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		<title>The Uncomfortable Fact Concerning Twitter Advertising</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Yeager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oftentimes, when talking about Twitter advertising, it is not a good idea to think of it in isolated terms. Online entrepreneurs have all heard about utilizing Twitter. For the most part marketers have at the very least tried to take &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thewestprogram.com/blog/633/the-uncomfortable-fact-concerning-twitter-advertising/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oftentimes, when talking about Twitter advertising, it is not a good idea to think of it in isolated terms.</p>
<p>Online entrepreneurs have all heard about utilizing Twitter. For the most part marketers have at the very least tried to take advantage of Twitter. A bonus that can save you time would be to automate repetitive everyday jobs. In addition there are plenty of Twitter applications which have come and left. Many marketers follow lots of people as a tactic. We will chat about following other Twitter folks on a mass scale and clarify why that may not be the top tactic.</p>
<p>In the beginning, it seemed like a good tactic to obtain as many followers as feasible. The hypothesis was much more followers would allow you to reach more leads in your niche. In theory masses of folks would send back the favor and follow you. It was simple to suppose that a mass of followers would respond like a targeted email list. Soon it grew to be apparent there was &#8220;a fly in the ointment.&#8221; Loads of marketers rapidly discovered how untargeted that list of followers might be.</p>
<p>We trust that what you&#8217;ve found out to date on the topic of <a href="http://www.brendandobbeson.com" target="_blank">internet marketing</a>, and moreover also the information regarding your <a href="http://www.startingupaninternetbusiness.com/" target="_blank">online business</a>, is useful for your requirements. Please do keep reading below to get additional insights regarding this subject.</p>
<p>A natural movement was for intelligent web developers to begin building automation tools to follow folks in huge numbers very quickly. Twitter is not about quantity but quality of interactions. Twitter is one of the more special types of social and relationship marketing platforms. When mass following didn&#8217;t succeed, it was time to try another approach. How many folks can you realistically maintain a special relationship with on Twitter? It truly is impossible to do that and be successful with building relationships.</p>
<p>Inadequate campaign results on Twitter confirm this to be true. Perhaps the best word to depict what goes on at Twitter, for most folks, is apathy. Assuming your thousands of followers are interested in you is just crazy. In real life it can be difficult for two folks to develop a relationship of any kind. Trying this with thousands of folks on the internet is simply nuts.</p>
<p>You can now appreciate why I recommend the opposite tactic. &#8220;Less is more&#8221; when it pertains to designing your Twitter advertising tactic. The secret meant for you is to only follow those who you are really interested in. If you&#8217;re not genuinely interested, don&#8217;t follow that individual. You will discover your Twitter experience is far different when you engage folks in that manner. You will also discover that your followers will grow when folks see this happening with you.</p>
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		<title>Top Local SEO Strategies For Small Businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Yeager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Search Engine Optimization there is always one area that seems to lose a little focus. I&#8217;m not saying that your online marketing campaign has completely ignored your local audience, but rather I&#8217;m discussing about the one &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://thewestprogram.com/blog/589/top-local-seo-strategies-for-small-businesses/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> When it comes to Search Engine Optimization  there is always one area that seems to lose a little focus.  I&#8217;m not saying that your online marketing campaign  has completely  ignored your local audience, but rather I&#8217;m discussing about the one important method of local search that hasn&#8217;t been fully realized for your business. &nbsp;</p>
<p> I&#8217;m here to help ease your local marketing woes a bit by providing a few steps on increasing your reach towards those customers close by, while helping patch up your local business listings to a greater SEO apex.  Let&#8217;s get started! </p>
<p> The first process to tackle is finding what makes your local audience tick, or simply put, how they search for products like yours.  You get to the mountaintop of local SEO by nailing down you geo-targeted keywords, which in turn make it easier for the search engines to attach your anchor texts with the search results of you local consumer. After researching with the help of either Google AdWords or popular tools like Word Stream, you&#8217;ll capitalize on what your audience likes best with relation to your services and go from there.   Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re a New York hot dog corporation on down to a Kansas City marketing firm, you&#8217;ll want your keywords to be tied close by the city or state and end up being something similar to this with the anchor text: <a title="Marketing Kansas City" href="http://www.adcuda.com" target="_blank">Marketing Kansas City</a> . </p>
<p>Next order of business: improving your online business listing. &nbsp;First you&#8217;ll need to focus on multiple factors with your listings, and visit popular sites like Yelp, City Search, Best of The Web and more to make sure your listings are current and have the necessary information for consumers to get a hold of you.   After you&#8217;ve established a number of updated, sparkling business listings, you may be rewarded with a citation that not only deems your listing and business as relevant, but you may get a faster push up the rankings ladder in the process.</p>
<p> Once you&#8217;ve finished updating each listing, you&#8217;re free to bask in the fact that you&#8217;ve set up the potential for better local exposure. &nbsp;Now it&#8217;s off to the other exciting parts of your <a title="SEO" href="http://www.adcuda.com/what-we-do/" target="_blank">SEO </a>.</p>
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		<title>Raising Your RSS Feed Subscriber Numbers More Easily</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Yeager</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Making your blog successful is a combination of various  factors, and getting RSS subscribers to your feed is just one of  them.  When  you can entice people to subscribe to your RSS feed, you have the  benefit of getting them back to visit your blog regularly. This article will delve into some ways that you can  raise your RSS feed subscriber numbers.</p>
<p> As we have just  mentioned, &lt;a  href=&#8221;http://coenmayes.com/reviews/fast-cash-commissions/fast-cash-commissions-review&#8221;&gt;fast  cash commissions&lt;/a&gt; is something that cannot be  dismissed &#8211; or at least should never be ignored. It can be  difficult to cover all possible scenarios  simply because there is so much concerned. So we feel this is just an excellent time to take a  break and assess what has just been covered. We are highly confident about the  ability of what we offer, today, to create a difference. The last outstanding areas for  discussion may be even more important.  Start a Long Series: When people read blogs, they look for in-depth  information that isn&#8217;t readily available elsewhere. No matter what niche your blog is in,  your visitors need a reason to think that subscribing to your RSS feed  is a good idea, or something that would make them want to be informed  about the next time you post. Many popular blogs will release  series of posts from time to time, that are sequential posts designed to  really expand on a topic and usually link to each other. Your readers will immediately know you have plenty of  information to offer, so they&#8217;ll want to come back to learn the rest of  what you have to say. Break up your original idea into  several posts so they form a series that readers will need to come back  to read the next. If you  get it right, you&#8217;ll see the benefits almost immediately. You&#8217;ll have more people subscribe to your RSS feed to stay  updated about the next post! Use a Little Humor: Life&#8217;s hectic and serious for the most  of us and a lot of people logon to the Internet to have a light-hearted  moment and feel better. Consider adding something a little  funny when you add your call to action for people to sign up for your  RSS feed to encourage a higher response. You  don&#8217;t have to do this through all of your posts, but it might be a great  idea to add something fun when you ask people to subscribe. That little light-hearted touch will go a  long way. Add  something amusing or weird at the end of a blog post to entice readers  to subscribe to your RSS feed. Just use a little common sense when using this approach.</p>
<p> Keep Tabs on Your Feed: Discovering that your blog&#8217;s RSS  feed isn&#8217;t working because there&#8217;s a technical issue or broken link is  not all that uncommon. You need to keep your eyes on  your feed to ensure that it continues to function properly because when  you don&#8217;t do that you might be losing lots of people who are trying to  subscribe to you.</p>
<p> This doesn&#8217;t mean, though that all of your attention needs to be  focused on this single thing, periodic checking in should be  sufficient. Beyond that, having a feed with a broken link (or something in the  same vein) can get you labeled unprofessional and cause people to  unsubscribe to you entirely. You simply cannot control or  predict how the readers might react so you need to make sure that you  are offering them as smooth an experience as humanly possible. </p>
<p> Any blog owner hoping to achieve success can reach this  by focusing on increasing the number of RSS feed subscribers they have,  so make this a high priority.</p>
<p> The above is only a modest slice  from the total as it concerns&nbsp; &lt;a  href=&#8221;http://coenmayes.com/reviews/commission-commando/commission-commando-review&#8221;&gt;commission  commando&lt;/a&gt;. As usual, you can increase your  efforts when your knowledge is more comprehensive and  deeper. What we will do is go into much deeper are more  refined points that will give you a greater  comprehension and more benefit.  One thing  to bear in mind is you have to view it against your  special needs, and that is why we offer it.</p>
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		<title>Get Targeted Traffic and Organic Search Engine Listings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Yeager</dc:creator>
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<h2>The mystery that seems to be &#8220;plaguing&#8221; the internet is&#8230;</h2>
<h3>&#8220;How do I get more traffic and generate more sales in my  			internet business?&#8221;</h3>
<p>It&#8217;s actually not a mistery, more of a misguided rumour of what  			is needed, and the proper approach to getting the results you will  			NEED, instead of what you THINK you need.</p>
<p>You need to know how to use unique content to get traffic to your  			website to make more sales and get search engine listings for a more<br />
targeted list of customers.</p>
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		<title>Tips for Marketing Pizza and a Dancing Chicken?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Yeager</dc:creator>
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By far, this has to be one of the most original marketing schemes that I&#8217;ve seen on a sidewalk outside a pizza joint. In dire economic times, it&#8217;s important to be creative with your marketing. From the guys that flip the signs next to highways, to the folks who dress up in funny costumes outside the Liberty Mutual storefronts, none of them could possibly compare to the dancing chicken outside Domino&#8217;s Pizza in Missouri. </p>
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<p>If you have an interesting marketing stunt that YOU are pulling for your business, shoot a video of it and I&#8217;ll be sure to publicize it on our blog. Let me send some traffic to you&#8230; for being creative and original in your marketing. Here&#8217;s the deal:</p>
<p>You must have a unique spin to your marketing</p>
<p>You have to have a REAL business, no rediculous <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_fraud" title="Internet fraud" rel="wikipedia">internet scams</a> or money schemes</p>
<p>&#8230;and&#8230; you MUST post the video to You Tube and email me the link where I can see it.</p>
<p>If you have it in you to be a creative <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur" title="Entrepreneur" rel="wikipedia">entrepreneur</a> and you got the guts to beat the chicken, simply post a comment below with your video link and I&#8217;ll write and article around the video and publicize it for you. By the way, be sure to post the link to your website or your business information in the description area of your YouTube video.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to be chosing the top 5 videos to market and drive traffic to!</p>
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		<title>What Makes an Internet Mentor Throw in the Towel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob Yeager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funny, I never really thought I would be writing this post... but, if what I have to say is important to you, read further and enjoy the videos. You likely won't see an email from me in the future and there definitely won't be anymore free rides and I'll explain what that means in a moment.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Funny, I never really thought I would be writing this post&#8230; but, if what I have to say is important to you, read further and enjoy the videos. You likely won&#8217;t see an email from me in the future and there definitely won&#8217;t be anymore free rides and I&#8217;ll explain what that means in a moment.</p>
<p>So, what could make an internet mentor, someone who truly cares about the success of others throw in the towel? Simply put, lack of perceived value and no regard for other peoples&#8217; commitments to you. Now, this isn&#8217;t necessarily directed toward YOU, but it is directed toward those who are more concerned about their own personal gain than they are with respecting the time and effort that others have contributed to them.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve goofed a few times in my internet career. Not finishing clients&#8217; projects on time has been an issue, doing to much to offer more to my subscribers while spending less time with my family and not cutting people off when they were becoming bottom feeders and wasting my time, just to try to find that &#8220;magic bullet&#8221; that would make money gush out of their computers.</p>
<p>Recently, one of my students said that they were losing faith in me. Hmmm. I was told that I wasn&#8217;t teaching enough. I was told what I needed to do and what they expected. I&#8217;ve been hit with a few demands and consistently work on fulfilling my commitments. Sometimes though, I wonder if people from the other end are looking at the commitments they are getting from me.</p>
<p>Take for example. From January of 2008 to July of 2009, I&#8217;ve released over 200 hours of free video lessons that gave enough content to make a homeless man rich. I&#8217;ve written close to 1300 hundred articles teaching even more and I&#8217;ve broadcasted <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentorship" title="Mentorship" rel="wikipedia">mentoring</a> sessions live, my live radio show coaching and had one on one mentoring sessions, all for free, for the past 2 years that range up to 700 hours.</p>
<p>I have written close to 1600 blog posts coaching people in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_development" title="Personal development" rel="wikipedia">personal development</a>, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_marketing" title="Internet marketing" rel="wikipedia">internet marketing</a> and many other topics with the hopes at helping others to enhance their quality of life. During that time, I&#8217;ve been asked to give people scholarships into my high end <a href="http://http://www.TheWESTProgram.com/west.html">coaching programs</a>, give discounts, make payment arragements, give products away for free or to just spend my TIME for free with them with no regards of what effect that would have on my business, my time or my family.</p>
<p>Effective immediately. No more free rides, no more discounts and absolutely no more of ME allowing others to waste my time. I am focusing my time on my <a href="http://www.TheWESTProgram.com/west.html">World Entrepreneur Success Training Program</a>, <a href="http://www.ewebmarketingmanagement.com">eWebMarketingManagement.com</a> and my clients&#8217; projects. I will continue with my <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_market" title="Niche market" rel="wikipedia">niche marketing</a> and will not allow myself to attach to my subscribers. I made a promise to myself, back in early 2007 that when I found the way to succeed online that, I would teach others to do the same&#8230; until people began to take advantage of that kindness and began to not hold themselves accountable for their own success.</p>
<p>That time has come and I am currently clicking on the delete button on my mailing list.</p>
<p>My <a href="http://www.TheWESTProgram.com/west.html">WEST</a> students will only receive <a href="http://www.TheWESTProgram.com/west.html">WEST</a> updates from my support responder and&nbsp; any new subscribers can expect regular product promotions from me that will provide them with solutions. Here&#8217;s the thing, I don&#8217;t sit here and type away on a computer all day and record videos, spend hours in post production and send out countless pieces of unique, quality content for my health. I&#8217;m in business to succeed and provide CUSTOMERS with value. Not to give away that which is precious to me&#8230; i.e. my time and my products.</p>
<p>Anyone who can respect that , feel free to enroll in <a href="http://www.TheWESTProgram.com/west.html">the WEST program</a> at <a href="http://www.TheWESTProgram.com/west.html">http://www.TheWESTProgram.com/west.html</a></p>
<p>If this offends anyone, I&#8217;m not sorry&#8230; I&#8217;m glad that I&#8217;ve been able to helps so many people and that they continue to contact me and tell me about the amazing results and benefits that they gain from what I have taught them.</p>
<p>By the way, below you will see one last internet marketing lesson video from me. It&#8217;s 64 minutes of solid content about <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization" title="Search engine optimization" rel="wikipedia">SEO</a>. Recently someone told me that I didn&#8217;t teach an SEO section in the WEST program. Well, I did&#8230; but it would take for someone to understand that SEO is literally EVERYTHING that you do online&#8230; and those who spend their time JUST teaching SEO is WASTING YOUR TIME!</p>
<p>I hope this and the many other pieces of content I have on the internet are helpful to you and I truly feel sorry for those who chose to ignore the email that I sent about this post&#8230; because that is the last email they will receive from me.</p>
<p>Take care and good luck in all that you set out to accomplish. I wish you all the best and that you continue to grow. For those of you who wish to become successful online but don&#8217;t want to do any work, who doesn&#8217;t want to implement strategies and pay for marketing material or advertising&#8230; there&#8217;s an easy way to remedy that problem&#8230; log off the internet and don&#8217;t open another internet marketing course ever again.</p>
<p>Of course you could waste your time with adsense and writing articles for pennies and dollars if you&#8217;d like&#8230; it&#8217;s up to you.</p>
<p>Sincerely</p>
<p>Bob Yeager<br />
Founder of <a href="http://www.TheWESTProgram.com/west.html">The World Entrepreneur Success Training Program</a></p>
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