Posts Tagged general marketing

Free Ebook Friday – The Complete Guide to Bum Marketing

Welcome to the fourth free ebook friday on the general marketing blog. Last week we gave you The Ultimate Guide to Yahoo Answers which is still available for download. This week it is the turn of The Complete Guide to Bum Marketing.

If you are prepared to read and learn then you will learn just how you can earn some extra income for doing nothing more than sitting on your back side.

That is why we call it Bum Marketing otherwise known as Affiliate marketing. The main thing here is that it is a much easier way to make money than affiliate marketing itself.

A lot of people begin affiliate marketing without a clue on what they are doing, they don`t know how to advertise and get sales and so simply give up without having made any money what so ever.

When using Bum marketing you can and will generate sales to your affiliate products.

Download Bum Marketing Version 1

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Lets Help Each Other and Increase our Technorati Rank

You see many posts about increasing your Technorati ranking and so i thought it was time to start a post myself. How it works i extremely simple just follow these simple rules.

  1. Copy The List Below into a blog post of yours.
  2. Add Your Link To The List
  3. Comment On This Post So That We Can Update The List With Your Link

Each time the list is updated on our blog we will email you so that you can update your list to the current one.

The List

  1. General Marketing Blog
  2. Blog Chews
  3. Best Online Videos
  4. Indocontest
  5. Contest Blog
  6. Social Exchanger
  7. Pixel Shoppe

Please make sure that you add a No Follow atribute to your links as the idea is to increase Technorati rankings and not Pagerank, i have already added it to the list here.

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In My RSS Reader This Week – 9th Edition

Welcome to the 9th edition of in my RSS reader this week. I post this every sunday sharing upto 10 of the posts i have read in my RSS reader each week. This week i have subscribed to around another 30 or so blogs taking the total subscriptions to well over 350 blogs.

Here are this weeks posts and i hope you enjoy them and find them useful.

20 Social Networks that DO FOLLOW – Bloggerbucks.com

Online Promotions Will Not Kill Advertising – Weakestlinkconsulting.com

4 RSS Feeds For The Movie Addict – Makeuseof.com

Google Delivers 2% of The Worlds Malware – Blogherald.com

Relax if You Want to Make Money – Theuniversitykid.com

3 Reasons You Need to Make the Occasional Personnel Post – Standoutblogger.com

10 Tips For Writing Better Posts – Rajaietalks.com

Not forgetting 2 of our most popular posts on the General Marketing Blog This Week.

Pagerank is Updating – So Bloody What

Cool Website Friday – Scour.com

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Problogineer Partners With TradePub

We are please to announce that the General Marketing Blog is now a partner with Tradepub. What this means is we are now able to bring you FREE subscriptions to some excellent online magazines. You can view the magazines on our custom subscription page.

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Browse through our extensive list of free Sales & Marketing magazines, white papers, downloads and podcasts to find the titles that best match your skills and interests; topics include Customer Relationship Management (CRM), call center management, advertising and public relations. Simply complete the application form and submit it. Remember to fill out the forms COMPLETELY. All are absolutely free.

Some of the titles that might interest you.

10 Critical Elements for a Succesful Google Adwords Campaign

Search Engine Optimization and Web 2

12 SEO Campaign Killers

Internet Retailers

There are hundreds of other excellent titles all available free. Go check them out now.

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Three Most Common Mistakes of an Affiliate Marketer

How many Affiliate marketers do you know that have made mistakes. Probably quite a lot I should imagine as it is far easier to make mistakes than getting it right mainly because of being too idle to do anything about it.

Hell even I have made mistakes we all do it at some time. So what are the most common mistakes that Affiliate marketers make and how to you fix them.

1. Incorrect Product Choice.

In my own opinion this is probably the biggest mistake people make when affiliate marketing. They go to sites such as Clickbank and instead of researching products and finding ones that match their content they place any old product on their website and cross their fingers.

If you want to achieve more success with affiliate marketing make sure to do some research and match the products to your website.

2. Same Old Messages.

What many affiliate marketers don’t realise is the amount of competition there is out there on the Internet. Hundreds of people all trying to sell the same product and sending out the same Pre-made ads to the masses.

When you sign up to an affiliate program don’t go straight for their pre made emails and blog posts make your own unique, eye catching and quality ads these will not only do better but will rank you higher in search engines.

3. Too Afraid.

My final mistake is far too many affiliate marketers are afraid and therefore stick to the same old tried and tested methods of promotion.

Be adventurous and try other things out DO NOT be afraid to try new methods, yes it might fail the first time but keep going and you will succeed.

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