May 2010

Social Media Tips

May 16, 2010

Social Media Tips The “social media” buzz word has been around for approximately a decade and is changing the way we do marketing. It is impossible to ignore how it is affecting companies through the different channels of Marketing, Advertising, and PR. To stay up to date and current you need to know what works and what doesn’t and realize what will work for you might not work for someone else and visa versa. However .....

8 Things Website Owners Can Learn from Customer Loyalty Programmes

May 15, 2010

8 Things Website Owners Can Learn from Customer Loyalty Programmes The key to a successful business is repeat customers, people who love your products and services, can’t have enough of them and rave about them. Airline companies were the first to understand the need to grow and retain their customer base, implementing the hugely successful Frequent Flyers programme, with retailers following suit with their own brand of incentives. It turns out running a website or .....

Personal Branding and Social Media for Small Businesses

May 14, 2010

Personal Branding and Social Media for Small Businesses For any freelancer, entrepreneur or small business owner likely to be in London on the 27th of May – do not miss the Social Media and Personal Branding seminar Laurent Brouat and Jorgen Sundberg are putting on. It’s a three hour live and interactive session filled with case studies and practical how-to instructions. Background Personal branding can certainly be a powerful tool for success in business. When you market .....

MoreNiche Affiliate Gathering – 25/26 June 2010

May 14, 2010

MoreNiche Affiliate Gathering – 25/26 June 2010 A day of affiliate marketing and then a second day of fun. Instead of everyone waking up hungover and driving off, they plan to expand the event and arrange some fun actives on the Saturday so people can work off their handover before leaving Nottingham. Here is a rough plan of events: Friday 25th June 2010 – Affiliate Workshop & Private 1 to 1 Training/Site Reviews (Details to be .....

Affiliate Summit unConference Orlando Florida

May 13, 2010

Affiliate Summit unConference Florida is comming soon! Get your tickets while you can. This was me speaking at in the same spot IZEAFest last year Registration is now open for the Affiliate Summit unConference, taking place Monday, September 27 in Orlando, FL – the Affiliate Summit unConference brought to you by SeaWorld. It is sure to be a good event and a sell out. Event passes are $10.00 per person and include access to sessions, networking, .....

Black Hat PR

May 13, 2010

Black Hat PR I had never heard of black hat pr until I read Craig McGill page about it. Craig says “Now, in the 21st Century, nasty can take a lot of shapes: Setting up blogs to rubbish your products Hammering your products via Twitter Impersonating staff online Setting up websites which look like concerned consumer groups or press putting the boot in Passing on gossip about your failures/negative incidents to the press Having people .....

Zac Johnson book blog and making a Six Figure Affiliate Blog

May 12, 2010

  Zac Johnson has made a name for himself as an affiliate and a famous blogger in fact he has become quite the celebrity blogger in the affiliate neich. The above photo helped. I know affiliate networks and affiliate managers who have told me great things about his ability to drive traffic and make money so when he sent me his new ebook “Six Figure Affiliate Blogging” I was excited, thanks Zac. If you are into making .....

Social Media Marketing event speakers

May 12, 2010

Social Media Marketing event speakers   The speakers list is hotting up nicely and include some US speakers you do not normally get to here in the UK. Social Media Marketing 2010 will bring together leading brands and marketing experts to explore the viral power of social networks. With the rise of social networks a new marketing medium has emerged: one that requires trust, rewards value and thrives on word-of-mouth. From blogging to video-sharing, Flickr .....

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