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Give Me 10 Minutes and I’ll Teach you How to Write a Killer Testimonial

February 20, 2010
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Guest Author: Jenny Meadows – Jenny’s website is MyCopyEditor.com
“Give me 10 minutes and I’ll teach you how to write a killer testimonial”
When someone asks you to write a testimonial for them, do you say, “Sure! Glad to! You really helped me a lot!” Then you turn away, thinking, “What can *I* say that anyone would [...]

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I have a Blog, Now What?

April 21, 2008

So you have a blog now and you’ve written your first few articles. What you want to do is start promoting your blog (sometimes referred to as an RSS feed).
To submit your RSS feed or weblog URL for maximum exposure and search engine visibility, you must get Robin Good’s Maximum ExpoRSSure – Best Blog Directory [...]

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What is RSS? Learn about RSS Feeds.

April 21, 2008

I find the term “RSS” (or RSS feed) is quite the buzz now in conversations with business clients wanting more exposure on the Internet.  This is because we’re all talking about using blogs for business.  Every blog has the ability to syndicate articles (written in HTML) via this RSS protocol to directories that aggregate RSS feeds, search engines, [...]

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Source for New Articles – RSS Resources for Webmasters

April 21, 2008

By creating a niche resource, webmasters are viewed as industry experts and their websites are more likely to receive incoming directory links. A number of publishers provide free content, the only stipulation being that the webmaster serving the content must include the author resource box. Webmasters utilizing free content can easily create portals teeming with [...]

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Free Tutorial Information on RSS

April 21, 2008

Here is a good starting point for you…
http://my.yahoo.com/s/about/rss/index.html - Yahoo! has an excellent source of information on RSS and their goal is to make it easy to understand and accessible to everyone. They offer a free RSS reader online in your MY YAHOO area. Highly recommended.
Now here’s a very cool feature from Yahoo!: Create a custom [...]

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Direct Marketing with Blogs

April 21, 2008

Good’s article covers a real-world example of a fellow marketer that illustrates the benefits of blogging to build web traffic in order to create new business. He compares blogging to classical direct-marketing techniques (hint, blast everyone you know with more email than they can read whether they want it or not anymore). Remember, blogs use an [...]

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Video Blogging Example

April 21, 2008

World on Fire.
Go here to watch and listen: http://www.worldonfire.ca/
This is a POWERFUL example of what peer-casting can be like. It’s also an example of how one person can bring about a new way of thinking about the money we spend in the United States and how we could do it differently.  Though I realize Sarah [...]

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What is Podcasting?

April 21, 2008

This is from a Wikipedia (free encyclopedia) at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

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Podcasting is different from broadcasting and web casting in that it “casts” audio not by a mechanism of centrally pushing audio out to listeners, but by the mechanism of the (distributed) listeners pulling (downloading) the audio files automatically. Podcasters publish (or “podcast”) audio files, even in [...]

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Amazon’s A9 Launches Visual Yellow Pages

April 21, 2008

  

“A9’s new offering works much like other online Yellow Page directories. You can search by business name or category, and get a list of results that are near your current location, with each identified with an icon on a map. Click on a listing for a business, though, and the results are very different [...]

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Free Internet Information Tracking Tools

April 21, 2008

So what’s all this good for?

Alerts and instant notifications
Monitor where your name or campany is being used on the Internet
Keyword ranking in search engines for your website pages
Competitor watch – blogs,  formal news channels and newsgroups
Website downtime

Check out the links to these mostly free online resources:http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2005/01/07/online_tracking_tools.htm
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About the Author: Bill BakerInternet marketing professional working in Austin, [...]

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