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Re: Referral Counter

internetseo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:38:07 -0000

To be honest, I used to be in a BNI group. After a year I left because there were only a handful of businesses in the group that were essentailly trading referrals back and forth (mostly the realtor, mortgage firm, title company and assessor.) Their numbers made the group look real impressive but none of the rest of us were making enough money to justify losing 2 1/2 hours out of the day.

We were also disillusioned with the emphasis on quantity rather than quality of referrals. And lastly, none of us could figure out why we were paying Ivan Meisner $350 a year for essentially nothing.

i recently joined a group of ex-BNIers. It's $120 a year and the emphasis is on high-quality only referrals and using the time to help each other with teaching, training and advice for business problems instead of taking the time with up with "commercials." we network with each other before and after and outside the group. I'm loving it.

Re: Content is King. Hire a Journalist.

internetseo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:44:08 -0000

This is timely and important advice. Google will not send people to sales pages if they can help it. They prefer to send people to valuable content. If your competitors have the same tired sales pages on their website and Google sees important and useful information on your website, guess who they are going to send people to?

And you don't have to hire a full-time journalist. There are plenty of freelance writers willing to work piecework or for a limited number of hours per month. You could even group together with a few other businesses and hire the services of a writer to help your entire group while you share the costs.

Re: Bing Is Now the Fastest Growing Search Engine

internetseo — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:01:27 -0000

I am definitely not an early adapter. For now, I continue to use Google. Bing will have to prove itself. As an SEO copywriter, I don't have much use for video search. I hate video because I have no control. It's a passive form of communication and I love the Internet because unlike TV, I have "almost" complete control over what I see.

One thing you learn as a copywriter for the Web is that people want control, even if it's just the illusion of control. Bing will still have to compete for total search results. Google is certainly not without it's faults. I get plenty frustrated with their search at times.

If Bing begins to show an ability to return more "intuitive" search results, I will gladly switch. I don't care what company created it. I only care about results.

Re: 5 Rules for Better Web Writing

internetseo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:01:41 -0000

Great article. As an SEO copywriter, I run into these issues all the time.

Two points: Business people often have a difficult time understanding why writing for the Internet is different so I ask them if they'd put a radio ad on a billboard, or read a brochure in a radio ad. That sometimes gets them to listen.

Point Two: Don't foget that copy that isn't found is useless copy. Find a way to use one of your primary keyword phrases in every page headline and in the first and last paragraphs of the copy.

Re: 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business

internetseo — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:06:47 -0000

No offense but I don't see the value in Twitter for anyone marketing to B2B or the over 30 consumer. My experience (although I have no data to back it up), has been that most of that "few million" have been under 30 and early adopters.

If this is your target market, go for it. Otherwise, as an Online Marketer, I recommend to my clients that there are better ways to market their products and services. Twitter is not ready for prime time...

Re: 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business

internetseo — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:00:16 -0000

No offense, but that "only a few million" is pretty skewed towards the under 30 crowd and first adopters. While Facebook has an average age of 42, Twitter doesn't even come close. (Of course, this is only my personal observation). As an Online Marketing professional, I deal with business people every day. Unless they are selling to a young crowd and are definitely B2C, I steer them away from Twitter (on the rare occasion I come across a middle-aged business person who has a clue about Twitter and actually asks.)

Bob McClain

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Re: The Holy Grail: Having A One-Stop Shop For Online Marketing

internetseo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:30:01 -0000

Interesting post. It's interesting that online powerhouses like Microsoft or Google or Yahoo haven't ried to create a "one stop shop" for new business owners. I think it's beyond the abilities of most small marketing firms like mine to create something like that.

While I offer all kinds of Online Marketing services like Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click and Social Media Marketing, I'm a actually a copywriter who knows enough about these things to sell them and answer questions about them. However, I have a string of experts who do the actual work.

And maybe that's how something like this would have to work. Have a centralized website where people can gain acess to experts on all the different subjects and services listed in the post. A centralized "marketing management" site where everything is outsourced but it's all centrally managed through your dashboard.

Of course, I'll admit, I'm working on something like that but it's not ready yet. Plenty more 16 hour days before launch...

Re: Unsubscribe From Whomever Emailed You Stompernet

internetseo — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:13:33 -0000

I actually took the time to read a large number of the entries in this thread. It certainly became a Who's Who of Internet Marketing these days.

I realize that this is probably no longer monitored but I just wanted to put one last post in here. This is all about copy writing. It seems that all the best copy writers are now in the Internet Marketing business because there only seem to be two places where such talents are valued. Either the direct mail business or the Internet Marketing business. It's a shame.

I've worked hard to try and explain to business owners the value of strong copy writing and they just don't get it. Every day I hear, "I can write. Why should I pay someone to do that?"

And yet every day, Internet Marketers prove the value of good copy writing. Any thoughts on how to translate that to the education of business owners or am I wasting my breath?

Re: Unsubscribe From Whomever Emailed You Stompernet

internetseo — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:58:55 -0000

It's nice to see someone stand up and slap these guys across the jowls. Yeah, I want to make a ton of money on the Internet and retire to the south of France, too, but I want to be able to sleep with myself when I get there.

The only two people I've found that I trust (mainly because I've bought their products and were roundly impressed by them) are Terry Dean and John Reese.

I don't resell their products and I'm not an affiliate for them. I just use what I learned from them to help me promote and sell my own products and services.

Value for the money. That's a pretty rare thing in the "Internet Marketing" arena.

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

internetseo — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:14:14 -0000

One thing some of John's detractors seem to be missing is that John probably doesn't care what Google does to him. He has grown through link building, blog connections and word-of-mouth.

Google's arrogance is not going to hurt him or his site. He doesn't need them and as others of us learn from John's example, that should really start to shake up the greed-trust at Google.

The idea of a corporation as greedy as Google pointing the finger and trying to punish John Chow for trying to make a few thousand dollars a month is laughable at best and ominous at worst.

If Google keeps trying to engineer the web with the stick method, they will soon enjoy the same venom that Mr. Softy has been receiving for the last several years.