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I saw this video the other day called Design Coding by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) - pretty cool, it’s educational and fun :)

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This is an excellent example of how to create a viral video. It was posted March 20, 2008 and it already has 84,071 views. He also has some more [...]

Happy holidays and a happy new year. At the end of the year people often look back over what happened that year. I think viral videos are fascinating - how a video travels around the world through word-of-mouth or click-of-link from person to person until millions of people have seen it. Sometimes this is just [...]

When you want to grow in your business there is only so much you can do on your own. That’s why you might want to reach out to others and see if they can help you - or better yet, if you can help each other. You could consider outsourcing, hiring staff or doing joint [...]

One of the tricks you can use when you’re trying to sell something is create urgency. For example: “there are only limited copies available”, “buy within the next 5 minutes and you’ll get this extra bonus”, etc. People that are “on the fence” might decide to buy because they don’t want to lose out - [...]

I’m very interested in viral marketing. It’s just fascinating to see what gets picked up and becomes viral and watching how it grows. You can learn a lot by watching successful viral campaigns, reverse engineering them and trying to figure out what made them viral. One viral campaign that I think went pretty well is [...]

Earlier today I received this e-mail from ReviewMe:

ReviewMe Bloggers,
We wanted to inform you about a special ReviewMe promotion we are running that may be of interest to your readers. We have found that advertisers who have used RM have been impressed and keep coming back for more reviews. So our biggest challenge is getting an [...]

In the beginning of this month I received this nice greeting card from Mark Joyner:

If you don’t know Mark Joyner he’s often referred to as the godfather of internet marketing. He’s the innovator of many online marketing techniques and the founder of Simpleology.
I’m pretty sure I got this holiday card because I’m an affiliate for [...]

I just read this great article over at ProBlogger - it’s by guest blogger Tony Hung and he lists a lot of good tips on how to market your blog in 2007.
Tony split the tips into a few categories. Here are some that I liked and/or found interesting - with my comments:
Get Your Own House [...]

It’s only been a couple of hours since my first post and so far nobody has visited my blog. That doesn’t surprise me really…

But I was wondering - why should people with new blogs bother writing if there is nobody reading it? It’s kind of like the chicken and the egg - if you don’t [...]