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How to Get Popular Bloggers to Publish Your Guest Blogs

In today's video we will learn that it is really possible to enter and publish a guest post on popular blogs. 

Specific steps are necessary to make sure you will get the blog-owner’s nod to let you write that content and create a win/win situation for both parties involved.

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Optimizing Your Email List Building

Email today has become the equivalent of snail mail 10 years ago. You probably receive one or two things you actually use each day – mostly bills – and the rest goes right in the trash.

Still, until email disappears completely or takes on another form – which it ultimately will – you need to include email marketing as part of your overall marketing campaign.

Fortunately, there are literally hundreds of automated email sites that you can use. Some are free, others low-cost and still others are more expensive. But like anything else, you usually get what you pay for.

                                           

Beware of ‘Free’ List Building Software

There are a number of “free” list building programs that you can use. For most of them, in order to fully utilize their services you sooner or later will have to pay something.

Basically, the way they work is that you pay a fee and you “rent” a list of email addresses for a specified period of time. You can send out emails to these addresses and try to market your products. But this is a pretty random approach to marketing. Most of the people on these lists are online marketers themselves, so you probably aren’t going to get much of a response for your investment.

Paying for What You Get

You can buy paid advertising — such as banners and display ads on niche-related web pages – in order to attract customers who are already proven to be interested in the type of products and services you promote.

Facebook actually has a very good and affordable Facebook Ads program that does this all for you. It lets you search for Fan Pages and interest groups within Facebook for members who are already interested in your niche.

Targeting Customers on Twitter

There also are many strategies you can use on Twitter to find targeted customers. What you do is to find people you know are interested in your niche and then look at their lists of followers to find people with similar interests and with large groups of followers, then follow those people in the hopes they will follow you back.

Then you can search Twitter for tags for subjects related to your niche, then look for people to follow who have an interest in your niche. You always want to make sure they have a large list of followers so that when they friend you a lot of people can see your Tweets.

Twitter Marketing

Finally, after you have a lot of Twitter flowers, you can market your products and services to them on a regular basis.

A word of warning, however: People who use Twitter tend to are often wary if they think you are just there to sell them something. It’s a social media site, after all, so don’t aggressively promote your products with every Tweet.

Instead, send out a lot of niche related material – such as tips, quotes, stories, and so on – and only promote products once in a while. This allows you to build relationships with your followers and eventually convert them into customers.

Article Writing and Distribution

Another way to build your list is to write articles related to your niche then submit them to article generators. Make sure your articles include links to your home page or squeeze page. Then when people follow these links you have the opportunity to capture their email address.

You also can leave links to you squeeze page on public forums, blogs, blog responses, and numerous other places. Once you get into the habit of leaving a link to your squeeze pages, you will see your list grow quickly, and it will be filling up with people who genuinely are interested in your products and services.

                                                   

Creating an email list with these kinds of high-quality potential customers is much more worth your while than spending time and money chasing after a list of people who are going to give you a low quick-through rate.

Until email finally turns into something else – and it already is starting to do so – building email lists of potential customers will remain an important way to build your business.

At the very least, your competitors will be doing it, so you need to do it as well. But keep your eye on where people are going nowadays and focus more energy on places such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and LinkedIn.

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How Outsourcing Can Help Improve Your Internet Marketing Business

The focus of today's video is outsourcing and how it can be a great help for the busy internet marketer. 

With the numerous tasks an internet marketer has to juggle, it is difficult to shoulder everything, and outsource workers or freelancers help a lot to make the business operate successfully.

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Consequences of Facebook’s Big Data Harvesting

Software that has longevity is more desirable than software that is at the top of the Amazon charts today and gone tomorrow.

That’s because market forces always prevail in the long run. And software that has applications that are actually useful and help improve businesses organize their operations will always have a long life.

                                              

Some of the most popular software programs are those that help you focus on these aspects of your online marketing business:

• Improve inbound marketing
• Facilitate social media integration
• Improve SEO for site content
• Expand your business’s profile on Twitter
• Generates new leads
• Improves public relations
• Provides web analytics
• Optimizes web design

Most of the software programs you find will fall into one of these categories.

Growing Your Business

Building your business is a long, slow task. If you are looking to create a long-term online marketing operation that will provide a steady income year after year, you need to put the time in to create it slowly and correctly.

Get rich quick schemes, quick fixes, pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes and other low-rent, shady operations will only lead to heartache and financial loss.

Take the time to find the best software solutions for your business. Don’t buy anything until you are sure it’s the right fit for you. Ask a lot of questions.

Make sure you take the time to network with other professionals in your field. Use free trials and avoid companies that won’t provide them.

When you set up your business, you want to make sure that it is built on the most solid foundation you can create.

The software tools you purchase are going to be among your first and most important investments. Take the time to get it right.

The Software and Marketing Connection

Generally, web-based marketing software falls into three categories:

• Promotion – This is software that heightens your online profile so customers can find you; software designed to drive your site to the top of search engine lists in your niche; and software that puts you in touch with potential customers, such as e-mail list building software and squeeze page creators.
• Conversion – This is software that nurtures your leads and drives conversions; software that optimizes your content so that it is best able to convert prospects into customers; and software that helps distinguish your business as being of a higher quality than your competitors.
• Analyze – This type of software measures the performance of your business; software that compares your performance to a key competitive set; and software that provides the data you need to make sound go-forward business decisions.

Within these broad categories, there are a number of specific software types that you can use to improve your business’s productivity. One of the most important is SEO software.

SEO and Software

Search Engine Optimization is a phrase that means doing everything you can to make your web pages, blogs, sales letters and other sites the most appealing they can be to the giant search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing.

If the search engines like your site the best, they will propel them to the top of the search lists for your product niches, making them the most visible to potential customers.

                                           

SEO includes identifying the best keywords for you product niche, saturating your pages with the optimal number of keywords that the search engines are looking for, and placing your keywords in the places they like the best.

SEO software typically will provide keyword analysis designed to find and track your most effective keywords. It also usually will track inbound links and the leads they are generating.

Finally, SEO software will analyze page-level SEO and diagnose and even fix poorly ranking sites.

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Don’t Overspend on Your Online Business Software

Most software you will find that can help your online marketing business requires the purchase of software and/or licensing fees. Others are – such as pre-created email lists or sales leads – may be based on pay-per-use, but in general most charge a set-up and a monthly.

At first, this may seem excessive because you have the pay the set-up fee as well as being charged every month to use the service. But actually this kind of arrangement is to your advantage.

That’s because technology changes very rapidly and, as a result, there are usually many different versions and upgrades of the same software available.

                                              

Paying Unnecessary Fees

If you were to pay just a one-time fee to purchase a piece of software, it could be obsolete in a year or even sooner because Google’s Internet search engine algorithms have changed or some other technological upgrade. That would mean having to buy the software all over again.

But when you pay the start-up fee and a monthly subscription, you usually get any updated versions of the same software as they come out at no additional cost, which allows you to keep using the same software program seamlessly.

Google’s Free Tools

Google also offers a lot of free business tools that can be used for document sharing, creating and managing spreadsheets, email, website marketing, project management and even phone service.

Schedule a few hours to spend looking at the wide variety of tools you can use for free to build your business. Why should you spend money if you don’t have to?

Ask your industry friends or network partners about the kind of software they are using and if they are satisfied with it. Most people are more than willing to share their experiences and this can save you a lot of time and money because you can skip the trial and error step of finding effective software.

Finally, beware of companies that offer “push button” or “business in a box” Internet marketing programs that will build your business without your having to do a thing.

Google recently announced that it would be cracking down on companies that auto-generated content and used “spam” building tools to try to manipulate the company’s search engine algorithms.

Be Google Compliant

Before you invest in any software, make sure it is compliant with Google Webmaster Guidelines. Otherwise you may be spending money on a program that the world’s largest search engine has already blocked or banned.

Like any other business, if you want to succeed in online marketing, you need to be prepared to put in a lot of hard work, regardless of the efficiencies created by good software programs. There’s usually no magic wand you can wave. Be wary of anybody who tells you there is.

Software as a Tool

Software tools can make your business run more efficiently. But they aren’t business solutions any more than a typewriter or a copy machine is a business solution. When you purchase software, don’t look at it as something that is going to build your business. Only you can build your business. But software can help you achieve this goal.

                                         

Software tools can help you organize your day, manage data, and speed up some processes of marketing. But at the end of the day it’s up to you to guide your business. You can’t put your business on auto-pilot and expect it to succeed. This is a great way to squander your money and your time.

Software that is the “deal of the day” may or may not be the right tool for you. It’s like you mother may have used to say: “If all of your friends were leaping off a cliff, would you leap off after them?”

Don’t be fooled by the bandwagon approach to marketing software. As a successful online marketer, you are wise enough to make up your own mind and come to your own conclusions.

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How to Hire the Best Freelancers to Grow Your Online Business

Almost all businesses are now going online, and with the overwhelming amount of tasks that need to be done, it is important to get the help of only the best freelancers. 

There are a lot of talented freelancers out there but today's video gives the necessary tools in order to hire only the best people to make your business truly lucrative and outstanding.

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Facebook’s Predictive Analytics – A Love Story

Did you know that Facebook can look at its user’s posting patterns and moods in order to predict their future romantic relationships?

As a posting on the blog FierceBigData put it on February 19, 2014: “‘During the 100 days before the relationship starts, we observe a slow but steady increase in the number of timeline posts shared between the future couple,’ writes Facebook data scientist Carlos Diuk in his ‘The Formation of Love’ post.

‘When the relationship starts (day 0), posts begin to decrease. We observe a peak of 1.67 posts per day 12 days before the relationship begins, and a lowest point of 1.53 posts per day 85 days into the relationship. Presumably, couples decide to spend more time together, courtship is off and online interactions give way to more interactions in the physical world.’ “

                                          

Facebook as Cupid?

To put it another way, Facebook knows before you do when you are going to become a couple. It certainly knows long before you announce it on your relationship status.

What’s more, Facebook can tell when the physical part of your relationship begins because your online activity decreases. While Facebook diplomatically calls this phase “courtship” in the posts, but in reality the courtship actually occurred during the exchanges Facebook initially traced to accurately predict the relationship.

What value does tracking the love life of its users have for Facebook? Plenty! This information can be used to promote placement of marketing for everything from flowers to chocolates to condoms to lubricants and any other company that can profit from your being involved in a romantic and physical relationship.

Predicting Breakups

Facebook also can predict when your relationship is going to end – often before you do.

In a Facebook posting called “When Love Goes Awry,” which was published on the site on the day after Valentine’s Day, 2014, Facebook data scientist Adrien Figgeri wrote: “To conclude this week of celebrating love and looking at how couples blossom on Facebook, we felt it was important not to forget that unfortunately sometimes relationships go south and people take different paths in life. In this context, we were interested in understanding the extent to which Facebook provides a platform for support from loved ones after a breakup.”

“To that end, we studied a group of people who were on the receiving end of a separation, i.e. who had been in a relationship for at least four weeks with someone who then switched their relationship status to Single.”

“For every person in this group, we tracked a combination of the number of messages they sent and received, the number of posts from others on their timeline, and the number of comments from others on their own content, during a period starting a month before the separation to a month after.

“We observed a steady regime around the baseline before the day of the relationship status changes, followed by a discontinuity on that day with a +225% increase of the average volume of interactions which then gradually stabilize over the course of a week to levels higher to those observed pre-breakup.”

To translate, Facebook can accurately predict when your relationship is going to end long before you suspect anything is wrong. And you can be sure Facebook is using similar analysis to predict other intimate details about your life as well.

Facebook and the Possibilities of Big Data

Most people have no idea about Facebook’s data collection activities and data usage practices. Even if they have heard about it, they generally don’t care or see it as little more than a harmless annoyance.

They mistakenly believe that as long as they don’t post anything of a highly personal or sensitive nature on their wall, Facebook’s practices can’t cause any harm to them.

Facebook isn’t alone in conducting wide scale data harvesting. In fact, most corporations do it to some degree or another these days. While some of these efforts are indeed harmless, some are not. What’s worse, at this point nobody knows how this data will be utilized in the future, or to whom it will be sold and for what purposes it is being purchased.

                                             

Most people are legitimately concerned about the potential dangers of the government collecting large amounts of data on them, but they are blind to the dangers of private corporations doing the same thing.

This is a perfect example of how limited perception based on an individual’s personal experience can cause ambiguity in the discussion of big data within and organization.

But Facebook’s use of data offers an excellent opportunity to illustrate what is possible with big data, as well as what some of the potential dangers to privacy are. It can broaden the thinking of people at every level within your organization.

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