Archive for June 8th, 2007
It’s another Friday and time for the weekly… “Who Said That?”
In case you are new to our blog, this is the way we close out our week by giving you other cool things to check out over the weekend while we relax ( not really… I do a lot of surfing… internet surfing that is on the weekends).
I’d like to start with a BIG THANKS to the numerous bloggers talking about our promotion. If I tried to mention everyone, I’d probably leave someone out by mistake. You to can blog about it and get 10 additional entries by contacting Christine.
NOW……… Let’s rock-n-roll with “Who Said That?”
Duct Tape Marketing – “Maybe it’s a problem with the bowl” Don’t limit your growth or for that matter limit yourself period. I’d like to add something of value… “Surround yourself with positive people, read things that inspire you (hopefully this blog) and keep yourself motivated.” Being from Raleigh, NC, I remember when NC State basketball coach Jim Valvano was dying of cancer. He had a saying… “Never ever give up.” I also remember one of his last television appearances in which the cue card said… “break to commercial.” Jimmy V. said something to the effect of they are asking me to break for commercial and I’m dying of cancer… I’ll finish what I have to say first. Where do you find inspiration? Are you limiting yourself?
I’m the only Titanium Member for the State of North Carolina for Fast Pitch Networking. I found two blogs this week on Fast Pitch Networking (Take the tour) that I would like to mention: Home Business Connection.biz and N2Growth.com/Blog.
“The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes that I made my first year” by Wendy Piersall over at eMoms at home blog. Blogging is great, but you have to be committed to doing it. Be sure to check out Wendy’s post and maybe you can avoid making the same mistakes during your first year or second or third. Mistake # 8 is “I didn’t promote my feed” Well, if you have been around us any length of time. You’ll know that we are heavily promoting our feed. You can get it here. If you don’t understand RSS, we’ve even made that easy. You need readership if you have a blog. By the way… THANK YOU READERS!
Pro Blogger has a post about “How do you make money from your blog?” which has 57 comments as of this post and with over 25K readers at Pro Blogger that’s sure to go up.
Our good “ol” (only 23… I’m 40.) friend Nate Whitehill (look for his interview on Tuesday here at CBG) is always posting good stuff. “Who do I turn to for advice” is a post from this week. Nate is only 23 and has a bright future in my mind. Nate, keep up the good work!
If you have a blog, please make sure you have a My Blog Log account. This is ours and we thank our growing community. With three authors listed, Fred and Christine both have family, friends and contacts as well. You can easily join our community by clicking on the My Blog Log section in our right hand column. I also encourage you to click on our community members and see what they are up to.
Well, that’s it for Friday, June 8th 2007.
Have a GREAT weekend and don’t forget to sign up for our RSS if you haven’t done so yet. Look below for more info and use the share this feature for your favorite social sites or to e-mail this post to a friend. One more thing… Comments are always welcome!
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June 08 2007 | Who Said That? | 6 Comments »
Today, we just added our “You Comment – I Follow” feature which means that we are supporters of that movement (learn more below).
I just joined this community over at BumpZee.
I love Andy Beard’s comment… “Welcome… lets merge our opinion into a collective voice and roar!!!” That’s what true die hard bloggers do… “THEY ROAR!”
June 08 2007 | Marketing | 8 Comments »
Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself; anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
The main reason we do “Who Said That” is because we know that we don’t know it all and we want to give credit to the people we learn from.
We have found great tips and advice on many other blogs. You can learn something from just about anyone. Take some time each day to learn something new from someone else.
June 08 2007 | Daily Quote | 2 Comments »
For those of you that are currently using Google AdWords here a few tips and tricks to use for keeping ROI high and CPC low. Some of these may just be refreshers and some may drastically change your campaigns. These will be listed in no order of importance. Also remember that this is not advice custom fitted to your site and or your site’s goals. Having stated that disclaimer here are some of my best tips and tricks. But not all…
If your campaign is costing too much: Analyze and make sure that your ads are not showing on the content network. Especially if the content network ads are not returning a desired result. When you set up a new campaign the content network traffic is automatically turned on due to the amount of clicks it can produce. The option out is under the “Edit Campaighn Settings” page on the right hand side under the Networks box on the upper right hand side of the page. (You would be surprised how many people are overpaying for unproductive clicks!)
Cutting Costs and Increasing Sales: Huge tip, Make sure your high performing Key words (high CTR) are in the same Ad Group under the same Campaign for the same product and landing page. The lower performing key words can hurt the overall ad-group performance. It would be better to have a solid group of 10% CTR Keywords, and a separate group of 3-4% CTR Keywords. In my humble but very accurate opinion. If you have to edit/move keywords or ad’s don’t forget to use the campaign management tools! (I wish i had known that when i got started!)
Don’t Forget To Be Negative! If you don’t offer free widgets make sure to have the proper negative keywords buy putting a – in front of the key word you don’t want to show and ad for. In this situation “-free”.
If you are Targeting Geo-location: Remember to make the area large enough to include ISP’s that might be just beyond the initial target area. No one wants to miss out on thousands of potential customers over just a few miles.
Speaking of Local Targeting: Or national for that matter. Try running an ad that contains Your Business Phone number. Ideally a phone number strictly dedicated to this type of marketing so you can review the exact amount of calls. Great way to make your ad stand out and why pay for a click if you can get them to call direct.
Again This is not custom advice. Handle with care. In the right situations this advice can drastically change your ROI and CPC rates. One particular client doubled their CTR and Halved their CPC.
June 08 2007 | Pay Per Click Advertising | 2 Comments »
This Friday I’d like to take some time to offer a since thank you to all of our new subscribers. We appreciate that you’ve though enough of our blog to add us on your RSS reader real estate. Behind the scenes, we are constantly talking about new ways that we can add value for you on this blog- stay tuned for some really cool things in the future.
I’d also like thank all of the fantastic blogs that have posted about our podcast contest. Sure, these bloggers all received 10 additional entries to the contest for writing a post about the contest, but it’s obvious from the quality of these blogs that they’re not just promoting this to their readers for the sake of winning, but also because they believe the content here and this promotion will be valuable to their readers.
The experience with this contest has not only been great for boosting RSS readership, but more importantly, it’s allowed us to meet and connect with a lot of really amazing bloggers. Check these blogs out- perhaps you’ll find some new favorites!
Twenty Steps
Mike Busson is an actor in London with a great sense of humor and is the author of Twenty Steps, a blog about blogging and web design sprinkled with humor.
Mark Barrera
Mark has been in the website development and internet marketing business for 10 years. His blog offers a load of advice on internet marketing. He and his team are in the process of launching Franklin-Spirko, a marketing and PR Agency.
Nate Whitehill
Nate is the author of the excellent blog NateWhitehill.com. He and his partners are actively developing 4 separate businesses including his design company InfinFX.
J. David Macor
His tagline says that his blog is A great place to visit, if you have nothing better to do, but really, David is being modest. His blog is filled with insightful posts about blogging, web design, and building a business online.
Josh Buckley Internet Entrepreneur
Josh Buckley is a young internet entrepreneur/web developer from England and the owner of www.menewsha.com, an online avatar community.
FameFire.com
FameFire covers general internet and blogging topics and is currently conducting free blog reviews.
Blogjer.com
Blogjer offers practical advice and strategies to achieve online visibility.
June 08 2007 | Blogging | 6 Comments »
