Just how much “noise” can one little voice make - well if you talk to an internet marketer, they’d say - ” quite a lot! ..”
It depends a little, or a lot about where you make your noise and how. The internet world is a huge place so if you want to be noticed you need to shout in the right places to be noticed. But - there’s a word or caution here. Make sure what and how you shout is of value or properly considered or the attention may backfire on you.

Remember the movie - “A Bugs Life”. One little ant can’t doesn’t make much of a difference, and even got kicked out of the hive. But as the grasshoppers found out - don’t mess with them all at once!
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Preparing you Marketing Army for Battle - Part 1

Have you ever thought about just how you go about your marketing. Sitting at your computer, it seems very one-on-one. You, the keyboard, your web-site/s and the world out there. Sure you have your contacts, “friends” and colleagues if you’re lucky and maybe a “guru” you can bounce off - but unless you’re in a team as in (shudder) a corporate workplace, it’s just you - or is it?

I would like to bounce an idea around with you - I think you are not alone. Why? - well I like to think of every link, article, post, website and every “footprint” we leave across the web-space is one of your “soldiers” out there working for you. The trick is to have those footprints leading somewhere.
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Finding Your Start-up Strategy

Getting your marketing strategy nailed down is probably the biggest challenge anyone faces when starting into Internet Marketing(IM). There’s an information overload and every “guru” has advice at a cost. The question becomes - how to choose a strategy and where do you start. How do you begin sorting out the market chatter from real insight that saves time and money?
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10 Tips on filtering discussions on Twitter

As you follow more and more on Twitter - the number of posts that roll down your screen becomes unbelievable.

To make sense of it and keep track of conversations that MATTER - you need some tools to ease your daily twittering experience.  Well, here are a few tips on keeping some sanity inside Twitter : Read the rest of this entry

Don’t Loose your Twitter Followers

OK, I’m no Twitter expert. In fact, I’m a relative newbie when it comes to Twitter, but I have noticed a few things about how I use and interact with other twitterers.   There is one thing I know about marketing and that’s being there for the longhaul by building presence and trust. We all know about how people react to email spam - and while we all go about building an opt in email list - it will always be better if those on your list don’t feel like cannon fodder. The same is happening with Twitter - if you want to lose followers quickly, spam them. Read the rest of this entry

Does “Hardsell” have a place on Twitter?

Twitter is still one of the hottest, fastest-growing, most attention-grabbing social service, but suddenly it appears that many of its users don’t actually use and its appeal is not so “hot”.   Studies suggest that growth is flat-lining. According to Hubspot - about half of all people who signed up for an account never posted a tweet (55%), aren’t following anyone (56%) and have no followers themselves (53%).  Have your Say on this Public Poll - Vote Here!!
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Your Biggest Asset Is Your Opt In List
Speak to any successful Internet Marketeer and the all say the same - BUILD YOUR OPT IN LIST.

If you aren’t working hard building a list, drop everything you are doing right now and focus on list building.
There is no escaping, a Targeted List will be your greatest online marketing asset…ever.  To understand WHY - let’s look at this more closely.  Why exactly is this marketing method so important? Read the rest of this entry