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Alexa Rankings Suck.

By on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 | 5 Comments

I am no longer using Alexa rankings in any serious way when I analyze a website. I used to love Alexa rankings, and checked the cool little Alexa bar on the bottom of my Firefox browser every time I went to a site. But unfortunately, it’s just not very accurate anymore. Whether it ever was, [...]

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Back To The Future Marketing

By on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment

In the 90′s I started a small business, which went from $350,000 in sales to $1,360,000 over an eight year period. The most successful form of marketing? Networking. To be specific, networking with contractors. I joined the local Home Builders Association, and faithfully attended every golf tournament (that was easy!) participated on committees, and generally [...]

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Mobile Marketing Campaign Preparation- Upgrade Your Blog

By on Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 | 5 Comments

If you’re planning on running a mobile marketing campaign (and it would be foolish not to!) here’s what you can do to optimize your wordpress site for mobile. If you’re not convinced this is a good idea, let me just point out a few quick facts: -Ebay did $500,000,000 in sales in 2009 on MOBILE [...]

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How To Create A Cool Facebook Fan Page URL

By on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 | 13 Comments

Do you have a Facebook Fan Page? If not, you should! Unlike a group, a Fan Page shows up outside of Facebook, is an easy and free way to promote your stuff, and has a great chance of growing virally. But it comes with a lousy looking URL! Learn how to create a much better [...]

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Wow! Edge Marketing System Is Taking Off!

By on Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Well, we always thought the Edge Marketing System was a good idea, but it’s taking off like crazy! It’s all over Twitter, Facebook and Youtube, and growing all around the world. If you haven’t seen it yet, check this out: Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d654′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });

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Sorry, but I’m divorcing my Facebook Friends

By on Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | No Comments

I have been a big fan of Facebook for a long time. Even after they banned my first account (my fault!) I still loved them. But now there is another “Facebook Slap” that is going to shut down a LOT of users accounts, and I don’t want any part of it! Facebook is big. REALLY [...]

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Understanding Alexa Ratings

By on Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Alexa ratings are a very handy and useful way to gauge how much traffic a site gets. The premise is very simple. Alexa dot com tries to measure how much traffic all sites get in relation to each other. For example, currently they rank Google as number one, followed by Yahoo, Facebook, and Youtube. But [...]

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Serious Lessons From Recent MLM Failure…

By on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Sometimes we learn more from failure than success. Let’s take the recent MLM failure of three companies. Efusjon, Buzzirk Mobile, and iJango. And let me make it clear that when I say “mlm failure,” I’m not saying the companies have gone under, but have simply had massive public image “crash and burn” experiences. First of [...]

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Twitter Marketing With TweetDeck

By on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 | No Comments

One of my favorite Twitter marketing tools is TweetDeck. (http://tweetdeck.com/beta/) It’s a better way to use Twitter than Twitter itself! If you are using Twitter in your marketing, TweetDeck allows you to view all your relevant info in one simple console. It’s a free download, and currently considered beta software, but I haven’t had any [...]

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