WARNING: This post is not for the “good enough” minded. Why stop at good enough when you can push for great, leveraged, or better yet, integrated? I started toying around with social media early back in 2005. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was just having fun throwing aimless punches blindly in the dark, in misguided hopes of hitting the jackpot. Stupid me, it never happened.... Read More
WARNING: This post is not for the “good enough” minded. Why stop at good enough when you can push for great, leveraged, or better yet, integrated? I started toying around with social media early back in 2005. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was just having fun throwing aimless punches blindly in the dark, in misguided hopes of hitting the jackpot. Stupid me, it never happened.... Read More
A few weeks ago we started helping one of our partners set up a successful presence on Facebook. His name is Burt Goldman, The American Monk. I’m guessing he’s probably the ONLY 81 year old monk with more than 1,000 true friends on the social network, which brings me to my story. Owen Thomas, a blogger at Valleywag (the Silicon Valley version of Perez Hilton), a tech gossip blog,... Read More
Who knew that such a tiny, little addition – a small image to be precise – can have such a significant impact on sales? Well, we certainly didn’t expect it, and that just goes to show the importance of split testing even the smallest tweaks. Here is what we did. One of our biggest websites is www.SilvaLifeSystem.com and below is how the top banner of the website looked BEFORE... Read More
In this video, Kenneth unveils his simple formula for a winning marketing angle. It’s powerful, yet nothing complicated. The key to a winning sales angle is dominant emotion. Watch the video below to learn how to find your prospect’s dominant emotion and incorporate it into your marketing. Read More
In keeping with our tradition of continuous tests and tweaks to boost the performance of our websites, we’ve discovered a very simple type of email that works well for email marketing. You just need one main powerful ingredient to make it work well – testimonials. That’s right. Testimonials sell. The more you have, the better. Plus, they do boost conversion rates on websites. So, we thought, what the heck,... Read More
Brace yourselves for an excellent interview brought to you exclusively by MindValley Labs with the one and only Rand Fishkin, CEO of the highly successful SEOmoz, by far one of the undisputed leaders in the SEO industry. In this interview Rand generously provides great tips and ideas that we have found beneficial. Moreover, they clarify a number of points too, so be sure to check it out. >> Rand... Read More
A few days ago I talked about our new SEO web-app, Traffic Marks, which hones in and pinpoints relevant authority sites so you know exactly where to focus your link building efforts. It is the quickest, easiest way to find the best authority sites to get links from. Thing is, once you’ve mercilessly found the relevant authority sites for killer SEO purposes, you then need to formulate a strategy... Read More
Ask any real SEO junkie about time-tested effective methods for getting to Google’s 1st page quickly and chances are pretty good that they’ll mention getting incoming links from authority sites in your field (which is determined by the keyword you want to rank well for). Previously, doing this was quite a pain, and over here at MindValleyLabs we’ve been striving hard to solve this problem. Typically, you need to... Read More
Hellooo, it’s called Social Media Social media is turning marketing and public relations upside down. The rules of the game are changing and shifting, and amidst all of this wonderful, innovation-driven chaos, many get into social media without keeping a focus on the “social” in social media. How many times have you gotten onboard a social media website, went on an “adding friends” wild spree, starting sending links to... Read More