smart's Gooruze Blog

What’s An Upsell?

smart — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:26:19 -0700

Since there are so many new marketers coming online in the last year, I thought it would be helpful to open the topic of upsells for fresh discussion. This is another ‘basic’ and well worn topic. The post below is an introductory post only and is not a formula for product launches. The up-sell works best [...]

Got Products to Sell?

smart — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:00:51 -0800

If you’re an internet marketer with digital content to sell you might also want to consider selling ‘rights’ to others as a way to generate some revenue. Selling rights (resale, master or private label) is another way to get some cash quickly into your pocket. Just be sure to sell, and promote tournoi poker casinosites de [...]

Solving Problems - Great Ebook Topics

smart — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:35:30 -0800

I still get emails every day from people who want to start an online business. I don’t mind - although our recent house fire has neutered my available time to assist somewhat - but most of the people who write are truly stuck, and therefore it is harder to help them. So as I sit here, [...]

My Teen Is Giving Marketing A Shot!

smart — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:29:01 -0800

If you look to the right on every page you’ll see my daughter and I - taken 5 years ago when I started this site.Time flies.Not such a little kid anymore, today she’s a strong and smart young woman. In fact she’s more than that - she’s my best buddy and my favorite travel companion. [...]

Harder Times Fall On Busy Niche Marketers

smart — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:32:59 -0800

This is a back-to-basics post for entrepreneurs too busy for Web 2.0 marketing…Is it me or is everyone seeing an increase of website owners looking for solutions to their decrease in traffic?It can’t be me.If you’re an internet marketing trainer or operate an internet marketing website I’m sure you’re getting more emails and blog comments [...]

Over 100 Marketing Ideas and Tips (free)

smart — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:03:28 -0700

56 pages. Muiltiple contributors. Varying markets. ISBN: 978-1-932-353-63-1 File size: under 1mg Load time: instant (downloading could take 2 minutes) About Marketing Wisdom for 2007 Yes, it has an ISBN #, yes it’s free, and yes it has many valuable marketing ideas - the majority of which are related to internet marketing and testing. Although compiled in 2006 (and much has changed in [...]

Off Site Feed Integration and Saturation Points

smart — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:59:34 -0700

October 17, testing the viability and traffic producing power of adding feeds to off site platforms such as gooruze.com

This technique worked well (and was worthy of the 2 minute set up) when I integrated my marketing feed into PlugIM, when I integrated my StumbleUpon feed into FaceBook, and I sure do enjoy the fact that [tag]Gooruze[/tag] is thinking ahead by only allowing bloggers or Stumblers to add feeds that they have personally generated. (hence the authorization within 5 days).

I will report back on this in a month's time, while I continue to integrate feeds from niche markets into more website properties - wondering, if there's a point of saturation. Howie doesn't seem to see any ill effects as he dominates the top 10 results in google, after all.

Repurposing Your Blog’s RSS Feed

smart — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:50:25 -0700

What’s this? smart.gooruze.com (read on to learn the specifics of this marketing technique) I’ve been out of the loop for the last few months as many of my regular readers know. Working on other projects and not wanting to fill up the world wide web with unnecessary ramblings. Today I want to share an internet marketing strategy [...]

Tough Love from the Big Guns

smart — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:31:57 -0700

Two of the best marketing trainers online ever (and since the early days of marketing online) also published some tough love this week (just like my rant a few days back): “…thereâ€™s something a little wrong with some of the wanna be entrepreneurs landing on my doorstep this month. More wrong than just believing the lie [...]

Web 2.0 Marketing - The Age of Authenticity

smart — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:42:32 -0700

They’re coming out of the woodwork now. People who want their own online business - whether for pocket change or to change their lives - and they’re buying up all the old $5 master rights ebooks on eBay. The ones that teach how to run an online business in your underwear and make a million dollars [...]

YouTube Going to the Dogs

smart — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:09:24 -0700

Just received an email from online marketing trainer Ken Reno regarding his brand new software including master rights and sourcecode. Software That Automates A Process Now usually I’m keen to sell this stuff, promote this stuff, use this stuff and make a few bucks off this stuff…. But it just smacks of auto-spam, like MySpace automation add-a-friend, that [...]

Web 2.0 Traffic Tag Team and A Strategy

smart — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:05:55 -0700

Okay so you already know that I spend a lion’s share of my time online reading, testing and reviewing products and strategies that pique my interest and sound viable. And that the thrill of Web 2.0 is what turns my eye. You may also know that I don’t post here very often unless I’ve found something [...]

2.0 Widgets Earn You Money

smart — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:41:33 -0700

You can add features to your blog that make viewing your site more interesting to viewers plus make you money at the same time. Introducing the Web 2.0 Widgets. Most of these easy-to-install widgets (small files of code) are available right now and free of charge at WidgetBox. For instance, the Revver Video widget allows you to [...]

Sharing the Revenue with Web 2.0 Video Sites

smart — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:22:33 -0700

A while back I talked about how to use video content to get more traffic, page rank and search engine positioning to your blogs or websites. Today I want to talk to you about using that same video content to earn money online. How much money? We’re not talking small-potatoes-split-the-adsense-click revenue stuff here. You could make up to [...]

Stop Using This Traffic Secret?

smart — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:42:06 -0700

Today I let the cat out of the bag about one of internet marketing’s best kept secrets…It’s a site that is in Alexa’s top 22,000 (which is a pretty decent place to be!) for traffic. As comparison, Dr. Joe Vitale’s website is only 32,000 and it’s been online about 10 years.The beauty of this traffic [...]

Brand New and Free Traffic Secrets

smart — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:36:59 -0700

Here’s a new traffic resource for you… But before I send you there, and since I never blindly recommend resources, there are a few things I need to tell you first - to ensure that your time is protected. I’m very protective of my time so you can bet I take the same considerations with yours! If [...]

Web 2.0 Authority Sites

smart — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:54:15 -0700

The next big thing that’s happening right now, is all around us… As Web 2.0 has finally arrived, the types of sites we need to create to reach our market or maintain our necessary traffic levels, has changed with the times. Our internet surfers are more demanding, much more savvy, and are predisposed to boredom. I strongly [...]

Psst…Wanna Buy A…

smart — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:57:48 -0800

I just found this and love it!It’s a little piece of javascript code you can put in your blog posts, on your sidebar, within your html pages, anywhere that you have put Google’s Adsense in the past and found they didn’t make you any money!What’s really cool is that the code (created by the server [...]

I Can’t Afford to Let You Fail at Your Online Business

smart — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:32:02 -0800

What's it going to take in the new Web 2.0 world to make a success of your business? Read on for informative links to building, understanding or getting traffic from this new breed of website.

Google and Dynamic URLs

smart — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:37:54 -0800

Yet another Matt Cutts video. This one talks about how Google ranks (and passes ranks to, from and throughout) dyanmically generated web pages versus static urls. Matt also briefly discuses the use of parameters and session IDs - the do and do not - to using them. This was a huge concern of mine when [...]