Online Marketing, Visibility and Business Blogging Tips from Denise Wakeman

MySpace's Hip Factor: Boon for Business

Greg Delzer of Defunct Books, Spokane WA, said he's tried traditional print advertising and has seen modest results. The best results to date have been through online media, including the popular free online classified service, Craigslist. He has two Web sites. One is a traditional site, at www.defunctbooks.com. The other is a hipper, friendlier version on popular social networking site MySpace.

Pay attention. More and more businesses are turning to MySpace to attract younger buyers. Is it right for your business?

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Email Promos: How Effective are Yours?

Have you ever been faced with the task of having to write an email promotion to your list, and then realized that you didn't know what to say or how to say it?

Michael Rasmussen's new video course "Email Promos Exposed" promises to solve that problem for you by walking you through the actual process of creating killer email promos step-by-step.

If you're in a hurry, just go ahead visit this URL to get instant free access to these videos:

http://www.savvyemailpromos.com

I decided to see if Michael's videos live up to their promise by trying them out myself. Here's what I found:

Internet video business challenges

Robert Scoble ponders how much it costs to produce and post video content online, versus traditional text blog content, and how to make a business out of it. A worthy read, specially if you are involved in internet marketing.

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Secrets of Great Public Speaking

How much PowerPoint is too much? Good advice here for the novice and experienced speaker alike. Our mentor, Tom Antion hate PowerPoint and uses short videos instead to make his point and subtley sell his products (he's got a great technique for that). We've begun incorporating Camtasia video into our public presentations as well and they are a great counterpoint to PowerPoint.

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Blogging Events: 3 in the Next 2 Weeks

Want to know more about blogging? Here are three events that may be of interest to you.

Two Free Teleclasses

Monday, October 23, 8 p.m. ET
Blogging with Articles
with Denise Wakemen & Patsi Krakoff of The Blog Squad
Hosted by Jeff Herring, The Article Guy

In this 90 minute teleseminar, you will learn:

• What is blogging
• Why you need to have at least one blog
• How you can set up a blog today
• How articles are perfect for blogs
• 7 benefits of using your articles on a blog
• From article to blog to book
• And of course, much, much more.

Plus at least one giveaway at the end of the call.

Register:
http://www.thearticleguy.com/blogsquad.htm

Tuesday, October 31, 12:00 p.m. ET
Blogging to Make Business Boom
with Denise Wakemen & Patsi Krakoff of The Blog Squad
Hosted by Terri Levine, Larina Kase and Joe Vitale

Register:
http://www.successfulcoachsecrets.com/teleseminars/

Blog Business Summit
October 25-27, 2006, Seattle, WA

If you are serious about using blogs, video, podcasting and new media to build and promote your business, this is the conference to attend.

Some of the best minds and experts will be speaking and attending the event.  This is not just for those in the know; this Summit is for any professional and business owner who wants to benefit from the Internet and the amazing social media tools available to reach more prospects and customers.

As a sponsor of the Summit, The Blog Squad can get you a $100 discount on the conference fee.  Use this link for information and to register:

http://blogbusinesssummit.com/?blogsquad 
To get your discount use code: bsquad

Let me know if you'll be at the Summit so we can connect.