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3 Forbidden Twitter Mind Control Tricks to Explode Your Marketing

Creating Trust Online / Make Money / Online Community / Viral Marketing

WARNING: The techniques explored in this piece are purely to be used for ethical purposes, if you’re weak of stomach or of pure malicious character, then I urge you to please leave immediately. Twitter can be evil. Some less-than-scrupulous people can easily take advantage it and wield frightening influence over poor innocent subjects. On the other hand, use it with responsibility and you perhaps have the most powerful relation-building... Read More

Start Building Your Business on the Right Attitude

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In my last few posts, I’ve shared various things I’ve learned, and the several insights that Brad Antin of Centerpointe shared with me. You might be wondering how Brad Antin and I ended up talking business. Did I walk up to him and say, "Hi, I’m Mike, I actually plan to be your biggest competitor, could you please tell me your secret?" Not quite. First, I was introduced by... Read More

7 Ways to Increase Your Blog Comments

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When you have really good posts on your blog, it probably bothers you when you don’t get as much feedback as you’d hoped. Sometimes, there are no comments at all when what you really want is to feel appreciated buy your readers. I’ve identified seven ways to increase the comments you receive on your blog posts. 1. Incentivize. Give people a reason to comment. The classic way method is... Read More

Blog Marketing: Monetize The Comments On Your Blog

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I stumbled upon Ramit Sethi’s blog IWillTeachYouToBeRich.com. Ramit is the the co-founder & VP of Marketing for PBwiki, a wiki startup in Silicon Valley and he blogs about personal finance. Ramit runs a great blog with some excellent content and a wicked sense of humor. But I was most impressed with a little conversion trick he’s running on his blog. When someone comments on a post they are taken... Read More

A New Way to Think about Social Proof

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I was just reading one of the free ebooks from Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula. It’s about building and using social proof in your sales efforts. This probably isn’t new to most of you, but one idea stuck out. What if you’re new to the market or launching a new product and don’t yet have testimonials (the most common way to show social proof)? How do you show social... Read More