When looking for local businesses who would be interested in advertising local online, I started testing out using Google Alerts to let me know when any of my [city] blogs were updated.

While the PR of most of these blogs was non-existent, the majority actually do allow you to post a comment and even request your url. This has brought me some excellent search engine traffic.

Use this information wisely and responsibly.

Local Internet Marketing usually starts with a merchant searching for an online marketing Internet company. The brick and mortars aren't really sure what they're looking for when they start searching for ways to use the Internet to make more money for their business. It occurred to me that whenever I mention to anyone that I am an Internet Marketer, the responses are generally one of the following three:

1.) So, you like, sell stuff on ebay?
2.) Oh, so you scam people out of...

Have you fallen in love with a product or a method to the point where you now can't see the forest because there are too many trees in the way?
Are you so deeply committed to your way, that you're getting in your own way?
Have you ever felt like what you're doing isn't working yet all other explorations are met by a wall that simply cause new ideas to ricoche off of it, leaving the wall standing stoically as your all consuming obsession?
Lastly, do you seek out alternatives,...

From the desk of: Marcus Ramirez
RE: More psychotic ramblings from a lunatic mind

Dear Friends, real and imaginary,

I have had an 'epiphany.' Or maybe it's a delusional psychotic breakdown. I'm not sure. I'm just doing what the voices inside my head tell me to do.

My overly analytical anal-retentive, obsessive compulsive personality disorders force me to follow a strict regimen of my business plan. However, the 'mad scientist' in me always wants to...

They say hindsight is 20/20. Looking back, I come to the realization that I wasted a lot of effort in the beginning of my IM venture by not building a list.

Why would I overload this incredibly important detail?

I can honestly say, I don't know.

So, I got lucky here on WF a while back. A guy was giving a free voice over. So I sent him a report I wrote on overcoming information overload and he made the voice over, and, one the PLR/ MRR club I'm in, Sirius Lin's IM Weekly Vault,...