Today morning, I read this article titled “How Did I Double My Subscribers In a Week” by Caroline Middlebrook.
She’s fast becoming one of my favorite writers and bloggers, because she’s open, generous and frank about her data and results - not (yet?) having felt the urge or need to fudge facts and figures to fit […]

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Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!
Make what you will of it, but I’m going to speak my mind about this.
Let’s take a guy who makes, say, $10 million a year. If he works 40 hours a week, with 5 weeks off every year, he’s making a bit over $5,000 per hour. (If he’s […]

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That’s what it seems like - Steve at Vanderlay Design has collected an awesome set of articles spanning just about every aspect of social media marketing.
A word of caution, though - don’t go there if you are rushed for time… you’ll end up being stuck for quite a while as you explore the wealth of […]

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A few days back, I wrote a short list of 17 tips a beginner can use to get traffic surges from the social networking site StumbleUpon.
17 POWER Tips For StumbleUpon Beginners
The article itself was promoted using the tips it shared - and in 48 hours, over 700 people had read it!
Not surprisingly, there were questions […]

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04/29/2003 - 11/09/2007
That’s how long my association with the Internet Marketing Warrior Forum has lasted.
Regretfully, I decided today to put an end to the painful experience forum participation has become for the past few months.
Out of respect for the forum members who might feel it important to know the reasons for my decision, I came […]

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Dena tagged me - by asking me 5 questions someone had asked her, and which she answered on her blog.
Having just decided today to embark on a ‘November Social Media Challenge’ to boost traffic to my brand new Infopreneur Blog, I thought this would make a nice beginning… so here are my answers:
1. How long […]

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A comment I made on a thoughtful post at Doc Searls’ blog set off this line of reasoning.
It was about I.Q. (intelligence quotient) - and what it’s good for. Doc thinks it’s often (ab)used in way that’s harmful to kids. I feel it is indicative of potential.
In his 1983 book, “Frames of Mind: […]

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I’m a sort of anachronism in the areas I dabble in online.
While most people in the MMO-IM niche focus on technology triggers to tweak and enhance sales and responsiveness, I tend to view the human elements and work on them instead.
And where I see the focus on technological tools for social media being a focal […]

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Today’s big news story in Indian media was the state of Emergency declared in Pakistan.
This quote from the news report seemed apt to what I’m about to share -
“It comes down to one issue, said Ashok Mehta: control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. If extremist forces were to take power in Islamabad, or the country was […]

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I’m planning the next contest on this blog
The first contest I ran was fun.
No, it did not get 500 people participating. But then, if you’ve known me for a while, you’ll know I go for QUALITY, not sheer quantity.
And just about every ‘review’ people did of this blog was a piece of high quality […]

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