After a couple of hectic (and disorganized...?) months in which I've been treading water on the Internet marketing front, the PipsPowerGroup has launched its second annual Summer Competition, which is like an hobnailed boot being applied with some celerity to my hind quarters.
Is it possible to be kicked up the backside while treading water?
Well, anyway, it is time to resurrect this blog and start reporting on my activities.
Actually, I am building a second affiliate marketing and mentoring website, but I'll keep it under wraps until it launches in September...
In the meantime, I'll focus on what I'm doing to promote and improve Grasp-the-Nettle.com over the six weeks of the Pips Power Group Internet Marketing competition.
Today's Activity:
3 x blog posts:
1. http://legitimate-work-at-home-busin...affiliate.html
2. http://www.grasp-the-nettle.com/blog...-it-works.html
3. http://whatididformyinternetbusinesstoday.blogspot.com/
(I bookmarked them on Google, and Mr Wong)
Posted 2 comments on digitalpoint forum:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showt...8#post11837765
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showt...9#post11796372
Posted 5 x comments on EvanCarmichael:
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Forums...p=22624#p22624
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Forums...p=22625#p22625
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Forums...p=22623#p22623
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Forums...p=22621#p22621
http://www.evancarmichael.com/Forums...p=22619#p22619
Commented on these blogs:
Tim Stokes
http://www.netbusinessdirect.com/blo...er#comment-208
Truby
http://www.trubyshomebiz.com/blog/re...nk#comment-142
Ros
http://www.wealth-city.com/blog/inte.../#comment-1792
Mark's Extra Money Ideas
http://www.cmbwealth.com/blog/2009/0...22696414582088
Leon
http://www.honestlyfreehomebiz.com/blog/
And one not on the list:
http://www.evancarmichael.com/blog/2...eo-university/
and retweeted the latter.
David Hurley
Best Internet Marketing Strategies
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Sunday, 26 April 2009
Online Article Marketing Newsletter Series Under Way...
Hooray,
At last, I began to write a series of article marketing messages for an auto-responder series that I've been meaning to get set up for several months now. The messages are designed to quietly promote my Online Article Marketing service.
I wrote seven messages today and that is enough to be able to start promoting the latest version of my sales page (with a sign up form included) on the traffic exchanges.
Apart from that I have posted a couple of blogs today, and bookmarked them:
1. http://www.grasp-the-nettle.com/blog/2009/04/how-to-for-stuff-on-twitter.html
2. http://legitimate-work-at-home-business.blogspot.com/2009/04/best-internet-marketing-strategies-for.html
David Hurley
At last, I began to write a series of article marketing messages for an auto-responder series that I've been meaning to get set up for several months now. The messages are designed to quietly promote my Online Article Marketing service.
I wrote seven messages today and that is enough to be able to start promoting the latest version of my sales page (with a sign up form included) on the traffic exchanges.
Apart from that I have posted a couple of blogs today, and bookmarked them:
1. http://www.grasp-the-nettle.com/blog/2009/04/how-to-for-stuff-on-twitter.html
2. http://legitimate-work-at-home-business.blogspot.com/2009/04/best-internet-marketing-strategies-for.html
David Hurley
Tuesday, 21 April 2009
What's been happening? Online Business Holiday Report
Well, I'm back from my holidays! Actually I've been back for over a month now!!
I'm still awaiting (with some trepidation) delivery of 26 boxes of books... I've cleared some space for them but still need to buy a couple of big bookshelves...
While I was away my online business ticked over.
1. SubmitYourArticle.com trickled out my article to keep new links pointing at my website and giving it fresh publicity.
2. The several hundred credits on various article exchanges kept traffic coming to my webpages and I made some sales off those.
3. Jeff Casmer's SFI coop did not get underway until after I returned, but that sent new leads into my online business funnel on my return, while I was still trying to catch up with other stuff.
4. I did not get so much opportunity to updated my blogs while I was away even though I had set up some articles for speedy publication.
5. Not so many people commented on my blogs while I was away either and I did not have much time to do any of the short and quick marketing stuff I mentioned in my previous post.
So, thank goodness for SubmitYourArticles.com and the traffic exchanges.
Finally, despite posting "Gone Away On Holiday" notices on my games shop site, I still got some orders. The customers were very patient and willing to wait for me to return and get back into the swing of things.
On my return I also had a lot of articles to write or modify for my "DPH-PLR article service" and that has kept my nose to the grindstone right up until now...
Holidays can be very disruptive... But we had a great time in England.
Now I have caught up, it is time to build momentum back into my online business...
David Hurley
Best Internet Marketing Strategies
I'm still awaiting (with some trepidation) delivery of 26 boxes of books... I've cleared some space for them but still need to buy a couple of big bookshelves...
While I was away my online business ticked over.
1. SubmitYourArticle.com trickled out my article to keep new links pointing at my website and giving it fresh publicity.
2. The several hundred credits on various article exchanges kept traffic coming to my webpages and I made some sales off those.
3. Jeff Casmer's SFI coop did not get underway until after I returned, but that sent new leads into my online business funnel on my return, while I was still trying to catch up with other stuff.
4. I did not get so much opportunity to updated my blogs while I was away even though I had set up some articles for speedy publication.
5. Not so many people commented on my blogs while I was away either and I did not have much time to do any of the short and quick marketing stuff I mentioned in my previous post.
So, thank goodness for SubmitYourArticles.com and the traffic exchanges.
Finally, despite posting "Gone Away On Holiday" notices on my games shop site, I still got some orders. The customers were very patient and willing to wait for me to return and get back into the swing of things.
On my return I also had a lot of articles to write or modify for my "DPH-PLR article service" and that has kept my nose to the grindstone right up until now...
Holidays can be very disruptive... But we had a great time in England.
Now I have caught up, it is time to build momentum back into my online business...
David Hurley
Best Internet Marketing Strategies
Friday, 13 February 2009
Keeping My Internet Business Alive While On Holiday
I'm taking my daughter to England for a couple of weeks and while we are away I won't have so much access to the Internet.
We'll be staying at my mother's place. One of my jobs is to clear her attic of my books and other stuff. 26 boxes of books, many of them hardbacks collected over the last 30 years, will be on their way to Japan. At last, after ten years, my library will be all in one place. Just hope I can find enough shelf space!
The following week, we are going to stay in at Blore Hall, an old house in the Peak District. The main hall of the house dates back to the 1400s. My daughter is excited at the thought of sleeping in a four-poster bed!
After that, off to Kent to see more relatives.
Did I call it a holiday??
===
Here's what I'm doing to keep my biz juiced up while I'm away...
1. Posted a couple of articles on Submit Your Article to be published over 30 days using "article trickle".
2. I have just assigned several hundred credits on various article exchanges to point at key webpages.
3. I just bought 6 shares in Jeff Casmer's SFI coop.
4. I have loaded one of my blogs with some plr articles that I can quickly modify and post any time I have 30 mins access to the Internet while away.
5. I'm going to head over to the PPG blog comment coop and post some comments.
===
While on holiday... any time I get on a computer will be spent doing the following:
1. Short blog posts.
2. Post (useful and relevant) comments on other people's blogs.
3. Occasional forum posts.
4. Twitter! <== the perfect 30 second marketing tool! (If you use Twitter, here's something that will get you followers without having to follow first! - http://tweetergetter.com/hirohurl
5. Placate games shop customers who didn't notice the holiday notices I posted on the site!!
===
David Hurley
Internet Marketing Success Strategies
We'll be staying at my mother's place. One of my jobs is to clear her attic of my books and other stuff. 26 boxes of books, many of them hardbacks collected over the last 30 years, will be on their way to Japan. At last, after ten years, my library will be all in one place. Just hope I can find enough shelf space!
The following week, we are going to stay in at Blore Hall, an old house in the Peak District. The main hall of the house dates back to the 1400s. My daughter is excited at the thought of sleeping in a four-poster bed!
After that, off to Kent to see more relatives.
Did I call it a holiday??
===
Here's what I'm doing to keep my biz juiced up while I'm away...
1. Posted a couple of articles on Submit Your Article to be published over 30 days using "article trickle".
2. I have just assigned several hundred credits on various article exchanges to point at key webpages.
3. I just bought 6 shares in Jeff Casmer's SFI coop.
4. I have loaded one of my blogs with some plr articles that I can quickly modify and post any time I have 30 mins access to the Internet while away.
5. I'm going to head over to the PPG blog comment coop and post some comments.
===
While on holiday... any time I get on a computer will be spent doing the following:
1. Short blog posts.
2. Post (useful and relevant) comments on other people's blogs.
3. Occasional forum posts.
4. Twitter! <== the perfect 30 second marketing tool! (If you use Twitter, here's something that will get you followers without having to follow first! - http://tweetergetter.com/hirohurl
5. Placate games shop customers who didn't notice the holiday notices I posted on the site!!
===
David Hurley
Internet Marketing Success Strategies
Monday, 9 February 2009
Sweating Towards Non-IM Deadlines!
How long is it since I last updated this blog?
Here I am working towards a deadline (15th Feb) to get various work-from-home contracts finished or up to date...
Very nice, but it takes time away from active promotion of my Internet business.
However, the year has started pretty well! Recruiting is up on one of my affiliate programmes (Empowerism.com) and four people have signed up to my article marketing service in the last week - that is even before I put out a proper sales page. Not bad.
I have managed to put out a couple of articles on Submit Your Article, and a little bit of blogging and forum participation.
Today I updated the front page of my website and blogged about changes to the Plug-In Profit Site now that budget web hosting is being offered through HostGator.
Oh, I have signed up to another webhost where I plan to move my other websites and set up a new affiliate website...
Also, I am planning a new affiliate support business with two of my Internet marketing colleagues, one based in America, the other in the UK. We are discussing it behind the closed doors of a forum website that they recently set up. Hush hush for now!
I'll be off on my holidays, taking my daughter to visit family in the UK from 15th Feb until early March. So there won't be much opportunity for Internet marketing during that period.
However, with "ArticleTrickle" loaded with a few articles, my online business should be fed and watered with new original content hitting the Internet on a regular basis while I'm away.
Not bad!
David Hurley
P. S. Check out the Plug-In Profit Site.
Here I am working towards a deadline (15th Feb) to get various work-from-home contracts finished or up to date...
Very nice, but it takes time away from active promotion of my Internet business.
However, the year has started pretty well! Recruiting is up on one of my affiliate programmes (Empowerism.com) and four people have signed up to my article marketing service in the last week - that is even before I put out a proper sales page. Not bad.
I have managed to put out a couple of articles on Submit Your Article, and a little bit of blogging and forum participation.
Today I updated the front page of my website and blogged about changes to the Plug-In Profit Site now that budget web hosting is being offered through HostGator.
Oh, I have signed up to another webhost where I plan to move my other websites and set up a new affiliate website...
Also, I am planning a new affiliate support business with two of my Internet marketing colleagues, one based in America, the other in the UK. We are discussing it behind the closed doors of a forum website that they recently set up. Hush hush for now!
I'll be off on my holidays, taking my daughter to visit family in the UK from 15th Feb until early March. So there won't be much opportunity for Internet marketing during that period.
However, with "ArticleTrickle" loaded with a few articles, my online business should be fed and watered with new original content hitting the Internet on a regular basis while I'm away.
Not bad!
David Hurley
P. S. Check out the Plug-In Profit Site.
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
What I haven't been doing for my Internet Business recently...
I've not been able to do much for my main Internet business just lately... I've been up to my eyes with "other stuff" such as:
* An unexpectedly large number of January orders over at Japanese-Games-Shop.com. This is despite the fact that I make hardly any effort to promote the site these days... Buying, packing, shipping, contacting clients etc all hoovers up precious time! I'm not complaining, though - honest!
* I'm right in the middle of a big "transcription" job for one of my colleagues at one of the colleges where I teach. I am wading through 12 90 minute interviews. My keyboard gets so hot under the pressure of extended speed typing that it starts to smoke and the keys begin to melt!
* Looking after my daughter while the Mrs disappears on echo technology conferences study conferences and stuff (at least that's what she says she's doing!)... Hanging out with my daughter is fun - I'm not one of those people who finds it easy to promote my website while entertaining my daughter!
* The usual round of teaching and consulting here in Hiroshima... Thank goodness the winter university term is drawing to a close. That will free up some time for me to get more done, although I'll be spending a couple of weeks of my free time holidaying in England and with only restricted access to the Internet!
* I have a lot of articles to write and modify for my long-suffering Internet marketing clients!
But, as MacArthur said in 1942... "I'll be back"!
Actually, I have managed to post a couple of articles to a couple of blogs, notably today's post about a book called How Obama Won
The other article was about modifying PLR articles: http://article-marketing-research.blogspot.com/2009/01/abc-of-modifying-plr-articles.html
David Hurley
Grasp-The-Nettle.com
* An unexpectedly large number of January orders over at Japanese-Games-Shop.com. This is despite the fact that I make hardly any effort to promote the site these days... Buying, packing, shipping, contacting clients etc all hoovers up precious time! I'm not complaining, though - honest!
* I'm right in the middle of a big "transcription" job for one of my colleagues at one of the colleges where I teach. I am wading through 12 90 minute interviews. My keyboard gets so hot under the pressure of extended speed typing that it starts to smoke and the keys begin to melt!
* Looking after my daughter while the Mrs disappears on echo technology conferences study conferences and stuff (at least that's what she says she's doing!)... Hanging out with my daughter is fun - I'm not one of those people who finds it easy to promote my website while entertaining my daughter!
* The usual round of teaching and consulting here in Hiroshima... Thank goodness the winter university term is drawing to a close. That will free up some time for me to get more done, although I'll be spending a couple of weeks of my free time holidaying in England and with only restricted access to the Internet!
* I have a lot of articles to write and modify for my long-suffering Internet marketing clients!
But, as MacArthur said in 1942... "I'll be back"!
Actually, I have managed to post a couple of articles to a couple of blogs, notably today's post about a book called How Obama Won
The other article was about modifying PLR articles: http://article-marketing-research.blogspot.com/2009/01/abc-of-modifying-plr-articles.html
David Hurley
Grasp-The-Nettle.com
Tuesday, 6 January 2009
SFI-TripleClicks.Blogspot.com Blog Launch!
Three or four short term contracts have been cutting into my Internet marketing efforts over the last few days...
Yesterday I took advantage of a cheap traffic exchange credits offer that came my way when somebody signed up to one of the traffic exchanges I promote. I pointed all the credits to four different pages on my main website: a splash page, front page, article writing services, and a splash page giving away Clickbank letter sets.
Apart from that I posted a few comments on the evancarmichael.com forum.
Today I have made a new blog, http://sfi-tripleclicks.blogspot.com/ and a new Squidoo lens, http://www.squidoo.com/tripleclicks.
I bookmarked the first blog post on about eight different social bookmarking sites and posted a note about it on the Pipspowergroup forum plus linked to it from a post on my main blog, http://grasp-the-nettle.com/blog.
David Hurley
Best Internet Marketing Strategies
Yesterday I took advantage of a cheap traffic exchange credits offer that came my way when somebody signed up to one of the traffic exchanges I promote. I pointed all the credits to four different pages on my main website: a splash page, front page, article writing services, and a splash page giving away Clickbank letter sets.
Apart from that I posted a few comments on the evancarmichael.com forum.
Today I have made a new blog, http://sfi-tripleclicks.blogspot.com/ and a new Squidoo lens, http://www.squidoo.com/tripleclicks.
I bookmarked the first blog post on about eight different social bookmarking sites and posted a note about it on the Pipspowergroup forum plus linked to it from a post on my main blog, http://grasp-the-nettle.com/blog.
David Hurley
Best Internet Marketing Strategies
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