everyone.

Hi,

I have been article marketing for a couple months now for affiliate
products like Clickbank etc.

I have enjoyed some success, but there are a [read more →]

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Pornography and Bad Marketing Advice: I Can’t Tell You What it is….

May 10, 2008 at 6:09 pm in MUSINGS by ian · Comments Off

It’s truly amazing how much bad content there is out there, polluting the minds of people who simply don’t’ know better with stupid, silly strategies to make money online. When you submit a lot of articles to the directories, you get the benefit of lots of "publishers" re purposing your content on their sites…it’s part of the deal ( and theoretically one of the advantages) of allowing your content to be syndicated freely by other site owners.

It also opens [read more →]

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Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill. But Dan & Jennifer are Making a Freaking’ Fortune

May 6, 2008 at 5:50 pm in COACHING, POPULAR by ian · 5 Comments »

As a passionate advocate of the power of the pen (and pixel), I’m always on the lookout for great sites that sort of embody what I believe makes for a stellar user experience – and exemplifies great marketing to boot: Great content, good design, (for a content heavy site) good flow, lots of user engagement and interactivity, and a great PASSION for the topic at hand

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How Can I Tell if My Articles are Good? More Quick and Easy Article Marketing Mastery

May 4, 2008 at 5:02 pm in COACHING by ian · Comments Off

Since posting a lot of the article marketing experiments last month, I’ve gotten a whole lot of questions about the intelligence you can glean from utilizing articles in your overall site building mindset…simply as a baseline metric to figure out what works well, and what does not.

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Ch..ch..ch…Changes

May 3, 2008 at 12:32 pm in COACHING by ian · Comments Off

I’m working on some exciting things WAY off of this blog…so I apologize for not posting more stuff, more often. Hopefully there remains enough interesting stuff on here to keep everyone who is stopping by well engaged with entertaining and informative content!

A few changes are coming….I will be offering a whole host of downloadable blueprints and process maps ( which I will try to make as linearly oriented as possible, albeit that ain’t exactly my writing or thinking [read more →]