Online Marketing

MLM Recruiting: How to Recruit People to Your Business Effortlessly

MLM recruiting is the ONLY thing that will build a significant income in your MLM business. Use these principles to explode your recruiting efforts.

Home Based Business Coaching

  • Planted: 2nd Feb

Network Marketing Recruiting: How to Recruit People like the Pros

Network Marketing recruiting is the ONLY thing that will build a significant income in your Network Marketing business. Use these principles to explode your recruiting efforts.

Home based Business Coaching

  • Planted: 2nd Feb

Burning the members, a good or bad thing?

Everyone has a different stance on whether you should prune your users. No answer is correct, but there are positives and negatives that come with purging users from a database. So, today we are going to  highlight some of the pros and con’s of purging us

  • Planted: 24th Jan

BlogEngage – Free Blog Blasting, Link Building, Community Giveaway!

The BlogEngage blogging community - here's what it is, how it can help you build backlinks and traffic to your blog, and a chance to win free Gold and Regular membership!

  • Planted: 23rd Jan

the art & business of crafting your online self

how do you communicate the “essence of you” online? your online identity becomes the sum total of the information you share online. sharing information, forming relationships, and allowing your personality to show through creates an interesting & authoritative online persona that can truly market your business and grow your network.

  • Planted: 11th Mar
  • Buzzed: 14 times in 1 year 47 weeks
  • Invites: 3 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Useful Blog Networking Sites

The Point of This Post (yes, I do have one) is to share a few websites I've joined since becoming a dedicated blogger.  Bear in mind that I have only been blogging regularly since last August, so this may be old news to you.  At any rate, I've found these sites useful in building my blog:

  • Planted: 17th Jan
  • Buzzed: 6 times in 1 year 2 weeks
  • Invites: 1 member is inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Does Alexa ranking matter to you?

One topic that bloggers and webmasters always seem to debate about is Alexa ranking.  In case you do not know what Alexa ranking is, it is a ranking system that is based on traffic to your site.  I relate it to the Nielsen ratings for TV.  Alexa makes their determinates by looking at traffic from those users that have the Alexa toolbar installed.  Many folks in the web world will make a judegement that the lower your Alexa scorte, the better your site.  For example, Google has an Alexa ranking of 1.  It seems that bloggers are split right down the middle with s

  • Planted: 12th Mar
  • Buzzed: 6 times in 1 year 47 weeks
  • Invites: 2 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Why You Blog

I recently blogged about the benefits of blogging and how it has helped my writing and my aspirations to become published. Why do you blog and how does it help you?

  • Planted: 2nd Oct
  • Buzzed: 5 times in 17 weeks 6 days
  • Invites: 4 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Tag, Anyone?

This is just a blogger game of tag - great way to have some fun and get links back to your blog. 

Okay, these are the rules -

(a bit generic  - I borrowed them from an old game of tag and then just tweaked them a bit):

  • Planted: 4th Nov
  • Buzzed: 5 times in 1 year 13 weeks

Blogging For's Official 7 Link Challenge Response #7links

Recently, Darren Rowse from Problogger.net put up a challenge for bloggers.

It's pretty simple:

Write about 7 links you want to share with other bloggers, one of which links out elsewhere and if you want, you can talk about the links you've chosen. Add a little summary for each.

Here's what the 7 link challenge asks:

1. Your first post

2. A post you enjoyed writing the most

3. A post which had a great discussion

4. A post on someone else's blog that you'd wish you'd written

  • Planted: 23rd Jul
  • Buzzed: 5 times in 1 year 28 weeks

Pros and Cons of High Posting Frequency on your Blog

How Will Regular Posting Effect My Blog?

Posting frequency can increase traffic in a few different ways.

  • Planted: 27th Dec
  • Buzzed: 4 times in 1 year 5 weeks
  • Invites: 3 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Humor in your blog posts

Most bloggers tend to write very serious blog posts. That is good as many people are reading blogs to learn new things. But I feel it can be too serious to only write about serious topics. Once in a while it could be a good idea to mix it up and do something more humorous. What is your view on this? 

  • Planted: 20th Mar
  • Buzzed: 4 times in 1 year 45 weeks

What motivates people to work hard and make a difference?

Forget everything you know about how to motivate people - whether at work, at school, at home. According to Daniel H. Pink, the author of the New York Time's bestselling book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, we've got it all wrong.  

  • Planted: 7th Mar
  • Buzzed: 3 times in 47 weeks 5 days
  • Invites: 4 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Going Local - How do YOU Use Social Media to Boost Local Business?

Those of us who are active in Social Media realize it's value as both a new form of expression and as  a new form of promotion.

But many local businesses still don't "get it". They don't understand the whole social media phenomenon and are skeptical that it has anything to offer their local business.

But can social media be an effective advertising, marketing or sales tool for local business? How have YOU used social media to boost local business?

Join the discussion on this post!

  • Planted: 8th Feb
  • Buzzed: 3 times in 1 year 51 weeks
  • Invites: 1 member is inviting Guest Posts on this seed

How I Feel About Facebook

Let me begin by admitting that I use Facebook daily.  I’m not a big phone person and I currently live in the boonies, so I like being able to share in Facebook’s Buffet of Amenities.  Besides, the initial idea behind Facebook is nothing short of stupendous.  You get to keep in touch with friends and family, reconnect with old acquaintances, and publicize businesses and events – for free.  Convenient, huh? 

That being said, I think the whole thing has been a bit too used and abused.

  • Planted: 2nd Jul
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 31 weeks 1 day

9 Reasons Why I'm Choosing to Self (Indie) Publish

Recently a friend mentioned something to me that made me firm up my decision to do this on my own.  She pointed out that the sample of the manuscript I sent her was in the wrong font and spacing for agents to read and that they would likely just throw it out without giving it a chance. She was being kind in pointing it out but the thing that struck me is, fuck that!  I like the font I write in.  I use it because I like to read it and how it looks.  I really don't care if someone doesn't like it.  That's a stupid reason not to read something.

  • Planted: 2nd May
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 39 weeks 5 days
  • Invites: 2 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

A Blogger Challenge

Literary Legs recently published a blog post entitled The Seven Link Blogger Challenge, and I thought I'd borrow the idea for a bit.  It's a great way to unearth old posts.

  • Planted: 22nd Jan
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 1 week

Losing your audience! 5 steps to lose your readers!

As a blogger, I love getting traffic and readers checking out my blog. I takes time and effort to build your audience base and keep them.

  • Planted: 21st Jan
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 2 weeks

Introduction to Search Engine Optimization - SEO Basics

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is one of the disciplines within internet marketing. The first step towards learning seo is to understand how search engines work. You have to understand how they work before you can optimize your web site. There are two main components in search engines, the crawlers and the algorithms.

  • Planted: 10th Sep
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 21 weeks

Why Do So Many Blogs Fail?

If you think about blogging, and the reasons why people give it up, you can start to see that blogging is really a community thing and without community, it starts to get pointless, lonely, and feels like a waste of time.

This is the same for both business and personal blogs.

This topic generated a lot of interest on my blog and it's a great one to get people talking. Suggestions for developing the conversation:

  • Planted: 27th Aug
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 23 weeks
  • Invites: 2 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Why "Fake It 'til You Make It" Is Bad For Your Business - And What To Do Instead

Too many people are taking the idea of "fake it 'til you make it" to extremes, and doing harm to themselves and others along the way.  Is it time to reconsider the wisdom of this philosophy? And is there an alternative to "faking it"?  Join in the debate at the Motivation 101 Blog!

  • Planted: 27th Aug
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 23 weeks

You Don't Need a Niche!

You may or may not have heard that in order to “make it big” in blogging, you must define yourself in one particular niche. That is, your content should be focused on one major category or variety of sub-categories that more or less all relate to a single topic of interest.

You may or may not have heard that in order to “make it big” in blogging, you must define yourself in one particular niche. That is, your content should be focused on one major category or variety of sub-categories that more or less all relate to a single topic of interest.

  • Planted: 21st Jun
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 32 weeks

3 Disadvantages of Guest Posting and 5 Tips for Handling Them

It's true, guest posting really is one of the best ways to promote your blog. Guest posting has created opportunities for me that would've otherwise been impossible. I've been able to network with people from all over the world, something I couldn't even fathom a little over a year ago. So with guest posting being all the rave, how could there be a downside?

  • Planted: 12th May
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 38 weeks
  • Invites: 2 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

How to Protect Your Email From Spammers While Entering Giveaways

There has been talk amongst the blogosphere about spammers picking up email addresses from giveaway entries. I do not want that happening to anybody- especially readers of legitimate blogs. So please remember follow the tips to keep your email address safe and away from email address swipers.

  • Planted: 26th Apr
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 40 weeks

Content is the New Black

After spending way too much time on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook lately, I can’t help but notice the amount of content people are generating and aggregating. I follow people “professionally” on Twitter and LinkedIn, and I see articles and blog posts on almost every topic imaginable. People are using social media to develop their personal and professional brands.

So is content the new black? Is content replacing creative?

Maybe replacing isn’t the right word, but content is definitely making a comeback.

  • Planted: 2nd Apr
  • Buzzed: 2 times in 1 year 44 weeks
  • Invites: 2 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed