Zakary Barron of Constant Contact Presenting Email Marketing Best Practices

Posted by Marty Dickinson on May 5, 2010

Zakary Barron is doing a great job presenting best practices of email marketing. Focus on email marketing is a great follow-up to what I was presenting to the group, which was social networking on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. Highlights include: 1. Email is not dead: Proof: Didn’t you check your email this morning? 2. What [...]

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#2 on Google in 2 Days…Again

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Apr 27, 2010

Sometimes I wish I had the time to just sit in a chair and make blog posts all day long just to get them on top of Google. Last Friday night I had the incentive to make a blog posts for a new client. I wanted to get him blogging about his topic so I [...]

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Why to Never Do Internet Marketing While Watching T.V.

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Apr 11, 2010

Here I sit working on my first major promo for a workshop I have scheduled in partnership with Constant Contact downtown Denver on Wednesday May 5th at the Grand Hyatt and I have some promos saying it’s May 6th and some saying it’s May 5th. Geez! Get it right Marty. Just goes to show that [...]

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Free Internet Marketing Workshop in Denver Colorado May 5th, 2010

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Apr 11, 2010

Using the Internet to grow your business has dramatically changed over the past few years. If you’ve been misled into thinking all it takes to be successful online today is getting a few hundred followers on Twitter, spending hours a day “Facebooking” or gaining top placement on Google for only your business name, we’d like [...]

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How to Display Your Own Ads on Your Websites Network with OpenX

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Mar 31, 2010

In my family of full-time Internet marketers, there seems to be a hot trend to make as many websites as we can and build traffic from those sites in order to feed our main sites. But, how exactly does one manage the “feeding” part? About a year ago, I looked at a free product called [...]

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Copywriting Tips: Writing Features and Benefits of a Product

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Mar 15, 2010

My most challenging part of copywriting has always been writing features and benefits of a product. I could come up with stories, headlines, price offers in minutes and all the fancy Buy Now! buttons you’d need to fill a sales page. But, it was the benefits list that always drove me crazy; until I discovered [...]

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Heather Lutze Speaking at AuthorU About SEO

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Feb 27, 2010

I’m sitting here on a Saturday morning on February 27, 2010, and just heard Heather Lutze for the first time speaking about SEO to a group of 90 or so at AuthorU’s first all-day Saturday seminar event, led by Judith Briles. Heather did a great job explaining the “sweet spot” so to speak for which [...]

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Yahoo Adopts Real-Time Search

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Feb 23, 2010

It’s all over the news. Yahoo! has finalized a partnership with Twitter to incorporate Twitter’s tweets into Yahoo!’s search database. When someone adds a tweet about a topic and it immediately displays in a search on Yahoo! based on the keywords used in the tweet, that is called real-time search. Some people believe real-time search [...]

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Beware of Google SEO Scams

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Feb 22, 2010

I just read this post on one of my favorite forums… Poster’s Comment: “I have a problem with an SEO service I ordered and I’m not sure what to do. Last month, I hired a guy from XXXXXXXX for SEO on a site I have. He guaranteed he could bring my site to Google 1st [...]

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Part 2 of 7 Numbers to Know to Grow Your Business: Sales

Posted by Marty Dickinson on Feb 16, 2010

How many sales do you need to make the amount of money you want to have in a year? As simple as this question might be, I’ve found very few people actually have this number in the top of their minds. If you want to take home $500,000 over the next 12 months, you either [...]

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