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I just came across this post by Mind Valley Labs.  In a nut shell here is the way to go about building your mailing list with your blog comments.  When a user comments on your blog customize the results page to prompt them to opt in to your mail list.
Seems like a simple mod and […]

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American Express has a program called "Open" that provides services, advice and a sense of community to their small business customers.  You have probably seen it advertised on TV.  Now some jerk inside AMEX just sent a communication to all Open members stating,
"Don't Waste Money on a So-Called SEO Specialist"
Now clearly this dolt must have […]

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I  have commeted on both the Positive Aspects of Real Rank along with the Negative Aspects of Real Rank.  If you read my negative post you will recall one of my issues was that for advertisers buying posts via PayPerPost/IZEA they specify RealRank in terms of 1-9.  Where a blogger with a real rank of […]

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OK look I am not an "I told you so kind of guy" in most instances but I feel vindicated here and I just have to say it this time.  I reported back BEFORE ANYONE that some sort of deal was being brokered between Yahoo and Microsoft with MS being the buyer and the big […]

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A lot of people seem to believe that SEO is about nothing more then getting a web page to rank well for high traffic terms on Google and the other major search engines.  Back in the dawn of SEO that was pretty much the case and anyone that could do it consistently was quickly able […]

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I blogged over a week ago that layoffs were coming for Yahoo and today they have occurred.  In fact the total layoffs have been announced at 1000 people.
What I found interesting is this article from Search Engine Watch that has 4 very positive things for marketers to see in this adjustment.  They are….
1. Search marketers […]

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I remember 4 years ago when I moved my family from Pennsylvania back to Texas.  We were traveling with 2 dogs and 2 cats.  What an "experience" that was!  Since we were just moving it was one of those drive until you are to tired to see, find a hotel and then crash for a […]

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I have been thinking about this a lot lately as I watch all the new ways to market online come out.  Demographic targeting from Google, mobile search is booming and behavioral targeting is getting more accurate.  More and more main stream marketing professionals are beginning to truly understand the internet.  I firmly believe we are […]

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If you read this blog then you know I am a hard core internet marketer but that doesn't mean that I don't know the value of high quality business mailing lists, targeted telemarketing lists and accurate consumer lists.  In fact when I worked with Sage Telecom we did millions of direct mail pieces per month […]

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Wordpress has what they call the famous 5 minute installation of the Wordpress blog platform.  Can you do it in 5 minutes?  Sure if you have done it before, know your web host's back end well and if you know how to set up a SQL database, edit a raw config file and a few […]

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Mostly I discuss internet marketing techniques here at Comtech News but that doesn't mean that I don't see the value in off line marketing techniques.  One great way is to us direct mail in the form of post cards to get your message to your prospects.  Well if you want to give this method a […]

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I wasn't always an Internet Marketer, at one time in fact for almost a decade I was a corporate sales manager for a few different major corporations.  In that time I traveled extensively managing sales forces of 20-40 individuals.  Generally you would jump on a jet, fly to a city, get picked up by your […]

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Originally I was going to do a video course on all of this showing how to do it step by step and sell it for say 19-29 dollars.  I still will if enough people commit in advance to buying it and I think it would help a lot of less technical people get it all […]

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Thanks to the new PayPerPost back hand attack that Google has handed out Comtech News has gone from a previous high Page Rank of 5 down to a zero.  Why?  Mostly because I have participated in PayPerPost and offered links on my blog with out using the nofollow condom that Google says I have to […]

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We talk a lot here at Comtech News about online marketing, SEO and other Internet Marketing techniques.  We have never really spent much time discussing gold old fashioned branding.  To be fair about it, this blog is about technical stuff and we come at most subjects from that vantage point.  Yet recently I was reviewing […]

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