In an effort to grow ones network you first have to go join a network. Sounds too simple but it is true. But where should you go to find your networks that are of interest to you and where you can add value to them? Search online of course! There are numerous forums and social sites where you can sign up and register yourself and start to make connections.

Facebook is the obvious  starting place as it has such diversity and huge volumes of traffic of so many different networks. It was in one of these networks where I came across this concept of adding value to others by doing one simple act! What little act might that be? (more…)

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When you decide to do online marketing you have a choice to either go the quick route or the slow route. Now the reason for choosing one over the other all comes down to whether you have more money than time (outsource or paid marketing PPC etc) or whether you have more time than money (article writing and forum posting and blogging etc).Most people start online with great ideas of making money quickly and easily and are burdened with the get rich quick mentality. (more…)

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Just another rant……..

I posted on the same theme before but I am getting to the point of being exceptionally hacked off with the number of people on the internet marketing band wagon who think they can just spam me! Who are these people’s mentors? I don’t even know these people and they slap all their nonsense either into my inbox or on my wall. I have befriended some of them as they requested to be ‘my friend’ and no sooner have I accepted and bang spam! (more…)

Facebook is fun for most of us however yesterday I had to cut down my ‘friends’ list because in reality they were just plain old spammers.

These individuals may be thinking that they were doing the right thing by throwing enough mud at the wall in the hope that some may stick, but how wrong they are!! Do they not realize that this wonderful social network could become an invaluable marketing tool IF they ‘play the game’ and do things the right way? So I thought enough was enough and today in our little group I would bring some of the basic ideas back into our focus, before we really get into some high caliber learning. So lets get back to basics folks and make Facebook work for us all – here is just a sample of some ideas on how we can do it: (more…)

This post is really just a little observation from a conversational thread within one of my friends facebook pages. You see the ‘Hype’ and subsequent debate was in reference to Traffic 3.0 product launch by Jonathon Budd and was also a veiled attempt at slating the marketing strategy that was used in getting the product launched to the masses. (more…)

Well is that not the million dollar question? Well it is, but it is not. You see anyone is capable of generating more leads simply by doing more than the next person. Too many of us get stuck in one strategy and then sit back and wait for the results to turn up. We check our email to see if any opt ins have happened in the last half hour. We jump onto Skype and see what the chat is! Maybe we even start to reply to some facebook threads and then check emails again! (more…)