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How did I get here?

February 17th, 2010 · No Comments

At the weekend I was down in Valencia where I met up with the rest of the “Spanish Crew” (above), who I met at Ed Dale’s conference in Manchester back in November. While there was a social element to the meetup and we went to the MTV Arctic Monkey’s gig, a lot of it was [...]

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Tags: internet marketing · life

Heading for Manchester

November 5th, 2009 · Comments Off

OK, I know, I know… my blog looks like it’s dead. Well, I’m still alive but busy on a variety of other projects.
This month I’m heading to the UK. Hopefully see my brother’s new sprog (if it’s landed) and then up to Manchester for Ed Dale’s “Coming Home Tour”. It’s three days of internet marketing, [...]

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Tags: internet marketing

The real secret of Internet marketing – or, why you shouldn’t buy another IM course ever again

July 24th, 2009 · Comments Off

You’re always hearing “you just need to follow my course and you’ll make $10,000 an hour lying on the beach” from internet marketers, and no doubt doubt some people do make a fortune that way.

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Tags: immediate edge

How about this for free traffic?

December 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off

The results speak for themselves, but check out the organic traffic from Google on this site. I’m not going to tell you what it is, but it is a personal hobby niche and I’ve gone in pretty deep since April/May 2004. One of the keys to its success is the number of natural backlinks it [...]

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Tags: internet marketing

What is marketing?

May 11th, 2008 · Comments Off

One of the problems with “marketing”, and the reason for so many definitions is that different people mean different things by it. The Chartered Institute of Marketing defines marketing as “the management process responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements profitably”, which being an offline marketer in my previous life I agree with.
Typically marketers [...]

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Tags: marketing