so I join alot of lists. I like to " keep my ear to the streets" as far as what others are doing in their email businesses.

more often then not if its not some spammy message, I see two or three affiliate offers, offering similar services in one email.

as a potential customer, how am I to choose which offer is best?

its confusing and makes me not want to buy.
I think alot of you, forget that email marketing is also a form of direct...

One of the shocking things I discovered when working for medical malpractice lawyers in Colorado, is that the amount of work necessary to get them ranked was massive. This is because the term is highly competitive but not impossible; still this would mean lots of ranking work to get the main ranking silo up.

What is good about high ticket search terms is that most marketers won't touch them; yet you can rank for related terms and eventually be considered an authority site via the...

The federal government and Wikipedia have partnered in what is called a ‘reinventing government’ initiative. I will try and keep this post free of political statements and suppress my personal beliefs as much as possible but there are things which need to be said. As regular readers and online students know, we are no fans of Wikipedia for many reasons and this latest move further cements our belief concerning how far Wikipedia has strayed from their original intent.
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Another Google social network site has failed and this time, literally, the doors were closed! That website, located at Orkut.com, was one of Google’s early ventures into social networking and hopefully, it won’t be their last. Google does many things well such as search engines (duh!), paid search advertising as well as free email accounts (Gmail). However, it just hasn’t grasped the concept of social media for business in a way which yields profits for their brand or those...

Using Twitter for Business has become quite challenging as the social media website reaches ‘maximum marketing capacity’. This doesn’t mean, however, Twitter doesn’t still have value for promoting your business. Here at SBC TV, we started, in earnest, using Twitter to market our products and services in 2009. Back then, there was still an abundant amount of keyword specific real estate (profiles) available. For the savvy marketer, this meant interjecting sales messaging into Twitter...