Ever since the global financial meltdown in October, I’ve seen a FLOOD of business opportunity seekers. Lots of people who are brand new to marketing, online marketing, and business in general are hunting for ways to make money.
Plenty of folks are getting a good ol’ fashioned education in the School of Hard Knocks. And LOTS of people are getting fleeced, cuz the “get rich quick” guys are out in droves, hunting for marks.
“…on the radio program, a researcher was explaining that 10-20 years ago, an older virus that most definitely WAS related to the swine flu virus family, borrowed genes from an *external* strain of human flu virus, and the combination of those two created a newer, deadlier pathogen.
Thus we witness, in real time, the evolutionary progress of an adaptive viral machine.
I thought, there’s nobody who can grasp what’s really happening here faster than a bunch of folks like you and me who re-write and test Google ads to evolve our businesses…”
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Many people who write ads for the web make tiny little mistakes in word choice that KILL their appeal. One wrong word is all it takes. Tom Hoobyar created a course called Word Magic and it comes with a “cheat sheet” called The Sales Killers: Seven Words that will Murder Your Ads. You can run through your sales letter using … Read More
This morning I had a conversation with Andy, a professional photographer who has a day job at a major newspaper. He came by because we’re about to upgrade our image around here and we’ve hired him to take some photos.
(The pic of me on my home page is 5 years old and was, uh, taken at a department store.)
Your motorcycle breaks down. In order to fix it, you need to open a little compartment in the engine.
The compartment is held shut by a screw whose threads have been stripped off and you are unable to open it because of a stupid 10 cent screw.
The famous book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” describes this exact scenario:
At yesterday’s 4 Man Intensive, we got into a conversation about where small businesses fit in between the “long tail” and the Wal-Marts of the world. Niche marketing vs. mass marketing and what the 80/20 rule tells you about where you can compete and where you can’t. There’s a sweet spot where small businesses can comfortably thrive; there’s also a … Read More
Glenn Livingston and Jered Klima of Rocket Clicks had a fascinating discussion about little-known gotchas and opportunities in Google’s content network. It’s a very worthwhile 26 minute interview, it includes a handy free PDF cheat sheet and it’s here: http://www.payperclicksearchmarketing.com/content-network-curse/ Quick and dirty summary: Pausing content campaigns is a big no-no. Find out why, and what to do instead Split … Read More
Negative keywords are one of the most overlooked factors of success in Pay Per Click. If your ads are well-written, you may not get much garbage TRAFFIC. However, you may still get LOTS of garbage *searches*. People who have no business seeing your ads see them anyway. Most advertisers never visualize how much this is going on, every single day. … Read More
AdSense publishers are fed up with the spammy diet ads and make money ads. They are tired of trying to keep up with filtering those sites out individually (much like site negatives with content targeting) and they have asked for a better way to stop those ads so Google is going to give them the option to exclude entire categories from showing ads, much like category negatives in content targeting.
