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Probably you have already heard about the thirty day challenge? It is one of the most powerful make money online projects for bloggers, internet entrepreneurs, and work at home people. The idea is simple yet brilliant: For a whole month every year, Dan Raine and Ed Dale do their best to teach anyone who wants to learn how to start an online business — for free. Most people thinks there’s a catch — it seems there isn’t. Just Thirty Days of the best stuff that they can teach to get as many people as possible to make their first $1 online.
Dan and Ed have recently launched Immediate Edge, an advanced marketing techniques program. They claim to show you the techniques that will give you an immediate edge on your competition. The good news is you can try out this new system for 14 days if you can afford $1.
Well, I have been using Immediate Edge for the last 3 days and I am quite impressed with the quality of the information and tools in this program. If you are willing to improve your online business in 2010, pay only 1$ and try out Immediate Edge this weekend before the trial ends.
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Especially in 2009 Twitter has become one of the most powerful marketing tools for bloggers. However, I noticed that not every blogger is using it effectively for personal branding and marketing. Here are some great Twitter tips for bloggers:
- Mention your Twitter profile under your e-mail signature.
- Do not sell products through your tweets. Selling is a natural process in Twitter. Just keep sending your best shots (tweets) Build relationship with your followers. They will sooner or later buy from you if they trust you and perceive you as an authority.
- Make sure you follow the right people. Use Twitter Search to find the like-minded people.
- Think Twitter as a miniature blog. Even though you may use it for fun, do not forget to take it seriously for certain periods of the day.
- Think of it as a golden opportunity to pre-sell your blog posts without actually selling anything.
- Try to write the best tweets you can come up with. Don’t be shy; give people the URL to your blog in your profile.Don’t push them so much. Let them decide whether they want to read more or not.
- Someone can come across your profile, take a quick look at all your tweets and decide whether they want to follow you or not.
- Think of each tweet you send out as a headline. Try to grab attention of the people who are reading your tweets.
- Think about some creative ways that you can get people interested in you and your tweets.
- Try keeping your tweets on what’s going on in your business, especially online business. This way you will become known as someone who provides a regular insight into that area, and people will start to look forward to your tweets.
- Share your new blog posts.
- Ask questions to your followers.
- Find your own voice (very similar to blog voice)
- Use keywords in your profile so that people can find you and your business via Twitter Search online.
These are my Twitter tips. Please do not hesitate to share If you have other tips that are useful to me and my fellow readers.
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Posted by Mert Erkal on Oct 2, 2009 in Blogging | 128 comments
CommentLuv blogs help you build incoming links faster. Until today, identifying CommentLuv plugin enabled blogs according to subject wasn’t an easy job. With CommentLuv Search Engine you are now able to find CommentLuv plugin enabled blogs. It is using Google Custom Search to enable you find blogs you need.
I re-organized my blog commenting strategy after discovering this great search engine:
- Identify commentluv enabled blogs within your niche
- Track their blog posts with Comment Sniper
- Comment on their blogs posts regularly with your keywords as titles.
I will appreciate if you share your own blog commenting strategy.
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Aweber Email Autoresponder has recently become a standard for most of the internet marketing gurus. Building an email list is essential for internet marketers and bloggers. Even though Aweber have been widely used by bloggers and internet marketers since very long time, majority of its members still can not use it effectively. Most who pay their monthly fee for Aweber service either let their account sit or they use only the very basic services and never take full advantage of this incredibly powerful tool.
In order to help these people, my blogging buddy Alex Sysoef has put together a series of 15 detailed videos that will show you how to use Aweber effectively. Let’s check the contents:
- creating a list with Aweber
- creating a web form with Aweber
- verified opt-ins
- how to broadcast an email with Aweber
- how automate your follow up messages
- how to organize your lists
- list automation
- sending an email to multiple lists
- click tracking – measure your e-newsletters
- split tracking – which mail delivered the best results?
- what is blog broadcasting?
- campaign sharing
- Aweber tips and tricks
What Can You Do With Aweber?
- Send engaging email newsletters using built-in newsletter templates
- Publish a sign-up form to your blog (like I did for my blog, take a look at my blog’s header and sidebar)
- Welcome or educate your subscribers by setting up sequential auto-responder messages.
- Create your own blog mentoring course.
- Manage unlimited mail campaigns.
- Send blog newsletters.
- Evaluate the outcome of your email campaigns with Aweber’s tracking functionality.
- Integrate your shopping cart into your mail campaigns.
Watch Aweber Unleashed video series and learn how to use Aweber effectively.
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Posted by Mert Erkal on Sep 28, 2009 in Blogging tools | 1 comment
Who else wants a WordPress plugin for proofreading? After The Deadline WordPress plugin not only proofread your blog posts, but also checks your writing style, and guides you. The plugin use artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology to find your writing errors and offer smart suggestions.
All you need is to register for an API key and download a plugin. Once installation is complete, After the Deadline adds a button that lets you check spelling, style, and grammar in WordPress.
What does After the Deadline do?
- Checks spelling errors
- Detects misused words
- Checks your writing style (based on plain English)
- Checks your grammar
- Explains errors
If you are not comfortable with your English, you will find After the Deadline quite helpful. I have used it for a while, and I am really impressed with it. Learn more about their technology or try their demonstration.
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