Leap Before You Look – Is It Common for Online Marketers?

it was a leap before you look incident

“What are you doing here?” I asked my 9 year old grandson.

He had gone to Sunday School with my wife over an hour ago.  Now here he was coming in our front door, breathless from his run home from the church, one block away.

“I’m getting something for Nana,” he said, running up

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What Affects Your List Open Rate?

List Open Rate Factors

If you have a good converting squeeze page, the next thing you will be wondering about is your list open rate.

I am sure you’d like to know the sweet spot when it comes to the length of an email or the frequency of your emails. I don’t have that data but I can

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Repurposing Products Like the Big Guys

Repurposing products is a concept similar to repurposing content

We hear a lot about repurposing content, but have you thought about repurposing products? Both are fairly similar, it’s just that I am on a kick about putting saleable products at the heart of your business. In fact I’m writing a book about it, but that’s another story.

In any event, what you sell,

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Sure, Comment on a Blog, But… | Part 3 Don’t Defeat Your Purpose

Do not leave a comment on a blog if it hurts the blogger

So far I have told you why blog commenting is a good practice and then I provided seven tips on how to leave a quality comment on a blog. Today, I want to finish this series with four things you should absolutely not do when you comment on a blog. If you are doing

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Sure, Comment on a Blog, But… | Part 1 – Know Your Goal

Putting comments on a blog is a way to improve your own blog

Part of developing your own blog involves visiting other blogs and then writing a comment on a blog authored by another blogger. New bloggers are encouraged to incorporate blog commenting as part of their regular activity. I think that new bloggers must understand that there are many possible reasons for this advice and then

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Does Google “Suck” and Is Facebook the Greatest Kept Secret?

Facebook has increasingly been challenging Google in terms of weekly visits and finally, for the week ending March 13, Facebook surpassed Google; Facebook got 7.07% while Google got 7.03% of all visits to websites.  Hitwise calls this a milestone.

A look at the chart below will show how one year has

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Taking Time to Tackle Twitter

I only communicate in 140 characters.  Who am I?  Intellectually stymied.  Just kidding!

Twitter seems so simple: communications are brief, setting up an account takes 5 minutes or less, and sending a message is simple enough. But what is it? Controversy!  It’s social media – so it’s not for business – yes it is

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