Twitter getting a clue

Today I read about twitter implementing what they should have started off with initially. Advertisements. I know that you can only run an ad-free platform for so long before you have to start making money. It’s just too bad they had to wait this long to finally go about doing it. some of the small edits are as follows;

Following a large amount of users or following and unfollowing, or following and unfollowing the same users in a short amount of time

- Having a small number of followers compared to the amount of people you are following

- Updates that consist mainly of links.

- Large number of people who are blocking a particular user

- Posting duplicate content over a number of accounts

- Attempting to sell followers

- Posting multiple unrelated updates to a topic using #

- Sending large numbers of unsolicited @replies in an attempt to spam a service or link

It was only a matter of time before they figured out they need to MAKE money for this upcoming social network.

What do you think you’re going to start promoting on twitter now?

Losing Touch

Sometimes there are things that keep us distracted from what we’re intentionally trying to either finish or progress on. What I find myself doing sometimes is getting tangible with my tasks. Doing one thing on my sites sometimes I run into a problem where I stumble upon three or five other things that I find I want to do to my site. Although getting tangible on your mission is fine, keep in mind the original motivation should never be overshadowed.

When setting up multiple campaigns, make sure, even when distracted, that your site or landing page doesn’t lose its integrity. I’ve seen many people get so distracted from their original tasks that they lose focus and end up running a shotty campaign.

Just make sure you stay focused on your main objective. Take notes of any sites you stumbled on and go back to them later. Finish the one project/campaign and then move on to the next. You’ll not only be more productive, but your days will go by so much quicker having ‘more’ to do.

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…. Is Dead

How many times have we heard these dire words said in connection to some aspect of the internet?  When the first dot-com bubble burst back in 2001, people actually said “the internet is dead.”  Since then, we have heard that email, banners, paid content, and a host of other industry practices were dead.  But, do things really die in this industry, or do they change and evolve in new ways that we can’t always predict?  We can certainly debate this idea about many activities that have been declared DOA.  However, we can safely say that one marketing initiative once declared dead by many in the industry is very much alive.  A few years ago email marketing was certainly seen as being on its last legs.  Many marketers were so discouraged by their results that they decided to abandon the medium entirely.

As we all know today, email marketing is thriving, with marketers finding tremendous success with this medium.  Where many people saw only insurmountable challenges, others saw opportunity and found ways to get their emails delivered, opened, and responded to.

It wasn’t long ago that the search marketing industry was turned on its ear by algorithm changes made by various search engines.  Sites that came up on the first page in search results one day seemed to disappear the next.  Similarly to email, there were those who decided that the new environment was to difficult to navigate so they moved on to other marketing methods, rather than try to learn how to work within the new search landscape.  While others took the changes as a wake-up call to get their web pages more organized, cleaner, and more content oriented, realizing that they are providing information to the internet and not just buying traffic for their campaigns.  A few months after the new algorithms went into effect I, noticed search campaigns being geared more towards the pre-sale of an offer and web pages being more informative on the products they marketed.

Lately, I have been hearing that one field entries, including zip and email submit offers may be the next practice that is declared dead.  These types of campaigns have been around for some time, going through their own cycles of being saturated at some points, and fresh at others.  They have performed well for both search and email marketers, but have generated the most response in the incentive industry.  Today, we may be seeing some saturation with these campaigns, but that’s not to say that they are dead.

As with some of the other marketing practices that have been declared dead, innovation is the key to keeping these kinds of offers effective.  In looking at the number of affiliates who are marketing these offers effectively, I notice that many of them are not using incentivized sites or email.  Instead, they are thinking outside the traditional box and finding new ways to market these offers successfully.

The next time you hear that some marketing tactic is dead or dying, look at it as a potential opportunity.  When many marketers start walking away from a medium, those who persevere and find ways to overcome the challenges may just find even more success in the new environment

“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.” King Whitney Jr.