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 [...]

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 [...]

April 22, 2007

• Navigating the New Media Maze: The Web Whisperer’s Internet Marketing Bootcamp

  Managing the New Media Maze: August 2007: London Internet Marketing Bootcamp More to come – Ryan

April 9, 2007

• “Bloggish thoughts from a marketing wonk”

  I was cruising the internet earlier today, trying to find some information on “Rolfing” and “Structural Integration” for some short blog posts that I am writing. When doing so, I bumped into a post by a self-styled “marketing wonk” and copywriter who had some harsh, but useful, thoughts for Rolfers, Feldenkrais Practitioners and other alternative [...]

March 11, 2007

• Old Cavendish Fruitcake: A case in search engine optimization

  I have recently begun working on a new and fun challenge. I am improving the search engine rankings of Old Cavendish Fruitcake in Vermont. Fruitcakes are often maligned, but love them or hate them, millions of pounds of fruitcakes are sold each year. How many millions of pounds? I don’t know and I have had [...]

December 15, 2006

• Seven Steps to Marketing a Strong Nonprofit Brand

  I recently came across an article on “seven steps to marketing a non-profit brand.” The advice in the article is equally applicable “for profit” branding and marketing. Notice that the original article name is “Seven Steps to BUILDING a Strong Nonprofit Brand.” From the standpoint of online marketing and keyword searches “building” is a very [...]

October 31, 2006

• Ryan Nagy and Bill O’Hanlon: The Web Whisperers

  Bill O’Hanlon and myself (Ryan Nagy) are now live and ready to blow your mind – Get ready for the Web Whisperer’s 5-day digital product creation and online marketing bootcamp – April 27-May 1, 2007, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We all know that there is plenty of great material out there about the internet [...]

October 30, 2006

• Launching a wildly sucessful site using no paid advertising.

  This is the most interesting and useful article that I have read in the last several weeks. It is a case-study from Marketing Sherpa: http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=29751

September 29, 2006

• Why blog?! Give me 60 seconds:

  What is blog and why would you want to become a blogger? I was at a meeting at the University of Utah last night (the names and places have been changed to protect the innocent) and I used the word “blog.” It didn’t occur to me that “blog” is a word that could be jargon [...]