It has been a while since I posted, as I have been very busy, and have been allowing guest authors to post. But as Marketing Quickies 3 is just about to launch I figured I better write something about it. As you can see from the title of this blog it was conceived for marketing quickies 2 which I had purchased the rights to sell.

Now marketing quickies 3 is a little bit different from 1 and 2. It does involve a similar format, at least in terms of the excellent video tips but how they are delivered is very different. Instead of providing the videos in a cd format this time around Andrew and Lee have stretched the envelope to the absolute limit by incorporating the videos into a membership site with 3 videos every month.

So now you are thinking well nothing very new about that, well there is one small difference. When you buy Marketing Quickies 3 you actually get the mebership site which you can make a recurring income from. The videos are excellent quality as you might expect from Andrew Fox and included in the price of marketing quickies 3 is the complete set up of the membership site for you, a private license to easymember pro, 36 videos in the first year and much more.

I have already told Andrew and Lee that I will be buying a copy so hopefully they have one put by for me as they are restricting the number of packages they sell and I am out of town on launch day. I made a lot of money selling marketing quickies and marketing quickies 2 and expect marketing quickies 3 to be no different

If you want to find out more now and get a free (totally crazy) IM report from Andrew Fox then just click on the link below and check it out for yourself.

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As with any business, publishing your own online newsletter a.k.a. eZine has its share of drawbacks, in spite of the several benefits it offer.

The purpose of this article is not to scare you away with the disadvantages of publishing your own eZine, as the benefits are often more attractive. However, I will also show you how you can easily tackle the cons.

One challenge most beginning eZine publishers face is the creation of eZine content. Creating your own content can be tiresome, especially if you are not a gifted writer. You can also run out of ideas often while your publishing schedule is threatening you.

Create your content in advance. You can compile 30 days worth of content in one day, for example. If you are not blessed with writing skills, you can broker the writing task to capable freelance writers which you can find at places such as http://www.elance.com/ or http://www.rentacoder.com/. While you need to pay for such services, you are at liberty to take the credit for written articles.

Alternatively, you can republish articles from article directories such as http://ezinearticles.com/. This is a free method you can use in making content, provided you include the resource box of the original author and that the article has republishing rights conveyed.

In conclusion, you can easily tackle the content creation challenge using the mentioned methods that do not require writing on your part, free or paid.

Article marketing is possibly the most cost effective way to generate fresh leads for your business. In fact, article marketing can be totally free.

Marketing with articles to gather leads involves simply submitting quality, interesting articles to article directories and databases. There are many great article directories online that serve to host thousands of articles on all different topics. Ezine Articles is one of the top directories and should be a focus for you as they receive a lot of search engine traffic.

It is possible to generate thousands of leads per month if you can successfully submit articles that rank high in the search engines and also lead people to click through to your website and then submit their email address through your opt in form.

So where do these articles come from, you ask?

There are several options:

- You can write them yourself – You can outsource the article writing

If you are a decent writer, then you can get away with writing quality articles yourself. They only need to be between 300 and 400 words, but should contain no fluff and only quality information that will lead people to become curious about your business (without being self promoting as that is not allowed), as well as determining that you are an expert on the topic.

Or you can pay someone else to write your articles. In some cases this works perfectly, but in others only you have expert knowledge on your business and what you want to convey within the articles. But if you can brief your writer on this, a good quality writer will be able to write from your perspective. Expect to pay $10 and upwards for a quality 400 word article. The top article writers will charge up to $50 per article, but this is generally not necessary just for submitting to directories. Save those higher quality articles for your own website.

The important part of the article is your resource box at the end. This is where you can link to your website, say a bit about yourself, and provide incentive for readers to click through. Often mentioning a free report or invoking curiosity by asking a question is a good tactic.

The beauty of article marketing for generating fresh leads is that it’s totally free, it keeps working long after your article is first published, and there is no limit on how far reaching your articles will go. Thousands of websites could potentially publish your articles and link back to your site, thus bringing you more fresh leads.

There are more than 100 millions of blogs in the blogosphere. If you own a blog, you definitely want to drive as much traffic to it as possible to make it visible in that huge list.

The following are effective blog marketing methods to capture more visitors and traffic to your blog:

1. Optimized your blog posts, title tags, headings, metatags and many other parts of a blog with popular keywords to maximize your search engine rankings. The higher your blog ranking in the search engines, the better you can gain traffic relatively quickly.

2. Pinging your blog, whenever you post new content, is an efficient technique to improve its popularity and helps search engines to crawl and index your blog properly. Pinging notifies all the major blog directories of your updated content to make it available for a larger audience.

3. By adding a Google sitemap to your blog, you can more easily submit your site to the Google search engine spider. You get better coverage by the spider, than by simply submitting your blog to the Google search engine.

4. Contributing valuable comments on relevant blogs can also draw visitors to your own blog. As long as you post well-written and informative comments, chances are, people would want to know further about your expertise and be clicking on your link.

5. Search for link partners and build quality, relevant links to your blog. Quality of relevant links are far more important than quantity. Having other sites linking to your content is a sure fire way to get readers from that blog

6. To increase your blog’s “clickability”, place Adsense units in strategical places within your blog. Cluttering your blog with Google AdSense units will leave a bad impression on your readers and drive them away.

7. Post quality, original content to your blog often. The more quality content you provide for your readers, the higher the chances that your audience will link to you and share the information you are presenting to others. Great content is what makes readers stay and keep coming back for more.

Whew! The hard work is done right? You’ve put blood, sweat, tears and cash into the creation of your video content and now it’s up on the web. If you publish it, they will come right? Wrong! You’ve got some more work that needs to be done before the masses come rushing to watch your videos and the first thing you need to do is to get the search engines indexing your videos. So here are a handful of tips so get reading already because time is a wasting.

Keywords “If you don’t have good keywords then you might as well quit now. These are vital pieces of information that will help categorize your videos and make them findable in search engines. When people search for video what do they do? They put words into a text box on a webpage and that’s how they search. So make sure you choose specific words that correctly describe your video and then use those words in the title, description and the keyword areas when you post the video up on the web.

Video Sharing Sites “You will not be surprised to learn that YouTube gets more traffic than your website does. So why not put your video where the most people can find it? YouTube is one of the most popular sites on the web and one of the great things about it is that you won’t get hit for duplicate content in Google’s index when you post your videos up there. A pretty cool advantage for a small amount of work really. Making a channel to group all of your videos together will also help to strengthen brand awareness as they will be easier to find.

RSS and MRSS “These two protocols allow you to tell the search engines when your site updates and when you post something new on the web, specifically for MRSS a media file. There are very specific formats required for these files but they’re easy enough to research. Many CMS software packages even make them automatically so you don’t even really need to worry about making it, just submitting it. This will really help the search engines find you content when you tell them where these files are and soon your videos will be shooting up the search engine results charts.

Three simple things you can do to help get your videos noticed by the search engines. No they’re not the only things you can do but are more like the tip of the iceberg. These are probably three things that you will most often see suggested by SEO people. They are not the only things you can do and others include good content that’s interesting and easy to share with others.