The first thing I’ll say is that nobody can’t say they didn’t know this was coming, Google told us it was coming, blogs like this one told you it was coming (http://mjthompson.net/1451/google-algo-changes-is-seo-dead/  I even mentioned it in the 2nd paragraph) and it’s happened too many times in the past for anyone to think it wasn’t going to happen again.

I ended a blog post last week with the line..  Play by Google’s Rules Or play By your Own.

The problem about playing with googles rules is that they generally change, although not as much as you might think. Google have always said that you shouldn’t partake in link building programs , we just choose to ignore that bit of advice and now google have done something about it.

So how do you play by your own rules?

I’ve talked about this a lot in the past month but a lot of it bears repeating, Cut google out of the loop and focus on generating traffic to your site via other methods.

You can do that in a number of ways.

 1 Build a list 

When you have a list you can tell people when you have writhed a new post or have something important to tell them.  I bet the vast majority of people reading this post came here as a result of an email i wrote or a blog broadcast…  See it works   My Rules 1- Google 0

2 Comment on relevant sites

As soon as this post is published I’ll be going to several good blogs in the IM niche and commenting on their latest posts. By choosing sites that use the comment luv plugin i’ll get the link to this post displayed in the comment. If my comment is relevant and of good quality most blog owners will publish it.

This has 2 effects, 1 people see my link and come here to check out the post I also get a link back to my blog.

Thats more traffic that I don’t need google for  My Rules 2 – Google 0

3. Write Guest Posts

Find blogs in your niche and offer to write a guest post for them,  I had 7 guest posts submitted to various blogs last week , once again thats traffic and links

My Rules 3 – Google 0

 4. Reach Out to Others in Your Niche

If you see a good blog post as well as commenting on it write a reply on your blog and quote the original article. If you see a video on YouTube do a response video.  Be active in your niche, I talk to people on Skype several times a week about whats happening in several niches i am active in. Most people would regard these as competitors i regard them as allies (we all know who the enemy is!).

My Rules 4 – Google 0

Thats 4 simple methods you can use to cut google out of the loop I am sure you know more so let me know what you do in the comments..

You really don’t need Google, seriously this is not just marketer bullshit, with a plan and some focus you can bypass google. One of the members in WPG had a $700 last week and google had no input into that whatsoever.  I know people who generate 5 figure incomes every month and don’t even consider google for a minute.

Try It!!

 A quick announcement..

I mentioned recently that I am having a get together in London in a few weeks time, you are more than welcome to attend, I plan to have a few drinks on friday May 11th and also have a bit of a brainstorming session about what people should be doing in the light of googles recent changes.  Although there will be several big name markers present on the evening, it’s totally informal & totally free.

If you’d like to meet up for a drink send an email to  londongathering@aweber.com and i’ll let you know  where and when as soon as the plans are finalized.

That’s the same weekend as the Warrior Gathering In London I can highly recommend it (apart from the fact I am doing one of there sessions there).  I get the impression that people think it’s all going to be all about WSO’s it’s not!

It’s going to be  about building a business and showing you how to do it the right way… it’s also a no Pitch event!  http://warriorgathering.com/   you can check out the list of speakers and topics on that page.

Seriously if I wasn’t speaking i’d go just for the networking aspect, these events very rarely happen in the UK so make the most of it, I guarantee you won’t regret it..It’s even tax deductible!  (ok I am not a tax lawyer or an accountant and that might complete tosh!)

The price has recently gone up but as one of the speakers I can pull some strings and get you a link for tickets at the original price (50% of the current price) If you’d like to go then let me know and i’ll hook you up with a link.

Have a great week

The first was a post in the WordPress Goldmine Forum by one of our long term members Paul Nichols who pointed out a fiver gig that offered to sent 67,000 poor quality links to your competitors.  (probably the same gig that offered to send you 67,000 quality links before the last algo update!)

I know what you are saying…. Google says that competitors can’t harm our rankings.

Do they ?  Really?

Read this from the same thread

Just so that’s clear: A competitor CAN build crappy backlinks to your website, and hurt your rankings. And Google now admits this.
Look how google have adapted there guidleines:

 

“Can competitors harm ranking?

 

There’s nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you’re concerned about another site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the webmaster of the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on the web; we don’t control the content of these pages.”

 

Then, in November, it got “slightly” modified… just a TINY fraction too:

 

“Can competitors harm ranking?

 

There’s ALMOST nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you’re concerned about another site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the webmaster of the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on the web; we don’t control the content of these pages.”

Wow, what a difference one word can make! So hang on, saying “almost nothing” means “can”, no matter which way you spin it.

 

Then on March 14th, they caved.

 

“Google works hard to prevent other webmasters from being able to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you’re concerned about another site linking to yours, we suggest contacting the webmaster of the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on the web; we don’t control the content of these pages.” -http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356

 

In case you missed it, the key difference is in that first line:

From “nothing” to “almost nothing” to “perfect political answer”

 

Now do you think that a competitor can’t harm your rankings?

With gigs like that available on google you really had better not be relying on Google for your traffic. Google is no longer a search engine they are an advertising agency with shareholders, 2 things matter profit and the war to stay bigger than Facebook. That means like every war there will be collateral damage and thats us and our sites.

So whats the alternative?

Well one alternative is BRANDING…

Jonathan Leger pointed out in a post over the weekend that many people go directly to Amazon when they look for a product rather than Google.

Well, my friend, Google is only sending your site “walk-in” business. It’s your job to convert those walk-ins into long-term, repeat customers. Do that enough times and it won’t matter if the search engines got shut down by the government. You’d still be in business, because you have a brand. People would still be typing your domain name into their browsers’ URL bars, and you would be fine. Your revenue might take a hit (as would Amazon’s), but your business wouldn’t shut down. Source

Until last year I thought my biggest screwup in IM was not building a list sooner, I was wrong about that as well , my biggest mistake was not branding myself sooner. (not literally!)

I actually mentioned this in a forum chat and branding expert Martin Jelsema replied

“Mark: You’ve been branding all along, you just weren’t in control of it, and it may have not been consistent, unique or compelling. Now you’ll make branding work for you!”

That my friends is the key!  Everything you do online can add to your brand but you need to be focussed,  You need to be consistent, unique and compelling.

How many of you found this post via Google?   Not many!

In January this year I set out to consolidate my Branding and start to drive traffic to this blog, below you’ll see 2 screenshots of the unique traffic from December and from the first 22 days in April. Apart from the obvious increase in traffic you’ll see the percentage of people coming from google has dropped significantly. I really do want to get that figure to be below 10% while the number of visitors rise on a monthly basis.

December Traffic

Traffic April 1st -22nd

It doesn’t matter if you have a micro blog about acne, or an authority site about Finance whatever niche you are in you need to start branding yourself and remove yourself from the threat of googles frequent changes.

Start today!  I’ll come back to this topic a bit more in the coming weeks but the first thing you can do is make sure you use the same avatar on every site you have, every social media account and every forum you visit. Also decide if you want to be the guy with the woody woodpecker avatar or do you want people to see the real you?

What did you do for your business last friday?

Every single day I do at least 1 thing that will (or should) help my business develop. Today I sent an email to a JV broker and hooked up with her via linked in. I now have a skype chat scheduled for later this week.

Nothing might come of it but something might.  I did something similar a few weeks back the result was about $12,000 in sales of one of my old products, plus a Joint Venture that should be profitable to both of us.

Normally the things I do for my business are practical things, I will write a blog post or do a video or offer to write a guest post. However 1 day a week  I try to build relationships with people,  those relationship sometimes prove to be beneficial to both of us and sometimes nothing comes from it.  But once in a while they can change everything.

One of these relationships in particular over the last few years has changed my perception of Internet marketing and made me a far better marketer. it’s probably made me a better person as well. That would never have happened if i didn’t deliberately set out to build 1 new relationship a week.

At first it wasn’t easy for me as I am naturally shy and like all of us I hate the thought of someone ignoring me or rejecting me. However  once you’ve done it a few times it becomes easier.

Building relationships can really work as a springboard for your Internet marketing career, we have a couple of members of WPG who teamed up as their skill sets were a really good fit and they’ve just launched their 2nd very successful product.

You should take every opportunity you can to network and to meet fellow marketers, look around at what seminars are happening near you, I know people who go to Affiliate Summit West in Vegas and never go and look at any of the stands and never go to the keynote speeches or lectures.They travel half way around the world to just meet fellow marketers and share ideas and tips.

So who fancies having a beer and a chat with me and a few friends in London next month?  Myself and Andre Chaperon planned to do one of these informal get togethers a year or so ago and unfortunately snow closed the airports in London so we couldn’t fly in. So we are going to try it again.

I am Speaking at the Warrior Gathering in London on May 12th and 13th so the night before I am going to arrange to meet as many people as I can in a bar in central London. There will be no cost and I don’t expect you to buy me a beer . Andre is going to invite some of his subscribers to join him and we’ll try to rope in a few special guests to come and join us. It should be a great night out.

So if you’d like to join us for a beer & a chat add your email address to the list below (it will only be used for this get together then deleted) and i’ll let you know the time and location once we know how many of you are going to turn up.

 

Email:

 

If you want to make a weekend of it check out the Warrior Gathering, even if i wasn’t scheduled to speak I’d still want to attend it, this opportunity to network shouldn’t be passed up.

I did a short video about using Rapportive a few weeks ago, believe it or not that’s how I find people to reach out to. Their linkedin, facebook or google +  details appear next to their emails ,the rest takes just a few clicks. You can watch the video on the following post http://mjthompson.net/1458/how-to-generate-traffic-to-your-blog-video-series/

Reach out today!

There has been much written about it since but despite that it seems that very few people have implemented it.

I could write pages about why you should be implementing rel=author but Jill Whalen has covered it really well on her High Rankings blog where she gives 5 reasons for implementing the authorship tag.

If you’re thinking it’s just not worth the trouble, here are 5 reasons why it’s super important:

1. It’s kinda sorta easy to implement.

While it is a bit confusing to figure out exactly how to enable authorship based onGoogle’s directions  (which seem to keep changing), in reality their latest criteria have made it easier than ever to implement.

2. It makes your content stand out.

Imagine if you could put big stars around your content listings in Google’s search results that everyone would see. Rel=Author does exactly that! Only it’s not stars, but your name and photo.

3. Provides credibility and more exposure.

Beyond just seeing my smiling face in the listings for my content, as you can see in the above screenshot, Google is also showing how many people have circled me on Google+ as well as a “More by Jill Whalen” link. Clicking that link shows more information about me from my Google Profile, plus posts I’ve made on Google+ related to the search query, and all the other articles that I’ve written on the subject.

4. Higher clickthrough rate.

I’d say this one goes without saying, due to all of the above factors. It would be difficult to *not* click on the listing that Google is screaming for you to click on.

5. Additional metrics in Webmaster Tools.

As if all of the above weren’t enough, once you have your authorship up and running and showing up in Google results, you’ll also see new author stats in your Webmaster Tools account.

Read The Full Article

But for me the 2 main reasons for using the rel=author tag are

1. It gives you credibility

2. You get a higher click through rate!

With all the recent google changes anything that gets you more traffic naturally should be implemented without delay.

 At the same time they introduced a Google labs feature that allows you to check the stats of your articles via the webmaster tools page.

The rel=author  authorship tag is relatively easy to implement and i’ve created a video below to give you more information and show you how you can implement it today.

It’s a 2 step process, first you need a Google Plus account and then you need to link your google plus account to the blogs you contribute to and them link the content to your google plus account.

I appreciate that some readers don’t like giving google anything but the bare minimum of data and i can appreciate that BUT if you are writing a personal blog or have 1 or 2 sites that you publish in your own name then it’s a very worthwhile addition.

One of the things that I immediately noticed is that Ezinearticles is still a very useful source of traffic,  (what? You really thought Article Marketing was dead?)

One thing to be aware of is that you need to use a proper headshot for your profile picture at google, so it’s worth using the same image for all your sites and avatars as it helps with branding and makes your content immediately identifiable.

The Video shows you why I believe you should start using the rel=author tag and how to implement it

Have a great week!

Just like building a list having engaged social media fans will ensure that even if google de-indexes your main site you will still be able to talk directly you your subscribers and ensure your message is out there.

One way that you can ensure that you start to use Social media more effectively is to use some of the social media centric sites like Triberr and Empire Accounts.

Triberr is a simple way of building a tribe of followers who have similar sites to you, by linking your twitter account you can ensure that people in the same tribes as you see your post and have the opportunity of tweeting about it or liking it. Some great additional features are the ability to request guest posts from within the system and to also set up your own tribe. I’ve done this for WPG members who have personal IM blogs so we can all help promote each others sites

It’s easy to use and takes 10 minutes a day and before long you will see your posts being exposed to thousands of possible subscribers with the same interestes as you.

Empire Avenue is a totally different kettle of fish. I am kicking myself for missing the potential of EA until recently. I joined a year ago and though it was a good “game”  but then stopped using it.

Having recently gone back I’ve now realized that I was stupid not to stick with it and that it is way more than a game.

The concept is simple you link your social media accounts to your Empire Avenue accounts and then people can buy shares in you. The more investors you have the higher your share price, the more social activity you have the higher your price . Just like a real stock market you can get dividends which build your income and allow you to invest in other people. If your like me you’ll want to ensure that you earn money for your investors so you’ll do that bit extra and follow up on your social media activities.

Thats the fun part..  the really serious part comes after your value rises above 50  then you can start to post missions which you can give some of your hard earned Eaves (the EA currency) to people who successfully complete the missions.  So what could those missions be?   Comment on a post, Tweet a post, like a page , give a +1 to a post etc etc..  the possibilities are endless.

Empire Avenue may on the surface seem like a bit of fun but it can have an extremely positive effect on your social media presence, ask yourself why companies like Ford Audi and Xbox (microsoft) have an active presence on there and why they have embraced it so whole heartedly?

One great aspect to it which seems to be overlooked is that it allows you to see which social media channels you are most active it. So for example my twitter score is much higher than anything else, it shows me at a glance that I should be spreading my social presence much wider.  I know that i now need to do more on facebox and Google plus.  I am shortly to head to Barcelona for a few days so i’ll make sure to use my Instagram accounts along with Foursquare.

On the surface you may be thinking how will that help me get my business more well known, well it’s simple really.  Using more social media will increase my share price on Empire Avenue, that will attract more people who want to invest in me these people will share my tweets and like my posts and visit my blog. Social media is all about 1 step at a time the more you little steps you take the further you get.

The downside to Empire Avenue is that it can seem a bit daunting and overwhelming at first (the same with Triberr) but luckily there are lots of videos on YouTube to help explain it all and to give you tips and strategies.

Give it a go, the worst that can happen is that you can have some fun!

People think that Ezine Articles is dead and there is no value in posting articles there,  they are wrong there is still life in the old beast yet. However what is equally important now is to look at what social media the niche leaders are using and how they are getting links and building a buzz.

When you are doing fast niche research you need to target 3 areas,  Keywords, Traffic and Monetization

What keywords are the niche leaders targeting?

Where are they getting traffic from and how is that traffic being generated?

What monetization are they using?

I very rarely do any traditional keyword research anymore, in fact one of my best performing  sites at the moment which earns $250 with Adsense and about $400 on Clickbank each month was researched by looking at the stats of sites selling on flippa!  You really can’t beat actual analytics and earnings stats as a resource source.

On With The Original Article….

If you want to reduce the amount of time it takes to find a profitable niche you could do no worse than to take a look at the example set by big business.

Have you ever noticed that when a new Wal Mart opens up in a new area they are quickly followed by smaller stores. or when McDonalds opens up soon after you’ll find a new Wendy’s close by. When Starbucks open up what happens? Smaller coffee stores spring up in the area. Why do you think this is?

The market leaders spend a lot of time and money on researching new locations. Do the smaller stores do the same research? Of course not they  just follow along behind the big guys , why spend money on research when Maccy D’s have already done it for you.

It’s the same in internet marketing if you want a short cut to a niche then look at what the big guys are doing. The ideal place to do this is at article sites like Ezinearticles and Articlebase. The first thing you need to do is to identify the big guys in each niche.

You’ll notice the 2 key words in that sentence are “each niche” If you look at the guys who have published most articles overall you’ll find a lot of information but it won’t actually help you too much in most cases. However if you go into each niche you can follow a link find out who are the top writers with the most articles in that niche.

I tend to look at the guys lower down the list rather than the top ones this is mainly because I’ve found they will be targeting different niches where as the top one will be targeting a single niche. It’s these multiple niche models that appeal to me more.

The expensive PPC analysis software that is being promoted at the moment works by assuming that if someone spends money on PPC ads for a long time then the ads are profitable. We will assume the same …

…If someone spends the time and money to write over 50 articles in a niche then it’s profitable for them. You then just need to look at their business model and improve it.  Improving on most article marketing is suprisingly easy as most article marketers make simple mistakes, I looked at over 100 articles researching this blog post and I estimate over 75% of them could have been improved in one way or another.

The first thingI’ll say have re read that article is that I am glad that my writing style has improved since then.

5 minutes ago I went to  Ezinearticles and picked a random niche , I looked at the first article I came to and checked out the author’s profile.

Now look at that entry at the bottom, “Niches”

Click on that and you get the following

You can see how many niches the autor has written about and how many articles in that Niche.. drill down and you’ll get the articles and the sites he (or she) links to.

I found that they use adsense and a CPA network on one of the sites.

Finally I went to Blekko and found all their incoming links . Rated by “host rank” all I need to do is put a plan in place to get higher quality links and we should be able to out rank them.

I’ll do a full post on blekko very soon, and show you how I am using it to increase my income. It may be an exclusive subscriber post so make sure you subscribe below. You’ll never miss a blog post and you’ll receive access to exclusive blog posts.

I find it mind numbingly boring so I try to automate as much as possible and come up with ways how I can get backlinks with as little work as possible.

Below you’ll find a video with 3 of the easiest ways I know to get backlinks without doing much work, in fact you can probably use all 3 methods in less than 10 minutes.

Before We go any further I have 2 Important announcements to make, that are time sensitive:

Selling Some Site On Flippa

1. I am selling a selection of my blogs as a package. This is following my Interview with the guys from AdsenseFlippers a few weeks ago. There are 9 blogs in the package and they made $120 In january and $100 last month. There is less than 24 hours left and you can see the auction at: https://flippa.com/2706644-over-100-in-january-9-long-established-adsense-sites . If you are a subscriber to this blog I’ll give you 3 1 hour  Skype consults ($450 value) to help you really get the sites rocking.

The plan is to take the money that these sites make and invest some of it in 10 other sites I have and get them up to $120 or there abouts and then sell them as a package. Hopefully by August or September I’ll have reduced my sites to about 10 main ones from the 100 or more I have now.

Seo Debunked Nominated For WSO of The Year

2. SEO Debunked has been nominated for WSO of the Year in the SEO Category by those very switched on guys at WSO Scout. If you’ve got SEO Debunked and liked it then I would love a Vote from you http://wsoscout.com/wsos-of-the-year/seo/. If you haven’t yet read it what are you waiting for! the link is in the sidebar

Right now that I have those 2 messages out of the way lets get back to the video. In It I look at 3 ways to get quality backlinks with little or no effort.

In the video I cover:

Using Tynt http://tynt.com
Using Drop My Links to find blogs to comment on
Finding relevant sites to Guest Blog on (You can outsource the writing part if you don’t have time)

When I take time to analyse any of my projects that have failed or not been as successful as expected,  time after time I’ll find that the reason was because what I produced wasn’t wanted or needed. You can produce the best product or blog post in the world but if there isn’t a need for it then you’ve wasted your time.

My friend Andre Chaperon is currently testing a sales funnel by driving traffic to it from various paid sources. He is constantly working at getting higher conversion rates, how? He asks the customers that have been through the funnel 1 simple question.  If they bought he asks them.. What made you buy? If they didn’t buy he simply asks them why didn’t you buy?

This is easily done by adding a follow up email to your email sequence.  Your buyers list gets a thank you email which contains  the why did you buy question. The non buyers list gets the question why didn’t you buy. You then simply look at the answers and see whats working and then address the bits that aren’t working.

So simple but why don’t we all do it?

If you recently signed up to the update list for this blog (if not please do!) you’ll notice that the first thing I do after I thank you and let you know whats coming is to ask

“What aspect of Internet Marketing causes you the most problems”

It’s a simple question but the feedback I get helps me to create blog posts and videos that address peoples problems.

You don’t need an email list to do find out what your blog readers want you can ask them to comment and let you know. Alternatively  you can post a survey and set some questions that will help you to understand who your readers are.

There are loads of tools that will do it for you but many are expensive. However you can simply create a survey using wordpress.

Below you’ll find a simple survey I’ve produced.  I chose the questions to help me get to know you the reader.  Not only will I know what my average reader is like I’ll also know what issues they are having and what they want.  This then helps me to address those issues and not what I think you want to hear!

Heres the deal…   you complete the survey, then in a few days I’ll do a video showing you how I created it for free.  I’ll also reveal the results in full plus I’ll analyse the results and share with you the questions i should have asked.   You can then take that Information and create your own killer survey.

Do surveys work?  In the follow up post I’ll show you a 7 question survey that helped a marketer earn over $100,000

Please Fill In the Survey below it will take less than a minute!

Over time you start to notice the the flaws and those little insignificant flaws become major issues sometimes the flaws become so much of an issue the cause the end of a relationship.  Quite often the catalyst is noticing someone who doesn’t have that flaw that annoys the hell out of you.

In last mondays blog post I talked about looking outside the fish tank at the wider world. this was brought home to in a big way only yesterday.  Over the past week I’ve been reading some great blogs by several Internet marketers who treat IM as an extension of “Real World” marketing.  You find that as you read one blog you find a link to another great blog and so on.

It’s been like a breath of fresh air.

Then yesterday I opened up my email and there was an email from someone who I had bought a product off of a while back.. the title was:

 ”sudden death (NOT about Whitney Houston)”

I mean how low can you get?  Who in their right mind would think that was a good subject line.

It got me thinking really hard about how short sighted and myopic the IM niche can be as opposed to Online Marketing  (I’ve manufactured a distinction for the purposes of this article).

I love the IM niche I love to teach and show people how to make money online, I create products that show them how to do that and I like to think that I add value and that I have something worthwhile to say.

Over the past 7 years I’ve defended the IM niche from people who say it’s just full of scammers and people who want to rip off newbies. I consider myself incredibly lucky to have subscribers and customers and friends in the IM niche who I consider to be incredibly ethical who wouldn’t knowingly promote, create or support a bad product but I am starting to think that I am wrong.

I think it’s time to get out of this relationship as the flaws are annoying the hell out of me.

How about you?

Want to come on a journey of discovery with me, out of this stinking stagnating pond and into the wider world?

So where do we start?

Well you can start by paying attention to this… I’ll say it only once.

Take your excuses and shove them… There are no more excuses.

No , I haven’t got time  – make time.

No, I can’t afford it – you can start this journey for less that a pizza and a beer.

No, I don’t know what to do..  create a blog, write good content, promote the blog via social media and guest blogging and BUILD A LIST, build a relationship and sell things via your list.

Let start on the journey by broadening our horizons.

Read the following post If it doesn’t get you thinking then maybe you aren’t cut out for this:

http://peterspaepen.com/2011/04/scott-schuman-story/#more-45

Over the coming months I am going to try to get away from IM, I’ll create some sites with value and attempt to generate an income from them. I’ll embrace transparency so you see my successes and failures . Are you coming on the journey?

Ok off to take my anti grumpy pills!  Let me know what you think with a comment, and if you want to get updates then add your email address below… you won’t be spammed.. I promise!

Get yourself out of the fishtank you might be surprised..

 

As Internet marketers we can be very insular, We go to the same forums, read the same blogs, buy the same products and as a result we tend to do the same things and believe the same crap as everyone else.

 

Broaden your horizons and read blogs and listen to podcasts from people outside of IM. The very best brains in the online marketing business don’t spend their time writing posts on Digital Point or the Warrior Forum.

Listen to and read stuff by people like Gary Vaynerchuk and Seth Godin, Read blog posts by people on the bleeding edge of SEO. Read Techcrunch and follow what Y-combinator are investing in.

Get a subscription to a site like Mixergy and see how entrepreneurs got to where they are today.

Set aside a day where you do nothing but watch videos or listen to podcasts by people not in niche marketing or affiliate marketing.

There is a whole different world out there and you can learn from it!

It really is very easy to become focussed on what you are doing and what people in the same line of business to you are doing.  One of the things I try to do in Wp Goldmine is to bring in ideas from other areas. There are hundreds of startup companies that are basically trying to market themselves and build their brand that have never seen the Warrior Forum or Digitalpoint. In many cases they are using or creating sophisticated tools and starting from a blank canvas.

How many of you have looked at what Buzzstream are doing?  If you have have you either used them or tried to create a similar system for yourself. If you’ve not seen them they build back link networks via relationship building and provide the tools to do it. You could probably create something similar (albeit at a lower level) for your own use by using google and a relationship management app.

Thats it for today I have a brilliant interview I did with a Personal Branding coach in tomorrows  podcast so keep your eyes peeled for that…

Have a great week!

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