April 24th, 2009 — Branding, Internet Marketing
With the introduction Google’s recent introduction of FriendConnect (look in the bottom right-hand corner of this blog!) and the profile pages you can build for your profile ON FriendConnect, it was just a matter of time before Google started to index those profile pages in their very own search results.
Depending upon how well you use it (Such as filling out good titles for your links, and content rich information in your “About Me” section) you may see a message like this on your Google profile like it appeared on mine this afternoon.
Your profile is eligible to be featured in Google search results. You can find your profile at <link here>.
Here are some ways to share your new profile with your friends:
- Add it to your IM status message
- Link to it in your email signature
- Note it in Google Reader
- Post about it on Twitter
- Share it on Facebook
These last three were dynamically created based upon the services which were hooked up in the Add Links section. Make sure to set a vanity URL that matches your name as it appears in all other social media.
The awesome thing about it is that you can link to every last thing in the universe that you’re on from here. FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Friendster, Your Blog(s), You Article Marketing Feeds, Reddit, Delicious, YouTube, YouNameIt!
In my few tests, Google’s profile page for the user name in question (for several of my nomes de plume (sp?)) came up in the first page of results again and again.
Conclusion
If you want to be found set up your own Google Profile, and link to every last thing in the world with your name on it (that you’re proud of, at least).
To sign up, just do so over in the bottom right of my blog in the “Friend Connect” box using the “Join This Site” button. and you’ll get started right away in setting up your Google profile.
March 4th, 2009 — Internet Marketing
The Microsoft Kumo Search Engine (not Cumo or Kumho) may be MS’s rebranding of the same old MS Live Search, but it may also be Microsoft’s re-emergence into the search engine space.
Kumo Search Engine
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February 26th, 2009 — Blogging, Branding, Copywriting, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Small Business
I’ve become quite a bit more active on YouTube recently, creating a series of videos featuring me, little cartoons, and delivering presentations.
Whilst wandering around the favorite videos of some of my newest YouTube friends, I discovered something that reminded me of some of my earliest education in psychology: the “art”, as it were, of brainwashing.
Watch the following video from the creator of a popular MLM (Multi-Level-Marketing) program and notice the unusual use of the word “prompting” at time marker [0:29]. I had never heard this term used in this way prior to watching this video:
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February 23rd, 2009 — Copywriting, Google, Internet Marketing, SEO, Search Engine Optimization
I’m trying a few new things in this Search Engine Optimization post. First, I’m working on an outsourceable model of video creation. 
Witness the video and how it’s not ME! It’s my words, and my direction, but not me. Heck, you can probably even see hints of my own mannerisms in the character, but it’s not me.
This type of “productization” of my knowledge is one of the goals I push my clients toward regularly (you know who you are!). I, too, have suffered from the malaise that my most meaningful content is hard to separate myself from.
Perhaps this medium can allow me to do so. Now, onto the meaningful SEO tips !
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February 10th, 2009 — Entrepreneurship, Internet Marketing, Marketing, Small Business, Telemarketing, Teleseminars
I just spent the weekend in Orlando and had the most amazing time. I met some fantastic people and was able to pick the brains of so many wonderfully skilled and caring people.
Having the skills without the caring doesn’t matter. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have a drunk derelict who would give his life trying to save mine administer CPR than a triple PhD who’s motivations are purely selfish.
Without further ado, here are some quick tips on improving your marketing from some of the top marketing folks around:
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February 5th, 2009 — Internet Marketing
I’ve recently installed the WordPress Plug-in called “TweetBacks” on two of my sites, to see how it goes. Those two sites are those I promote highly on Twitter . The first is this blog, about Small Business Internet Marketing , the other is a blog about How to Twitter .
What is TweetBacks WordPress Plug-In?
The TweetBack plug-in automatically picks up conversations when people Twitter about your particular WordPress blog post and inserts each tweet as a comment in your blog.
It was working out pretty nicely for a while. I even recommended TweetBacks to members of my inner circle, but then I noticed some very strange things only happening on this blog.
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January 29th, 2009 — Blogging, Google, Internet Marketing, SEO, Wordpress
That title certainly sounds like a personal problem, doesn’t it? It makes you wonder:
- What the heck are permalinks
- Why would I care about optimizing them?
- Will I have to undergo expensive surgeries in order to optimize?
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January 26th, 2009 — Internet Marketing, Marketing, Small Business
A faithful reader sent me a link this morning to a website he found particularly distasteful and YOWZA - he was spot on , as they say across the pond. So a big thank you goes out to Lucas Black of London, UK whose blog can be found at http://www.SometimeSpace.co.uk/
Now, this retailer, oddly enough, is quite the effective marketer, due to her nationwide television adverts, traveling double-decker billboard bus, and tons of free press and huge buzz about her unique style, not to mention, her quite effective marketing techniques.
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January 21st, 2009 — Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Signage, Small Business
The other day I was driving around looking for some neat shops in the neighborhood that might benefit from online marketing (who can’t, right?) and stumbled across some signage that was really surprising, not in that it had a typo (which happens more often than you’d imagine) or that it was in disrepair (a big problem with the Florida sunshine), but that they completely missed their mark.
Here’s how…
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January 20th, 2009 — Blogging, Internet Marketing
Since I’ve been working so hard for clients for the past few months, it’s only been recently that I’ve had a chance to get in touch with the latest internet marketing trends. I’ve been continuing with previous successful actions, of course, most notably article marketing and lead generation sites.
In catching up with the world, a technology I had largely ignored showed me it has really grown up. This little tool is called Twitter.
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