Blogging and Marketing

Please visit Marketing Charts to see full article, since we are a blogging site, I am super excited to place the full article. At the same time, we believe blogging and Social Networking are tied at the hip. click Here: Enjoy! Blogs Influence Consumer Purchases More than Social Networks The number of those who read blogs at least once a month has grown 300% in the past four years, and what they read strongly influences their purchase decisions, playing a key role in ushering them to the point of actual purchase, according to a BuzzLogic -sponsored study, reports Retailer Daily. “Harnessing the Power of ... Read Full Story

Last post was the part 1 of how social networking is a great alternative to email. This post and article by Eric covers why businesses need to develop social networking strategies for marketing and truely connect with their customers, rather than try to get a quick sale. Here is the article link and brief description from it: http://searchenginewatch.com/3632213 By Erik Qualman , Search Engine Watch, Dec 29, 2008 Columns | Contact Erik | Subscribe to Newsletters | RSS Feeds In our last article, we discussed how social networks are replacing e-mail – especially with Generations Y and Z. Yet, many companies fail to grasp ... Read Full Story

Well you all know that we started the free blog platform @ MyTypes.com to not only help people learn how to blog , but to help them SEO adding content through blogging regulary. We often read SearchEngineLand.com , along with many other great SEO resources such as iMediaConnection and the blog of SEOBook.com . We are always impressed by the age old strategy of teaching business people how to blog so that they can SEO their business and easily get top rankings on Google and MSN Live Search. As we write in our marketing book , we teach people how to blog with the ... Read Full Story

Pretty soon the FTC will start to crack down on false claims of Green. Here is an excerpt from a blog on this Green Guides by FTC and some legal interpertation of the law, link on the bottom: New ‘Green’ Ad Claim Regulations Coming Next Year In recent years, the Federal Trade Commission has pursued few cases alleging that companies have engaged in deceptive advertising in regard to claims about their “green” practices. But that could change to some extent next year. The FTC is re-examining its “Green Guides,” the primary tool in federal regulation of green advertising claims, originally released in 1992. The ... Read Full Story

A hot new ad product that sells keyword links on publisher site is hotly contested and violates Google policy. So be careful to sell links on your sites, don’t do it in my opinion. If you see all of the links to our sites, we SEO our clients or our own websites and provide relevant content in each area. For example, If I am going to link to the Keyword “ Heaters “, we own GreenIsBetter.org our heaters site. For the record, this is why setup a free blogs platform, we want you to write lots of blogs and give your self plenty of ... Read Full Story