tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173428952024-03-07T19:38:31.795-08:00Affiliate Marketing CoachThis blog is developed by Ron Passfield, PhD, affiliate marketing coach, who is helping affiliate marketers and small businesses develop their affiliate business through social media marketing. This blog offers free resources for affiliate marketing, small business marketing and social media marketing - articles, e-books, reviews of affiliate programs and evaluation of affiliate marketing strategies. Learn about social media, blogging and building your blog traffic.Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.comBlogger313125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-13936321115037218912012-02-21T23:27:00.001-08:002012-02-21T23:27:48.566-08:00Indecision Cripples Productivity | Small Business Odyssey Is Indecision Crippling Your Productivity? February 20, 2012 By Ron Passfield Leave a Comment Indecision has a major impact on productivity – in fact, it can cripple your productivity. When you are undecided, your cannot focus or gain momentum in a particular direction. You spend all your energy on the decision process rather than taking action. via Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-18773682363684808592012-02-02T16:07:00.001-08:002012-02-02T16:07:27.808-08:00How to be Productive : Overcoming Your fears How To Be Productive: The Internal ChallengesIf you are a small business owner engaged in small business marketing, it is absolutely critical that you learn how to be productive. There are many demands on your time through email and phone communications, staff management, stock control, product and service development, accounting and taxation, relationship building with clients and strategic Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-90616277046584527202012-01-18T12:44:00.001-08:002012-01-18T12:44:24.272-08:00Impacts of Google+ Integration with Search Engine Results | Small Business Odyssey Google is Integrating Google+ With Search Engine Results January 16, 2012 By Ron Passfield Leave a Comment Google is changing the whole landscape of Internet search through integration of Google+ with organic and paid search results. A number of prominent Internet marketers have reported recently that they are seeing this integration of Google+ in the search results and have Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-16438911694356128602012-01-08T12:49:00.001-08:002012-01-08T12:49:11.522-08:00Small Business Marketing Through the Squidoo Search Engine | Small Business Odyssey Squidoo is a Search Engine!: Implications for Small Business Marketing December 18, 2011 By Ron Passfield 1 Comment Squidoo is a search engine in its own right with other 2.5 Million lenses focused on key topic areas. Even experienced lensmasters tend to forget this aspect of Squidoo. As Squidoo grows so does its data base of information. So if you are searching for Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-2734858570785755512012-01-07T12:35:00.001-08:002012-01-07T12:35:43.040-08:00The Many Ways to Market Your Small Business on Squidoo | Small Business Odyssey You are here: Home / Squidoo / The Many Ways to Market Your Small Business on Squidoo The Many Ways to Market Your Small Business on Squidoo December 17, 2011 By Ron Passfield Leave a Comment Squidoo, as a multimedia platform, offers many ways to engage in small business marketing. You are really only limited by your imagination so it is well worthwhile Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-68296368185861881162011-12-25T13:08:00.001-08:002011-12-25T13:08:54.908-08:00Outsourcing: Have You Explored In Sourcing as an Option? | Small Business Odyssey You are here: Home / outsourcing / Is Outsourcing the Right Option or Should You In Source? Is Outsourcing the Right Option or Should You In Source? October 18, 2011 By Ron Passfield 1 Comment Small business owners frequently turn to outsourcing instead of in sourcing for their online small business marketing. However, it has been my experience that in Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-76281086081278330352011-12-16T10:00:00.001-08:002011-12-16T10:00:16.108-08:00Marketing Style: How Do You Market Your Small Buiness? | Small Business Odyssey You are here: Home / marketing style / What is Your Marketing Style? What is Your Marketing Style? October 15, 2011 By Ron Passfield Leave a Comment Are you aware of the marketing style that you use in promoting your small business? Developing a consistent and congruent marketing style is one aspect of effective business branding. This point was Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-34138975871462181242011-12-16T09:39:00.001-08:002011-12-16T09:39:25.753-08:00Social Bookmarking: Marketing Small Business through RedGage | Small Business Odyssey You are here: Home / social bookmarking / RedGage: Social Bookmarking with a Difference RedGage: Social Bookmarking with a Difference October 14, 2011 By Ron Passfield Leave a Comment Social Bookmarking is designed to create online bookmarks that store information about your small business. Sites that provide social bookmarking often have a high Page RankRon Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-32865860917347014942011-11-13T23:11:00.001-08:002011-11-13T23:11:15.296-08:00Posterous Alexa Ranking and Demogrpahics I was just checking the Alexa ranking for Posterous this morning and found the following information: Traffic ranking globally: 506 Traffic ranking US 453 Traffic ranking UK 349 Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-56616794976378771832011-11-06T03:44:00.001-08:002011-11-06T03:44:35.508-08:00How to Create Quality Backlinks for Small Business Websites | Small Business Odyssey Backlinks: To Buy or Not to Buy, That is the Question! October 15, 2011 By Ron Passfield 1 Comment Backlinks are one of the core measures that Google uses to evaluate a small business website/blog and determine where the site will appear in search engine results. Unfortunately, many small business owners have been convinced by some Internet marketers to buyRon Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-72281424911037232622011-11-02T16:02:00.001-07:002011-11-02T16:02:20.901-07:00smallbusinessodyssey.com - Part 2 Social Media: Where Are Your Customers Conversing? By Ron Passfield on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 | No Comments With the growth of social media, small business owners face new challenges in terms of locating their clients/customers. Added to this is the fact that recent estimates show that 80% of people who have access to the Internet start their Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-19112294508504344092011-11-01T01:30:00.001-07:002011-11-01T01:30:55.627-07:00Turn Photos into Animated Music Videos Turn Photos into Video to Promote Your Small Business By Ron Passfield on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 | 1 Comment One of the easiest ways to market your small business is to turn your photos into video. You must have lots of photos lying around that you can use for this purpose. However, if you want to make the most of this highly effective Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-29878142624781822402011-10-28T18:43:00.001-07:002011-10-28T18:43:08.563-07:00Check Your Business Listing in Local Business Directories | smallbusinessodyssey.com Are Your Listings in Local Business Directories Accurate? by Ron Passfield on Monday, October 10th, 2011 | No Comments I was checking the search results for my business name, Merit Solutions Australia, in Google and was surprised with the results from local business directories. A lot of the entries in the first two pages of Google results were listings from local Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-46871289809763209472011-10-26T18:11:00.001-07:002011-10-26T18:11:18.927-07:00smallbusinessodyssey.com - Part 2 Small Business Marketing: A Personal Odyssey By Ron Passfield on Sunday, October 9th, 2011 | No Comments Human Resource Consultancy Our small business was created in 1996 and following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008, we found that we had to become actively engaged in online small business marketing. Up until the GFC, our gross income had been growing atRon Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-38348892510932022902011-08-11T15:47:00.000-07:002011-08-11T15:50:19.176-07:00Google Plus and Google +1
Google has recently started to change the Search Engine landscape,
partly as a response to Facebook.
Google is in the process of a fundamental paradigm change:
from content to people
from "page rank" to "author rank"
Google has established its own social network in the form
of Google Plus which is only open by invitation at the moment
(ask your friends or contacts for an invitation!).
It Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-33728882584161075042011-06-03T13:15:00.000-07:002011-06-03T13:18:34.883-07:00Wizzley: A Writers' Community Launches
Wizzley, a new writers' community, has been in public launch for just over a week.
There are now over 350 authors and more than 350 original articles.
Wizzley is an article site with the option to add images and video and
other modules to enrich the article content.
There is a strong emphasis on quality with the minimum requirement
of 400 words per article. The site has inbuilt Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-84211927203161651582011-05-18T15:18:00.001-07:002011-06-03T12:06:59.770-07:00YouTube - Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networksNicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks Social networks shape our thinking, our lives and our actions.
They are arenas of influence. Nicholas Christakis in this video
presentation shows how social networks can explain the growth
of philanthropy, obesity and drug use.
His visual presentation of the forming and re-forming of a
social network over 15 years is stimulating Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-59495296432192567862011-03-26T15:12:00.000-07:002011-05-14T14:12:46.531-07:00Traffic Dashboard Review: structured guide to traffic generation
Marlon Sanders has just released his Traffic Dashboard
which gives you 16 ways to generate traffic to your
website, blog or Squidoo lens.
The rows in the Dashboard represent 6 broad traffic
sources:
article marketing
search engine optimization
social media marketing
banner ad marketing
email marketing (incl. solo ads)
affiliate marketing (for your own product)
I purchased the system after veryRon Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-41022128018588215722011-03-22T00:22:00.000-07:002011-03-22T00:24:34.873-07:003 Things That Can Block Your Motivation
In this audio I discuss three things that
can get in the road of your motivation at
work or with your online activity or, more
specifically, with your social media marketing.
These barriers to motivation are:
your mindset
your comfort zone
your past experiences
The audio discusses how these things dampen
your motivation.
In the my Social Media Training Program, I
address these issues and Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-27880347405430039802011-03-10T14:54:00.000-08:002011-03-10T15:17:38.462-08:00Facebook Changes: New iFrame Facebook Pages
Facebook will be replacing FBML Facebook Pages
(Facebook Markup Language) with the new
iFrame Facebook Page with effect from 11 March 2011.
You will no longer be able to use FBML to build your Facebook
pages. You will have to host your own Facebook Pages.
This means that you will have to learn about iFrames and get access
to some templates to speed up the process of making
Facebook PagesRon Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-16030737198826540622011-03-01T13:48:00.000-08:002011-03-05T14:22:32.175-08:00Ezinearticles.com - New author guidelines 2011
Info PR: 3 I: 3,180,000 L: 0 LD: 204,748,582 I: 323,000Rank: 7 Age: Oct 12, 1999 I: 0 whoissourceRobo: yesSitemap: no Rank: 1586 Price: 989030 Links: 12|3 Density
Quality Criteria for Authors
In response to the Google Algorith Change 2011, Ezinearticles.com
has now finalized its new Quality critieria for authors.
The list is provided hereRon Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-81923179176995507342011-02-27T19:31:00.000-08:002011-03-05T15:23:33.883-08:00Ezinearticles.com Response to Google's new "Farmer Algorith"
Google bots on-the-move
If you thought it was difficult in the past to get your article
published on Ezinearticles.com, things are going to be
even tougher in the future. Ezinearticles.com is
predicting that it's current 40.6% rejection rate will
climb to at least 60% because of new measures it is
putting in place to improve the quality of the site.
These changes have come as an Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-69632914385711381792011-02-25T17:13:00.001-08:002011-02-25T17:13:09.436-08:00Strategic Plan Document | Don Crowther Here’s a link to the Two Page Strategic Plan Template It’s a zip file that contains the template and a sample of it filled out for a fictitious business in both a Microsoft Word document and in PDF format in case you don’t have Word. And here’s a video that describes how to do fill it out. The key here is that it’s not the form that makes the difference, it’s the thought behind it. So, I Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-47763062184506454452011-02-20T20:28:00.000-08:002011-02-20T20:31:42.290-08:00Social Media Training: Lesson 24
I've just completed the 24th PDF Lesson in my 6 month
training program on social media marketing.
This Graduation Lesson titled, "Where to from Here?",
is designed to help participants explore how they can
best use the ideas in the SquidooRoo Program which
covered content creation, social networking and promotion,
including press releases and social bookmarking.
In the final Lesson, we Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-32397091723029185582011-02-08T15:50:00.001-08:002011-02-08T16:00:18.445-08:00How To Research Facebook To Find Profitable Topics - Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro StarakPress the PLAY button on the video below to begin watching.
Text Transcript of VideoDownload the text transcript [ PDF ]
via entrepreneurs-journey.comIn the video you see one way to gather live feedback from real people about potential topics and also gauge how popular topics could be. The video above helps with Milestone One (Topic Selection) from the The Roadmap to Become A Blogger:
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