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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th September 2010, 07:59 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 694
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Where to invest? Looking for right contacts.

I wish that people in this thread would be polite to the man who started it. Like the poster, I have two million dollars that I earned in a business unrelated to the Internet. There are many ordinary...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th September 2010, 07:48 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 978
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: What do you think about E-Myth book?

I read the eMyth and eMyth revisited agree with Gerber's premise that one of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is working in the details of their businesses, and not on the strategy of the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th September 2010, 07:21 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 1,346
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Article length....

I think 400-500 words is a good length for an article, and 250-350 words is a good length for a blog post. Of course, the content is much more important than the length.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th September 2010, 07:18 PM
Replies: 76
Views: 2,026
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: What would help YOU most - if it were free?

It would help me most to get advice from a guru about affiliate marketing; and perhaps even more useful would be advice about discriminating between intelligent gurus and con artists. I'm one of...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th September 2010, 07:12 PM
Replies: 60
Views: 2,538
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: I know it's unethical, but...

I don't care much about what people claim they make. If they're selling something, then it's easy to figure out whether it is a good product or service. Generally, I reject people who brag about...
Forum: Reciprocal Links 30th August 2010, 10:04 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 676
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Forum: Reciprocal Links 30th August 2010, 09:57 AM
Replies: 43
Views: 1,955
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: WTS 40+ PR4 and PR5 blogs for sale

Like most, I can't send a PM, but you can contact me at Contact Us (http://articlesthatrock.com/contact-us/).
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th August 2010, 08:00 PM
Replies: 109
Views: 5,963
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Newbies: Don't Chase Post Count

I'm approaching my 50th post and eagerly anticipate responding to the private message sent to me 6 weeks ago. The last time I was this excited about something great was when I was 21 and was allowed...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th August 2010, 08:15 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,176
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Can Someone Tell me How I can Compete With The Writing Ads Here?

If you never plan to hire another writer, you can put up a WordPress site on HostGator or BlueHost for a reasonable price. The first steps are to get a domain and a host. WordPress is easy to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th August 2010, 10:40 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,176
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Can Someone Tell me How I can Compete With The Writing Ads Here?

What portion of your revenue is devoted to marketing?

I pay my writers $5 for a 400-500 word article and $2 for an editor. I pay $3 for sales and marketing expenses, and I charge $10. In other...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th August 2010, 06:02 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 1,159
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Seriously, How Many Hours a Day???

I probably spend 2 hours here twice a week, and 15 minutes during the other 5 days. I like working at home because I don't have to precisely measure the time I spend on each activity.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th August 2010, 08:17 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 625
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: My niche blog still not indexed . . . What am I doing wrong?

Have you sent an XML site map to Google?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th August 2010, 08:14 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 682
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Decent writers? Recommend me 3-4 Places to find decent writers!

If you don't want to look for new writers each time you need an article, chose an article writing service. If you're patient, you can probably find individual writers on the forums here, but they...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th August 2010, 06:34 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,082
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Article Writing Outsourcing... why is it so difficult?

I've seen some Warrior writers ask for a subject and keywords, and that's sufficient to write an article. In fact, it could be excess info for article marketing. If the customer omits the subject and...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th August 2010, 09:55 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 614
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Hello Folks! I'm new to the hood! This is my story...

I'd like to discuss business ideas, Mauricio, so please email me at the "admin" user at ArticlesThatRock.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th August 2010, 12:56 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 381
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Need help marketing

There's Warrior thread called, "Help Me Write Killer Titles" that you might find useful.

Google AdWords is complex, so you should study it before composing an ad, or you could hire someone to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th August 2010, 11:17 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 381
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Need help marketing

The first skill you should learn is how to write an enticing title. "Need help marketing" is too vague and will not entice Warriors to read the thread. You also need to entice people on your web site...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th August 2010, 10:58 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 614
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Hello Folks! I'm new to the hood! This is my story...

I own an article writing service, and since I live most of the year in a country where Spanish is spoken, I figured that a Spanish article writing service would be good market to enter, and I could...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd August 2010, 02:05 AM
Replies: 109
Views: 5,963
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Newbies: Don't Chase Post Count

I think it's inaccurate to claim that a new member can't send a PM because it might be spam; new members are not merely banned from sending, but are also banned from responding to a PM. I received a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd August 2010, 01:46 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,082
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Article Writing Outsourcing... why is it so difficult?

My article writing service sometimes gets orders for one or two articles, and this is sufficient to verify that the writers are from the USA/Canada; but the quality of an article usually depends on...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd August 2010, 08:05 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,193
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: New record: million-dollar week on Flippa!

Does anyone other than tvanslooten have a blog about buying and selling websites?

I bought ArticlesThatRock on Flippa and it took 2 excruciatingly long months to complete the transfer, and did...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th August 2010, 06:12 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 4,706
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: How Much Do You Pay For Good Quality Articles?

Can you give more details about the site that you dramatically improved with good content?

One of my customers is a lawyer, and I normally charge $10 for 400-500 word articles, but I'd like to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th August 2010, 10:05 AM
Replies: 108
Views: 4,502
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Is it just me or is Wordpress a big learning curve?

Everyone should learn some HTML, but that is only a portion of the learning curve. WordPress scatters the HTML over many files, some of which are hidden, which makes it hard to figure out how to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th August 2010, 09:59 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 906
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Giveaway events : good for list building ?

How much are you losing on the freebie? If you can get 89 new prospects from 4000 names on your email list, and the freebie is a copy of an information product such as an e-book, it might be worth...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th August 2010, 09:39 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 4,329
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Marketing my canvas prints and artwork

Have you tried Etzy, your place to buy and sell all things handmade? It might be your best marketing channel.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th August 2010, 09:23 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,495
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Article Marketing Debate: Is Article Marketing Dying as the Use of Video Soars?

I think the guy who wrote the article is attacking a straw man. Who has claimed that video marketing would kill article marketing? The author did not provide a single link of anyone who has said...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th August 2010, 01:16 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 4,706
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: How Much Do You Pay For Good Quality Articles?

It takes a lot time to test whether the $10 articles that I sell earn more profit than a $5 article written outside the United States. My customers are repelled by the quality of writing that comes...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th August 2010, 09:27 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 1,919
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: How far into IM did you quit your job?

The poor performance of my stocks the last few years has forced me out of retirement. I should have seen the crash coming and invested in gold and silver.

I'm marketing on the net because it's...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th August 2010, 09:47 PM
Replies: 86
Views: 3,797
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: My Step By Step Article Marketing Profit Plan - Nothing Left Out.

It's also important to put the article on your site before submitting it to EZine. If possible, you should verify that Google is indexing your page. Otherwise, Google will give EZine credit as the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th August 2010, 08:37 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,242
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Problem converting my e-book .doc to .pdf properly

I use OpenOffice and it usually produces a good PDF, but not always. When it fails, I translate the file to HTML and edit it to fix the formatting. I think that knowing HTML is a useful skill even if...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 7th August 2010, 08:32 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 1,098
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: MAC or PC?

I've used Macs and PCs and prefer Ubuntu Linux. I like open source for common apps like graphics, so I use GIMP. The PC operating system is too big, and is prone to viruses, while the Mac is too...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th August 2010, 08:20 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 727
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: What are the most helpful IM blogs?

I follow about 6 blogs on the Advertising Age Power 150 blogs:
Marketing Blogs - Power 150 - Advertising Age (http://adage.com/power150/)

I like SEOMoz, ReadWriteWeb, SE Land, Copyblogger, and...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th August 2010, 09:28 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 655
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Article Marketing Questions

Article marketing will help you get traffic from Google searches. PPC ads are qualified leads that will give you faster results.

A good illustration of this is CreditCards.com, which filed to go...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th August 2010, 08:13 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 920
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: How to lose TONS of money and time with internet marketing

It's interesting that nobody has responded to this topic. My wife failed to make money because she made a great product that's expensive, and that sells poorly during an economic depression. She...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th August 2010, 07:02 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 754
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Intro: Yes, I'm a Noob.

Pick-up artist Neil Strauss is obviously a successful salesman. What good advice can he give to us for selling to people we communicate with by email and website, but never see?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th August 2010, 06:29 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,010
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: When do you stop talking?

You stop talking as soon as the customer agrees to buy your product. The biggest mistake that salesman make is that they keep talking. Listening to yourself is great fun because you're a genius, but...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th August 2010, 06:06 PM
Replies: 62
Views: 1,956
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: My goal is to write 500 articles before the end of the year

Stephen King, author of bestsellers, stated in his biography that he writes 1000 words per day. If he wrote two articles each day from now until the end of the year, he would write about 300.

I...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th August 2010, 08:57 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 768
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Need research tools for article writing...

Law review articles are a great source of stories. The text of the articles contains valuable info, and the footnotes point to many other stories. If you read about the top 10 Supreme Court cases,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd August 2010, 05:57 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,063
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: What Makes A Good Quality Article, A Good Quality Article?

How Does an Article Snap, Crackle, and Pop?


The best articles are the product of research, such as the synthesis of seemingly unrelated topics with many links to other sites, or which translate...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd August 2010, 05:26 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,005
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: eBook reader vs iPad : which do you prefer ?

I own an iPod Touch, Kindle, and netbook. I'd like to replace the netbook with an iPad, but it doesn't have enough features such as a USB port and Flash support.

The Kindle has changed my life....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd August 2010, 05:05 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 788
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Get A Coach or Roll Up Your Sleeves And Go To Work. Which Is Better In Internet Marketing?

I flew to Atlanta a few days ago to attend a StomperNet conference on Internet marketing. At the end of the expensive 3.5 day course, the group of 8 speakers answered questions for about an hour....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd August 2010, 04:48 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,464
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: How to Determine Value of a Domain Name

How much is EffectiveMarketingStrategies.com worth? I bought it for $900 a few months ago and my wife told me that it was a mistake because the money would have been better invested in developing...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 3rd August 2010, 04:34 AM
Replies: 406
Views: 10,105
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Hey Warriors - What Country Are You From?

I live in Colorado during the summer and Santiago, Chile the remainder of the year. I lived in the People's Republic of California for 8 years and moved to Colorado because California was, and still...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd August 2010, 02:34 PM
Replies: 57
Views: 1,987
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Amazon sells now 43% more ebooks then hardcovers

e-Ink readers like the Amazon Kindle are the future of reading. The average Kindle user reads 3 times as many books as he read before owning the Kindle. I love reading outside even when it's sunny or...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd August 2010, 02:28 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 441
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Warriors, what do YOU use to manage your projects?

I used BaseCamp for a while, but I dropped it because it's too expensive. Now I use Project Pier, an open source package. My needs are simple and it does the job.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd August 2010, 02:17 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 538
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Looking for article writer for my autoblogs ...

My article writing service is also accepting orders. We charge $10 for 400-500 word articles written in the USA. See site for details.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd August 2010, 02:13 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,805
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: GREAT FACTS ABOUT FLIPPA.

I bought an article writing service on Flippa 5 months ago, and I'm searching for other sites to buy. I concur that 90% of the sites do not sell, but all the good sites attract multiple bids. If your...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd August 2010, 01:54 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,063
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: What Makes A Good Quality Article, A Good Quality Article?

A good article is one that refrains from making beginner mistakes, the most common being excess words. As William Strunk wrote in 1918, "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd August 2010, 01:41 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,227
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: How bout a reality check on market conditions?

I think the reason that Andrew is genuinely surprised is that he is from Australia and sells gold. The United States, Japan, and the PIIGS countries in Europe are going bankrupt in the next 10 years,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd August 2010, 12:21 PM
Replies: 108
Views: 4,907
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: If you wanted to make 10 bucks a hour at least online what would you do?

If you can write a good article of 400-500 words in 30 minutes, you can earn $10/hour writing articles. Writing well is a skill that pays off by teaching you to organize your ideas and how best to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd August 2010, 12:13 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 639
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Becoming an Android in an Android World

I like to ride my bicycle and take breaks in parks to read my Kindle. I would really enjoy an Android with an e-Ink screen. I have an iPod Touch, which is completely unreadable outdoors, and I doubt...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd August 2010, 12:05 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 805
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: What is your Market Samurai keyword standard or guideline?

What about long tail keywords? Is it worth it to target 50 different keywords, none of which is searched for 50 times per day?

I ask this because I have a site of scientist biographies, and I'm...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd August 2010, 11:59 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 2,311
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Why You Should Not Submit To Ezine Articles Only.

EZine is still at or near the top of the list of best article directories, and they require you to submit to them first. iSnare is a distribution service that every article marketer should consider.
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 2nd August 2010, 11:46 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 2,667
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: If I were a CPA Millionaire/Guru, I would...

Since I am a millionaire, I have what might be an interesting perspective. First, it's not enough money to retire comfortably, but it allows me to choose my work, rather than simply trying to...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 2nd August 2010, 11:31 AM
Replies: 201
Views: 10,004
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Whats Your Day Job?

Although I lived most of my life in the USA, I now live in Santiago, Chile 9 months of the year and spend the summer in Colorado or other places. I'm retired and my article writing service brings a...
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display) 2nd August 2010, 11:24 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 650
Posted By ArticlesThatRock
Re: Phrase, Broad, or Exact match.

You should definitely use exact match because broad match and phrase match will give unrelated results.
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