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2007-08-12

How Poor Blogginh Habits Can Break The Success Cycle

How Poor Blogging Habits Can Break The Success Cycle

Are you a quasi-successful marketer, breaking the success cycle with poor blogging habits? Shall I be up front and personal? Poor blogging habits can break the success cycle you have been working so hard to create.

I'm cruising BlogEstates checking out some pretty darned good blog posts and shaking my head at some bloggers determined to break the success cycle with some pretty poor blogging habits. The list of blogs with posts dating back to last year as their most current post is growing. Now failure to post consistently has to lead the list of poor blogging habits.

Those blogs that no longer have current posts in them really grab the mind. Whatever is happening to these good people that they have overlooked the power of the blogs they started, never really getting them off the ground?

Have they found a secret we have yet to discover? Is there some new fantastic better way to keep up the all-important relationship building we know comes from good blogging?

Somebody please enlighten me?

The other thing that has caught my mind is some of the companies bloggers are promoting right up front and in your face. In your blog? Why are you using poorly planned direct sales techniques in your blog? You are leaving money on the table. Company material will sell your prospect once you have done your job of upselling the WiiFM values on your web site using a product recommendation, NOT posting it in your blog.

I gotta tell you, there is some backwards thinking going on here.

Since when do you buy a product and lambaste your people with it in your blog?

If your people are into promoting widgets, you surely do not want to push weight loss products in their faces now do you? You are most likely going to turn your readership off big time. More than that, you will not capture many names for your contact list this way.

Building your contact list is the second most important thing you want to do. Sure you want to continually build that contact list base. BUT stop the poor blogging habits. Do this sort of promotion on your web site.

The first and extremely important thing you should be doing is finding out all you can about your current downline of program subscribers as well as your target market and making sure they receive the kind of information and products that feed their needs.

Your Blog is first and foremost a relationship builder. A way to communicate mutual interests and needs with value content that helps build their business NOT yours.

Using the available tools that prevent poor blogging habits

What about TsunamiGold if your tastes it to learn how to use pay-per-click and your future intentions are adsense income streams?

Use Clickholics if you are an ffa fan. USe Viral Visitors or Viral Class Ads if you are a safelist or classifieds fan, or even a smart turn of a simple survey on your site.

If you do not have a clue about the current people in your subscriber base then you are batting 1000 for instant failure.

Are you getting a reality check here as to why your online business may be stagnant? Do you see how poor blogging habits can break the success cycle? Blogging is not difficult, it just requires a little common sense in how to use blogging to create a success cycle. If you are not that confident, then attend our blogging and winning courses and stop the poor blogging habits. Your business may depend on it.

Fran Klasinski
SEO Basics

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2007-08-04

Avoiding Spam Charges - Or Making False Ones

Avoiding SPAM Charges - Or Making False Ones

SPAM charges are a two way street. Knowing how to avoid them being made against you and your site and knowing when to issue one is paramount to good mailing habits. It is the experienced marketer who is trained in avoiding spam charges or making false ones. It is the inexperienced marketer or program hopping newcomer who is forgetful and ready to make false spam claims.

In general, spam is unsolicted bulk mailing. But NOT ALL bulk mailing is spam. Nor is all commercial mailings spam neither.

Mail must be unsolicted and bulk in order to be considered spam.

This is where you can get yourself in very deep and hot water. If you signed up for some nice freebie you just had to have, or subscribed to an ezine or newsletter, or joined a program or simply gave your name and email address out to fill in a survey, or loads of other equally interesting reasons, then you probably agreed to receive mailings from the originator and possibly even third party mailings as well.

Having a TOS (terms of agreement), a privacy link and a contact us button somewhere on the site with the form you filled in, is part and parcel of the spam acts of most countries, NOT just the United States.

Your failure to read these links BEFORE you sign up can be the very reason you are inundated with what you may thinks of as spam. If they were not there for you to check out this opportunity properly, then why did you subscribe?

If by design or oversite, your subscription encouraged these mailings, then your recourse is simple ... unsubscribe.

Opt-in is email that an individual requested or agreed to receive. Many legitimate mailers use opt-in methods for marketing. Individuals are responsible for reading and understanding a company's privacy policies and acceptable use policies (if applicable) before submitting an email address. If a privacy or acceptable use policy clearly states that signing up for the service results in receiving marketing or commercial email, then the individual has "opted-in" to receive email and that email is not spam.

Individuals also implicitly opt-in for email regarding a purchase or transaction.

Do be careful on learning how to avoid SPAM charges, or go about making false ones

Fran Klasinski
SEO Basics

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