Thursday, September 9, 2010

SFIMA Meeting and More

Hi Guys,

Its been a long time since I have posted anything but today, I went to the SFIMA meeting and James Martell's Q&A, so I have few things to blog about.

SFIMA meeting
This might be a home run for me, I will see. One of the making guys I was talking to mentioned that he and his company uses this service, http://www.usertesting.com/ and it very reasonable. You will get invaluable feedback. Check it out.

The main subject tonight was Email marketing. Two office depot women talked.
Get back to basics.  They still get tons of business from email.
  • Reinvent your company to your customers
  • Open Rates
  • Target your emails
  • Asses your email
  • Personalize your message
What you are trying to achieve? Loyalty and Retention >> office depot goals
Html vs Text email? You must have text for Mobile devices. So text is a must.

Office Depot uses http://www.cheetahmail.com/corp/

They both speakers use and read daily the http://www.retailemailblog.com/

From James Martells Q&A tonight
Share A Sale Think tank, http://www.shareasalethinktank.com/About.aspx If you get accepted, all your expenses paid for except flight.

One of James Students: http://all-things-aviation.com/featured/original-aviator-sunglasses/ he is ranking really well for this key word, Randolf Aviation Sunglasses. He has done a nice job with the site.

These blogs list other blogs that have Do Follow in their comments sections. Great for Back Links.
http://www.feverishthoughts.com/do-follow-bloggers/
http://dmmbg.com/d-list-2.html/comment-page-1

James really loves this service for Comments on your blog. http://comluv.com/

Anyone want to hear the recap of the Affiliate Summit East,
http://jamesmartell.com/affiliate-buzz/a-recap-of-affiliate-summit-east-2010-in-new-york-city/

Hey guys, please make sure you comment this blog. You can put your back link in the comment. It will let me know that you read this and it will great to hear from you through the blog. Use it!

Keep on Going and God Bless,
Johnny Mac
swimming with the dolphin grand cayman





















Sunday, July 18, 2010

Latest Affiliate Class

Hi Guys,

I thought I would put some of this information on the Blog from James Martell's last class.

1. Two of his students wrote an ebook about making money with Amazon < Check it out > I am going to get it and see what it says. I will post if it is worth it.
2. James Free Video on Improving conversion for 1400 Key Words. < Check it out >
3. James Free Video of creating content inexpensively. < Check it out >
4. Paid Word Press Themes templates Socrates WP Theme & Yukon theme. The Socrates is for Affiliate people. It looks cool.
5. Jame's wife Arlene has created a site and has a new control panel look. James really likes this navigation.
 
I hope this helps someone.
God Bless and Love,
John
 

Monday, July 5, 2010

Site Critique

Hi All,

Here is Site Critique from James Martell. Simple Italian Website

Also, another cool site the 100 Greatest Headlines ever written. You might want to use of these.

God Bless,
John
Swimming with the Dolphins Grand Cayman

Thursday, July 1, 2010

New Ideas from James Martell

Hi Guys,

I just got through with my live James Martell Class.

Some interesting stuff....

  • Clickbank.com may be an interesting affiliate network to check out.
  • To build content, go to Youtube and put your key word you are searching. Take Youtube video and write a story about it. Take the video code and add to your content. Geat way to get interest and easy content.
  • Buzzom.com it Tweeter and Facebook posting management tool.
  • James has a tweeter account for each of his niches. The buzzom tool helps him manage all the accounts.
  • James using two part headline for Articles. Example Uses Key Word then the Title to attract. Like >> Managing Credit - What you Don't know Can Hurt You ( Video)  - the key word was Managing Credit
  • One of the guys mention this guy for Google Adword classes Perry Marshall
  • A website to buy and sell website Flippa.com. When James sold his formula Revenue per day X 1 1/2 years.
  • Matt Cutts from Google Video about Page Ranking
  • A Free Affiliate Conference that coming to Florida next year.

One of our internet mastermind members is moving, Alex. He was a great addition and I wish him well on his move to California. May God Bless him and his family on this new journey!!
Alex, you will be missed in South Florida. Hey gang, we now have a place to stay in Cali, yeah!!
John
swimming with the dolphins Grand Cayman

Monday, June 21, 2010

Super Mega Optimal SEO

Hi All,

Here are some suggestions for Back Links to your site. Click the links to see the site. If any of you use any of these sites for back links, please put a comment on your successes.

1. Public Relations

2. Classified Ads

3. Video
4. Content Development

5. Getting Social

6. Directories

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Using Word Press Template

Hey Gang,

I just thought I would share a few notes about my new website, Florida Vacation Travel Guide.

The process was a little longer than I thought. My original thoughts were going to build a site from scratch but finally came to my senses and built a site with Wordpress.

I used a template that my friend and webmaster, Carlo, from CWP internet. He helped me install, teach, and modify the template. Allen, from Cruzan concepts did the header image and graphics. It was a great team effort and it came together. The site took me about 8 weeks to get up and running.

If you have any feedback, I would love to hear from you.
God Bless,
John Mac

Friday, May 14, 2010

Summit Driving ROI with Search and Social

Hi All,

Long time, I have not written in a long time. I was at a seminar about a Search and Social from SFIMA.

I was writing by a wild man and my notes are not the best but here it goes.

Mitch Joel talked about Social Sites....

  • Banner advertising is going down, not many clicks. This past year, the clicks on Banner Ads have gone down to 2% from the total of 1.8 billion user online.
  • Why is normal advertising going down because of social site and customer reviews. People are trusting people not advertising.
  • Information is everything. He talked about yelp.
  • You need to start really value your relationships.
  • More Grandparents than High School students on Facebook
  • Facebook is so popular because the user can share, socialize, collaborate, and most of all create.
  • 81% of online holiday shoppers read online customers reviews.
  • Reviews = Trust. Let your customer talk on website about your products. Be transparent to the world.
  • Make sure you know who you want to put your meesage in front of. Be part of Groups that you want to be in front of. Facebook groups...
  • 50% of youtube audience is over 34
  • Canadians watch over 15 hours a month of Youtube videos. Pretty amazing, considering the average video is 4 minutes.
  • Google said that 20% search is NEW each day. So new key words groups are created everyday.
  • You don't control your homepage, Google does.
  • Now, you need to get in front of your customer versus where you were looking for customers to find you.

Facebook ads are very targeted audience.

We are not marketers anymore, now we are publishers.
1. Accept the change
2. Build and share
3. Move towards open and sharing
4. Its attitudal versus generational
5. Do something now? Be sure you know why?

Your stories should be one to many - Social
Give Value up Front and be Simple

Ten Golden Rules - Jay Berkowitz
To see the outline go to http://presentations.tengoldenrules.com/  He has some great outline and very smart guy.
* He sadi to get your Facebook Vanity User Name, Twitter Name, Linkin Name. It is going to be hot commodity.
* the Facebook Like it button is going hot. Look for the Like it Widget to add to your site.
*Location Networking 4 Square
* My personal use - Pay per Post to make money to blog
*Youtube is great product sale person
* PR Web to promote your video
* Create a community >> Jay created one http://www.internetmarketingclub.org/
ning.com is low cost community network
*Google is looking for "Recency"  and site speed.
*Wine Library TV is has become huge hit on youtube

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For John
Gorilla Marketing Idea - Make Bookmarks and put in books and magazines to promote your website. For example, travel website, but the book mark in travel books and magazine in a bookstore.
Travel Blog to check out http://amateurtraveler.com/
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Next Speaker
  • Facebook is visited more than google
  • Get a strategy - Need a plan to drive revenue - lead generation
  • Make engaging and sharable content. Is your content good enough to share?
  • Offer exclusive content
  • Listen to your user. Listen to what they want. Are people talking on your page? Do they have complaints or praise? Get Feedback. Ask Questions?
  • Focus on Groups.
  • Buy Buy is doing a good job communicating and reacing the right audience.
  • Fan retention
  • Engage your fans in conversation
Next Speaker
The theory of facebook's Likeability
Engagement = Media X commitment
Facebook has started Likeability. what is it? Is about personalization.
How it works - Photos, Albums, Accessable
Look at Facebook Plug ins
Predictions
1. Personalization will be mainstream
2. Graph Based Commerce - Facebook shopping site
3. Geo and Mobile - Location is big and new facebook feature
4. Insight mining is going to be huge
5. Facebook ads will be everywhere. Big shift in advertising
Embrace Likeability or Else
1. Accept that notion of privacy and identity is going to change
2. Empowers consumers
3. Better analytics and measures

Next Speaker
Before going Social
Set Goals
Get a Strategy
Start campaign
Tactic >> Social >> Facebook
Build your brand

Build content First with Youtube, Photobucket, Blogs >>> Then build facebook, linkin, Twitter >>> Invite Existing Customer to Engage >>> Marketing Intergration (email, mailers, advertising)

Talked about Youtube
Video >>> Make a PreRoll and Make a Post Roll for the videos I make.
He said to use Corel Pro X3
He uses a Flip Camera