March 26, 2009
- Landing Page 101: Back to Basics
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Getting ready to attend the week-long Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco next week (That’s the SF Museum of Modern Art to your right) and I thought now might be a good time to return to an important topic: Landing Page Optimization. Web 2.0 is great, and needs to be a part of [...]
February 24, 2009
- Alan Weiss: Follow The Avatar
This 4-minute video by Alan Weiss is from one of his consulting workshops and it presents an idea that can be crucial to organizational change:
Demonstrate the change you want to achieve.
July 30, 2008
- Success Queston: What if you knew you could only win?
What would you do if you knew you could only win?
I receive occasional emails from an NLP Trainer in the U.K. named Michael Carroll. (Not to be confused with Micheal Beale another excellent NLP Trainer.) I have traveled to London several times to take training from both these men, and they are never far from [...]
July 27, 2008
- Google Using Search History to Serve PPC Ads
It has been known for many months that if you have a Google account, google can track your web history and sites visited (see Search Engine Land for a brief overview). This can be a rather interesting phenomena as Google has been using it to tailor organic search results to particular users’ tastes. For example, [...]
June 26, 2008
- Rooms for Baboons: Need a Stag Hotel in Newcastle?!
Ok, had to laugh yesterday when seeing the website for a niche hotel provider in the U.K., called “Rooms for Baboons”. What do these guys do? They provide hotels rooms for “Stag & Lad” parties in Great Britain. Eh?
Not being a Brit myself, I can only imagine that if I am getting married and going [...]
June 25, 2008
- Sphinn: Social Bookmarking That Gets It Right
Are focused, niche bookmarking websites the future of the Web?
Several weeks ago, I bumped into http://sphinn.com/ a self-described, “Internet Marketing & Discussion Forum.” Unlike Digg, Furl, Reddit, Technorati and others, Sphinn accepts links for a relatively narrow group of subjects. Topics related search marketing (SEO, PPC etc.), online marketing and social media will make [...]
June 17, 2008
- SEO and Blog Comments: How do blog comments help your rankings?
Many people are of the opinion that making comments on other people’s blog posts is a good tool for gaining traffic and incoming links to your own websites. There are dissenting opinions of course, including those that mention the dreaded “nofollow” tag that many blogging platforms add to URLs in comments. Regardless, if you do [...]
June 9, 2008
- BoardTracker, EzineArticles, and Universities: Create some BUZZ.
I just created a small “screenshot” pdf of how to use BoardTracker.com and EzineArticles.com to bring traffic to your website. And as I occasionally teach topics that are timely and relevant to college students, I thought I would share with you a simple way that I use to contact university students and fill my local [...]
May 2, 2008
- Internet Marketing: To whom are you *really* selling ?
It’s time to return to a topic from a previous post: Selling online without selling your soul. Why? Because there’s a critical fact people are missing about the anxiety and fear that they sometimes feel when selling and marketing online:
When you get clear about the value of your products and services, both to yourself and [...]
April 14, 2008
- Self-Publishing: How to Sell Your Book on Amazon and Save 50% of the Fees
Self-Publishers: Sell Your Book on Amazon and Save $$
I just got off the phone with a self-published author who has sold over 1000 copies of her book. She has used a variety of methods to sell her book, including book signings, live presentations and selling oniine through a variety of vendors.
She called me because she [...]
April 3, 2008
- You don’t have to sell your soul to sell online
One hurdle that my coaching clients often have to deal with is learning to sell and market online while staying true to their own values.
I help them learn that they can sell effectively online and do so with heart, integrity and authenticity.
They don’t always think that it is possible, but they do learn. [...]
February 3, 2008
- Paypal Payments: If you are using Paypal are you losing sales?
Is Paypal Costing You Sales?
February 2, 2008
- Internet Marketing: Increasing Your Book Sales
I have recently begun doing some search engine optimization for Gregg Cochlan’s website, which promotes his wonderful book “Love Leadership: What the World Needs Now.”
As it stands today, February 2nd, 2008, the Love Leadership website is at #10 on Google for the term “Love Leadership.” I anticipate that as I work on the site [...]
January 13, 2008
- Discussion Forum: How to Add a Forum to Your Blog or Website
Video: Use CPANEL to add a discussion forum to your blog or website in 3-minutes or less.
In a previous post, I discussed the pro’s and con’s of adding a forum to you blog or website: Forum Discussion.
Now, let’s go through the process of adding the forum. It will take less than 3 minutes (really) to [...]
December 30, 2007
- New Discussion Forum Open (and How to Add a Forum)
Should you add a discussion forum to your website or blog?
I have recenty added a discussion forum to this blog. You can find it here:
http://ryannagy.com/forum/
Now seems like a good time to discuss the pro’s and con’s of adding a forum to your website or blog. First, the “pros”:
Adding a website forum is simple and [...]
July 29, 2007
- Google’s new adwords and pay-per-click tools.
I find it instructive to dig deep into my pay-per-click campaigns in order to get the most information abou the “ROI” or return on investment from my adword spend. I used to spend a considerable amount of time digging through my http refferer logs and using some third-party solutions to help my tracking. Now, google [...]
July 25, 2007
- SEO for Antiques and Collectibles
Several weeks ago, I started doing Search Engine Optimization for Merry Elizabeth Foss, a dealer of Latin American Antiques and Collectibles. Merry lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and gets her pieces directly from the people who create them. That is, she travels to Mexico, Peru, Guatamala and other places in South America and buys [...]
July 19, 2007
- Is E-junkie’s $5 per month ecommerce solution worth anything?
Can a $5 per month ecommerce system be worth a darn? That’s the question that I asked myself 3 months ago when looking at E-junkie’s all-in-one service (commonly misspelled as ejunkie). They will host your digital downloads (audio, video, software, ebooks and more) and take care of all the back end work. Someone buys your [...]
June 7, 2007
- The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris is one of the most important books that I have read this year. I like it so much that I am reading it again and have also bought it as an audio book from audible. Why?
Ferriss pulls together multiple threads and multiple ideas from dozens of books, [...]
May 25, 2007
- Improving your Pay Per Click Results
I have spent one or two hours per week over the last several months attempting to improve my pay per click results. That may not sound like much time, but for a guy like me who wants automatic income without the need to trade time for service…well, let’s just say that it’s time that I [...]
