Time is a precious resource and it’s not something you’d ever want to fritter away. If you’re not involved with Twitter or blogging it’s probably because you’re scared that the time you invest in getting interesting content together is actually a waste of time. Twitter’s A Time Waster So many people have denounced Twitter as [...]

Everyone knows that social media sites like MySpace, Bebo and Facebook collect a large number of people to their sites. And lots of Internet marketers claim to be making vast amounts of money from them. This Social Media Article from the New York Times shows that the social media sites themselves are not making as [...]

I can almost hear your sharp intake of breath as you read the title. Surely marketing is a massive drain on a company’s resources, particularly its cash? Firstly, marketing should be looked upon as an investment which should pay back 2, 3 or more times the investment. Secondly, many companies try so many different marketing [...]

What if you could tell your customers about problems and explain to them in a friendly informed way. Rather than them finding out through the grapevine? Or how about releasing the beta of a new product which your customers already know is coming, have been involved in defining what it is and what it does [...]

For all those who worry that blogging isn’t a proper way of making money you need to check out Business Week’s week July article on bloggers called “Bloggers Bring In The Big Bucks.” There’s a slide show that they show on the upper left of the article which goes through 13-14 bloggers who are making [...]

You just can’t go wrong with this anniversary competition from Irish designer David Airey. He’s celebrating his second year blogging with his design blog  and so he’s holding an anniversary prize giveaway. Smart marketing David, I like it! There’s more than $4,000 worth of prizes. Some of them are so good they make me salivate. [...]

Chris Baggott is an unashamed pusher for Business Blogging. And in this post he explains that blogging SEO can have a large number of posts that pick up differing keyword phrases. Obviously as time goes by Chris’s new blog called “Blogging Best Practices” is going to slowly, or even quickly, rise through the organic search [...]

I was visited by a nice lady who’d found this blog through blogcatalog.com.  Blogcatalog is literally a list of the blogs that have registered there. Plus they give you a nifty widget to put in the sidebar of your own blog. The widget notes anyone who visits your site and has also registered a blog [...]

People have asked me why I keep the blogging to the bank banner going on this blog. The simple answer is because at the moment it’s the one thing that will pretty much definitely help people do better at blogging and at making money from their blog. Does the book guarantee untold riches? Not quite. [...]

“Blogging To The Bank 2.0″ is a fine example of a human trait that bloggers and a lot of folk on line demonstrate. Human curiosity! And guess what? I’m a fine example of that trait in action. I managed to resist the temptation to buy the first edition of Blogging to the Bank. Because of course I [...]

12 ways to increase traffic to your blog or website.

I’ve just read a nice article on blog marketing by Lee Odden. In his post he gives “25 tips for marketing your blog”. Including Lees and to make 35 tips in all I’ve added a further 10 wrinkles for blog marketing: 26. If you’ve never blogged before try it out first using one of the [...]