Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Advertising Secrets

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If you?re going to do digital marketing, do it all the way

Earlier this week, I had a great conversation with an old CBS colleague turned life-long friend of mine. We talked about our personal lives, about our professional lives, and about the upcoming Anchorman sequel of course�(it’s kind of a big deal). It was awesome to catch up and compare notes on life, because he’s a [...]

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Taking Action and Building the Ultimate Resource ? Phase One

A month ago, I wrote about the idea of taking a static niche site that is primarily�informational and�turning it into something more useful – a tool that can better help an end user achieve their goals: The Ultimate Resource. I have since been taking action on that. Here’s what I’ve been up to… Fresh Content [...]


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If you?re going to do digital marketing, do it all the way

Earlier this week, I had a great conversation with an old CBS colleague turned life-long friend of mine. We talked about our personal lives, about our professional lives, and about the upcoming Anchorman sequel of course�(it’s kind of a big deal). It was awesome to catch up and compare notes on life, because he’s a [...]

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SPI 042 : Killer Kindle Publishing Tips with Jonny Andrews

In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast I pick the brain of someone who is seeing massive success by publishing books on Amazon’s Kindle platform. As many of you may know by now, I’m deep in the middle of publishing my own Kindle book for the first time, and when conducting research and [...]


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DIY Videoscribing and Other Awesome Techniques to Enhance Your Videos

I recently published a new video�that includes some experimental video techniques that I’ve never used before. After a post with that video embedded in it went live, within 24 hours I received over 100 emails from people asking how they could recreate the same effects. Apparently, the effects made my videos look a lot more [...]


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A Computer

The brain to technology interface.

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How to be a marketing rock star without spending a nickle on traffic generation

Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of executing digital marketing strategy for a lot of different companies. From lead gen to e-commerce. From mom & pop to Fortune 100. And if there’s one prevailing theme that I’ve garnered from these experiences it’s the vast majority of organizations either don’t know about or refuse to [...]

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SPI 042 : Killer Kindle Publishing Tips with Jonny Andrews

In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast I pick the brain of someone who is seeing massive success by publishing books on Amazon’s Kindle platform. As many of you may know by now, I’m deep in the middle of publishing my own Kindle book for the first time, and when conducting research and [...]


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Managing By The Numbers

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An Internet Connection

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Creating and Selling Software Online ? How Josh Built a 7 Figure Business

Josh Bartlett was working as a manager in a bank in the UK when he first discovered selling on eBay. During his lunch break, Bartlett would buy products from local stores and flip them online ...

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Monday, July 30, 2012

Follow-up Study: The Best Citation Sources by Category

I'm excited to announce a follow-up to the last GetListed.org/Whitespark.ca study (Best Citation Sources by City) this morning: the Best Citation Sources by Category for U.S. businesses. As with the previous study, Darren and I used his Local Citation Finder tool and looked at some of the most common keywords within 70 local search categories across 53 large US cities, 20 medium-sized cities, and 20 smaller cities. We then scored the sites inversely based on ranking position combined with overall number of occurrences. The sites that appeared most often and with the highest rankings were deemed ?best? within each category.

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How To Win Friends & Influence People

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How to convince traditional marketers to create non-promotional social content

In 2002, it was standard operating procedure In 2007, it was cute. Now, in 2012, it’s somewhat absurd. Yet somehow, in the present day, there are still all sorts of companies – big and small – that simply cannot grasp why they would ever create web content that was explicitly geared towards selling something. From [...]

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20% Local Intent Number Is 50% Too Low

Mike Blumenthal pointed me to a Wall Street Journal article this morning which mentions the oft-cited stat that 20% of all PC searches have Local Intent. I just have a quick comment that I've made to several people in meetings recently but don't think I've blogged about.

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My Monthly Report ? June 2012

Welcome to my June 2012 monthly income report. Each month I go into detail about my online businesses – what I’ve been up to, what worked, what didn’t work, how much I earned and where it all came from. I write these reports because I think it’s important to be honest and upfront with my [...]


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7 Business Decisions to Make Before You Start a Blog

It happens to almost every blogger.

You start a blog, share it with your friends, and it gains momentum. It gets a couple thousand visits, a couple hundred subscribers, and yet you still haven?t made enough to cover the $100 hosting bill. This is when you start to think, ?Ok, how can I monetize this??

You email out affiliate offers, put up ads, and maybe even throw up a store. Nobody opens. Nobody clicks. Nobody buys. Your blog crumbles.

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It Really Is a Google World and We Are All Just Living in It

Aaron Wall has done similar posts for years. But in pulling a couple of screenshots for Local University Advanced on Thursday, this one for "pizza" really struck me.

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How To Sleep Deeper, Wake Up Earlier & Become Superhuman

“Mom? 5 more minutes” sound familiar? I love to sleep. In fact, I love to sleep so much I think this is the main reason I got out of the military and eventually started my own business. I am one of those people that set their alarms earlier just so I can hit snooze three or four times? at least I was. Is Snooze Slowly Killing You? Maybe “kill” is too strong of a word, or maybe it’s not. But let’s define killing you. Have you ever noticed when you hit snooze you wake up more tired, get less done, have a foul attitude towards life, and are generally just not at your peak performance? Have you noticed this effects your business, fitness, and most importantly your relationships? Or the fact that you get the recommended allowance of 7 to 9 hours recommended by just about everyone? but never feel [...]

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20% Local Intent Number Is 50% Too Low

Mike Blumenthal pointed me to a Wall Street Journal article this morning which mentions the oft-cited stat that 20% of all PC searches have Local Intent. I just have a quick comment that I've made to several people in meetings recently but don't think I've blogged about.

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My Monthly Report ? June 2012

Welcome to my June 2012 monthly income report. Each month I go into detail about my online businesses – what I’ve been up to, what worked, what didn’t work, how much I earned and where it all came from. I write these reports because I think it’s important to be honest and upfront with my [...]


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Follow-up Study: The Best Citation Sources by Category

I'm excited to announce a follow-up to the last GetListed.org/Whitespark.ca study (Best Citation Sources by City) this morning: the Best Citation Sources by Category for U.S. businesses. As with the previous study, Darren and I used his Local Citation Finder tool and looked at some of the most common keywords within 70 local search categories across 53 large US cities, 20 medium-sized cities, and 20 smaller cities. We then scored the sites inversely based on ranking position combined with overall number of occurrences. The sites that appeared most often and with the highest rankings were deemed ?best? within each category.

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Just say ?No? to Google bashing (and other unproductive endeavors)

Many moons ago, I wrote a post calling out Aaron Wall – someone I greatly respect – for going a bit overboard on the Google bashing tip (FYI – make sure to read that post all the way to the end and check out that eye sore of an anchor text drop I managed to [...]

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Remember that internet marketing is still in its infancy

My first thought as brainstormed ideas for this week’s post was to write a counter-point to the guest post that Branko wrote over at Aaron’s blog. After all, I make no secret of the fact that I’m refusing to jump on the “Google is evil/a monopoly/ the Death Star in disguise” bandwagon. Google has certainly [...]

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The Coolest +Local Feature No One?s Noticed?

Has anyone noticed this yet? You can now review other businesses as a business�on +Local. This is going to make it much, much easier for small business owners to get off the block and get just a handful of reviews of their own business pages. �They’re just going to need a point in the right [...]

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Rankings on Google+ Local: Some Observations

Naturally, after a big interface update like the Places-Plus “merge” that just happened, the first question on everyone’s minds–from business owners to marketers–is “OK, so how do I rank in this thing?” �While my advice has always been to focus only on rankings in the general sense rather than obsessing over a certain position for [...]

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9 Reasons Why You?re Not Getting Search Engine Traffic

You feel like you?re doing everything right, yet, you?ve never cracked 1,000 uniques per month and only a few of your posts are getting search traffic.

If every one of your posts isn?t getting anywhere from a few to a couple thousand search visits per month, then you?re doing something wrong.

Here are nine reasons why you?re not getting as much search engine traffic as you deserve.

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SPI 041 : Affiliate Marketing the SMART Way ? How to Stop Hoping and Start Earning

In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast you’ll hear a revised�(blog & podcast-friendly) version of my recent solo presentation at Blog World Expo in New York, which is all about how I manage to earn a significant income from affiliate marketing without using aggressive or forceful marketing tactics and hardly any pitch at [...]


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Follow-up Study: The Best Citation Sources by Category

I'm excited to announce a follow-up to the last GetListed.org/Whitespark.ca study (Best Citation Sources by City) this morning: the Best Citation Sources by Category for U.S. businesses. As with the previous study, Darren and I used his Local Citation Finder tool and looked at some of the most common keywords within 70 local search categories across 53 large US cities, 20 medium-sized cities, and 20 smaller cities. We then scored the sites inversely based on ranking position combined with overall number of occurrences. The sites that appeared most often and with the highest rankings were deemed ?best? within each category.

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If you?re not using Twitter as a learning tool you?re doing it wrong

I had some interesting conversations with some friends of mine yesterday. Most of them were short and sweet. Some where really just a collection of musings. But a few actually gave me some ideas that I plan on implementing to help maximize my marketing career. And the best part that all of this happened within [...]

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How To Sleep Deeper, Wake Up Earlier & Become Superhuman

“Mom? 5 more minutes” sound familiar? I love to sleep. In fact, I love to sleep so much I think this is the main reason I got out of the military and eventually started my own business. I am one of those people that set their alarms earlier just so I can hit snooze three or four times? at least I was. Is Snooze Slowly Killing You? Maybe “kill” is too strong of a word, or maybe it’s not. But let’s define killing you. Have you ever noticed when you hit snooze you wake up more tired, get less done, have a foul attitude towards life, and are generally just not at your peak performance? Have you noticed this effects your business, fitness, and most importantly your relationships? Or the fact that you get the recommended allowance of 7 to 9 hours recommended by just about everyone? but never feel [...]

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New Study: The Best Citation Sources By City

I’m really excited to announce a joint study with Darren Shaw of Whitespark that we’ve just published over on GetListed.org: the best citation sources for 93 U.S. cities. The methodology for the study was pretty simple: using�Whitespark’s Local Citation Finder, we looked for some of the most common keywords within�71 local search categories�across 53 large [...]

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Local Search Ranking Factors, Vol. 5

Welcome to Year Five of the Local Search Ranking Factors survey. It's always a total thrill to compile the opinions of the world's top experts in Local Search Marketing and be the first one to see these experts' collective opinions about what's working and what's not in the world of Local Search.

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Inspiration from 20 of the World?s Top Online Entrepreneurs

When done right, communication is the most powerful thing in the world. A true message communicated powerfully will permanently change the way people think and act.

Effective communication also happens to be one of my passions. So when Michael Dunlop asked me to edit a book of interviews with 20 of the world?s most successful online entrepreneurs, I saw it as an opportunity to flex my communicative muscle.

I expected to edit each interview into a piece of effective communication that would change the way the reader would think, act, and ultimately make money online. But what I didn?t expect was the impact that the interviews would have on my own personal video production business.

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Top Grading

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

How to Be Like Mike: 20 Life Lessons from Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan believed that he would get out of the game exactly what he put into it.

If you don?t completely trust the game ? if you think it?s ?unfair? or ?rigged? ? then deep-down you?re not going to be feel motivated to give it everything you have. With that attitude, you?ve lost before you even begin.

Whether in life, business, or basketball, you get out what you put in. Trust in this:

?If you do the work, you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.?

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/how-to-be-like-mike-20-life-lessons-from-michael-jordan

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How to Be EVEN MORE Everywhere

1.32 million�= The total number of unique visitors to The Smart Passive Income Blog. 1.66 million�= The total number of downloads of The SPI Podcast. 1.48 million�= The total number of video views on the SPI YouTube Channel. The blog, the podcast and the YouTube channel are the three�conduits that have together powered the SPI [...]


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An Internet Connection

Used to jack into the matrix.

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The Millionaire Mind

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Follow-up Study: The Best Citation Sources by Category

I'm excited to announce a follow-up to the last GetListed.org/Whitespark.ca study (Best Citation Sources by City) this morning: the Best Citation Sources by Category for U.S. businesses. As with the previous study, Darren and I used his Local Citation Finder tool and looked at some of the most common keywords within 70 local search categories across 53 large US cities, 20 medium-sized cities, and 20 smaller cities. We then scored the sites inversely based on ranking position combined with overall number of occurrences. The sites that appeared most often and with the highest rankings were deemed ?best? within each category.

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Buyology

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It?s Finally Here: Chronicling the Plus-Places Merge

Not that it is any surprise to anyone, but Google just announced the end of Place Pages. I'll be posting my thoughts as I poke around on the new interfaces throughout the day. "Check back frequently," as they say.

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Remember that internet marketing is still in its infancy

My first thought as brainstormed ideas for this week’s post was to write a counter-point to the guest post that Branko wrote over at Aaron’s blog. After all, I make no secret of the fact that I’m refusing to jump on the “Google is evil/a monopoly/ the Death Star in disguise” bandwagon. Google has certainly [...]

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Managing By The Numbers

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SPI 042 : Killer Kindle Publishing Tips with Jonny Andrews

In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast I pick the brain of someone who is seeing massive success by publishing books on Amazon’s Kindle platform. As many of you may know by now, I’m deep in the middle of publishing my own Kindle book for the first time, and when conducting research and [...]


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Friday, July 27, 2012

Do You Need Passion to Profit Online?

Last week I wrote about how I was going to take my niche site in the security guard industry and turn it into something more useful – an ultimate resource. A lot of comments came in about how this was a “shift in the right direction”, or something that “Google would much rather see”, and [...]


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How to Be EVEN MORE Everywhere

1.32 million�= The total number of unique visitors to The Smart Passive Income Blog. 1.66 million�= The total number of downloads of The SPI Podcast. 1.48 million�= The total number of video views on the SPI YouTube Channel. The blog, the podcast and the YouTube channel are the three�conduits that have together powered the SPI [...]


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New Study: The Best Citation Sources By City

I’m really excited to announce a joint study with Darren Shaw of Whitespark that we’ve just published over on GetListed.org: the best citation sources for 93 U.S. cities. The methodology for the study was pretty simple: using�Whitespark’s Local Citation Finder, we looked for some of the most common keywords within�71 local search categories�across 53 large [...]

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A Computer

The brain to technology interface.

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The Letter Book

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The Millionaire Mind

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Rankings on Google+ Local: Some Observations

Naturally, after a big interface update like the Places-Plus “merge” that just happened, the first question on everyone’s minds–from business owners to marketers–is “OK, so how do I rank in this thing?” �While my advice has always been to focus only on rankings in the general sense rather than obsessing over a certain position for [...]

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Follow-up Study: The Best Citation Sources by Category

I'm excited to announce a follow-up to the last GetListed.org/Whitespark.ca study (Best Citation Sources by City) this morning: the Best Citation Sources by Category for U.S. businesses. As with the previous study, Darren and I used his Local Citation Finder tool and looked at some of the most common keywords within 70 local search categories across 53 large US cities, 20 medium-sized cities, and 20 smaller cities. We then scored the sites inversely based on ranking position combined with overall number of occurrences. The sites that appeared most often and with the highest rankings were deemed ?best? within each category.

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How To Sleep Deeper, Wake Up Earlier & Become Superhuman

“Mom? 5 more minutes” sound familiar? I love to sleep. In fact, I love to sleep so much I think this is the main reason I got out of the military and eventually started my own business. I am one of those people that set their alarms earlier just so I can hit snooze three or four times? at least I was. Is Snooze Slowly Killing You? Maybe “kill” is too strong of a word, or maybe it’s not. But let’s define killing you. Have you ever noticed when you hit snooze you wake up more tired, get less done, have a foul attitude towards life, and are generally just not at your peak performance? Have you noticed this effects your business, fitness, and most importantly your relationships? Or the fact that you get the recommended allowance of 7 to 9 hours recommended by just about everyone? but never feel [...]

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Advertising Secrets

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SPI 042 : Killer Kindle Publishing Tips with Jonny Andrews

In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast I pick the brain of someone who is seeing massive success by publishing books on Amazon’s Kindle platform. As many of you may know by now, I’m deep in the middle of publishing my own Kindle book for the first time, and when conducting research and [...]


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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Local Search Ranking Factors, Vol. 5

Welcome to Year Five of the Local Search Ranking Factors survey. It's always a total thrill to compile the opinions of the world's top experts in Local Search Marketing and be the first one to see these experts' collective opinions about what's working and what's not in the world of Local Search.

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A Computer

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If you?re not using Twitter as a learning tool you?re doing it wrong

I had some interesting conversations with some friends of mine yesterday. Most of them were short and sweet. Some where really just a collection of musings. But a few actually gave me some ideas that I plan on implementing to help maximize my marketing career. And the best part that all of this happened within [...]

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SPI 041 : Affiliate Marketing the SMART Way ? How to Stop Hoping and Start Earning

In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast you’ll hear a revised�(blog & podcast-friendly) version of my recent solo presentation at Blog World Expo in New York, which is all about how I manage to earn a significant income from affiliate marketing without using aggressive or forceful marketing tactics and hardly any pitch at [...]


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20 Tips for How to Make Money with a Service Business

A year ago, I started a web video production service. In that time, I?ve turned it from an idea in my head into a profitable and quickly-growing business.

Below I?ve compiled what I?ve learned ? 20 tips based on my worst mistakes and biggest triumphs. You can learn how to run a successful service business more quickly than I did by reading on.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/20-tips-for-how-to-make-money-with-a-service-business

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How To Sleep Deeper, Wake Up Earlier & Become Superhuman

“Mom? 5 more minutes” sound familiar? I love to sleep. In fact, I love to sleep so much I think this is the main reason I got out of the military and eventually started my own business. I am one of those people that set their alarms earlier just so I can hit snooze three or four times? at least I was. Is Snooze Slowly Killing You? Maybe “kill” is too strong of a word, or maybe it’s not. But let’s define killing you. Have you ever noticed when you hit snooze you wake up more tired, get less done, have a foul attitude towards life, and are generally just not at your peak performance? Have you noticed this effects your business, fitness, and most importantly your relationships? Or the fact that you get the recommended allowance of 7 to 9 hours recommended by just about everyone? but never feel [...]

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An Internet Connection

Used to jack into the matrix.

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New Study: The Best Citation Sources By City

I’m really excited to announce a joint study with Darren Shaw of Whitespark that we’ve just published over on GetListed.org: the best citation sources for 93 U.S. cities. The methodology for the study was pretty simple: using�Whitespark’s Local Citation Finder, we looked for some of the most common keywords within�71 local search categories�across 53 large [...]

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How to convince traditional marketers to create non-promotional social content

In 2002, it was standard operating procedure In 2007, it was cute. Now, in 2012, it’s somewhat absurd. Yet somehow, in the present day, there are still all sorts of companies – big and small – that simply cannot grasp why they would ever create web content that was explicitly geared towards selling something. From [...]

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9 Reasons Why You?re Not Getting Search Engine Traffic

You feel like you?re doing everything right, yet, you?ve never cracked 1,000 uniques per month and only a few of your posts are getting search traffic.

If every one of your posts isn?t getting anywhere from a few to a couple thousand search visits per month, then you?re doing something wrong.

Here are nine reasons why you?re not getting as much search engine traffic as you deserve.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/why-youre-not-getting-search-engine-traffic

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Inspiration from 20 of the World?s Top Online Entrepreneurs

When done right, communication is the most powerful thing in the world. A true message communicated powerfully will permanently change the way people think and act.

Effective communication also happens to be one of my passions. So when Michael Dunlop asked me to edit a book of interviews with 20 of the world?s most successful online entrepreneurs, I saw it as an opportunity to flex my communicative muscle.

I expected to edit each interview into a piece of effective communication that would change the way the reader would think, act, and ultimately make money online. But what I didn?t expect was the impact that the interviews would have on my own personal video production business.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/inspiration-from-20-of-the-worlds-top-online-entrepreneurs

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

7 Surefire Signs that You?ll Never Be Successful Online

You have high aspirations for your blog. You think about what it?s going to be like when it?s big-time and how it?s going to solve all of your problems.

I think everyone does. But rarely does anyone think about the critical mistakes that they could be making right now.

I haven?t figured out the key to success, but I can tell you the surefire signs that you?ll never be successful online and how you can avoid being destined to fail.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/signs-never-successful-online

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How To Sleep Deeper, Wake Up Earlier & Become Superhuman

“Mom? 5 more minutes” sound familiar? I love to sleep. In fact, I love to sleep so much I think this is the main reason I got out of the military and eventually started my own business. I am one of those people that set their alarms earlier just so I can hit snooze three or four times? at least I was. Is Snooze Slowly Killing You? Maybe “kill” is too strong of a word, or maybe it’s not. But let’s define killing you. Have you ever noticed when you hit snooze you wake up more tired, get less done, have a foul attitude towards life, and are generally just not at your peak performance? Have you noticed this effects your business, fitness, and most importantly your relationships? Or the fact that you get the recommended allowance of 7 to 9 hours recommended by just about everyone? but never feel [...]

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7 Surefire Signs that You?ll Never Be Successful Online

You have high aspirations for your blog. You think about what it?s going to be like when it?s big-time and how it?s going to solve all of your problems.

I think everyone does. But rarely does anyone think about the critical mistakes that they could be making right now.

I haven?t figured out the key to success, but I can tell you the surefire signs that you?ll never be successful online and how you can avoid being destined to fail.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/signs-never-successful-online

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Google +Local NAP Info Pulling From Mapmaker (not Places?)

It appears to me that Plus and Places are going to live on the same layer of Google's business data index--one layer ABOVE Mapmaker--further evidence to support the theory that today was an interface update only and does not affect anything back-end is below.

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If you?re going to do digital marketing, do it all the way

Earlier this week, I had a great conversation with an old CBS colleague turned life-long friend of mine. We talked about our personal lives, about our professional lives, and about the upcoming Anchorman sequel of course�(it’s kind of a big deal). It was awesome to catch up and compare notes on life, because he’s a [...]

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An Internet Connection

Used to jack into the matrix.

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Inspiration from 20 of the World?s Top Online Entrepreneurs

When done right, communication is the most powerful thing in the world. A true message communicated powerfully will permanently change the way people think and act.

Effective communication also happens to be one of my passions. So when Michael Dunlop asked me to edit a book of interviews with 20 of the world?s most successful online entrepreneurs, I saw it as an opportunity to flex my communicative muscle.

I expected to edit each interview into a piece of effective communication that would change the way the reader would think, act, and ultimately make money online. But what I didn?t expect was the impact that the interviews would have on my own personal video production business.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/inspiration-from-20-of-the-worlds-top-online-entrepreneurs

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SPI 040 : How a Space News Site Generates 5,000,000 Pageviews a Month with Fraser Cain

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast I’m happy to share yet another amazing success story, this time with Fraser Cain from�Universe Today, a news site dedicated to the space and astronomy niche. Universe Today pulls in a massive amount of traffic – up to 5,000,000 pageviews per month – and it generates [...]


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To Pat, From Google Adsense: About Your Account?

Over the past few months, several people who own niche websites have shared that they’ve been banned from Google Adsense – some for legitimate reasons, I’m sure, but others for what seems like no reason at all, only to be on the receiving end of a generic, not-so-specific, no-reply email from Google explaining that their [...]


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To Pat, From Google Adsense: About Your Account…
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Just say ?No? to Google bashing (and other unproductive endeavors)

Many moons ago, I wrote a post calling out Aaron Wall – someone I greatly respect – for going a bit overboard on the Google bashing tip (FYI – make sure to read that post all the way to the end and check out that eye sore of an anchor text drop I managed to [...]

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Building the Ultimate Resource: Taking a Niche Site and Actually Making it Useful

In my last post, I shared�an email I received from Google�about my Adsense account. I wasn’t banned (luckily), but I was given a warning and 3 days to make changes…”or else”. My violation and reason for the warning, “format mimicking”, seemed to totally contradict some advice that Google was giving to it’s Adsense publishers. This [...]


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The Letter Book

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

My Thoughts on Where Yext Fits Into a Local Search Marketing Plan

Disclosure: GetListed.org, a company where I serve as president, currently receives a small referral fee from both Yext and Localeze for business owners we send their way & sign up for a paid account.� Reader Kat Taylor recently commented on my Local Search Ecosystem post, as well as Kelly Marsh (comment), and a dozen or [...]

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Remember that internet marketing is still in its infancy

My first thought as brainstormed ideas for this week’s post was to write a counter-point to the guest post that Branko wrote over at Aaron’s blog. After all, I make no secret of the fact that I’m refusing to jump on the “Google is evil/a monopoly/ the Death Star in disguise” bandwagon. Google has certainly [...]

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Taking Action and Building the Ultimate Resource ? Phase One

A month ago, I wrote about the idea of taking a static niche site that is primarily�informational and�turning it into something more useful – a tool that can better help an end user achieve their goals: The Ultimate Resource. I have since been taking action on that. Here’s what I’ve been up to… Fresh Content [...]


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Taking Action and Building the Ultimate Resource – Phase One
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Taking Action and Building the Ultimate Resource ? Phase One

A month ago, I wrote about the idea of taking a static niche site that is primarily�informational and�turning it into something more useful – a tool that can better help an end user achieve their goals: The Ultimate Resource. I have since been taking action on that. Here’s what I’ve been up to… Fresh Content [...]


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20% Local Intent Number Is 50% Too Low

Mike Blumenthal pointed me to a Wall Street Journal article this morning which mentions the oft-cited stat that 20% of all PC searches have Local Intent. I just have a quick comment that I've made to several people in meetings recently but don't think I've blogged about.

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My Monthly Report ? June 2012

Welcome to my June 2012 monthly income report. Each month I go into detail about my online businesses – what I’ve been up to, what worked, what didn’t work, how much I earned and where it all came from. I write these reports because I think it’s important to be honest and upfront with my [...]


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My Monthly Report – June 2012
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How I Got 158,000 Stumbles on One Post

Like money, one thing you?ll never get enough of is traffic.

If you want to get a lot of traffic, one of the greatest sources of is StumbleUpon.com. Going from a couple hundred visits a day to a couple thousand visits a day is a common result of getting picked up by the social media giant.

The problem is that this traffic typically dies down after a day or two.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/how-to-get-stumbleupon-traffic

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Just say ?No? to Google bashing (and other unproductive endeavors)

Many moons ago, I wrote a post calling out Aaron Wall – someone I greatly respect – for going a bit overboard on the Google bashing tip (FYI – make sure to read that post all the way to the end and check out that eye sore of an anchor text drop I managed to [...]

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Creating and Selling Software Online ? How Josh Built a 7 Figure Business

Josh Bartlett was working as a manager in a bank in the UK when he first discovered selling on eBay. During his lunch break, Bartlett would buy products from local stores and flip them online ...

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/creating-and-selling-software-online-joshs-7-figure-business

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Top Grading

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20% Local Intent Number Is 50% Too Low

Mike Blumenthal pointed me to a Wall Street Journal article this morning which mentions the oft-cited stat that 20% of all PC searches have Local Intent. I just have a quick comment that I've made to several people in meetings recently but don't think I've blogged about.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mihmorandum/~3/otlQ6quJU2M/

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Do You Need Passion to Profit Online?

Last week I wrote about how I was going to take my niche site in the security guard industry and turn it into something more useful – an ultimate resource. A lot of comments came in about how this was a “shift in the right direction”, or something that “Google would much rather see”, and [...]


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Monday, July 23, 2012

7 Business Decisions to Make Before You Start a Blog

It happens to almost every blogger.

You start a blog, share it with your friends, and it gains momentum. It gets a couple thousand visits, a couple hundred subscribers, and yet you still haven?t made enough to cover the $100 hosting bill. This is when you start to think, ?Ok, how can I monetize this??

You email out affiliate offers, put up ads, and maybe even throw up a store. Nobody opens. Nobody clicks. Nobody buys. Your blog crumbles.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/business-decisions-before-blog

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How to Be EVEN MORE Everywhere

1.32 million�= The total number of unique visitors to The Smart Passive Income Blog. 1.66 million�= The total number of downloads of The SPI Podcast. 1.48 million�= The total number of video views on the SPI YouTube Channel. The blog, the podcast and the YouTube channel are the three�conduits that have together powered the SPI [...]


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Google +Local NAP Info Pulling From Mapmaker (not Places?)

It appears to me that Plus and Places are going to live on the same layer of Google's business data index--one layer ABOVE Mapmaker--further evidence to support the theory that today was an interface update only and does not affect anything back-end is below.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mihmorandum/~3/HTngR9Ka2h0/

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Creating and Selling Software Online ? How Josh Built a 7 Figure Business

Josh Bartlett was working as a manager in a bank in the UK when he first discovered selling on eBay. During his lunch break, Bartlett would buy products from local stores and flip them online ...

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/creating-and-selling-software-online-joshs-7-figure-business

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How to be a marketing rock star without spending a nickle on traffic generation

Over the years, I’ve had the pleasure of executing digital marketing strategy for a lot of different companies. From lead gen to e-commerce. From mom & pop to Fortune 100. And if there’s one prevailing theme that I’ve garnered from these experiences it’s the vast majority of organizations either don’t know about or refuse to [...]

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If you?re going to do digital marketing, do it all the way

Earlier this week, I had a great conversation with an old CBS colleague turned life-long friend of mine. We talked about our personal lives, about our professional lives, and about the upcoming Anchorman sequel of course�(it’s kind of a big deal). It was awesome to catch up and compare notes on life, because he’s a [...]

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Advertising Secrets

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SPI 040 : How a Space News Site Generates 5,000,000 Pageviews a Month with Fraser Cain

In this session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast I’m happy to share yet another amazing success story, this time with Fraser Cain from�Universe Today, a news site dedicated to the space and astronomy niche. Universe Today pulls in a massive amount of traffic – up to 5,000,000 pageviews per month – and it generates [...]


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Google +Local NAP Info Pulling From Mapmaker (not Places?)

It appears to me that Plus and Places are going to live on the same layer of Google's business data index--one layer ABOVE Mapmaker--further evidence to support the theory that today was an interface update only and does not affect anything back-end is below.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mihmorandum/~3/HTngR9Ka2h0/

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If you?re going to do digital marketing, do it all the way

Earlier this week, I had a great conversation with an old CBS colleague turned life-long friend of mine. We talked about our personal lives, about our professional lives, and about the upcoming Anchorman sequel of course�(it’s kind of a big deal). It was awesome to catch up and compare notes on life, because he’s a [...]

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How I Got 158,000 Stumbles on One Post

Like money, one thing you?ll never get enough of is traffic.

If you want to get a lot of traffic, one of the greatest sources of is StumbleUpon.com. Going from a couple hundred visits a day to a couple thousand visits a day is a common result of getting picked up by the social media giant.

The problem is that this traffic typically dies down after a day or two.

Source: http://www.incomediary.com/how-to-get-stumbleupon-traffic

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