Landing pages are the shit. If you’re marketing online, buying media, etc…the landing page is your best friend. Whether you’re an etailer or direct marketer, or corporation if you have concrete goals for your SEM efforts landing pages pay for themselves over and over again.
Having worked on thousands of these pages for companies with budgets up to $500k/mo I have a good idea of what works and what doesn’t (although I still get it wrong a lot and only testing yields the final result). Now, for your benefit…here are the …

Craigslist is killing me!
Far and away, Craigslist is my favorite traffic source right now but damn they make it hard to get and keep ads live.
I’ve learned a lot since I started Craigslist posting. Craigslist is a world unto itself. This is a marketplace and the competition can be fierce. You’ve got other Craigslist marketers who go around flagging ads of competitors.
Not only that, Craigslist doesn’t like marketer like us. I understand, their business model works a lot like Googles. Google makes their money by providing the most relevant content …

Getting more traffic to your site is one of those perennial topics. Even though you may have seen a lot of these tactics there’s probably some good one’s you haven’t. Additionally, the fact is most of us simply don’t have time to do everything listed. That’s fine, you have to discover what works best for you and apply the 80/20 principle focusing on the best results for the least amount of time/effort/expense.
Getting traffic is going to cost you either in terms of time or money. There are still keywords you …

Taking credit card payments is an important part of most businesses. If you’ve got a new or unproven direct response business, diet pills, penny auctions, info products, etc… you probably fall into the high risk category.
Why, a number of reasons. A couple are…a lot of direct response businesses are poorly planned. They’re started by individuals very often on limited budgets, with mediocre products, and limited customer service. There’s seldom a plan for managing growth, and dealing with customer service to keep chargebacks down.
What ends up happening is customers get mad …

For anyone who works online you understand the loneliness of having friends and clients around the globe you rarely meet face to face with.
Tonight I had the great pleasure of having some drinks with someone who really knows how to make a deal. RL has run many networks over the years. Since 1995 he’s been running high traffic golf and tourism sites.
We spoke a bit about some of the deals he’s worked out and frankly, I was blown away. But…our conversation reinforced my feelings that all online efforts need supplementing …

In the past few months I’ve had the good fortune of working with a number of successful serial entrepreneurs; people who’ve built multi-million dollar companies and sold them or taken them public for tens of millions.
In our conversations I am always amazed with their similarity in thought and personality type. So similar in fact, I sometimes get confused with who I’m talking to. I remember saying to one of these individuals “wow, that’s so weird, this sounds almost identical to a conversation I had with another successful serial entrepreneur just …

Here’s a useful tip I thought I would pass along. If you have a blog or blogs you really don’t want comments on you can globally disable them in your database. Here’s how:

Open the CPanel in your hosting account of contact whoever handles your hosting if you don’t have CPanel.
Access PHPMyAdmin and locate the database you want to apply the changes (if no PHPMyAdmin ask your DB Admin to run the querry for you).
Select the “Query” tab from the top.
Enter the following code in the query box:
UPDATE wp_posts p SET …