Link Between Twitter & Criime??

Want to build yourself some fantastic FREE advertising on the Radio? Below you will find a report that I developed and wrote to capitalize on FREE Radio advertising!

Let’s start off in reality……. Yahoo, Google, MSN they all have a few things in common. Brand Recognition, Massive Traffic, and they do massive advertising. So now our dilemma, how do I, from my home office get the same kinds of "benefit" as the big boys?

One of our favorite activities, that takes a little time to set up, but no time at all to implement is Radio Advertising. That’s right, I said Radio! and it is FREE! Thousands of people a day listen to radio, every day either the traditional way, or streaming audio. This gives an individual thousands of chances to advertise their website, gain free traffic and improve Brand recognition, all with a single activity that is FREE.

Let’s talk about streaming audio. People listening to a radio station online are already sitting at their computer; people are also a curious creature. If they hear something new, or unique they WILL check it out! Since they are at their computer already, if the hear a new or unique web address; the odds are they will type it in & see what it is all about.

Now traditional listeners, if they hear the same new, or unique information they are highly likely to remember it, or jot it down, and investigate it later IF it easily remembered.

How does it work you are probably asking by now. Well almost all radio stations, on or off line accepts listener requests via email, the ones that don’t, accept them via a web-form. What we do is to compile a large list of these email addresses, and we sort these lists by genre (Rock, Rap, country, contemporary Etc.), and every day we request a different song from the staff of XWY.com, or whatever our web address is. We use our own auto-responder system to manage this list.

One drawback to this is the web-address. The web-address being promoted MUST be something easy to remember. This is crucial because people are receiving this information audibly, and you need it to be simple or they won’t remember it, thus won’t investigate.

If you were listening to the radio, and you heard a dedication from the staff of; http://www.InstantBuzz.com/index.php?i=7693.9f55f393 how likely would you be to remember the address?

What if you heard the same dedication from the staff at ShopWilson.com? See the difference?

Ok so you have a domain or address that is way too long, what do you do? We recommend the ShortURL service at http://www.shorturl.com ! The real benefit to this service is that you can control where the ShortURL address is directing traffic to, and it also provides some decent traffic reporting, and it is very reasonably priced.

The alternative to this is register a catchy domain name and either redirect it, or get yourself some hosting. This could allow you to use a single domain, but run many marketing campaigns.

Ok so we have established some needs;

A compiled list of radio stations that accept requests via email.
The fact that you need to separate this list by genre.
A catchy, easy to remember URL to pace the daily requests on behalf of. (Thanks from the gang at WinEveryDraw.com)

Now how do we accomplish this? We recommend first getting your catchy or shortened URL, then locating the radio stations. Below we have provided some URLS that we use to find the stations. There are Two phases to this advertising methodology, assembling your list of stations, and making daily requests.

Phase One:
We use the following web-addresses to locate the stations we want to market to. Most of these offer the ability to geographically target your audience like no other advertising available on the Internet, and remember it is FREE!

http://www.radio-locator.com (Our favorite)
http://www.virtualtuner.com
http://www.radiotower.com
http://www.webradio.com
http://www.radioparadise.com

The above are just a few of the sites available, we suggest you go to http://www.google.com and do a search for "online radio stations". At last check on Google, that search produced massive responses.

Please understand that it takes time to amass a large list, we will give you a hint, our daughters like music, so we taught them to locate radio stations, and save the station name/call letters, what kind of music, and the email address for requests OR the URL for form requests, thus multiplying our efforts! NOTE: It is important to record the station call letters AND their web address, you need to insert this information to personalize the song requests you send.

Some stations only accept requests via an online form. When we find stations like this, we save them in a Radio folder in our favorites, and visit / request these manually.

Phase Two:
Once you have a list assembled, we strongly recommend breaking it up into genres as mentioned earlier. The reason for this is you do not want to send a request to a contemporary music station to play Ozzy Osborne! What we have done is broken down the categories, and created separate lists for our mailer previously mentioned. This allows us to quickly send a blast to the list of each category, and they receive it as an individual email. Just think, as the list grows, you can advertise on a few hundred radio stations at the click of your mouse!

Making this a daily part of your marketing efforts will produce long term, positive results. As with anything else, it takes time and persistence to obtain the results you desire!

This activity is particularly attractive if your website you are promoting has a local appeal, We HAVE been very successful with this activity.

Tags: audio, free, promotion, radio, radio advertising, streaming audio

Are you a serious Blogger?

Posted by Admin on Apr 1, 2009 in On The "Net"

During one of my daily cruises across the internet, I ran across a blog Post from Matt Huggins. Matt has compiled a list of 55 Esential Articles that every blogger should read. They are SO good in fact I have decided to list them here for your reading pleasure.

I want to personaly thank Matt Huggins for this list, If you are not familure with Matt, Please Visit him at http://www.matthuggins.com/ ..

Thanks again Matt!

Blogging Basics: Getting Started

Can You Make a Living Blogging? (Graywolf SEO)
Five Beginner’s Blogging Tips (John Chow)
The First 7 Days of Blogging (Pronet Advertising)
Put on Your Game Face (Pronet Advertising)
How to “Announce” a Blog (Blog Traffic School)

Building Meaningful Content

How to Use Social News Aggregators as a Source for Content Ideas (Dosh Dosh)
5 Ways to Building a Better Blog (Pronet Advertising)
Bring Your A-game to Write for Blogs (Freelance Switch)
What Are You Learning from Leading Edge SEO Bloggers? (Graywolf SEO)
How Great Headlines Score Traffic (Copyblogger)
10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas that Work (Copyblogger)
Declaring War on Blogger Apathy (ProBlogger)

Increasing Traffic & Retaining Readers

How to Market Your Blog in 2007 (ProBlogger)
21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic (SEOmoz)
Five Steps to a Truly Unique Blog That Attracts Readers and Revenue (Copyblogger)
10 Simple Ways to Retain Blog Readership (Matt Huggins)
How to Get Traffic for Your Blog (Seth Godin)
10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers (Copyblogger)
How to Develop “Stickyness” to Your Blog (Blogging Tips)
A Very Simple Way to Increase Your RSS Subscribers & MyBlogLog Community Members (Dosh Dosh)

Linkbaiting, SEO, & Social Networks

12 Different Types of Links and How to Get Them (Stuntdubl)
101 Ways to Build Links in 2006 (SEOBook)
66 Ways to Build Links in 2007 (Brandon Hopkins)
Getting Noticed by A-list Bloggers vs. Getting on Digg Front Pages (Digital Inspiration)
Do You Digg This Headline? (Copyblogger)
Why Too Many Little Icons Can Easily Distract Your Visitors (Pronet Advertising)
How to Generate Targeted Site Traffic Without Search Engines (Scoreboard Media Group)
Linkbait, Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exagerated (Graywolf SEO)
SEP Advice: Linkbait and Linkbaiting (Matt Cutts)
Blogging SEO Basics (Matt Huggins)
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs (ProBlogger)
8 Simple SEO Tips for Blogs (JohnTP)
How to Enhance Your Blog’s SEO and Attract Relevant Traffic in One Easy Step (Technosailor)
Is it OK to Write for Digg? (Copyblogger)
Get Your Blog Out of the Google Supplemental Index (Not So Boring Life)

Building a Community

5 Simple Ways to Encourage Blog Participation (Matt Huggins)
10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog (ProBlogger)
10 Quick Methods to Increase Blog Comments (Legal Andrew)
Top 5 WordPress Plugins That Help Increase Comments (JohnTP)

Blog Monetization

8 Tips to Optimize AdSense Units (Daily Blog Tips)
Google AdSense Tips, Tricks, and Secrets (Graywolf SEO)
Why AdSense is Not Suitable for All Blog Topics (ProBlogger)
Make Money from Your Blog (Matt Huggins)
Six Powerful Blog Strategies that will Rapidly Increase Your Affiliate Referrals (Dosh Dosh)
10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on Your Blog (ProBlogger)
10 Ways to Make Your Blog More Attractive to Advertisers (ProBlogger)

Miscellaneous Blogging Advice

27 Lessons Learned on the Way to 3000 Visits a Day and 2200 RSS Subscribers (Pick the Brain)
10 Ways to Become a Better Blogger (TechRepublic)
101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger (LifeHack.org)
The 5 Deadly Sins of Blogging (Pronet Advertising)
10 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid (John Chow)
10 Reasons Why Blogging is Like Dating (Romance Tracker)
6 Lessons Britney Spears Can Teach You About Blogging (Kumiko’s Cash Quest)
Why Everything You Think You Know About Blog Architecture is Wrong (Pearsonified)
Help! I’m Addicted to Checking My Blog’s Stats! (ProBlogger)

Tags: blog, blogger, blogging, serious

Seth’s Blog: Sorry, you can’t be our customer

Posted by Admin on Feb 21, 2009 in On The "Net"

I found this to be a very good post!

Seth’s Blog: Sorry, you can’t be our customer.

Tags: customer, prospect

Social Information (That Don’t Suck)

Posted by Admin on Feb 8, 2009 in On The "Net"

For the past few days I have been wandering around and collecting websites that have compiled lists of resources of interest to those interested in Social Media and Social Media Marketing.

Below is The Best that I have found to share!

Social media Trader - 40+ Sites that writers can publish their works!

Social Media & SocialNeetworking Sites - A catigorized list, very helpful for Niche research!

48 Social News Websites - A List of General and Niche Social Media Communities!

Top 38 Niche Social Media Sites - (That Actually Send Traffic)!

Social Bookmarking Site for All Occasions - A good collection of social bookmarking sites!

125 Social Bookmarking Sites - Importance of User Generated Tags, Votes and Links!

83 Social News Sites - Categorized By Niche!

67 Foreign Language Social Bookmarking Sites Revealed - Increase your backlinks from unlikely sources!

50 Top Niche Social Media Sites - And Their Power Accounts!

19 Great Music Recommendation Sources - We be Jammin!

All the digg-style applications - The list !!!