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Exit Popups: Love 'em or Hate 'em, they work.

By way of my mentor, Tom Antion who tests everything and doesn't refer anything unless he thinks it's worth it, I learned about an exit popup program called Don't Leave Me Ads. I'm not real sure about the name, doesn't quite make sense to me, but that's what it is.

If you've been doing business on the 'net for any length of time, you know there's a constant debate about popups. Whether or not you like them, they do produce results, so they're a tool not to be overlooked. Just use them judiciously.

The primary ways we use pop ups are 1) to encourage people to subscribe to our newsletter and 2) as an exit popup to somehow, some way get the person leaving the site to take action on something before they disappear.

Quote: Ideas and Action

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
– Arnold H. Glasow

Learn about The Law of Action.

News Release: Doing Business on the Web

The Law of Action for Doing Business on the Web

(San Diego, CA) December 20, 2007 – Although there is a ton of information available, many small business professionals struggle with marketing their businesses online. The problem is too much information and too many experts claiming to have the magic, client-magnet solution.

As a result, many struggle with ineffective websites, stagnating prospect lists and don’t see Web sales as promised. Too much information, too many choices leads to inertia.

A recent poll revealed as many as 30% are overwhelmed and don’t know where to start when it comes to marketing their business on the Web.

To break down Internet marketing into actionable steps, The Blog Squad™, in partnership with Street Smarts Marketer™ Kathleen Gage, have designed a program called The Law of Action: Attract Clients and Build a Money-Making Business with the 'Net.

Read the complete release here.

The Internet is a Tool to Build Your Business

On Monday, Kathleen Gage and The Blog Squad hosted our first ever joint teleseminar. We decided to join forces in response to the numerous requests we each receive daily from people who want to know how to make money using the Internet.

Because we know what it takes to make a great living by way of the Internet, it frustrates us to no end to see people being led down the path of hype, BS and overall garbage that can be found all over the place on the Internet.

If you registered for the free teleseminar and were on the call, you know we covered an amazing amount of information in a short period of time and we addressed the 5 traps of Internet marketing that can derail your business.

Here are a few insights we gave:

Evil Spammers: The Yale Economic Review?

For 2 days now (right in the middle of a sale, no less!) Denise and I have been perplexed by bounced emails. (Perplexed being a euphemism for pissed off...)

It turns out our email signatures contained links to our new Law of Action program and to our Blog Squad video. Both of these are hosted on a Hostgator server. The same server hosts a site that has been reported as a spammer.

I did my research: the nasty offender is none other than The Yale Economic Review! Spam blockage usually happens when someone - a disgruntled recipient - reports an incident as spam. That's all it takes.

Unfortunately, the spammers continue to mess us all up. I  doubt that a serious magazine such as The Yale Economic Review employs spammers or spamming techniques.

In the meantime, SpamHaus takes reports seriously and all of the sites hosted on the same server as The Yale Economic Review will have problems: emails that bounce and reported as blocked because of spam content.