The number one golden rule when it comes to building your online reputation is to lead with value and to be true to yourself. NOT your company or product or the Biz Op you may have just joined. Ok we get that! So what should you be doing? Well the first thing you should be doing is looking to capture page one of Google for your name. By this I am meaning that if someone wanted to know a little bit more about you they are probably going to type in your name into Google and see what they can find. (more…)

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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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…)

Before we get into answering the question posed above lets have a look at some interesting facts.-
It appears, if there was a list of the most influential things right now that are going on in the world we live in, then surely the internet would be at the top of any ones list! We all know a lot of people (some really close friends, or maybe even someone closer to home) who seem to miss out on a big part of their day when they don’t get a chance to log on to their Facebook accounts. And get this little nugget of information, if you add up the population of accounts on Facebook, it would qualify as the 3rd most populous country in the world. Wifi cellphones are now a very big part of the cellphone-using market and it is no longer the norm to not have email and internet connectivity. Businesses have totally made use of e-mails as a very cost efficient way of keeping in touch even when you’re countries away. (more…)