Monday, June 09, 2008

Recommended Reading For Social Marketers



Recommended Reading For Social Marketers

The one constant in the world today is change.
Whether you are talking about our offline lives
or the worldwide web, nothing stays the same
very long at all.

In harmony with this, we are all having to find
new approaches to old challenges, and new business
models to replace old ones. Someone to watch
closely is Scott Boulch. I have been reading a
few of his ebooks today, and am totally blown away.

I will post links to a few hear in a minute, but
first want you to note something different about
these offerings. The links I post will be my own
affiliate links, but you will be able to download
the ebooks totally free of charge.

True, you will have to opt-in and sign in via a
username and password but neither Scott nor anyone
else will be trying to sell or upsell you when you
read the books...

So why is an affiliate link needed? Well Scott will
pay fifty cents for each ebook downladed. So once
you sign in, get your affiliate link and post it on
your blog, send it out to your list or just put it
into your forum sig files. It is the easiest $.50
you will make today. Lol

Now let's talk about the ebooks:

The Internet Marketing Cure - This is the first one
I read, and should be yours too. This will start you
off well to a different viewpoint toward your IM
business. Scott makes the bulk of his income from
non-IM niches, so what he has to say has much
more value than most of what it out there.

The Death Of Adsense - You've probably read a
dozen or more reports and ebooks that started with
"The Death Of" whatever. This is the ebook that
started it all. It is also an amazing book, that teaches
you more about marketing than any other book I've
read in the past year. In the backroom of this site
you will also get "Life After Adsense" plus a couple
of bonuses. As with The Internet Marketing Cure,
you will not have anything pitched to you...

The Quick And The Dead - Tens of thousands of
marketers paid a lot of good money for just a portion
of the information found in this ebook. Even if you
were not one of them, you will know which products
I am referring to once you read this ebook. And please
note that they don't give you all of what is here. Which
is probably a weak attempt to keep it from being too
obvious that they were essentially plagiarizing Scott
Boulch with their products.

While you are at it, you might as well go and grab
Scott's VIral TellAFriend Script HERE

I'll let you go now, as you've got a
lot of reading to catch up on...

Eat a peach!

Floyd Bogart

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Review Of SocialMarker.com



Review Of SocialMarker.com

My regular readers have probably noticed the
little bookmarking widget after my sig on each
post. This leads to a site called SocialMarker,
and looks like this:



This is a site that allows you to go through and
bookmark whatever you wish on almost fifty
different social bookmarking services. Check
out the list and I am sure you will find most
if not all of your favorite social bookmarking
services.

The utility allows you to fill in various fields
ahead of time and then autofills those fields
on each of the sites that you have checked as
services you want to bookmark with. It does
occasionally miss a field or two and force you to
retype the info you want bookmarked, but that
is the exception.

I like the look of just this one little widget better
than having a whole flag of those little 80x80
badges at the end of each post, or even in my
sidebar. Those of you that have been with me
for a while probably remember when there was
a whole army of social media banners, widgets and
badges everywhere you looked.

Having settled on just the Integrated Digg badge
at the top of each post, and the SocialMarker widget
at the end, I am quite a bit happier with the look it
gives my blog and I also find that my readers use
them far more often. The Digg badge also gives the
current number of diggs for each post, which often
encourages a reader to add their Digg.

By using SocialMarker.com I may be missing a few
Social Bookmarking services that are being used out
there, but not enough to clutter my blog up to the
point of distracting readers.

Hopefully there is still enough for me to say that it
is better to get that info across than to bury it in
a mass of tiny squares.

Eat a peach!


Floyd Bogart

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

How Social Marketing Helps When Both Of Your Notebooks Crash




How Social Marketing Helps When Both Of Your Notebooks Crash


You may wonder how that could possibly be...

How could Social Marketing help when both of
your notebook computers crash?

Well, it helps when you spend a couple of days
rebuilding your files, downloading all of your
software again, and you finally take the time to
look at your blog and find that your Alexa ranking
has improved by almost a hundred thousand sites.

The real beauty of Social Marketing, Networking and
the whole Web 2.0 thing is the way that it builds
your traffic even while you are busy doing other
things. Your sites keep getting traffic, and your
readers are posting comments, and sales are made...

So it helps your peace of mind more than anything
else, but that is sooooo important when you are
dealing with malfunctioning equipment.

So while I sort through fifteen hundred emails and
deal with assorted tasks dealing with my sites with-
out benefit of most of my files, new people found
my blogs, sites and lenses. Regular readers kept
on visiting and posting. And my own little corner
of the internet continued to grow.

There is no shortcut to this, it is all just a matter
of doing the assorted tasks, and interacting with your
community and you become a part of the stream in your
niche.

And it feels great...

Eat a peach!


Floyd Bogart


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