Unboxing of Android Incredible and Initial Impressions
After several months with the latest Blackberry device (Tour) it was time to move on, and yesterday the Android Incredible by HTC and Verizon arrived at the home office. I decided to turn on the camera and unbox it with you, and after a few hours of use, share my initial impressions of this powerful device. I’m going briefly cover the screen, input (including voice to text), social web, mobile marketing potential, navigation, and the android marketplace apps installed. Read more
Why Authority Labs Rocks for Keyword and SEO Tracking
The search engines can stress you out if you let them. With all the changes of late, especially as the search engines figure out how to integrate the social web in results pages, it is hard to keep up. Having your rankings drop suddenly is enough to make your heart skip a beat (in a bad way). I’ve concluded that rankings are fluid, just get used to it and live to fight another day. Authority Labs has made makes life easier for customers, much easier when it comes to tracking SEO rankings over time, and with the recent updates to the service, has just gotten better. Read more
3 Reasons to Like the New Facebook Like Button
It was done. The fan page is updated for the site, users are presented with a custom screen, including a video, an opportunity to opt in and join the site, as well as “Become a Fan” with a simple click of a button. Facebook is now positioned as a list building tool through the customized fan page (thanks to Andre). It was time to get serious about promoting it. Welcome to Monday morning. After putting it out there for feedback on Google Buzz, my friend Lori informed me that Facebook replaced the “Become a Fan” button with a “Like” button. Initial reaction, bummer! After mulling it over and chatting with some friends, there are three good reasons to “like” this latest move by Facebook. Read more
A Way to Repurpose Content and Grow Your Email Marketing List
Being everywhere your target market can find you is an important component to any online marketing strategy. This is a strategy that I’ve been employing in varying degrees, one being with the weekly wrap-up videos on this sites YouTube channel. I’ve been an Aweber customer for years and was reviewing an enhancement they recently released. In this post you’ll learn how a this update makes it easier to repurpose content and increase opt ins. There’s also a video showing some of this feature in action. Read more
Mari Smith Talks iPad & Social Media Marketing Tips
While at a recent social media meetup I connected with Mari Smith, a relationship marketing specialist. She was kind enough to sit down in front of the camera as we discussed several things, including:
o Thoughts on the latest Apple iPad
o Her philosophy for engaging the market in social media (very different from successful internet marketers).
o The 80/20 rule …and more
The video is below.
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Discussion with Joel Comm – Social Media Fizzle – iPad Impressions
iFart? What in the world is that? Crazy name for a software application, but this guy created it, and from what he told me, it was quite a success. Read more
Squeeze Page Creation Problem Solved? (Video) Review of LeadPagePro Likes Dislikes and More
**Scroll for important update to this post** This week, I saw a product that caught my attention. I’ve been searching for someone to create a solid video squeeze pages for projects I’m working on. I’m *not* a designer or website guru, far from it, but I know what I want, and find the “education” portion of outsourcing often delays projects. This week I was introduced to what the guys behind LeadPagePros.com (aff link) have put together, and it has solved my problem. After becoming a customer, I thought of you and decided to share my experience thus far. This post covers what LeadPagePro is, three things I like about it, a video of me creating a squeeze page within my account, where it could be better, and the bottom line. Read more
3 WordPress Plugins to Boost Visitor Interaction
Finding ways to increase user engagement and interaction on your site is a worthy investment of time if blogging is an integral part of your online marketing strategy. With the amount of content published online, providing social (and other) hooks coupled with great content will keep visitors on your site and returning on a regular basis. This post reviews 3 WordPress plugins that are can be . Read more
Review of Boomtext SMS Mobile Marketing Service
Recently, a post shared the outcome of a text message marketing experiment while at two different events. There wasn’t a lot of information as it pertained to the services used to get the text messaging off the ground, since then several readers have messaged in asking about recommended SMS providers for mobile marketing. Here I will share the one I used, BoomText, who it’s for, who it’s not for, and the likes and dislikes of the service.
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Hi, my name is Travis Campbell, I operate this site. I'm here to share what I can from my lessons marketing online. With sizeable investments in continuing education, various software products and services, I have had some winners, and some losers. One way I can extend what I've learned is by writing about it, here... and helping you along the way.
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