Archive for December, 2007

Internet Marketing – Time Management In Internet Marketing

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Time Management in Internet Marketing is a big deal! There is so much information to keep track of, so many ideas to research and so many tasks to do. Unless you practice some sort of time management, you will soon be overwhelmed by it all.

Having a plan in place, and periodically looking at that plan to make sure it’s still viable, will you get to the point you want: To Make Money!

Streamline your online tasks by using some of the following ideas:

1. What tasks can you do that will contribute the most to your bottom line? Which will make you the most money? Those tasks should be your first priority – your “A” List. For instance, advertising in an ezine or doing work for a client – anything that could bring immediate income.

2. What things can you do that will bring you income in the future? Perhaps writing articles or visiting forums. These are the things that would be on your “B” List of priorities.

3. Now write down all the tasks tht you do that are wasting your time. These tasks are time consuming and don’t really contribute to your bottom line. Perhaps you are reading email that you aren’t interested in or surfing sites “just for the heck of it.” If you have these on your “To Do” List, take them off!

4. Do you do too many favors for other people? There is a fine line between helping others and doing so many “free” tasks for other people that you can’t get your own work done. Networking, and helping others, is important, but don’t neglect your own necessary tasks to do them.

5. What do yo HAVE to do for your business? These would include things like bookkeeping, website maintenance, answering email to customers and clients – the things that every business has to do to stay in business. If you are truly overwhelmed by all the administrative tasks, hire someone to help you. For instance, you can hire a Virtual Assistant or even your own husband or teenager to do some of the more mundane tasks.

Use the above ideas to streamline your business. Incorporate your own ideas. Analyzing your “true” priorities “before” starting on your list of tasks for the day, can free your mind from the “overwhelm syndrome.”

Always look to your bottom line – your profits. Leaving the high priority tasks to the last means you will be paid last.

About The Author:
Jude Wright is a Webmaster, Internet Marketer and Graphic Designer. She welcomes you to her websites at: http://aboutaffiliates.com, http://article-organizer.com , http://i-marketingorganizer.com, and http://designsbyjude.com

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Marketing – Rocket attack in Colombia increases tensions

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Rocket attack in Colombia increases tensions
Miami Herald – Heavily armed Colombian policemen stand guard on Sunday around a Venezuelan Mi-172 helicopter sitting on the tarmac of the airport of Villavicencio, department of Meta, Colombia. A Venezuelan-led mission to retrieve three rebel-held hostages was
Source: www.miamiherald.com

GM’s plan to outmaneuver Toyota
CNN Money – That’s exactly the approach that GM is taking, according to GM marketing executives and division heads. It’s hardly an altogether novel idea but in the past its been more talk than practice. A new, more disciplined approach to differentiating GM’s
Source: money.cnn.com

A Guide to Embracing Life as a Single (Without the Resignation, That
New York Times – Advertisers should increase the visibility of singles in their campaigns because unmarried people are sensitive to couples-centric marketing efforts in much the same way that blacks are sensitive to all-white casting, the Packaged Facts study
Source: www.nytimes.com

Picture-perfect products
Chicago Tribune – Making products other than prints is no mere novelty anymore, said Dimitrios Delis, marketing research director at the Photo Marketing Association International. Today, about 38 percent of digital camera owners order items other than prints, he
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Marketing plan sets direction for sales
Chicago Tribune – MELVILLE, N.Y. Like many other small entrepreneurs, you may not have the budget to hire an advertising or marketing firm to promote your business. So the burden falls strictly on your shoulders. If your marketing strategy has been to wing it
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Direct Marketing – University of Hawaii gets boost from football

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

University of Hawaii gets boost from football
Honolulu Advertiser – So big was the impact that the term “Flutie Factor” came to denote the marketing bonanza that befell BC. Applications I think there is direct correlation (between athletic success and public response),” UH coach June Jones said. “It has
Source: www.honoluluadvertiser.com

Salesgenie.com Ready to Reclaim Crown as Super Bowl’s ‘Worst Ad
MSN MoneyCentral – Nearly 4 million customers use infoUSA’s products and services to find new customers, grow their sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes. infoUSA headquarters are located at 5711 S
Source: news.moneycentral.msn.com

Gold to pass record in 2008 on inflation: Survey
Daily Pioneer – Demand for gold as a safe haven won’t disappear, even if the economy picks up,” said Wolfgang Wrzesniok-Rossbach, head of marketing and sales at Hanau, Germany-based metals refiner Heraeus Metallhandels. “People will still put a small percentage of
Source: www.dailypioneer.com

Business people
Lansing State Journal – Steve Willnus has joined ICS Marketing Support Services in Lansing as direct marketing account manager for new business development and client support. Jan Pfeiffer and Doris Sims have joined the Greater Lansing Convention and Visitor’s Bureau
Source: www.lsj.com

Latest News
dBusinessNews.com – The company also operates one store under the Gardeners Eden Brand, and a direct marketing business that includes the Brookstone and Hard to Find Tools catalogs and an e-commerce website at http://www.brookstone.com . For additional information on the
Source: cheyenne.dbusinessnews.com

More global ad firms may come to India
Business Standard – Bates David Enterprise took over 141 Sircon, a direct marketing agency. Grey Worldwide is eyeing several agencies in the digital space. The endeavour is to cover the entire range of media solutions. Leo Burnett s Sharma feels that the coming
Source: www.business-standard.com

Company Description:
Midwestbusiness.com – Through its direct fiber connections to most major telecommunications carriers, IDC Global takes advantage of all available iReporter.tv Marketing Tool Delivers No. 1 Rankings For
Source: midwestbusiness.com

Clip-and-save coupon distributor migrating online
Silicon Valley – Now the company will focus on promoting the RedPlum brand, using its traditional paper circulars to direct people to the grew by only 6 percent over the previous year, to 20.3 million from 19.1 million, according to comScore, an Internet marketing
Source: www.siliconvalley.com

Stockbridge estate fetches $3.2M
Berkshire Eagle – According to his Web site, Hadar is an entrepreneur and philanthropist, having founded a successful direct marketing firm in the late 1970s. He sold that business and co-founded a real estate investment firm, Allied Partners, with his son Eric in 1993
Source: www.berkshireeagle.com

Marketing – Life in Singapore – Telegraph Mentor

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Life in Singapore – Telegraph Mentor
Daily Telegraph – Tim manages a marketing agency for the pharmaceutical industry, and after having previously frequently visited Singapore for business, took the opportunity in 2005 to be based here. Two years living and working on the island has provided a great
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

10 To Watch in ‘08
Philadelphia Inquirer – But the bureau still may need to expand its sales and marketing to larger customers with greater space needs. To do that, Philadelphia may need to boost its spending. Its current sales-and-marketing budget is $5.9 million, roughly half the
Source: www.philly.com

Balance budget with big savings
Baltimore Sun – In 1984, clothing was knocked off that list, and the cost of transportation became one of the big three household expenditures. If you can make your own list of necessities, without help from anyone marketing anything, you might be able to focus on
Source: www.baltimoresun.com

Small Business Marketing | Getting Great At Article Writing
Stockhouse Canada – HTML Ready Article. Click on the ‘Copy’ button to copy into your clipboard. Using article writing as part of your business marketing can generate traffic to your website and increase your income and exposure for you and your business. In this article
Source: www.stockhouse.ca

Faces of Business 2007: Joanne McNabb, California privay chief
San Francisco Gate – Beth Givens, who directs the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in San Diego, a nonprofit agency formed in 1992 from the proceeds of a fine levied against Pacific Bell for abusive marketing practices, was one of the people who traveled to Sacramento to
Source: www.sfgate.com

In 2007, housing and dollar crumbled, but oil and Web 2.0 soared
San Francisco Gate – Many of them depend on advertising, and it remains to be proved how well Web 2.0 will perform as a marketing platform. “What the advertisers were looking for in 2007 was beyond the traffic numbers,” said Kurtis Fechtmeyer, managing director at East
Source: www.sfgate.com

BOS Announces Advanced Negotiations for the Acquisition of Assets of
MSN MoneyCentral – generated from one or few major customers, the uncertainty of our being able to maintain current gross profit margins, inability to keep up or ahead of technology and to succeed in a highly competitive industry, inability to maintain marketing and
Source: news.moneycentral.msn.com

Internet Marketing – Enclave's demand exceeds its supply

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Enclave’s demand exceeds its supply
Lansing State Journal – I’m not atypical,” said Brandenburg, who is active on www.enclaveforum.net , an Internet site for Enclave fans. “There are a lot of people on the list that have been waiting as long or longer than I have.” After contacting the Buick marketing manager
Source: www.lsj.com

Powerful Promoter, Matt Bacak and Glenn Dietzel Guide Authors through
pressbox.co.uk – Powerful Promoter, Matt Bacak, continues to share his proven methods of internet marketing by joining forces with Glenn Dietzel, owner of Awaken the Author within You website. This revelation will assist many authors by sharing their expertise
Source: www.pressbox.co.uk

CCID Consulting Analyzes China’s Internet Industry
Forbes – HK08235), recently released its analysis on China’s Internet industry. Following the dormancy in 2006, the Internet industry customers with consulting, research and IT outsourcing services covering strategic planning, IT applications, marketing
Source: www.forbes.com

Powerful Promoter, Matt Bacak Teaches Successful Seminar Planning
pressbox.co.uk – An icon in the internet marketing field, Matt Bacak, also reveals his skills in coordinating and planning a successful seminar. Powerful Promoter, Matt Bacak, list a step by step guide to plan and market a seminar. After planning many seminars
Source: www.pressbox.co.uk

CSG Announces New Home with Platinum One Destinations; No Longer
WebWire – As a subsidiary of Synergy Worldwide, The Synergy Marketing Group specializes in training, support and internet marketing systems for NM Business owners and companies. Christian Warren (E2Impact Inc) is an author, international speaker and leading
Source: www.webwire.com

Chordiant jumps on Vodafone deal
Boston Globe – Chordiant’s software links call centers, computer networks, databases and the Internet. Other Chordiant software is used for marketing campaigns and to analyze consumer information. Its shares rose 64 cents, or 7.9 percent, to $8.76 in midday trading
Source: www.boston.com

Ambergreen logs on to first-year success
Edinburgh News – AMBITIOUS internet marketing company Ambergreen has seen turnover in its first year in business hit 250,000. The Edinburgh-based group, which specialises in channelling internet surfers towards company websites through “search engine optimisation
Source: edinburghnews.scotsman.com

Console Wars II: The Battle for Mainstream
IT-Analysis.com – The Console Wars II report uses aggregated data from leading Internet, marketing research firms and government agencies, as well as eMarketer’s own projections and analysis. It provides the latest surveys, marketing information and competitive
Source: www.it-analysis.com

Marketing – Internet Marketing with Articles – Part 1

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

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Article marketing is still the best way to promote your website or business for free. It generates hundreds, sometime thousands of one way links to your site. This its the best source for unlimited traffic to your website in terms of linking strategies and search engine optimization. You can submit your articles online to article directories and ezine publishers. You ‘re probably reading this article right now from one of those sources!

Well written articles establish you as an expert, provide readers with valuable information, and will give you unique content for your website. So you want to focus on a niche that you have some knowledge about. It could be about golf, dogs, computers, or anything you want. Articles are normally 400-600 words in lenght, answer some question or need, and include a “resource box”. The resource box contains your name, credentials, and a link to your website.

This is where the real power of marketing articles is revealed. Article directories have thousands of subscribers and also thousands of webmasters who use these articles as free content for their site. In exchange for giving them free content, they must leave your resource box with your name and link back to your website. If their website has a high page rank, search engines will see your link and this will improve your page rank as well. If their website has lots of traffic, some of that traffic will come to you through your link. So you’re killing two birds with one stone – one way links to your site from high page rank sites, and a constant flow traffic from the your links.

Generally, a good article marketing campaign requires writing at least 1 or 2 articles everyday. Submitting them to all the directories, mailing to your subscription lists, and adding them as content to your own site. This can be a very time consuming task, but you’ll be rewarded with free high quality targeted traffic.

There are several tools available to help you and will save you a lot of time. If your having trouble writing articles, there are several private label content companies to choose from. Private label content companies will have a directory of articles that you are allowed to copy and use as your own. There are private label content companies popping up everyday, so it’s important that you pick one that is established in the industry.

If you don’t know where to submit your articles or it’s taking too long, there is software that will automatically or semi-automatically submit your articles for you. The software is updated from the vendor with the latest high quality article directory sights available. It then submits your articles to the hundreds of directories in minutes. Doing this by hand would normally take several hours.

Once you have your articles written and submitted, you’ll want to add them to your website as content. This will improve your search engine rankings and help drive additional traffic to your site. Many webmasters will add adsense code from google to further monetize there efforts. Using unique article content on your site will also improve the revenue generated from adsense versus all of the “me too” duplicate websites getting just pennies per click.

In summary, articles generate unlimited free traffic, establish you as an expert, and generate more income for you as an internet marketer. In part 2, I will talk about how to write articles, how to find a popular niche, and how to make money from articles.

About the Author

Robert Rogers is a writer in the Washington DC area. For more tips and resources visit his blog at

Professional Internet Marketing Blog

Marketing – Media & Marketing Edition – Wall Street Journal

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Media & Marketing Edition – Wall Street Journal
Media & Marketing EditionWall Street Journal - 15 hours agoRight now, as a new year is set to begin, you should resolve to try different wines in 2008. Winemakers all over the world are experimenting with …
Source: news.google.com

Sports marketing is in his blood – Atlanta Journal Constitution
Sports marketing is in his bloodAtlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - 4 hours agoThe move follows a career in sports marketing that Cecil was all but born into. Terry Cecil credits his dad with getting him started in sports marketing. …
Source: news.google.com

CSG Announces New Home with Platinum One Destinations; No Longer … – WebWire (press release)
CSG Announces New Home with Platinum One Destinations; No Longer …WebWire (press release), GA - 1 hour agoCofounders Nitsa Nakos, Priska King and Bob Biss confirmed rumours that The Coastal Synergy Group (CSG) is now operating as Synergy Marketing Group (SMG) …
Source: news.google.com

Yesmail Breaks Into the Leader Ranks of Email Marketing Service … – PR-USA.net (press release)
Yesmail Breaks Into the Leader Ranks of Email Marketing Service …PR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - 10 hours agoYesmail (an infoUSA company, NASDAQ: IUSA), a recognized industry-leading provider of permission-based online email marketing solutions, announced today …
Source: news.google.com

Search engine marketing firm: do wonders in the online world – PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
Search engine marketing firm: do wonders in the online worldPR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 10 hours agoDefinitely, an efficient search engine marketing firm can help an online business in reaching the pinnacle. Comet search engine marketing is such an …
Source: news.google.com

Neotrope Selected to Provide Internet Marketing Solutions for New … – Thaindian.com
Neotrope Selected to Provide Internet Marketing Solutions for New …Thaindian.com, Thailand - 3 hours ago14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) Neotrope(R), a leading advertising, PR, and Internet Marketing firm established 1983, today announced it has been chosen by a …
Source: news.google.com

Mackereth heading toward Marketing – Proctor Journal
Mackereth heading toward MarketingProctor Journal, MN - 23 hours agoHe plans to attend college and major in Event Management or Marketing Education with a minor in Accounting. He would like to attend the University of Denver …
Source: news.google.com

Direct Marketing – InfoUSA launches online medical list tool

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

InfoUSA launches online medical list tool
dmnews.com – of other healthcare specialists including chiropractors, physical therapists, and healthcare facilities. The site also offers access to databases of new movers and new homeowners for building medical practices. In addition it has a direct marketing
Source: www.dmnews.com

6 Northeast Ohio YMCAs join to start health blitz
Cleveland Plain Dealer – just about sit-ups and six-pack abs, it’s about getting reconnected to the community,” said Steve Caler, director of marketing Residents will see television, radio and newspaper advertisements as well as direct mailings. New members of local YMCAs
Source: www.cleveland.com

Marketing – New-home sales in Nov. drop to a 12-year low

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

New-home sales in Nov. drop to a 12-year low
Philadelphia Inquirer – Properties Inc. in Harleysville, which builds primarily for first-time home buyers, there’s no sign of a downturn, according to Bob Gollwitzer, the company’s director of marketing. TH Properties’ sales climbed to 504 units this year from 444 in 2006
Source: www.philly.com

Honda S2000 works on the racetrack but not on the street
Detroit News – Honda called to wish me Happy Honda Days in keeping with its holiday season marketing message. I thought that was neat and returned the good wishes. We chatted a bit, inquired about one another’s health. Honda was happy to hear that my transplanted
Source: www.detnews.com

Internet Marketing – Home Business New Years Resolutions – How to Use Turnkey Solutions … – PR.com (press release)

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Home Business New Years Resolutions – How to Use Turnkey Solutions … – PR.com (press release)
Home Business New Years Resolutions – How to Use Turnkey Solutions …PR.com (press release), NY - 8 hours agoWhether it is person-to-person selling, internet marketing or a mixture of both, action and more action is required to succeed. The failure rate of network …
Source: news.google.com

Crown Internet Marketing Announces the Launch of Its Virtual Library – PR-USA.net (press release)
Crown Internet Marketing Announces the Launch of Its Virtual LibraryPR-USA.net (press release), Bulgaria - Dec 27, 2007Crown Internet Marketing's new Virtual Library was developed to assist website owners in need of marketing resources. The new library provides users with …
Source: news.google.com

Bold New Niche Marketing Service Introduces Service Offering … – SBWire (press release)
Bold New Niche Marketing Service Introduces Service Offering …SBWire (press release), WI - 8 hours agoThe topic of niche marketing is taken very seriously in the Internet marketing community. In fact, there are even a few membership websites offering …
Source: news.google.com

ZestMotion launched to help businesses create online video – Camarillo Acorn
ZestMotion launched to help businesses create online videoCamarillo Acorn, CA - 13 hours agoThe company specializes in web development, web applications, Internet marketing and traditional design applications.
Source: news.google.com

Weekly Search Buzz Roundup – 12/28/07: Facebook Search App … – Search Engine Roundtable
Weekly Search Buzz Roundup – 12/28/07: Facebook Search App …Search Engine Roundtable - 8 hours agoIn fact, if you missed it (and I really hope you didn't), I spent the entire weekend compiling the best Internet Marketing blog posts of 2007 which was an …Vote Search Engine Roundtable on 2007 Search Blog Awards Search Engine Roundtableall 2 news articles
Source: news.google.com