Here’s a quick video clip from the folks at iFlashVideo.com, my favorite video service. And no, it’s not really my voice, I hired a professional with really smooth delivery…;-)
The workshop registrations are open. Attend The Ultimate Traffic Formula live next Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 4 p.m. ET and get your questions answered for your own blog with Michael Martine.
(News Flash: I hate last minute changes to my schedule, who doesn’t? Especially when one of us (that would be me) gets a date mixed up… The teleseminar workshop on how to get more blog traffic is not this week, but next: Wednesday May 19 at 4 p.m. ET. The very popular Michael Martine @Remarkablogger, will be teaching The Ultimate Traffic Formula then. Hope you’ll join us!)
In the mean time, it’s been an opportunity for me to brush up on all the traffic tips and trends that are currently being used by smart bloggers. Michael generously shares his best blog posts with us here:
Guest post from Michael Martine of Remarkablogger:
What do you want your website to do for your business? No really, it’s not as obvious a question as it might at first appear.
I’ve been working with executive coaches and consultants for ten years now, helping them improve how they show up on the Web. In those 10 years, I’ve seen a number of changes to the way websites look and function. It doesn’t matter if you use a traditional website, or a blog, or a blog as a website, the principles are the same.
Yet many professionals aren’t clear about the goals for their online content marketing. I made some notes for one client and thought I’d share them with you here. I came up with 5 goals your site should strive to accomplish in the first minute or two. One of them is a big challenge… Read More→
If you’re part of the 80% surveyed who say you don’t have enough traffic to your blog, then here’s a workshop that could make a big difference in your online marketing with blogs:
The Ultimate Traffic Formula with Michael Martine
of Remarkablogger
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 4 p.m. ET (recorded)
Phone, webcast, your choice
Tutorials, videos, handouts, bonuses
I am so convinced this will help you, that I’m giving away a program I was going to start selling, to the first 25 people who register for the workshop.
Time-Saving Tips for Smart Blogging is a blog tutorial with audio, transcripts and 23 pages of worksheets for business blog success, a $39 value. Read More→
I was at the beach a few weeks ago at my friend Amelia’s beach house. She put a dart board up on her kitchen wall. There are a lot of holes on the wall around where the board hangs.
Which reminds me a little of marketing. Sometimes it’s tempting to think that the more you do, the better results you’ll get as far as getting found and getting leads on the Internet.
Social media marketing is a little like that. You post here, comment there, retweet this, update that… and hope you’ll connect with someone at just the right time and right place… and that something good will come of it.
It does happen, I know. I’ve gotten a few clients signed up for my teleseminars because I tweeted something and it led them back to my blog or sales page. Read More→
Attracting ideal clients to your blog and driving blog traffic is part of Blog Outreach: everything you do technologically and personally to let the search engines and people know where you are on the Web.
I talk about this in my free ebook Content Marketing with Blogs. To maintain a successful business blog, you have to pay attention to four key areas, and neglect in any one of these will cause blog failure.
When you work on each of these four areas, your blog is the best marketing tool on the planet. When you know how to attract people AND search engine traffic to your blog, you’re a smart blogger. Read More→
What makes you mad, really mad about your online content marketing and blogging?
For me, it’s when I write something I think is smart and clever and nobody reads it, or if they do they don’t let me know it’s helpful to them.
The second thing I hate is when I give away something I think is valuable and only a few people respond to my offer.
But I think the worst things of all are those creepy inner thoughts of…
What about you? Are you getting enough traffic to your blog and web pages so that you reach enough of the people who want your services? Are you getting sales and new clients from your online marketing? Read More→
There’s nothing worse than spending time and energy writing on your blog and not reaching the very people who need your help, the ones who have the problems you solve.
I take that back, there is one thing worse, and that’s NOT to write your message at all. At least when you publish on a blog, you put it out there on the world-wide bulletin board. Eventually someone will see it, and if you do a few things right, many will see it.
In my ongoing traffic survey, www.surveymonkey.com/s/getmoreblogtraffic, more than 80% respond that they don’t have enough readers to their blog, and more than half report they’re not sure how to attract their ideal clients.
If you haven’t taken the survey yet, please do so now. I’d like to find out what your challenges are with driving traffic to your blog.
If you’re going to use a business blog to drive sales and grow business, you’ve got to tackle the traffic problem. But don’t worry, you don’t have to hire an SEO expert and spend a lot of money. You don’t have to be a techie-geek type either. Read More→
What problems are you facing with traffic to your blog or web pages? What do you know about traffic tips and how they work to help you get found, get known and get clients on the Web?
Indulge me: 3 minutes, 6 questions, a quick survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/getmoreblogtraffic
It’s sad and disappointing. My friend and colleague Sam spent some big bucks on a fancy new website, that included an attractive design, a flash banner, nice pictures and ten pages of text… only no one was finding him.
Hardly any traffic at all. He tried using his name on some of the search engines but he could hardly even find himself.
I told him he needed a blog, so he had his web people add a blog page, but he really didn’t do much better. A few months later, over coffee and a phone call, Sam confided his frustrations:
When I heard that, I yelled into the phone, “STOP right there, bubba! Don’t you dare throw your hard-earned money at this problem and expect it to be fixed. First off, you don’t have a traffic problem.” Read More→
