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A completely revised and updated edition of the BusinessWeek bestseller on effective, modern marketing and PR best practices The New Rules of Marketing and PR shows you how to leverage the potential that Web-based communication offers your business. Finally, you can speak directly to customers and buyers, establishing a personal link with the people who make your business work. This new second edition paperback keeps you up-to-date on the latest trends. … More >>

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, 2nd Edition

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Nowadays, web blogs or simply â??blogsâ? are continuously making a big name in online marketing because they are considered as a powerful marketing tool to make the siteâ??s promotions be more effective and to better reach their potential customers. In fact, blogging has become a critical business strategy for most website owners to make their online business be successful. Listed below are some of the main benefits of web blogs in online marketing:

Source of Traffic

Providing good traffic to your site is one of the main reasons for creating and updating web blogs. By posting relevant articles on your blog, you can direct visitors or customers to check out your site.

Source of Backlinks and Help Increase SERP

In addition to driving traffic to a website, blogs can also be a good source of backlinks. In web blogs, you can provide a link pointing to your main site with using of your targeted keywords. Through this, it will not just provide your site with higher link popularity but also help increase your keyword rankings in search results.

Help Build Online Credibility

Establishing good online reputation and credibility is another importance of web blogging. Basically, if your site has wide-knowledge or understanding on the services or products your site is offering, customers will become more convinced to believe in your business. Making your site credible and reliable is very essential to make the business last longer.

Turn Visitors into Customers

Blogs can be considered as effective medium to turn visitors into customers. Through providing interesting and informative articles related to your offered services or products, this will let them realize the benefits of availing your offered services or purchasing your products. With the help of blogs, you can also easily discuss the importance of your products in a more detailed and convincing way.

Get Feedbacks from Customers

Through blogging, you can also get some feedbacks about your products or services from your customers. This can be one of the most cost-effective and easiest ways to know if your services are excellent or still need some improvements.

Indeed, web blogs are really highly-useful for online marketing and link building (SEO). If your online business have not yet started to create a blog, then itâ??s never too late. Have your own blog now and update it with unique, interesting and informative articles to help boost your siteâ??s traffic and lead your site to its road of success.

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www.trafficmagnetstrategy.com – People are constantly making mistakes when it comes to affiliate marketing through blogs. I show you the right way to do it in this video

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Top Email Marketing Blogs

This article contains information on 3 of the top email marketing blogs. In no particular order, these blogs provide valuable commentary for critical challenges facing email marketers. Some content is suited for intermediate level marketers, while other posts will appeal to advanced email marketing practitioners.

1. http://email-marketing-strategies.com by Forest Bronzan

Overview: The Email Marketing Strategies blog provides analysis of email campaigns & strategies implemented by name-brand companies; mostly retail brands. The blog also provides tips and insight for a broad range of email marketing strategy.

About the Author (from the blog): Forest Bronzan is an internet marketing strategist and entrepreneur located in Redlands CA. Forest has extensive experience leading marketing and business development for international startups, along with developing strategic frameworks and deployment strategies for a wide range of email marketing programs.

2. www.banane.com/workblog by Anna Billstrom

Overview: The Adventures in Email Marketing blog covers a broad range of topics on email marketing, with additional discussion of SEM and SMM strategy.

About the Author (from the blog): I started this blog to talk about the issues and concerns surrounding ethical and effective email marketing. I’ve been focusing on email marketing since 1999. I have a background in OLAP datamart design, software development, integrated systems development, customer datamart modeling, and application integration. While I have done Web 2.0 and internet marketing consulting for startups, usually my contracts are with corporations that have large datasets.

3. http://blog.wordtothewise.com by Laura Atkins

Overview: The Word to the Wise blog has in depth discussion on a plethora of email marketing practices. Archived post topics range from authentication and deliverability to list management, feedback loops, and segmentation.

About the Author (from the blog): Laura Atkins is a founding partner of the anti-spam consultancy and software firm Word to the Wise. I have over seven years of experience in tracing Internet abuse and am a recognized leader in the anti-spam arena. At Word to the Wise, I advise clients on how to manage mailing risks, to respond to spam complaints, interact with ISPs, and navigate the ever changing and challenging world of email delivery. I also act as a neutral arbitrator during discussions with ISPs and blocklists.

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Have you ever wondered why some people achieve their goals and objectives much faster than others despite not being as talented as you? While talent is important, those who persevere and achieve success typically have a plan for success. They think through contingency plans well before issues arise. This is a Network Marketing Leaders tip; do you have a plan for success? Let me explain…

Network Marketing Leaders, born or lucky?

A lot of people are capable of outstanding business leadership; the vast majority of people fail in Network Marketing, in fact only 3% make over a thousand dollars per month. The people who walk across the stage and cash the biggest checks each week all have one thing in common, consistency. They are the people who measure growth in incremental gains and clearly understand that the path to greatness is littered with mistakes, challenges and adversity. They consistently measure and improve performance, day after day, which ultimately leads to excellent results. I promise they didn’t get out of bed one day and were all of a sudden Network Marketing Leaders; they studied, failed and learned. Luck has nothing to do with their secret to success and leaders are not born, they are developed through taking action, failing and learning. At the end of the day, the best network marketing leaders actions are in line with their thought process and dreams. They take action. Leaders have a clear mental picture of what they want, why they want it, and how to move closer to the target, a well defined plan for success. A few weeks ago I referenced a post on the mlmbuz.com blog which talks at great length about vision and the importance of understanding the “why” behind your business. You will hear people say they are victims of network marketing scams and get upset when a leader tells them they must make sacrafices to achieve life changing wealth, the network marketing leaders take action, not make excuses. Have you ever heard of someone who is “smoking, just tearing it up” and then 60 days later; this so called network marketing leader is gone? This erratic performance is a result of erratic planning, so the first step to building a network marketing plan for success is to have a clear vision of what you want. Network Marketing Leaders invest an inordinate amount of time thinking, planning and clarifying their goals and targets, as well as mapping out their action plan. Their consistency in performance is the direct result of knowing why it is necessary to perform well and the benefits that will accrue, especially when the going gets tough and pain sets in. Remember, that Consistency is also created by practice, taking action. Leaders are usually perceived as having more talent, and sometimes that might be the true, but the majority of the time talent has little to do with success. Leaders understand the value of investing time and resources needed to achieve success. They know, you either make excuses or make money, but you will not make both. Practice may not make perfect (perfect practice does), it does create consistency in performance which is critical to your network marketing success.

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Online Blogs otherwise known as blogs are websites in which items are posted on a regular basis. Blog is a widely used shortened form of weblog. In fact it is an online journal and writing it is known as “blogging”. Individual articles or entries in your blogs are known as “blog posts”. Today online blogs have become a handy tool in the hands of many successful internet marketers who have harnessed the power of these blogs to boost their internet marketing business.

Blogging is indeed one of the best ways of boosting the visibility of your business. By having a blog in your website or by linking your blog to your website you can develop a regular stream of traffic to your website.

By blogging regularly or preferably on a daily basis you will start building a regular readership and followers who will return frequently to read your updates. This is regular traffic for your blog and website.

Unlike in a website, a personal touch and the human element can be brought to play in your posts which will have a better reaction and appreciation from your readership which will in turn bring in potential new customers and clients to your online business.

Search engines love fresh content and regularly updating your blog with keyword optimized quality posts will automatically attract the spiders of the search engines to crawl your blog frequently, index it often and appear in the search results. This will attract other bloggers too to link to your posts thus providing several back links to your blog. The obvious result will be an increase in your link popularity and your page rank.

The online blog can provide to your customers and visitors all the latest information about your products and services, promotions and future plans so that they will keep on visiting your site regularly and frequently.

The advantage of a blog is that it provides the opportunity for your customers and visitors to make their comments on your posts or products thus enabling them to build a rapport with you. It also provides you with the opportunity to take their comments and views seriously and rectify any shortcomings and device ways and means of improving your online business.

Regular posting of blog entries about the theme of your blog, giving regular business advice, reviews about new products and other industry news will automatically generate a lot of traffic. The visitors will before long accept you as an expert in your field of activity and end up as your customers thereby boosting your online business.

Another great feature of online blogs is the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) or Atom feeds. This enables transmission of frequently updated content like blog entries, news headlines and podcasts in a standardized format such as summary of content or the full text instantly to subscribers to your RSS or Atom feeds. Using RSS or Atom feeds makes it possible for your regular visitors to keep up with your blog and internet marketing business in an automated manner which is easier than checking them manually.

There are over one hundred and fifteen million blogs out there in the Internet and most of the bloggers enjoy blogging. On the other hand smart internet marketing webmasters who have realized the advantage of having online blogs are reaping the benefits of having blogs that costs them nothing.

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Blogging is the next level in marketing your business. If you do not know that then you have been living under a rock. Having your own personalized blog is the most important thing that you can use for your internet business.  If you have been anywhere online you have noticed that all the top internet marketers have one not to mention celebrities, nfl players, nba players, big businesses, anyone that is serious about their business and what they do; have an online presence with their own blog.

Now I have to ask you, why don’t you have one? You may think that it is hard to set one up, or to find content to put on it. Setting up a blog is really not that hard and can be really fun to do as well.

The benefit of having a blog is that it will position you as a leader in the industry, you can use social media to help generate traffic to your blog. The more traffic that you get, the more recognition, the more income that you will create and that is what you want.

People are always researching on the internet especially using google. Having your own blog rank on google will help people find you and to see the value that you offer and want to keep coming back to see what new information that you have for them. You must find your niche, know what you want to specialize in when you create your blog. If you want to help people you have to know your target audience and give them all the information that they can use to help them be successful.

Blogging is really fun for me because I love to write and use my mind to think, grow, educate and inspire others. There are all types of blogging platforms you can use and all kind of content you can provide it is totally up to you.

If you want to be an online presence and you want to be positioned as a leader and start to generate massive leads, create your blog today. You want to make sure that you post content on your blog everyday and if that is not possible at least 3-4 times a week, be consistent so that your readers will know you, trust you and therefore keep coming back.

If blogging is something that you never considered well you should start to really think about it and learn the tips that can make your blog a conversation piece in the industry.

Wordpress.org is what I use because I can host my own blog, meaning I can put whatever content on it that I want without wordpress shutting it down because they may not like my content. Always remember to have great informative content and that will never happen.

If you are interested in  blogging and using social media  and various marketing strategies to help generate traffic to grow your business please visit: The Next Level for FREE training today!

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If youâ??re reading this blog, chances are, youâ??re a new Internet business owner, looking for marketing advice. Or perhaps youâ??re thinking about joining an MLM program or a cash gifting club and are looking for information on how to market your opportunity. Either way, blogging is one of the one of the best ways for YOU to get going in the online business community.

A blog (short for weblog) is an online journal containing regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Blogs could be about anything, from strictly personal life observations to pop culture gossip.

So why should an Internet entrepreneur, such as yourself, maintain a blog? Itâ??s quite simple. Blogs are a GREAT way for you to increase traffic to your business web-site while creating a trust relationship with your readers. The ultimate goal of your blog should be to increase visibility of your online business web-site, NOT to sell products or services. If you try to â??plug inâ? a sales pitch in the middle of your blog, at the very least, the readers will be put off and leave and at the worst they will flag your blog as spam or inappropriate content. On the other hand, if you provide quality content, a vast majority of your readers will repay you by checking out your opportunity.

The other major added bonus of posting blogs is that they create whatâ??s called â??back-linksâ? to your web-site, which is something that search engine spiders look for when they determine the position of any given web-site in the search rankings. More blogs = higher position in the Google and Yahoo! search engines.

So, how do you write a quality blog? How can you attract prospects to your online business without overtly â??sellingâ? them something? No one likes to be sold to, but everyone likes to buy. The key is to write your blog in a way that doesnâ??t aggressively â??sellâ?, but â??helpsâ? the potential customers make their choice in favor of your product/service/opportunity.

For example, letâ??s say your business is selling electronic cookbooks. You might think that it would be best to write a blog like this:

â??Super-Duper-Crazy-Cookbooks.com is EVERYTHING an aspiring chef could only dream of!

For only $9.99 get HUNDREDS of recipies, including rare dishes from Taiwan and Morocco!

Surprise your guests by whipping up our famous chocolate-strawberry souflee!

Create incredibly tasty meals for the whole family in 20 minutes or less!�

You get the idea. There are a couple of major problems with this blog. It sounds a lot like an ad and doesnâ??t provide any educational content, thus it is likely to be flagged or ignored by a majority of readers. Also, it is an extremely weak piece as far as search engine placement because it doesnâ??t have any â??keywordsâ? in it. Keywords and key phrases are what a person types in when theyâ??re searching for things on Google and Yahoo. In the example with cookbooks, they will look for â??the best Indian food cookbookâ?, â??electronic cookbook reviewsâ?, â??best Chinese recipiesâ? and other such key phrases.

Think about what it is that you have to offer that is unique and interesting. Perhaps, using the cookbook example, itâ??s your exotic Ethiopian food recipies. Then, it would be a good idea to target that audience by providing a blog like this:

â??Ethiopian Food â?? Is It The Right Choice For Your Family? Recipies, Cooking Tips etc.

Ethiopian cuisine consists of spicy vegetable and meat dishes, served atop injera, a large sourdough flatbread. Ethiopians eat with their right hands, using pieces of injera to pick up bites of entrées and side dishes. No utensils are used.

Ethiopian cuisine is gaining popularity with families in America: the children are allowed to eat with their hands while getting a highly nutritious meal, filled with lean protein and vitamins.

So, is Ethiopian food the right choice for your family? You decide! Here is an easy-to-prepare recipe of one the most popular Eithiopian dishes, provided by Super-Duper-Crazy-Cookbooks.com:

The recipe is here.�

A couple of notes about this blog: it provides something of value for free which is going to be appreciated by many people; it also contains many search engine key phrases such as â??Ethiopian dishâ?, â??Ethiopian Cusineâ? etc., which vastly increase the chances of this blog being found on the Internet.

Once your first entry is written, create an account with as many of the major blog sites as you can. Itâ??s a very good idea to post your blog on at least 6-7 blog sites (you may wish to use a blog disseminator). If you havenâ??t yet joined an online business opportunity, make sure you ask your team leaders for help with blogs. For example, I provide a list of the best blog and article websites to my team along with detailed tips on how to post the blogs without any problems. Remember that the more blogs you write, the more people will go to your website. I would recommend writing a blog every other day for the first month after your start/join an opportunity.

I hope this was helpful to you! I wish you the best of luck in your blogging endeavors.

Brad Smith

blueoctopus@cox.net

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