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WRITING YOUR OWN EBOOK - Free tips on writing your own ebook fast! - Flock. The experience you gain from writing your own ebook can’t be beaten. Writing something so involved is really worth the time and effort, not just for sharing your knowledge, but for the feedback you receive from those who read it. However, most people instantly believe it will be really difficult to write a whole ebook, when it’s actually quite easy. If you want to see your ebook succeed, it will need to be written well and marketed properly to those people in your target audience. In order to write an eBook that sells, you need to be highly focused. It is very important to remember this when you write your eBook: the higher amount of quality information you can include in the eBook, the better it is.

For example, if you want to write an eBook about “dog training tips” stick to that idea and don’t try to take on everything in the dog training arena. Make sure that your eBook is only in the PDF format, which has become the most popular way to publish an eBook. 15 Branding Things That Your Competition Doesn’t Want You To Screw With! - Flock. Free Press Release Websites, Our Top 6 - Flock. I recently launched my very first eBook. I’m satisfied with the content I have created but have come up a bit short when it comes to promotion. One great way to put your product or service in front of an audience is with a press release. There are many companies that will hit you up for several hundred dollars to disseminate your info, but there are also plenty that will do it for free.

Their reach might not be as great, but the price tag can’t be beat. And I can tell you that by using these services, I have sold several dozen additional books. Each offers increased exposure with paid upgrades and most require free registration. Within one week of submitting my press release, I began showing up on the first page of Google search results when looking for my Web site’s key words. Only the portion after “@” of your e-mail address is displayed. This service does not accept HTML coding but you can set up a company profile that includes a single link to your homepage.

Looking Back: A Decade of Changes : MarketingProfs - Flock. As the decade draws to a close, only 27% of Americans have positive things to say about the past 10 years and 50% say they have generally negative feelings about them, according to Pew Research. The Internet, email, and cell phones, however, are viewed by many consumers as a change for the better. By a wide margin, the 9/11 terrorist attacks are seen as the most important event of the decade, with Barack Obama's election as president a distant second––even among his political supporters. Happy to put the 2000s behind them, Americans are optimistic that the 2010s will be better: 59% say the next decade will be better than the last for the country as a whole and only 32% say things will be worse.

Technological Advances Viewed Favorably Major technological and communications advances are viewed in an overwhelmingly positive light by many Americans: 69% say cell phones have been a change for the better. 65% say so about email. 65% say so about the Internet. 54% say so about online shopping. 9 Digital Marketing Mistakes I Won't Make Next Year - Advertisin. The Top 100 Internet Marketing Posts of 2009 - Flock.

Rating: 4.5/5 (17 votes cast) Although there is still a little bit of time before 2009 is officially over, since many of you are going to be spending a lot of time traveling and attempting to hide from you in-laws over the next couple of weeks, I thought it would be useful to provide this great reading material now. While I lost track of how many hours I spent working on this post, it turned out to be my favorite writing experience of 2009. Not only did I get to reread a lot of great posts, but I also got to read many excellent posts for the first time that I had missed during the busy course of 2009. Because I have benefited immensely from the information contained in the posts on this list, I want to say thanks to every single author who wrote one or more of the posts below!

And now, without further ado, open up your favorite bookmark service and enjoy the wealth of information contained in the Top 100 Internet Marketing Posts of 2009: January SEO Higher Learning – HuoMah SEO Blog February. 2010: The Year Marketing Dies... - Flock. Image by yewenyivia Flickr ... (Subtitled) Or at Least Marketing as We Know It! But first, since this is my first blog post as a Forrester analyst, I thought I'd make a quick introduction. I'm Augie Ray, a new Sr. While the title of my blog post is (obviously) intended as a deliberate bit of provocation, I believe we cannot underestimate the level of change that is occurring in marketing.

I hope you'll find my first Forrester blog post thought provoking: It is that time of year when every blogger, reporter and analyst is publishing their 2010 Social Media and marketing predictions. Marketing's been under attack for some time, but in 2009 we witnessed the most profound evolution the marketing world has seen in fifty years or more. The latest news from the print world is unsurprising: Average weekday circulation at 379 U.S. newspapers fell 10.6% during the six months ending in September--the steepest decline ever recorded by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Marketing is dead. 8 ways we increased ecommerce sales by 10,000% « Boagworld - Flo. Design: The estimated time to read this article is 13 minutes A 10,000% increase in sales over 5 years. Sounds incredible doesn’t it. Just to make that an even more incredible, their average customer is in their 80s! Who said the elderly don’t use the internet. When we started working with Wiltshire Farm Foods their monthly revenue was a 100th of what it is today.

Of course in reality that success was not down entirely to us. The organisation has recognised the importance and power of the web for their business and continually invested in it both for development and also in site promotion. So what do I put the sites success down to? 1. Too many ecommerce websites are overwhelming. Amazon is like this and so we all naturally presume it must be right. The emphasis of the Wiltshire Farm Foods website was on helping users find and buy the products they wanted. This meant simplifying the site. Take for example the site’s navigation. The same was true for product listings. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. Os 47 mandamentos das pequenas agências digitais, by Grïngo | Br. Multiple marketing channels, or just plain digital? | Blog | Eco. Apple is buying Quattro Wireless... and coming out with a tablet computer.

Google just announced its entry into the mobile phone market. TVs air programming streamed from the web (or from a PC in the next room), and soon they'll accommodate HD video Skype calls. All this digital convergence has to make you wonder: are there still digital channels, or is digital just becoming, well... just plain digital - a channel unto its multiplicity of selves? Devices just aren't specific anymore. You play games on your phone, surf the web on your TV, and watch TV on a wireless handheld device. Is it still talking "on the phone" if I "dial" via Google Voice on my Blackberry, or via Skype on my laptop?

Are you "watching television" if you're viewing an episode from your favorite series on Hulu, YouTube, or iTunes - and watching on a PC or tablet or even a phone? And will all this convergence make marketing simpler, or much more complex? Even CPG is suddenly going digital. Image credit: Syfy. 10 Smart Leadership Questions for 2010 | Under30CEO - Flock. If you’re like most business leaders, you spent much of 2009 feeling down and just about out—an often-inescapable result of the worst recession since the Great Depression. Odds are, you grappled with many new challenges, uncertainties, and “don’t want to, but have to” decisions. It was a difficult year—period. Now, 2010 is here, and in the earliest days of the economic recovery, it’s time to take the bull by the horns. Smart leaders will bypass the predictable New Year’s resolutions and, instead, start ‘010 with 10 essential questions: 1. The good news is, there’s no right or wrong answer. 2. No need for rose-colored glasses—just view a current challenge through a lens of opportunity. 3.

Be careful about sending the message that you need people to hear. 4. Be relentless about knowing and meeting that need. 5. New opportunities come from new relationships. 6. Skip the SWOT exercise. 7. Now more than ever, you can’t afford to overanalyze. 8. 9. 10. Name it—and claim it. 7% Of Marketers See Social Media ROI | DreamGrow Digital - Flock. Social Media ROI Comes From IOR | The Relationship Economy...... Everyone seems to be consumed with social media ROI. Yet this things we call social media is in a state of flux with ever changing advancements in methods, measures and intents. Trying to measure something in a state of flux is like trying to contain rushing water on a hill. Water moves around things and trying to contain it can be a useless effort. Water and Social Media are Fluid When you try and contain rushing water you can spend a lot of money and time downstream when the force of its current is upstream.

According to DMNews: Chief marketing officers will increase their spending on social media marketing next year and more often tie that spend to their revenue expectations and overall business goals. The research found that more than eight in 10 respondents (81%) expect to link up to 10% of their annual revenues to social media investment next year. Measuring ROI From Results or Root Causes? My neighbor‘s driveway was flooding every time it rained. eMarketer: 12 Digital Marketing Predictions for 2010 - Online Ma. eMarketer is one of the most cited resources for internet marketing trends, so when I received some tasty predictions for 2010, I thought they were too useful to keep to myself.

These insights include future monetization models, the effect of transparency on advertising, social and search, mobile, social commerce, public relations, social advertising, Twitter, video and mom/pop internet usage. Enjoy! Hybrid Plans that Combine Subscription Fees with Advertising More marketers will increasingly embrace online video advertising, supported by the twin boom of video streams and video ad networks. Further support for video ad growth will come from sites that offer a deeper catalog of professional video content—such as whole seasons of TV shows (both present and past), exclusives of entire sports events and other premium content.

Such offerings will attract larger audiences. From consumers, that will mean greater use of ad-blocking software or browser add-ons and more deletion of cookies.