Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 1, 2006

It's the end of the month so here is my monthly blog roll or blogtipping as Easton calls it. These blogs will: Help you improve your search ranking Improve your blog copy (content) Provide eternal life. Ok - no one has written a blog about that yet (at least that I know of). Awesome job! Hope you like them!

Business Blogging 100

Business Blogging Business Tagging Consulting 100

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

Today is already a good day for you as you made it to my blog. Maybe you got here from Google or another random search. If you have no idea what a blog is (no, it's not from some Ghostbuster movie), are new to blogs and blogging, or have some idea but don't know what to do with one , you've landed on the right page.

Adsense 100

Adsense RSS Digg Blogger 100

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2006

Seth's Blog 3. Search Engine Watch Blog 6. This is my personal Blog about my adventures trying to make a living online 7. PS - Remmeber to use Technorati to search for blogs and/or items of interest. Tags: blogging anything goes marketing. Creating Passionate Users Helping users kick ass 8.

Blogger 100

Blogger RSS Public Relations Tagging 100

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Here's a great podcast found on Yaro Starak's Entrepeneur's Journey blog in which he interviews Darren Rowse of Problogger. The topic of this audio download is " Building Blog Traffic ". For example, you can blog about Adsense which is a sub-niche of Problogger. In the beginning, Darren used to comment on around 100 blogs a day!

Traffic 100

Traffic Adsense Digg Ad Building 100

Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Business blogs have many different objectives. This post focuses on using blogs for lead generation. As a disclaimer, my blog's purpose is NOT for lead generation. How can you use your blogs for this purpose? Engage Your Blog Visitors What does this mean? How do you engage your blog visitors?

Lead Generation 100

Lead Generation Generation Tools Leads 100

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2006

After reading an inspiring article on ClickZ regarding effective landing pages , I've decided to look at ways to improve conversions on blogs. By conversions, I don't mean clicking on the "order now" button as this isn't very common on blogs. 10 ways to increase blog conversions Write compelling and informative content.

Traffic 100

Traffic RSS Blogger Eloqua 100

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

You may be saying to yourself, what should I blog about today? You would be surprised (perhaps shocked) at all of the great content that you already have on your blog that you can reuse. Here are some tips on recycling your blog content: Come up with a topic and then search your blog and see what posts already exist.

Tips 100

Tips Content Trade Show Lead Generation 100

Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 23, 2006

Have you come across a business blog and said "This is pure shit?" Between what I do for a living and blogging in my spare time, I've started to really take note of what I feel is a good blog and what isn't. My criteria for a good blog is based on the following: appearance, content, purpose, frequency of posts, and traffic.

Click Rate 100

Click Rate Traffic Stats Business Blogging 100

Anything Goes Marketing

JUNE 15, 2006

One of my goals is to get further versed in the life of SEO - search engine optimization. Here are some good tips from a recent article written on Search Engine Watch Leave content outside of your private subscription area. Use headlines with words that people search for. PS - You may have noticed the lack of blog posts.

Tagging 100

Tagging SEO Tips Creativity 100

Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 20, 2006

If you just started a regular "I want to tell you about myself" blog or a corporate business blog, check out this article on BusinessBlogWire that tells you which sites to submit your blog to in order to improve your search rankings. Technorati tags: business blog , Technorati Thanks Easton!

Tagging 100

Tagging Business Blogging Order Tips 100

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

When you're designing a website, blog or email template do you ever think about how your users will actually see it? When I wrote a post on How to convert blog traffic into loyal readers I mentioned that it's important to make it easy for your readers to subscribe to your blog.

Youtube 100

Youtube Case Study Case Studies Click Rate 100

Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 17, 2006

My blog won an award as a S.O.B. or Succesful and Outstanding Blog! I was just talking about handing out my own award (The AGM Award to Coke and Mentos ) and I did a search on the ole' Technorati and there it was!! Thanks so much everyone for this award and for reading my blog. Liz Strauss writes: This is a funny one!

Tagging 100

Tagging Positioning Best Practices Companies 100

Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 1, 2006

As I'm about to embark on creating a more professional blog, I'm facing a big question - do I add the blog as a subdomain to my website or do I create a new domain all together for my blog. I guess it all depends on the goals of your blog. Many companies use blogs to blog about their industry rather then their company.

Domain 100

Domain Business Blogging Eloqua Business 100

Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

If you're on my blog (that's directed to my RSS reader friends), you'll notice a shiny new Google search box at the top of the site. Search for anything you want (here's a good one: "Google Rocks"). Notice how the search results appear as a layer over the current page - isn't that cool? I've got a fairly simple solution.

Resources 100

Resources Google Web 2.0 Adsense 100

Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Although I`ve slowed down my blogging (too many things going on and I have a new project brewing - more details soon) I`m getting some attention from around the marketing universe. I also just found out that my post on Google Customized search was selected as one of BtoB Magazine’s Blog Posts of the Week. Thanks Bulldog!

Bulldog Solutions 100

Bulldog Solutions BtoB Eloqua RSS 100

Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

Twitter: Maximize Your Travel In the past, I had blogged about why I use Twitter so it’s exciting for me to provide a success story for Twitter. While anyone can sign up for the networking tools I listed above, blogging acts as a differentiator as it forces you to come up with good content that people will want to read (if that is your goal).

Social Media 100

Social Media Web 2.0 Media Blogger 100

Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 31, 2006

Here are some great blogs to be aware of: Check out Sante's Search Engine Marketing blog - great tips to help drive traffic to your blog and you can work on your Spanish at the same time Do you what Demand Generation is? My random blog is The Diva Marketing Blog which is a cute blog that focuses on business blogs.

Demand Generation 100

Demand Generation Blogger Search Engine Marketing Tagging 100

Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2006

You will need this for some of the search strategies below. Paid search and ads blow out. If you have already setup Yahoo and Google paid search ads, change the caption so that instead of the typical text that would entice people to click on the ad, it reads "Why go to this website? The business blog to end all business blogs.

Paid Search Agency 100

Paid Search Agency Planning Blast Campaigns Banner Ads 100

Anything Goes Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2006

All of that great content could actually drive people to your website and generate new leads as people will be searching for content contained within your newsletters. Newsletters are full of search friendly keywords that people search for on a daily basis. Think again - PDFs are not search friendly.

Newsletter 100

Newsletter Lead Generation Tagging Lead Nurturing 100

Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2006

In my quest to drive traffic to my blog and to help others generate web traffic for their online campaigns , I've looked the the top keywords as defined by Wordtracker and listed them in my blog title as well as throughout this blog post. While these don't have too much to do with my blog, the concept does.

Google 100

Google Digg Keywords Tagging 100

Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 27, 2008

This is very easy to do and worth testing Use the search engine optimization terms that drive the most traffic to your site within your subject lines. This is also easy to do by examining the search terms from your analytics program. I just realized that I waited too long to blog as I have a bunch of tips saved up.

Tips 100

Tips Bulldog Solutions Lead Qualification Newsletter 100

Anything Goes Marketing

DECEMBER 21, 2009

For example, check out [link] and search for your company name. Now search for your competitors. Here are some things you can do today: Search for a LinkedIn Group that interests you and join it. Most likely, you are being mentioned. Participate in discussions or start a new one yourself. Not sure which group to join?

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Automation Services Marketing Management Planning 100

Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

Organic Search? What is interesting is that if you combine organic and paid search, it still doesn't add up to the conversion rate of email according to the chart that is provided. strategies like blogging, don't forget about using email to support your other marketing channels. Was it Adwords? Nope - it was email!

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Conversion Paid Search Agency Adwords 100

Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2006

Looking at my blog, I said to myself "how can I increase my subscriptions?". Besides the obvious "provide posts that are actually good", I thought I would fix up the right side of my blog and make it easier to subscribe. Technorati tags: feed icons , blog icons , blog feeds , anything goes marketing.

Tagging 100

Tagging Design Order Search Marketing 100

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

There are some great links and tips on obtaining more links to your site and ensuring that more people will visit or website or blog. Tags: website traffic search.

Traffic 100

Traffic SEM Tips Tagging 100

Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2006

Larry Chase at Web Digest for Marketers is an amazing source for marketers looking for tools to assist in email marketing, search marketing, surveys - you name it! You can also see the copy of the ads they are using and what the organic search results are. It allows you to compare a few different search phrases.

Paid Search Agency 100

Paid Search Agency Online Marketing Cost Per Click Tools 100

Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2007

I reviewed a business blog in my last post so I thought I would check out and see how Easton was doing in his project to see which of the Fortune 500 were blogging. For fun I checked out Goodyear Tire & Rubber to see what they were up to on the blogging front and have contributed the following to this project. Most likely!

Press 100

Press PR Tagging Business Blogging 100

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

Number of inbound links that I have to my blog in four months: 229 The vast amount of knowledge that I've gained regarding blogging, e-marketing, search marketing (SEO), online advertising, and email marketing by blogging? Amount of money I've made on Adsense in four months: $2.29

Adsense 100

Adsense Youtube Tagging SEO 100

Anything Goes Marketing

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

We'll see if this site brings about the desired objectives but I think it's a step in the right direction on how to use video and user generated content (of course the fact that I'm blogging about this probably helps. Ok, that last one may be a bit extreme but it may also be part of the long tail of search.

Paid Search Agency 100

Paid Search Agency Long Tail Marketing Microsite Budget Programs 100

Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2006

His suggestion is to go to YouTube and find a video that fits your blog. Here is what I found (no, that isn't me singing): This fits my blog as the song is "Anything Goes" and well my blog name is Anything Goes Marketing but I also liked the humour in this video and the pure craziness which reflects my blog posts.

Youtube 100

Youtube Tagging Video Marketing Marketing 100

Anything Goes Marketing

MAY 1, 2007

looks promising as it seems that over half of the companies surveyed either have a blog or plan to have one (internal or internal) and the same goes for RSS ( Click here for the image ). Private Blogs Don't Count (Either Does Being on Facebook and Having 500 Friends That are Co-Workers) Does your company have an internal blog?

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 RSS Wiki Trade Show 100

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

It combined, TV spots, search marketing and even YouTube videos !! you have a site that's finely tuned for search (try searching Honda Element TV commercial ) d. PPS - What if Honda had included a blog for this camaign so we could keep the buzz going about this great car and great campaign?? Why is this campaign so good?

Order 100

Order Youtube Wikipedia Advertising Agencies 100

Anything Goes Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2007

Are you thinking about different ways to build demand for your products or services or just to attract more people to your website or blog? A friend of his who did a Google search came back with this video in the search results. Bloggers have accepted this and even embraced companies that have started blogging.

Youtube 100

Youtube Web 2.0 User-Generated Content Blogger 100

Anything Goes Marketing

JULY 23, 2006

If you're looking for new and innovative ways to drive traffic to your website, check out the post on SEOMoz's blog 10 Remarkably Effective Strategies for Driving Traffic. and blog commenting in the past. I learned a few new tricks including some SEO and paid search techniques as well as how to increase traffic with social networks.

Traffic 100

Traffic Digg Emarketing Social Networks 100

Anything Goes Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2009

On his reside blog , Philip Nelson describes how Eloqua includes a number of Twitter links below the main call to action to continue the conversation via Twitter and other social media outlets and to leverage tools like Twitter to further promote your marketing materials. Use your blog to promote an offer that is exclusively through Twitter.

Twitter 100

Twitter Paid Search Agency Tips Landing Pages 100

Anything Goes Marketing

APRIL 21, 2010

I’ve finally found a company that does a fantastic job at servicing its customers across many channels and you know I have to blog about it. Wind also conducts surveys and has their CEO regularly contributing to the corporate blog. Up here in Canada we’ve had three main mobile providers for as long as I can remember.

Service 100

Service Best Practices Communities Twitter 100

Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2006

It allows you to announce your blog to the rest of the world, and easily find information that other blogs have blogged about. It also lets you know where your blog stands in comparison to other blogs - i.e. how popular it is. I can't afford to have a service like this not spider my blog. So what do I do?

FAQ 100

FAQ Blogger Tagging Ideal Customer Profiles 100