Internet Marketing Tips from Denise Wakeman

links for 2006-01-01

• Curling Up With a Good E-Book
  an iPod for ebooks?
  (tags: iPod ebook sony)
• Wired 14.01: How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet
  (tags: advertising business marketing search web Google fraud tech)
• Review on The Best Life Hacks of 2005 - lifehack.org
  (tags: blogs productivity lifehacks 2005 bestof)
• Credit Cards With Rewards Are Worth a Look - New York Times
  I'm always on the lookout for ways to save and make money. Here's a good article about what to look for in cash rewards credit cards
  (tags: money saving trends credit)

Fast Company Poll

How did your business do in 2005? Take the Fast Company Poll and add your comments.

Did You Business Have a Good Year?

Blog Squad Specials for the end of the Year

UPDATE: This offer expired at midnight Eastern time on December 31.  But stay tuned because we occassionally offer discounts when we launch new products.

It's that time of year -- the end -- when the special offers start arriving fast and furiously.  If your email box is anything like mine, you've seen a marked increase in the number of discounts being offered on a whole range of products and services.

Well, guess what?  There's a good reason for this phenomenon.  Business owners know this is the last chance to get a few more sales on the books.  And savvy solopreneurs know this is the best time of year to get bargains on the software, ebooks and programs they've been coveting all year.  I know; I've made a few investments in the last several days, taking advantage of rock bottom prices for programs I've put off buying and now cannot resist.  Savvy solopreneurs also know that these are business expenses that can be written off against income in 2005.  And who doesn't want to reduce their taxes?

So in the spirit of good business people, we, The Blog Squad, are offering you a couple of last minute deals that you may find too good to pass up, especially since they are only available through midnight Eastern December 31.

Here are the deals:

Build a Better Blog: The Ultimate Guide To Boosting Your Business with a Professional Blog (ebook) with bonus ebook featuring interviews with 25 successful Business Bloggers
Regular price: $65
End of year special:  25% off - $48.75

Secrets of Successful Ezines: A Guide to Writing & Publishing an Ezine that Gets Results!
Regular price: $87
End of year special: 25% off - $65.25

Confessions of a Reluctant Blogger: From Boring to Brilliant in 30 Days (ebook and audio program)
Regular price: $39
End of year special: 25% off - $29.25

Blow out special:  buy all three ebooks and get 50% off the package
Regular price for all three ebooks:  $191
Best deal of the year:  $95.50

If you want to take advantage of significant savings, great, we applaud your action and look forward to hearing about your success.  If it's not the right time for you, that's cool too.

We wish you all the best with your on and offline marketing endeavors in 2006, as well as lots of success and prosperity!

Denise and Patsi
The Blog Squad

Free TeleConference Lines

If you've been reading this blog for awhile, you know I'm a great believer in teleclasses and teleseminars.  I also believe it's important to record your calls so you have more options to use the content you create.  And, I also believe in using free or low cost tools.

For our Conversations with Experts TeleSeries, we use FreeAudioConferencing.com so we have the option of recording calls and getting an mp3 file for the nominal fee of $10. Another service came to my attention today.

MyFreeTeleconference.com is also free, as the name suggests, and you can record your call for free and have it available on a replay line for your guests to listen to...until you record your next call.  This is OK if you don't want to save the file as that service is not yet available.  It's great to offer as a service to folks who could not make the call. They can listen at their convenience until you record the next call.  This service will be even better when it's possible to save and download your audio files.

Source:  Dan Janal, Great Teleseminar Tips

links for 2005-12-23

• SEO News: The Basics of SEO - Some FAQs
  Never hurts to review the basics of Search Engine Optimization.
  (tags: SEO Internet search linking ranking Google Yahoo dmoz traffic)
• "WowCoupons - #1 source of printable coupons for well known retail stores, printable grocery coupons and printable restaurant coupons"
  Who doesn't like to save money? Here's great site with all types of coupons and rebates for both on and offline stores. Thanks to Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion.com for the tip.
  (tags: coupon rebate retail online ecommerce money saving)
• Will your book or seminar title sell?
  Thanks to R.E.A.L. Marketing blog for this tip. A cool tool to test if your book title (or workshop or teleseminar title) will be a bestseller.
  (tags: book publishing marketing LuLu bestseller)