Since I’ve been marketing on the Internet for more than six 13 years now, both as an employee and a freelance copywriter, I’ve learned quite a few things about generating traffic. In fact, TRAFFIC was one of the first subjects I ever dove head-first into — even before copywriting. This is not to say I’m […]
Continue readingThis morning I came across shocking (but not altogether unexpected) Facebook statistic. It is this: “Only 16% of fans see any given post on the average Page.” (Source: Mashable.com) Here’s what that means… If you have a Facebook page with 500 fans, then only 80 of them will see any update you post. Which means […]
Continue reading…I’ve been able to get fairly decent rankings for a few competitive keyword phrases in multiple markets. Each month, I get thousands of visitors from Google, Yahoo, and Bing. (90%+ is from Google.) One site gets more than 4,000 organic search visitors monthly. Another gets more than 2,000. So my friend Markus Allen interviewed me […]
Continue readingI learned about leeclowsbeard last week. Lee Clow is an ad man. He created the famous Apple 1984 commercial. leeclowsbeard is a Twitter profile that posts little bits of wisdom about advertising. But they are not written by Lee Clow — they’re written by his beard (AKA a feller from Texas named Jason Fox). Rather […]
Continue readingI blogged daily, Monday through Friday, from January 1st through March 31st, 2012. The results were interesting. Traffic went WAY up. It more than doubled. I had 21,707 unique visitors in 4th quarter 2011… but 46,322 unique visitors in 1st quarter 2012. “List churn” increased quite a bit. Lots of new people subscribing, nearly as […]
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