Posted by Mark Ayers on Jan 18, 2009 in
Barack Obama,
Blog,
Blog Comments,
Blog marketing 
Ask not what Obama can do for you, ask what can Obama do for your blog?
Love him or hate him, think he can do our US economy any good or not, there is one thing for sure, people and companies are cashing in on Obamanomics in a big way.
MSN Money Blog contributor Todd Harrison’s post(written by Minyanville Contributor Tal Pinchevsky) Obama swag stimulates economy shows a few examples of companies making it big and riding the “Obama is good for our bottom line” wave. Companies such as The New York Times, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Banana Republic and the list goes on.
With sold out copies of news papers, logo changes and even font following these are just a few examples. Last I looked Twitter listed him as having by far the largest following (though that is not an actual monetizer just yet but it is capital in tweetland)
Get yourself to start thinking out of the Oval and think about how you too can monetize your blog because of this history making president. I am sure he would be the first to say thank you for doing your part to stimulate our economy.
Ask yourself in what way can I tie into this trend with my blog and make it pay?
If nothing else he may add a few new readers to your blog just because you wrote a halfway decent post and used his name and maybe his picture…with a US flag 
So put a pic of the prez in front of you and ask him to pony up for you and your blog.
Tags: Barack Obama, Blog, economy, marketing, monetizer, money, Obamanomics, Pepsi, president, Todd Harrison, tweetland, twitter
Posted by Mark Ayers on Jan 13, 2009 in
Blog,
Bob Proctor,
Making Money If you are blogging to make a boatload money and or to be be famous in the blog community then pay special attention to this post.
Not many people can make a bold claim to the world that they feel confident that they are responsible for making more millionaire’s than anyone else alive today.
Bob Proctor is just that man. For over 40 he has made it his life’s work to not only study the art and science of making money -a lot of money - he has devoted himself too teaching people all around the world these same systems and techniques.
Bob along with many well known and successful individuals were stars on the best selling video of all time on success, health, relationships etc. The Secret
He has mentored or contributed to such greats as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hanson from the mega successful Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. John Assaraf who took Bob’s works to heart at the age of 20 and has made himself a multimillionaire. Laurel langmeyer The millionaire maker herself.
Bob has a new program called Six Minutes to Success. and he makes this bold claim:
“If you have a computer and 6 minutes a day, I have a proven, Certified and Guaranteed way to make more money than you can ever spend in you lifetime”
He is going to send you some free videos to watch and a task to do daily and states he will work with you till you have achieved your financial goals.
I personally invite you to take look for yourself at this information and give it a try. In this program Six Minutes to Success you will see that a few simple steps done daily will guide you to what you want in life.
Watch the videos and trust yourself that you can make this information work for you. That with Bob’s help, years of experience, and proof positive with countless successes, you too can have what you desire in life. Take action now, don’t let procrastination get in your way. You deserve success just as much as anyone else.
And yes you can do that with your blog.
One final thought, no matter how good Bob and this information is, if you are lazy or are uncoachable this will not help you at all. Keep an open mind and let the Master of Success work personally with you.
Tags: Blog, Bob Proctor, Effective Blogging, financial goals, happiness, health, jack canfield, John Assaraf, Learning how to blog, mark victor hanson, millionaire maker, multimillionaire, Profit, prosperity, success, successes
Posted by Mark Ayers on Jan 6, 2009 in
Blog,
Blog Comments,
Idea Farm 
Coach Mark
As I make my rounds to blogs I am reading recently I came to a few conclusions about commenting and have written 13 of them out for you to give some thought to.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- You will see the post from other sets of eyes-points of view- and this will expand your thinking about the authors effective ways to connection of the ideas to the readers.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- Comments are the second plot of land on the Idea Farm.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- Top rated bloggers visit other top rated blogs and comment, this is a way to see how they comment themselves.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- Other top rated bloggers that visit top rated blogs will read your comments and you will get noticed.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- You will see how the author’s ideas are viewed by his/her peers.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- It is a good study in brevity. Saying the most with the least, like Twitter.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
What do you find yourself beyond the normal, hey I have a link now on a PR-X blog, good for me?
Bonus for you. If you are not commenting on blogs often and want a place to start, here and now sounds like a good idea to me.
Tags: Blog, Blog Comments, Learn how to blog
Posted by Mark Ayers on Jan 3, 2009 in
Blog,
Learning how to blog A few minutes ago as I was reading a post by Rob McNealy on Twitter Policy and Philosophy and I was making a comment about my usage of social media for my marketing I had to admit just how uncomfortable it all is for me.
When I was a teen we moved as a family between the east coast and the west coast, I went to a different school after each move. Somewhere along the line I decided that not getting to know anyone was the best course for me. I would be a loner and have held on to that my whole life. I have a small group of friends and a smaller number of very close friends. It has worked to a point in my life yet…
I always have had this passion for being a contribution, to being someone who had a positive impact, who raised the quality of life of the lives of people I interacted with.
My plans, dreams, thoughts have been around this theme in my life. Books I want to write, programs to put in place, people who need to be connected together. All of it has been because I want to help.
And then I come up against “I am a loner” remember.
One thing blogging gives me is a way to say what I want to say, market it and hope it lands where it can be of value. That what I say in some way causes someones life/business to move in a forward direction.
And I have had this dream of being a successful on line marketer who makes his living from actions taken on the net. I have failed miserably at that over and over. I have put in the activity and missed on the productivity. Yet I still have this dream and now..
Blogging is here for me finally. Blogging gives me a voice in the world, it gives me a way to say what I want to say in an effort to reach the people who are looking for what my words mean in their life to them. So they can determine the value and choose.
Yet because of the “Loner” name tag I wear it is uncomfortable for me to blog, to utilize social media to get business. I am torn between this and by my personal need and desire to be of service to others. To be in their lives and make a difference. To provide access to transformation. And my rule I set down for myself years ago.
Coming up for air now and even in writing this I am driven to write in the best way I know how to add value to your life, to let my passion win over my way of life as a loner. To be uncomfortable and just do it.
@Mark_Ayers
Tags: Blog, desire, passion, productivity
Promise Yourself —
- To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
- To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
- To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
- To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
- To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.
- To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
- To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
- To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
- To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
- To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble
The Optimist Creed from Optimist International. Who adapted these words from the late Christian D. Larson
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Coach Mark
Google alerts can keep you in a constant and up to date stream of content ideas and it is so simple to set up.
Google Alerts are email updates of the most current relevant Google search results (web, news, blog, video, etc.) and these are based on your choice of keywords or search terms. Take a quick 20 seconds or less to do this and you will then be sent a confirmation email to your own email account, no need for a Gmail account. If you already have a gmail account it is an easy access when you are logged in to Gmail.
Go to: Google Alert Home
Once there you will see a welcome screen with some information explaining what Google Alerts are about then a form to fill in.
To create a Google Alert fill in the form
- Add search terms: the desired keywords or term
- Type: News, Web, Comprehensive, Blog and Video
- How often: Daily, hourly, as it happens
- Your email addy:
You will be sent a confirmation email and you are set. You can then add or remove alerts as you want from your dashboard after logging in.
Here are some of the FAQ”s for your review
1. What are Google Alerts : Quick and easy emails that have the content you are looking for from Google search
2. What are the different types I can sign up for? You can source from one or all- Web, Blog, Video, News, and Comprehensive
3. How do I sign up? Go to Google Alerts Home
4. How often will I receive Alerts? You can choose from “as it happens to once a day”
5. What keywords or topics make good Google Alerts? What are your interests. What do you want to blog about, what do you want to research and learn?
For more information go to Google Alert help
Tags: Blog, blogger, Blogging, content generation, dashboard, Effective Blogging, email updates, gmail account, google, google search results, Learning how to blog, search terms, top search engines, video news, web blog, web news
Coach Mark
People make New Years Resolutions and look for ways to ensure their success, ways to do it easier, find support, and even find a community that they can be involved with in the pursuit of their goals.
As a blogger you can capitalize on this need in your niche if you will use some of these keywords and phrases below.
Here is a list of New Year’s resolutions keywords that may just be a big search engine stampede that you can use in your blogs. There are over 120 in this list but you may find more or you can adapt these as you like.
These can be triggers for your own thinking and planning use or insert these in your blog as they are. And some of these can just be looked at as goals verse resolutions, not to worry you will still be touching hot buttons of your readers if you use them.
You might want to start your blog title with one of the following:
· How to achieve…
· How to guarantee that you can…
· How to make it easier while you…
· How to simplify…
· How to…
· What will help you….
· When you do this you will…
· Where to…
· Why you will want to….
· Why you will…
· You can …
· You can too…
And then add one or more of the following
1. Be a better communicator
2. Be a better investor
3. Be a better speaker
4. Be happier
5. Be healthy
6. Be mature
7. Be more involved with children’s education
8. Be more involved with my investments
9. Be more positive
10. Be more self confident
11. Be more tolerant
12. Better discipline for children
13. Better sex
14. Brush my teeth better
15. Buy a house
16. Clean my house
17. Committed
18. Create more abundance
19. Drink fewer sodas
20. Drink less
21. Drink less coffee
22. Drink more water
23. Eat better
24. Eat less
25. Eat less candy
26. Eat less fast food
27. Eat less ice-cream
28. End a relationship
29. Enlist friends or family for accountability
30. Exercise
31. Fitness priorities
32. Floss daily
33. Get a cat
34. Get a degree
35. Get a dog
36. Get a fish
37. Get a horse
38. Get a new job
39. Get a Pet
40. Get a promotion
41. Get a raise
42. Get along with others better
43. Get an education
44. Get better grades
45. Get more rest
46. Get motivated
47. Get my your work done
48. Get organized
49. Get out of debt
50. Getting over a fear or phobia
51. Give more to charity
52. Go to my school games
53. Grow up
54. Help children with their work
55. Join a professional organization
56. Keep in touch better
57. Keep my car clean
58. Laugh more often
59. Learn a new language
60. Learn to drive
61. Learn to fly
62. Less eating out at restaurants.
63. Less sex
64. Listening better
65. Lose weight
66. Make a plan
67. Make a TO DO list every day
68. Make my bed
69. More sex
70. Party less
71. Pay my bills on time
72. Pay taxes
73. Pick up after myself
74. Plan a vacation
75. Plan retirement
76. Read more
77. Reduce stress
78. Reduce taxes
79. Save more
80. Say I love you daily
81. Sell a house
82. Send fewer texts on my phone
83. Send out cards
84. Set goals
85. Smile more
86. Spend less time on the computer
87. Spend less time on the internet
88. Spend more time on the family and friends
89. Spend more time with the grandchildren
90. Spiritual/ Religious growth
91. Start a 401
92. Start a new business
93. Start a new hobby
94. Start a relationship
95. Start dating
96. Stick to my plan
97. Stop being so grumpy
98. Stop being so loud
99. Stop being so serious
100. Stop drinking
101. Stop procrastinating
102. Stop smoking
103. Study harder
104. Take a trip
105. Take work related training or seminar
106. Tame the bulge
107. Tell more bedtime stories
108. Travel more
109. Treat my employees better
110. Try something I have not done in a long time
111. Try something new
112. Visit your Dentist
113. Visit your Dr
114. Visit your grandparents more often
115. Visit your parents more often
116. Volunteer more
117. Watch less TV
118. Work less
119. Work more
120. Work out
121. Work smarter
122. Write a book
123. Write a play
124. Write a TV script
Tags: abundance, attractive content, better sex, Blog, Blog Links, Blog marketing, blogger, Blogging, coffee, Effectivie blogging, free publicity, hot buttons, internet marketing, investments, investor, keys to success, Learning how to blog, Linkbait, list, marketing goals, marketing solutions, marketing tips, mindset, money, new year, New Years Resolutions, niche, personal blog, Powerlinking, profitable blogs, relationship, success approach, top links, top search engines, traffic
Posted by Mark Ayers on Dec 28, 2008 in
Barack Obama,
Blog,
Linkbait What if I told you President elect Barack Obama had heard about your blog and wanted to read it?
What if you offered a ton of real value free items on your blog and people came there to find them and get them for themselves and what all this drove traffic to your blog and you got some great links back from it? And what if that was not happening now but you wanted it to?
Then you just may want to read what these other bloggers have to say to help you grow your traffic and market your blog through Linkbaiting.
Maybe not the TOP 12 ideas, yet what is offered is good solid ides like 4 ways to use the most profitable word in Internet Marketing “Free” and you even can used the tried and true best seller S_E_X
12 Effective Linkbait Ideas for SEO | SEO Consult - Certified …
So, below is a list of 12 linkbait ideas that may prove effective for your website. Not all methods will prove effective for all sites and the sites that will enjoy the greatest success will be those that put in a little of their own …
I like the “tried and tested” linkbait ideas.
How to Write an Effective Link Bait
To start with, I am going to explain what link bait is and then go into some of the best ways to write an effective link bait. So what is link bait? Primarily, link bait is any content written on your site which will get users to link …
This is a BIG list on Linkbait articles.
Linkbait Articles
I have read a ton of stuff on linkbait over the past year, I thought I would put together a list of the linkbait articles I have come across. Pay particular attention to Andy Hagens Ultimate post, and I like Brian Clarke of Coppyblogger …
Think long term in your linkbait campaign
Long term linkbait
Most people think that linkbait is a quick solution to build a few thousand natural links in a week using social media sites. My favourite type of linkbait.
Hear is a prime example of long term linkbait
The Top 10 SEOmoz Linkbait Articles
Over the past 2 years SEOmoz has used social media more effectively than any other internet marketing blog and has ended up with over 1.35 million links as a.
How to prepare yourself for a successful linkbait post or series of posts.
How to Handle Successful Linkbait
Last month, Tyler wrote a great post with tips to follow when linkbait doesn’t work. He also helped us understand the secret to coming up with linkbait. What does this mean? It means by now you should be more than ready to create some …
Tags: Andy Hagens, Barack Obama, Blog, Blog Links, Blog marketing, blogger, Blogging, Brian Clarke, campaign, Effective Blogging, How to creat great content, internet marketing, keys to success, Learning how to blog, Linkbait, list, Powerlinking, profitable blogs, Trackbacks. Blogging, traffic
Posted by Mark Ayers on Dec 28, 2008 in
Angie Perderson,
Blog One of the first questions that comes to mind for the potential blogger, what should I Blog about?
When my friend Tony first suggesting I blog I know I had this question in my mind. I had played with a blogger account and maybe put up one or two posts but that was a couple years ago I had a vague sense of what I wanted to say but no direction.
At the time we had our conversation I wanted to create a website and he was adamant that I would do better blogging. I am glad I listened because I get what he was talking about.
So n
ow you are thinking to yourself “what do I write about” and to help you along I found a great post from Angie Pedersen at Scrapbookmarketing.com
Angie does an excellent job of outlining the distinctions of personal verses business blogging. She offers up 9 reasons for a personal blog and 14 reasons for a business blog along with two marketing tips- determine your audience and determine your marketing goals.
Angie finishes up with 3 “W”’s Why are you blogging, Who are you blogging for and What you want to communicate.
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About: Angie offers promotional writing services through Scrappy Marketing Solutions and is an award winner writer and marketing expert proven by her two websites, four blogs, and podcast. Her expertise is often featured in both consumer and trade craft magazines.
You can follow Angie on Twitter :http://twitter.com/AngiePedersen
And learn more from her at http://scrapbookmarketing.com
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Enjoy your read.
Tags: Angie Pedersen., audience, award winner, Blog, Blog marketing, Blogging, Effective Blogging, Learning how to blog, marketing goals, marketing solutions, marketing tips, personal blog, profitable blogs, success approach, writing services
Blog Marketing With Trackbacks
Jack Humphrey takes a few minutes to explains the importance of trackbacks and how to get the most of them for your blog. As a new blogger myself I have heard the term and had seen it but it was not until I watched this video that I really got how powerful they can be for driving traffic to your blog and it is FREE.
Tags: Blog, Blog Links, Blog marketing, Effectivie blogging, free publicity, Powerlinking, Trackbacks. Blogging
