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Crash Cash Creation Questions – When Article Marketing is OPTIMAL (and when it SHOULD be Avoided as well)

Jun 30, 2010 at 12:32 pm in KARMA by ian · 8 Comments »

Is article marketing always effective?

Is FREE traffic always the best strategy? When do I personally find article marketing to be a waste of time, energy, effort and even income?

Let’s take a quick look at one of the more common questions I get about launching a traffic strategy for a new site, service or offer, and how I personally parse out whether or not article marketing is a good choice for the market as well.

(remember….as with everything i reveal, recommend [read more →]

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Wide Awake

Jun 23, 2010 at 8:22 pm in COACHING, KARMA by ian · 3 Comments »

“I FIND YOU GUILTY OF THE CRIME OF SLEEPING AT A TIME….WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN WIDE AWAKE"

What are you MOST passionate about?

What do you TRULY believe you are here to accomplish?

I can remember the night I really heard the lyric above for the first time. It was about 3am in the morning this past November, and I was listening to a bootleg live performance of the song ‘WIDE AWAKE’ by the rock band Audioslave.

I was [read more →]

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Article Directories and Incoming Links: Crash Crash Creation Questions Re-Loaded

Jun 22, 2010 at 7:58 am in KARMA by ian · 2 Comments »

Got questions? Good! I’ve got answers. Or at least answers that work well for me……(they may not do the same for you, so you are encouraged to put them to the TEST, and not take my word for it)

The good news? I am revisiting my Crash Cash Creation Question series of posts and problem solving strategies, and if you enjoyed the ones I wrote a year ago or more…I think you’ll enjoy these too.

What are [read more →]

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The Paradox of Price…..and the Fallacy of Free

Jun 7, 2010 at 9:57 pm in COACHING by ian · 4 Comments »

In this short(ish) post……, I’m going to dispel one of the MAJOR marketing myths that keeps MANY people in the perpetual poorhouse…and in MY view, one of the chief obstacles that keeps many people NOT BELIEVING they can truly succeed marketing themselves ONLINE…..or off.

The idea that you’ve got to have LOTS of free stuff to give away……to make money.

Or to attract attention, build rapport or offer genuine value you’ve got to trip all over yourself to be cheaper, more accessible [read more →]