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August 24th, 2007...
Hi everyone, I've been working out of town this past week so the marketing week in review was kind of delayed. I guess it's better late than never so here goes...
If you're new to Active Rain, check out a recent post by Jo-Anne Smith titled A Post For Tim and All Other ActiveRain Newbies (and maybe some 'Oldies' too). It's a great primer on getting started on AR and jam packed with useful info, tips and ways to connect with other Rainers.
Also, some great food for thought was provided in TLW's The Future Is Made Of Virtual Insanity...Or Not...ROAR! If you're doing business online, networking, blogging or just about anything else, check it out, think about it.
The idea of the week goes to Melissa Grant for her short, to the point post about how to get your letters opened in Tip for getting more People to Read your letters ! Anyone familiar with marketing guru Gary Halbert will recognize this technique and it's a great lesson for those who aren't aware of the live stamp, white mail school of thought when doing any kind of direct mail.
In no particular order, here are some of the outstanding marketing posts from the past 2 weeks...
- Learn To Be Your Biggest Fan....Self Promote! by Midori Miller
- Have you met your local real estate reporter? Building media relationships by Bonny Puckett
- M-O-S-T Marketing to Increase Your Effectiveness by Margaret Woda
- Tapping into free tools & marketing! Great resources are out there! by Melissa Wagner
- Another Free Marketing Tool.... by Skye Hawk
- Beef Up Your Business...Sell More Real Estate!!! by Midori Miller
- A Different Type of Site Map - A Site Map of The Mind! by Bobby Carroll
- Make $1M with your IPOD! by Joe Manausa
As always Brad Carroll contributed more outstanding info to help us improve our website search engine rankings with his post See Your Site Through The Eyes of Google and Optimizing Your Active Rain blog for Visitors and Search Engines (Part 2) Do I have to tell anyone that this is essential reading???
While on the topic of technology, another very helpful post on how to use widgets in your blog was this detailed and well written gem Widgets: How to Add Them to Your Blog by Brad Andersohn
special mention
This week's special mention goes to Calie Waterhouse of Decorated To Sell for her post Taking Blog Action Day & Making It Green - Do we really care? If you haven't heard about Blog Action Day coming in October and if you care about the planet, check it out. It's a very cool idea and such a simple way for all of us to make a difference.
As always, the blogs I mentioned above are just a few of the many stand out ideas that were posted in the past few days. Have a great week everyone and thanks again for sharing your ideas, knowledge and opinions.
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Marti, wonderful week in review, as always. Thanks ever so much for the mention of my newbie post...I greatly appreciate it and hope it helps more newbies by being included here. (((-:
So much excellent info included in the links you've given .....my reading material for the coming week (and I've just returned home with 11 non-fiction books from the library, so I guess my spare time this week is spoken for ...lol). I haven't read a lot of these posts and I know I will like them all (and likely end up bookmarking them all)...anything you recommend always turns out to be great and very helpful.
Bookmarked and fived......
Thanks a bunch.
Jo
Marti... thanks for sharing these. It looks like I haven't read one of them as of yet. So I have my work cut out for me.... thanks and nice job.
Thank you for the great list. I have missed some posts on the list .I will bookmark this and read them later.
Marti...
I sooo look forward to these. This place is really hard to keep up with nowadays. Really hard. Your reviews help me immensely.
By the way...That study is fascinating and has not helped me keep up with AR. However, I sure have learned a lot about people who hang in the cyberworld :)
We have not gotten much action on the study...We have decided it's because some people don't want the truth, think they are above the truth or "they can't handle the truth" :)
TLW...ROAR!
Hey Marti, love your posts. They help me catch up with what's been going on. I've been busy w/gchildren and will soon be free to enjoy AR once again. I really like the new photo. Is that you? :-) I like it better than the other one.
Teri... hi stranger, I was wondering where you were, it's been a long time since I've seen you post. Nice to see you back in the rain.
FYI, the pic is from one of my photographs titled The Inner Child. Glad you like it. Later...
COL...(Chuckle On Line) ...
That was Jack Nicolson :)
I'm saving my Cruises for another comment :)
TLW...ROAR!
Hey Marti ~ I'm a little slow, so sorry for showing up late. First - great new pix - really like the creativity of it. It's looks mysterious and inviting all at the same time. Thanks for the mention of my blog - I hope it helps create awareness of what's going on around us.
I'm also going to echo so many of the comments above - thanks for the reviews. In the blur of my week gone by, I appreciate your time and effort to point out some posts that perhaps will make my world a little brighter (or a little easier). Thanks a bunch! - Calie