Are you ready for 2009?
I tell you what, after being with my family and taking a little time off during the holidays (along with my annual college football overdose with the bcs bowls…) I am feeling great!
I am a huge USC football fan, and I had a blast watching them clinch another Rose Bowl victory. And how about those Longhorns last night? It sure turned out to be a good game there at the end of the 4th quarter. Sorry OSU fans, but Ohio State has had a pretty sorry showing the past few years in the BCS bowls, but they did put up a good fight and almost beat those Texans.
I just wish that they would institute a playoff! For the life of me, I don’t know why they let a computer decided the rankings–I think they should leave it all on the field (and I think USC, Utah and Texas all have a pretty valid argument to be able to play for the championship) But enough of my little rant here….
With the holiday break and the fresh start of a new year, I’ve found that I get a lot of my best ideas when I take a step back from my business to think and have a little R&R–that’s how I get some of my best ideas! I can’t help that I’m a little bit of a workaholic, and that even while I was on vacation, I had my iPhone near me, and whenever I had an idea, I would do a little voice record using Jott for short recordings, or another recording application for longer recordings. I’ve been putting those ideas down on paper, these past few days, and now I am ready to work my plan!
I know that sometimes when I first look at my list of to-do’s, it can be a little bit overwhelming with all of the things that I want to accomplish. But one of the biggest things that I’ve learned from working with Rich Schefren and Alex Jeffreys is to organize my goals and my plans in a way so that I know what the most important things are, and what I need to do first. I draw myself a little tree diagram mapping out what comes first, second, third, etc…, and keep it all together.
This month, I am working on putting together some more articles to submit, as well as some more traffic videos. I also had an idea about going through all of the PLR and MLR downloads that I have on my computer, and see if I can sift through it and find some of the good stuff to help me jump start on more articles and make more videos. What do you think?
I’ve been so glad that I set up my google reader with all of the students blogs and other blogs that I follow so that I can easily get all of the latest posts quickly. And I have sure been impressed with all of the great posts that I’ve been seeing lately! As I was telling the Gazz-man the other day, there are definitely going to be some great JV partnerships out of the Fortunate 500.
How is your blogging traffic coming along? What else have you been finding to work well for you?
I’ve got some more of my behind the scenes traffic videos coming up for you…so stay tuned!
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Hi Adam,
Just thought I’d stick my head in the door for a moment. You seem to have quite a highly developed site here.
I see you are also an EzineArticles Expert author. I wouldn’t mind getting your opinion on their latest processes. It seems to take forever now and then they bump you for even the most minor transgressions of their massive policy guidelines which now read like an extensive para-legal document.
What used to take me 24 hours to get my articles up now can take 5 or more days. I think I know what they are doing. They are wanting everybody to sign up for their paid services. If you don’t you just have to wait and wait.
What was once free is now their new paid service. I have also noticed that my articles – once they get through this extended approval process – are getting NOWHERE near the read-throughs they used to get. So, I am suspecting that they may be sand-bagging authors who don’t pay for the premium service and pocketing them away in low-traffic zones.
I gotta admit I’m pretty disappointed with their new hard line procedures. No doubt Chris Knight, the owner, will eventually get to read this through his Google Alert but that’s OK. I’m only speaking my mind and this is how I feel.
I have a lot more articles I could put up but I just don’t think the effort is worth the limited return any more. Even their response to emails is appalling now. I had to send the same query 4 times before it was acted on and eventually I had to use Chris’s personal email which I had from some time back to get ANY action from them.
What do you reckon Adam?
Oh, BTW, I answered your query about building personal relationships via email on my blog.
Catchya Adam.
Gary SIMPSON
Hey Gary,
Great to see you- thanks for dropping by!
As for ezine–I haven’t had too many problems with them (other than the fact that they do take a while to review and publish my articles). They do have some pretty strict policies, but I haven’t had a tough time following their policies.
I submit most of my articles with submityourarticle.com, and it submits to several article directories at once. It saves me time, and that way I don’t have to directly interact with Ezine on a one on one basis. Ezine has the best pagerank and authority that I have found, and I am still get a good amount of traffic from them.
I’ve never paid for Ezine’s premium package–I wonder if their response is any better or faster??
Adam
Hey Adam – I totally agree about the playoff for college football. Computers are good at tracking stats but not at determining outcomes when you have the human factor involved – let them settle it on the field!
Lance
Greetings Gary,
This is my first visit to your blog and you seem to be going great guns! I’m an absolute newbie and it has taken longer than I hoped but I now have it sorted out & am really proud of myself!
I couldn’t get module 4 video to work. So I haven’t seen or heard the traffic generation stuff yet.
If you wouldn’t mind visiting my blog, that would get my hits up a bit & make me feel better! I’d love any feedback too.
I’d love to learn how to use Camtasia, so I can get my own videos. All in good time I guess. I must take everything at my own pace.
As the students viit my site, I’m putting them in the blogroll. It all helps, eh?
All the best,
Gaielle
http://www.SharpMarketingMethod.com
PS I’d appreciate it if you add me to your blog roll as one of the Alex Jeffreys’ students.
Cheers,
Gaielle
http://www.SharpMarketingMethod.com
Seriously Lance–for a great article I read yesterday on ESPN about the whole controversy about the “BCS Mafia”
, check out
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3815656
And Gaielle–I just headed over to check out your blog! You’ve got some great posts already, and you have 28.259 readers in Feedburner!! Now, that is quite a following!
Well done!
I think your blog looks great–you’ve got your e-mail opt-in (I’d just see if you can put the e-mail opt-in form “above the fold” so that it is higher up on the page and that more people see it. Keep adding great posts, and get your links out on the other blogs to drive traffic to you.
It looks like you have some blank ad space–I would either fill those with ads, or take that off of your blog completely.Then it won’t be just wasting space.
I hope you can get Module 4 working, because that social traffic stuff is going to be great for you!
Hey Adam – What products do you have to generate traffic to sites that aren’t blogs and list building? Do you have products to generate traffic to commercial sites, ie homebuilder, loan officer, retail site, etc????
Thanks – Lance
I think that Utah has the best argument for being the national champion. First of all they went undefeated this year, 13-0. Secondly, they beat an Alabama team that was ranked #1 for 5 weeks of the season. They even beat them by 14 points which was a much higher margin of victory than Florida beat them by.
Also, they beat 4 top 25 teams during the year (BYU, TCU, Oregon State and Alabama). Their strength of schedule was better than Alabama and USC. USC’s one loss was to Oregon State, which Utah beat during the regular season.
Honestly, what will it take for a non-BCS school to win a National Championship? The Mountain West was the 3rd best conference in college football this year. Come on people!
Hey Lance,
There are a lot of sites — social network sites, forums, social bookmarking, creating free web pages on sites like Hub pages, Weebly, Squidoo, and even submitting articles to article directories and videos to YouTube and other video directories –these same strategies will work for any niche.
All of these methods are SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and social marketing free traffic methods that can work in any niche. The key is to include your niche-specific keywords in each of these traffic generation methods.
If you take a look at my ebook, I go over these strategies and show you how I did it, and I have a lot of videos on past posts showing you how to set these strategies up and get going.
You can also check out my Social Traffic Explosion course which shows you the underground tactics I use to generate tons of social traffic.
You can also check out Ed Dale’s 30 Day Challenge on YouTube which gives a general overview about generating free traffic for all sorts of different niches.
And I am creating these pages and driving tons of free traffic to my other non-internet marketing websites in other niches using these same traffic tactics.
Adam
I completely agree–Utah slaughtered Alabama, AND were the only school to remain undefeated!
If they are going to keep the BCS, at least make it so that EVERY team can have a shot at winning. Consolidate all of the conferences and just make 4 BCS conferences so that all the teams are in a BCS conference.
Although Florida did look quite impressive against Oklahoma–just let the teams settle it on the field! The frustrating part is that Utah doesn’t even have a chance to go up against Florida….
Unfortunately, I’m sure that the “BCS Mofia” love all of the controversy and buzz…