( Annalaura Brown is guest blogging this week, while Patsi’s on vacation.). Facebook can be a powerful list building tool if you know how to use it properly as such. Here are ten ways you can use FB to build your email list and increase your online business income. Share your blog posts. You can do this automatically by using one of several tools such as ping.fm or networked blogs.  Both of these tools allow you to post a blog post on your blog and then have the post automatically show up on your profile or fan page or both.  2.       Share your compelling opt-in offer. Digg this! MORE >>

What’s your favorite excuse for not blogging for your business? Here are some that I hear: “I don’t have time to blog.&#. “My clients aren’t surfing the Web reading blogs.&#. “Oh, that means I’ve got to write about my business every week?&#. And yet, if these same professionals realized that a business blog is the best way to get found online, the best way to connect with potential clients, and the pathway to turning readers into clients , they might see things a little differently. There are over a billion people connected to the Internet. Digg this! MORE >>

What’s the least you should be doing to extend the reach of your online content marketing through social media sites? This is a good question because many of my readers are busy professionals running a business who don’t have a lot of time. The big danger of sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn is that they can suck you in and spit you out hours later. … and time is money. Even when you’re connecting and having a good time, you can spend time that isn’t productive. …Sometimes it’s hard to know if it’s time well spent or just a good time. MORE >>

We’ve often heard the brain can only hold seven things in mind. The brain research behind this is valid, and in everyday life we experience it with 7-digit phone numbers. This week in Las Vegas, at Chris Farrell’s and Mike Filsaime’s Affiliatedotcom.com event , many speakers presented “7 Steps&# to better internet marketing. But I think there’s a perception that an audience will listen and remember 7 things from a presentation which is wrong. What’s true for phone numbers isn’t true for concepts. Try 3-4 things instead. No way. 1-2-3. Not 7. Digg this! MORE >>

What are 3 ways to frustrated your reader’s brains? Last week, I presented a speech at the 5th International Customer Media Congress in Haarlem, The Netherlands. Besides sharing what neuromarketing is teaching us about the brain and marketing, there are tips here for most web-based content publications. hope you enjoy it and learn something. Let me know if you have questions… Blog this on Blogger. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on del.icio.us. Digg this! Share this on Facebook. Share this on FriendFeed. Email this via Gmail. Add this to Google Bookmarks. MORE >>