September 20, 2007
- Reciprocity and your Internet marketing business
Today I was reading a book (Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion) by one of my former Arizona State University social psychology professors, Robert Cialdini. He discussed an experiment that a university professor did some years ago. The professor sent Christmas cards to strangers. He got a number of cards in return. This illustrates the principle [...]
September 18, 2007
- New York Times, Adsense and Passive Income
Keeping with my new-found idea of creating passive income while leaving the laptop computer at home, I am writing this post from a public-access computer at the Salt Lake City Main Library. My laptop is at home feeling unloved.
The New York Times is no longer charging for online content
In a nod to the growing [...]
September 4, 2007
- Free web store service
I just came across a site that looks like it is offering a pretty good deal for someone who is just starting to sell online products.
The site offers free setup and hosting for up to 250 products. Wow! I haven’t tried them yet, but I would if I were starting out. You still have to [...]
September 3, 2007
- Upskilling
I heard a guy on a radio interview today talking about how the job market in the U.S. is changing. Some tasks can and will be done more cheaply or efficiently overseas (he mentioned accounting that can be done as well and much cheaper by being outsourced to some developing countries like India, but even [...]
August 26, 2007
- How to quickly show up on Google
The other day I posted something on this blog and sent Ryan an email message about it. A short time later, I received an alert from Google (I have signed up to be notified whenever my name shows up on the web somewhere) saying that Ryan’s blog had a new mention of my name. When [...]
August 15, 2007
- Create a book from your blog
I just saw a cool demo of a new company that can take web content and make personalized online “flip-books” or print books.
But what caught my eye for readers of this blog was specialized service they offer in which you can automatically create a book from your blog entries. It will initially work only with [...]
May 4, 2007
- Overture and WordTracker keyword tools: What’s the difference?
During the Santa Fe Bootcamp, Bill and I (Ryan) demonstrated how to use both Overture and Wordtacker to find “niche” keywords. A question arose: How do the two tools differ?
In brief, Overture’s search engine gives you data for an entire month. So the numbers that it give you are higher than what you see on [...]
April 7, 2007
- Using the Oprah Winfrey Show to bring traffic to your website.
In a previous post, I showed a small example of how to use Wordtracker and content-rich blog posts to bring more traffic to your website. My example was modestly successful. The post ranks #1 on google for “how to information marketing” and it brings in steady traffic to the Web Whisperers blog.
Remember though, that the [...]
March 12, 2007
- How to Information Marketing
When you read the title, “How to Information Marketing” does it sound strange to you? Does it look ungrammatical and somehow “wrong”? It certainly does to me.
So why am I using it? Because it is bringing targeted traffic to this website - intelligent people who know exactly what they are looking for and how to [...]
