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Promoting Your Blog with Entrecard

Written by Susan Gunelius from Women On Business on February 11, 2008

Entrecard is one of the newest blog promotion sites that’s causing quite a buzz around the blogosphere. In short, Entrecard requires no monetary commitment but a fairly significant time commitment in order to provide real benefits.

Entrecard gives bloggers the opportunity to create a virtual business card that looks like a 125×125 ad. As an Entrecard member you’ll install a widget on your blog that provides a place for other Entrecard members to drop off their “cards” when they visit your blog as well as a place for other members to place their…

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Getting Something for Nothing: Is it Time to Give Up on Free Article Marketing?

Written by Yuwanda Black from Inkwell Editorial on February 6, 2008

I recently read the NY Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek. One of the things the author, Tim Ferris said was to remove the word “Free” from your marketing.

His reasoning? More or less, people looking for free stuff are lower-end customers. They are the ones who will make the most demands on your time and usually buy nothing, or very little. He explains it better than I ever could, but that’s the gist of it.

So, this got me to thinking about free article directories. I’ve used this marketing tactic for years to…

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Four Free Blog Site Promotion Tools that Really Work

Written by Rob Mead from Perfect Web Content on February 4, 2008

EVERYONE CAN USE FREE PROMOTIONAL TOOLS EVERY SINGLE DAY

It continues to amaze me how so many blog site owners out there still pay huge bucks to web site promotion companies to do most of the promotional work for their on line business that the blog site owners should be doing themselves for free.

By applying just a few of the following techniques to their overall blog site promotion weekly schedule, any blog site owner that is open for business today should be able to attract as many new viewers to his…

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Interview with the Founders of Sk-rt.com

Written by Susan Gunelius from Women On Business on February 4, 2008

Sk-rt.com is a fairly new social bookmarking site that uses the slogan, “Like that friend who always finds the best stuff. Only better.” It functions similar to Digg wherein users submit content and other users vote on it, and entries with many votes are more likely to make it to the front page and thus get more traffic. Sk-rt.com focuses on nine primary categories:

Arts & Entertainment
Design & Crafts
Family & Parenting
Fashion & Style
Food & Home
Internet & Technology
Mind, Body & Spirit
Travel & Leisure
World & Business

Sk-rt.com was founded by Gabrielle Blair, Laura Mayes and Laurie Smithwick in 2007 and already…

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“Old School” Internet Marketing: Whatever Happened to Banner Impressions?

Written by Yuwanda Black from Inkwell Editorial on January 30, 2008

I started blogging almost three years ago (February 2005). As a long-time freelancer, I receive a lot of questions from freelances who are just starting out, subscribers to my newsletter, freelancers who knew me when I had my editorial staffing agency in New York, etc.

Blogging made it easy to share information en masse and get immediate feedback. I recall those days fondly because I wrote with a pure sense of, “This is good to share.” Nothing more, nothing less.

So, why am I telling you all this? Well, it’s gotten…

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Four Reasons You Should Never Buy Links For Your Blog Site

Written by Rob Mead from Perfect Web Content on January 28, 2008

DON’T GET DESPERATE
There are a lot of blog site owners who are willing to pay out any amount of cash they can find in their budgets to pay to shady promotion sites that are all too happy to take their cash and deliver a link to a big player in the internet world like YouTube or Problogger. These desperate site owners really have not a clue as to what damage they’re doing to their financial budgets. There are at least five other really good reasons you should never pay to…

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