I’m sitting here spewing coffee again. Jeff Herring is one of my favorite article marketing guys because I love how much fun he has writing articles. Not only do his articles educate and inform you, but they’re fun to read too. That’s a good thing!

When you learn from the best, you realize that working online doesn’t have to be hard, difficult or dreary, it can be fun, intense and rewarding. That’s what I like. Jeff Herring offers key concepts in a fun and entertaining way, and I enjoy learning new concepts from his blog posts and EzineArticles content. So I read it, and I often write similar articles about my own topics, because they work!

If you’d like to know how to write entertaining and informative articles – visit my Ezine Profile Site and learn. Sign up to receive notice of my new articles and enjoy viewing the best – faster. 

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Profitable Blog Posts – 3 Quick Tips for Pulling More Profits From Your Blog Posts (As You Deserve)

By Jeff Herring

Blogging is a great way to get your content in front of your prospects and followers, and to increase your profits. Now if you are one of those folks who still believe you should not try to profit from your blog, just do us both a favor, stop reading this article now, and just go back to doing whatever it is you do on your blog.

But if you are interested in profiting from your blogging, read on, because I’ve got some good stuff for you.

3 Profit Pulling Blog Post Tips

Blog Post Tip #1 – Lose the Lousy Headlines – I want to invite you to imagine something with me. Think back to the most boring class you ever had in school. You know the one that made you want to run for your life at the thought of sitting there for another hour.

OK come back to now (that class is over for good) and let me ask you something: Why would you ever create a blog post title that was as equally boring as that class?

For example, this article could have come at you with the title “3 Important Points for Better Blogging.” And you probably would not be here reading…

Instead the title is “Profitable Blog Posts – 3 Quick Tips for Pulling More Profits from Your Blog Posts (As You Deserve).”

That is not by accident. Just as it is not by accident that you are reading this article.

Blog Post Tip #2 – Have Fun With It and Make It Fun – Blog about things that you care about and with which you can have some fun. The more fun you have with your blog post the more fun your reader will have.

Consider the teachers in school or later speakers who you really like to listen to. Don’t they have the ability to make almost any subject fun

Why not do the same exact thing with your blogging? The extra benefit here is that not only is it more fun, your make more money this way too.

Blog Post Tip #3 – Ask for an Action – Don’t just leave your reader hanging, ask them to do something. Of course this can be a call to action for an offer, nothing wrong with that all. And there is so much more you can do. Instead of just asking them to comment (ZZZZ) ask them to take the next success step and download something that will help them achieve their goals. Ask a question and invite their answers.

Bonus Tip – If you are going to create profitable blog posts you need to be able to create great content whenever you want. And it just so happens that I have 2 great Content Creation Templates waiting for you at http://JeffHerring.com/2contentcreationtemplates

You’ll get 2 Content Creation Templates plus suggested titles and examples to follow. Get them now and get started before your head hits the pillow tonight!

From Jeff Herring – The Article Marketing Guy – passionately spreading the gospel of Article Marketing

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By Jan Verhoeff

Do you want to become a leading expert in your field? One that is highly paid, sought out, and with more work than you could ever possibly hope to handle?

Who doesn’t?

The challenge with becoming an expert in some fields is the amount of time you’ll either spend being educated, or the amount of time you’ll spend doing the work to achieve some level of expertise. Either way, you’re going to spend considerable time achieving your goal.

Experts in Internet Marketing have the option of proving their expertise as they learn it. An Expert Coach will help you learn the best practices in your industry.

Let me show you how.

1 – Research Phase

You’re researching your field of interest and writing down the important details you’re learning, or writing down the steps you take to achieve your goal. Either way, you’re writing down important materials as you go about doing the research. The end result of that writing COULD be articles that provide knowledge and information to others who are researching the same topic online. An Internet Marketing Expert will give you solid suggestions to follow, helping you acquire solid information faster.

2 – Active Use Phase

As you use and apply the information you’re learning, you’ll be testing and retesting the process, sharing your information as a testing user of the information. The process of sharing this information comes as articles written and published for the use of others indicating your own expertise in the field. That process results in ready access to the content and the results. Internet Marketing coaches show you how to effectively activate your business for fast profits and greater benefit.

3 – Leadership Phase

As you use and apply the information you’ve learned, there will be others who want to know what you know. The average person shares knowledge with many people in their lifetimes. As a leader in any given industry, you’ll be stepping up to teach others and help them with their own issues in the industry. Your own leadership skills in a given industry will result in teaching and training of those who are there to learn what you know. There will be many.

4 – Coaching Phase

Once people have begun to learn from you, you’ll be coaching them to continue the learning process, most often in a paid capacity. Being a paid coach is important because it can dramatically increase your income. Learning how to become a great coach comes from having a coach that is actively involved in making your business profitable.

5 – Beyond Coaching Phase

The next phase may not actually have a title, but it does come after coaching. It’s the phase where you begin to realize the value of using and teaching your product. Each portion of these phases comes into this phase, because they’re all relevant to what you’re doing at any given point in your experience. The purpose is clear. You’re there to help others.

If you want to know more about becoming an expert in your field of interest, come to http://janverhoeff.com and find out how you can make money online too.

Copyright 2011 – Jan Verhoeff

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This hot topic is brought to you by Brian McCoy, sharing the latest information about marketing online. With all the clutter of information out there, it’s no wonder many of us walk away wondering who do we believe? The answer is try it out, use it yourself and see what works for you. No one thing will work for every marketer. Use what works for your online business.

Internet Marketing Resources

By Brian McCoy

The current hot topic on the internet, Internet Marketing Resource, is catching the eye of one and all. It has slowly but surely dawned on people that money is synonymous with internet marketing through legitimate activities like promoting affiliate products, selling on eBay, and developing and selling your own products.

The main crowd-puller for internet marketing is the absence of any barriers to entry. Also, there is freedom from having huge capital to do internet marketing. If you compare the amount required to market your product on the streets to the amount required for internet marketing, you will go for the later without blinking an eye.

Now, let us come to the topic of internet marketing resources. The majority of the internet marketing resources are either free or very cheap. To increase your earning potential, you have to have a website of your own. If you have a limited budget, do not panic. Registering for a domain costs less than $10 and the cost of various domains is also on the cheaper side.

Next, you can build your site by using free tools, editors, HTML creators, etc. You can also use blogging websites like Blogger.com to simplify your process.

Another important internet marketing resource is a good marketer. If you are good at marketing, there is still always room for improvement. Utilize available top marketers who will help you place your advertisements in the right places. If you cannot find a mentor or afford to hire the resources of a top marketer, subscribe to the free newsletters of various “guru” marketers. Study their newsletters carefully, and within a short span of time you will gain enough knowledge to market your product in the best possible manner.

The biggest resource in internet marketing is Time. Taking the right steps at the right time goes a long way in deciding whether your campaign will work with your target audience or not. With any marketing activity you carry out, just ensure that you have done all the research about it and then choose to go ahead with it.

So as you can see, internet marketing resources are plentiful and it is up to you to use them carefully and in the best manner possible.

To learn more about Internet Marketing, visit Brian’s IPC Program site.

Author: Brian McCoy is a top internet marketer and works with industry leading marketers from around the world. He devotes the time, energy, and effort into his team and works with them to ensure their success.

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Occasionally, an article comes out that points everyone in the right direction without having to be rewritten or edited to meet the needs of my readers. This article is one I highly recommend and wanted to share on this website, because there is so much information about SEO and other online resources necessary to build your business online.

Free Online Marketing Resources That Boost Your SEO

By Kelly Heck

There are many online marketing options you can pursue, both paid and free, whether or not you have a website. The best part about using your online resources is that your image and message is not set in stone like a print ad.

Following are free marketing ideas to get the ball rolling.

Free Online Marketing Ideas

• Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn…)
• Free Websites (WIX.com, among others)
• Blogging (Blogger, WordPress) and Free Blog Templates
• Blog Commenting
• Press Releases, 250-400 words with up to 2 links
• Search Engine Profiles (Google Maps, Manta, Yelp, Yahoo Local, Bing, Merchant Circle, Citysearch…)
• Link Building: self-instigated and natural
• Video Marketing (YouTube, vimeo, Yahoo Video…)
• Article Marketing (Ezine, which you are visiting right now!)
• Industry Association Profiles (Chamber of Commerce, among others)
• Directory Submissions (Yahoo Directory, DMOZ Open Directory Project, Business.com…)
• Google Analytics (to track the success of your online marketing efforts)
• Online Communication (include links in your emails… perhaps a visually appealing Email Signature?)

Taking advantage of free online marketing opportunities should be done patiently over time. Because online marketing is also an SEO endeavor, search engines keep track of your business’ trust factor. In the event that you tackle all of these suggestions at once in the course of a few days, search engines may take that as someone trying to cheat the system, and in doing so, you may in fact HARM your online presence.

Instead, take your time! Schedule to complete one or two per week and mix up the method with which you are marketing. This week, perhaps fill out two new business profiles and write a blog post. Next week submit your previous blog post as an article to an online article marketing website. The following week, send out your news worthy press release to local news reporters; do not forget to include a helpful FULL link (http://) to your website in the article. After that, post a video to YouTube and update your Facebook and Twitter pages (or gosh almighty, start them if you haven’t already!!!).

Be the authority figure in your industry. In doing so, your consistent, online marketing efforts will be targeted towards helping and informing your audience. In turn, your website traffic and business can slowly increase.

Link Building = SEO = Marketing

NOTES:

If you are new to online marketing, begin with a few tactics rather than jumping into every resource at once. A slower, planned approach will allow you to feel comfortable with a few new responsibilities rather than overwhelmed with everything.

It is recommended that you ‘claim’ your spot, however. For example, if you are not ready to maintain a Twitter account yet, set up the account and ‘claim’ your business name before someone else does. For example, you could claim “http://www.twitter.com/Your-Company-Name”. With Facebook you can set up a ‘vanity url’ at “http://www.facebook.com/username”, but you must have at least 25 fans to be eligible for this feature.

The real concern is that if someone else claims YOUR name, they can write ANYTHING and that may misrepresent your company and your image. Should someone else have claimed your unique name, however, there are still ways to have the name transferred to you where appropriate.

Begin your new, online advertising adventure today and add reminders in your calendar to pursue this activity regularly! Microsoft Outlook is great for this, as you can enter reoccurring events!

Kelly Heck, Web Design & Development
InfoPathways Inc.
http://www.infopathways.com
(410) 751-9929 x105

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Small businesses online need a lot of resources to keep their businesses profitable and to maximize their marketing efforts. The resources listed in this article are valuable for making your website do the most for you and for getting the most from your marketing efforts. Use them well.

Internet Marketing Resources For Small Businesses

By Chris Wills

As a small business owner you want to minimize the number Internet marketing tools you use so you can focus on what is necessary and nothing more. This list isn’t intended to be the end-all-be-all list of Internet marketing tools. Instead, it will help you focus your attention on the tools that will help you get started with the goal of increasing your online presence.

Analytics: What are people doing on your web site?

• Google Analytics: Free web site analytics tool that gives you all the web site statistics you could want and more. It doesn’t have as many features as some of the paid analytics tools but it provides most of what you need at a price that can’t be beat. If you want to understand the data provided by Google Analytics beyond the basics, you should check out the book Web Analytics: An Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik.

Email Marketing: Keep people informed of your business.

• There are a lot of great email marketing applications available. Most of them provide a free trial. Make sure you take advantage of this time to learn the product and ensure that it has all the features and reporting that you need.

Paid Advertising: Get noticed when people search for terms related to your business.

• Google AdWords: When people search Google they are usually presented with paid results at the top and right side of the results page. You can position your ads in these locations by using Google AdWords. AdWords allows you to select the keywords you want to advertise for, determine how much you want to spend, and create your ad copy. There are hundreds of articles on how to setup and use Google AdWords. A great place to start is with own AdWords page.

Resources: What else is available?

• WebMarketingTribe.com: A collection of the web marketing articles, blog posts, and news submitted and voted on by site members. There are a lot of interesting articles from around the web related to Internet marketing.
• Google Webmaster Tools: Tools to help you find problem areas with your web site. Find broken links, submit your sitemap, and see how people are finding your web site.

Search Engine Optimization: Optimize your site for listing in search engines.

• Site Mapping: Site mapping tools are a great way to ensure that Google and other search engines find all of the pages on your web site. There are several site mapping tools available. I’ve had good success with XML-Sitemaps.com, a free tool that crawls your web site, sets page priority and frequency change, and outputs a sitemap.xml file for you to add to your site and submit to Google using Google Webmaster Tools.
• Google Local: Add your business listing to Google so people searching in your local business area can find you.

Social Media: Share and contribute to the community you serve.

• Twitter: A micro-blogging tool that you can use to keep your followers informed about your company, products, services, events, etc. Posts or “Tweets” are limited to 140 characters which keeps the information concise. Stand alone applications such TweetDeck and Twirl are highly recommended.
• Facebook: Facebook’s popularity is at an all time high. You can use Facebook to start a group focused on your company and you can also participate in other groups related to your service/product to assist people and gain recognition in your field.
• Linked-in: Similar to Facebook, Linked-in also provides groups you can start and/or join to help people in your field of interests.

Of course there are hundreds of other applications and sites available which provide more information but this will give you an excellent starting point. Just make sure you focus your attention only on the areas you have time for. Trying to accomplish too much at once will spread you too thin and cause your Internet marketing programs to fail.

Chris Wills is the owner of Marketing for Mavens, a company helping to simplify Internet marketing for small businesses. To Learn more, please visit http://www.marketingformavens.com or follow on Twitter.

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