Blogging and Beyond

Market Your Business with Articles

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Marketing Your Business with Articles

Blogging and Beyond: Episode 8
March 1, 2007, 8:00 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET)

Blogging and Beyond with The Blog Squad, Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D., and Denise Wakeman
With Guest Expert: Christopher Knight of www.EzineArticles.com   

"Marketing Your Business with Articles"

Writing and submitting articles to directories is a key strategy for smart marketing online. It's all about driving traffic to your blog or website. Christopher Knight has been at the forefront of this article syndication model with EzineArticles.com, a leading directory with over 2 million visitors each month. He shares best practices for article marketing with The Blog Squad. In the second half of the show, Ideal Client Erik Feder shares his progress on his blog and website.

Chris Knight is also the author of Article Production Strategies. If you have questions you would like us to ask Chris, please click the comment link below.  We'll do our best to get them answered during the show.

Writing for the Web is an Art and Science

Blogging and Beyond: Episode 7
Writing for the Web
Note: our guest expert Brian Clark was ill.  You can visit his excellent copywriting blog at Copyblogger.com
Patsi Krakoff stepped in to deliver an interivew about copywriting on the web.

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Patsi discussed the differences between writing for he web, why blogs are a perfect prelude to sales copy, the psychological triggers for buying, and the elements of persuasive copy.  In the second half of the show we did a mini site review of the copy on Erik Feder's sales page at wheretofindparking.com.

Brian Clark featured on Blogging and Beyond

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Writing for the Web with Brian Clark

Blogging and Beyond
Thursday, February 22, 11:00 a.m. ET

Blogging and Beyond with The Blog Squad, Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D., and Denise Wakeman
With Guest Expert: Brian Clark, www.Copyblogger.com

"Writing for the Web"
Writing is Writing, Right? Not quite. There are some subtle differences when it comes to writing copy for the Web. Internet copywriting expert Brian Clark of Copyblogger.com tells The Blog Squad and their listeners the key points of writing words that sell for the Web: sales and landing pages, email marketing messages, sign-up pages, squeeze pages, and blog posts Ideal Client Erik Feder continues to optimize his blog and marketing systems in the second half of the show.

If you have questions for Brian Clark, click on the comments link below and we'll do our best to get them answered on the show.

Attract, Sell, Profit: You need a foundation first

Blogging and Beyond: Episode 6
Attract, Sell, Profit!
with guest expert Kathleen Gage of Street Smarts Marketing

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Kathleen Gage on Cross Promotion

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Attract, Sell, Profit...with all your marketing tools

Episode Six: February 15, 2007
8:00 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET)

Blogging and Beyond with The Blog Squad, Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D., and Denise Wakeman
With Guest Expert: Kathleen Gage, Street Smart Marketing

"Attract, Sell, Profit!"

You've got a website, a blog, and a database marketing system. Maybe you even have an ezine, too. Now, how do you connect with prospects and turn them into customers?  The Blog Squad interviews Kathleen Gage and reveals essential information on attracting new people, creating relationships, and making money. Ideal Client Erik Feder continues to optimize his blog and marketing systems in the second half of the show.

If you have a question you'd like Kathleen or us to answer, please post it in the comments below and we'll do our best to get to it on the show.

Podcast now available

The Blogging and Beyond radio show is now available as a podcast on iTunes.  I've tested the subscription link and all is finally working properly.  You can easily subscribe on iTunes and the shows will automatically be downloaded to your iPod or mp3 player.

Ezine Formating Poll: What's your preference

In response to yesterday's interview with Chris Baggott, we've posted a new poll over on Next Level Biz Tips about ezine formatting.  Which do you prefer to RECEIVE: plain text or HTML (graphic images like a web page)?  It'll take you about 5 seconds so please let us know how you like your ezines delivered.  Thanks!