Then join us for the Raleigh JV Alert Impact Hookup on Thursday, December 3!
Where:  Tripp’s
3516 Wade Avenue
Raleigh, NC 27607
When:  December 3, 2009, 7-9 PM
It’s the first meeting of the Raleigh area Impact/JV Alert Hookup to provide networking, fun, and a chance to meet others top-level local Internet marketers interested in joint ventures and affiliate relationships.
We’ll mingle [...]

Here’s my photo set from the event–I think you can guess which one I am…
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The other folks are (from left to right) Cynthia Richards, Jason Fladlian, Tim Castleman, Willie Crawford, Robert Plank and Niche Prof Ron Capps.
You can click on each photo for more comments…

Last week Deidre Hughey of The Buzz Builder interviewed me about the 7 Deadly Sins of Web Copy for her Author Buzz radio show, and then we took a few questions from listener’s at the end.
Wanna listen? Here it is:

(I have to warn you though–I had bronchitis when we recorded it, so my voice is [...]

I was reviewing my recent marketing promotion for the phantom teleseminar on 9 Secrets to Ebook Success and thought it might be interesting to share what I tracked and what I learned.
(Phantom teleseminar=you just sign up for the audio, there’s no actual call time.)
Overall, there was a great response with nearly 90 people signing up for the [...]

Discover how to maximize your time & income by creating ebooks that sell…minimal writing required…in my FREE audio 9 Secrets to Ebook Success.
Here’s just a taste of what I’ll share…

4 ways an ebook can boost your bottom-line even when you’re not working

A quick and painless way to create first-rate content that showcases your expertise…even if [...]

We’ve covered Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg’s entertaining presentation on blogging and more, SEO for Wordpress, Getting Others to Create Blog Content for You, and Staying Out of Hot Water with the Law so far this week as part of our series on last weekend’s Wordcamp RDU.
Today, we’ll wrap up with some tips on turning your [...]

Continuing with our series of highlights from last weekend’s Wordcamp RDU Lawyer Chris Gatewood (Hischler Fleischer) talked about how to keep ourselves out of hot water.
Key points included:

Copyrights.  You should include the copyright footer in your documents, but you’re still protected if you don’t. (It can also be a deterrent to prevent others from lifting [...]

Today, some tips from another Wordcamp RDU presenter, Jason Keath.
Jason is Social Media Director of Heels.com and a social media consultant. He talked about ways to have others provide blog content for you. My five favorites of the suggestions he shared were to:

Build a circle of people who comment on each others’ blogs. An [...]

It was a lovefest for WordPress in the Triangle area this past weekend with the debut of WordCamp RDU. Yesterday, I covered WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg’s keynote speech.
Today, my favorite breakout session–SEO for WordPress by Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim and author of Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online.
Since it was a fast-paced, info-packed [...]

“I don’t like iPhone version of Wordpress,” admitted WP founder Matt Mullenweg during his often candid and funny keynote presentation at Wordcamp RDU this past Saturday.
(Good news–a new version is coming soon, along with one for all of us with crackberries.)
He also discussed other new projects such as:

Microblogging platform P2. You control it–so you can [...]