Santa is looking for a great book to buy you for Christmas, I suggest Accelerate by Arnie Kuenn It is great, I can hardly put it down. I watch his webinar a few weeks ago and just received the book, as I read the book

Accelerate!: Forward Through the Convergence of Search, Social & Content Marketing.

If you want your website to soar with the eagles, this it the book to read! I’t not a large book and Arnie is right to the point. He is the owner of Vertical Measures here in Phoenix.

“If you own a website, you’re a publisher.”

Interruption marketing is a thing of the past. We can no longer only talk to our audience. We must join the conversation that’s already happening.

The world of marketing has been radically changing in the last couple of years to a new kind of marketing. Businesses that have been spending their marketing budgets on print, TV, banner ads, and even PPC are realizing that there is a better way. A better way to attract leads, to nurture those leads, to lower your cost per sale and to speed up the buying process. That way is content marketing.

The companies that are succeeding right now are the ones creating content that engages their customers and brings in the business.

That’s where this book comes in. Many marketing books present themselves like the consultant who comes in and says, “Here’s the strategy you need, but I don’t implement. I don’t actually do it. That’s for you to figure out.” But if you’re going to be successful, you need to understand how to create and promote compelling content that brings in the customers – not just that you need to.

It is only $17.05 on Amazon, click on the link above to order the book. Accelerate by Arnie Kuenn

I’ll just take a moment of your time and share with you this shocking phone call I received a few minutes ago from Kevin George, a member of our SEO Community. To say that Kevin was ecstatic would be an understatement as he explained that the lifestyle he was able to provide to his family was about to change forever. He said that just after watching only 1 of the 8 training modules of Andrew’s Local Niche Power training that he decided to “test the waters” on Tuesday calling an acquaintance who is the VP of Business Development of a local business in Scottsdale. Kevin asked, “If I came up with an idea to market and promote your services online, would you be willing to pay me a commission?” Shocked at what happened next The VP said that he “was very interested” as he was ready to launch “a big ticket” service at the end of the month in several local markets and wanted to meet with Kevin on Friday (tomorrow). Kevin said that after getting over the initial shock he immediately reached out to Andrew, taking advantage of our free coaching and discussed strategy. Kevin then downloaded sample business contracts from module 6 of the Local Niche Power training guide and went to work editing them for this upcoming meeting. Also in preparation for his meeting, Kevin created his first “Local Niche Power” WordPress site using the guide in module 2, “Setting up Shop”.

Then the Clincher, Even more Shocking! Then this morning Kevin got a phone call from another Scottsdale business. This second business owner explained that he just finished up a round of golf with Kevin’s first client who told him about Kevin’s service. This second client “begged” Kevin to put together a similar deal for his business and agreed to pay a 10% commission.

Andrew did it; Kevin’s doing it and so can YOU! “Andrew’s Local Niche Power training laid it all out for me from A to Z and with the tools and contracts in hand I’m about to change my life and my families life forever by landing these two six-figure a year clients” – Kevin George

After watching the video, and being in class with Andrew several months ago. I knew this young mind was going to create a successful program for many affiliate marketers. I’m so excited that I join his training program and have defined my Local Niche.

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So excited I just had to share this video with you.  It’s time for your business to take the next step and not go the the Hot Summer Blues (singing about how slow business is).

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I found this great little book for summer reading. It’s by Darren Barefoot called Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook. If your wanting to read more about social media and blogging this book would be a great start.

Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook

The rules of marketing have changed. Savvy marketing professionals know that they must engage with individuals directly on the Web, and smart businesses know that customers can become friends—with benefits. Friends With Benefits shows you how to get into the online marketing game. A guide filled with tips, tricks, and real-world case studies, Friends With Benefits shows how you can increase your company’s online visibility and Web traffic and win over online influencers.

I have been using WordPress for over a year and love the ease of changing and tweaking bits and pieces of the website.  Clients still ask what is WordPress?  Too sum it up, it is a great product!  You can also read the details below.

WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It’s often customized into a Content Management System (CMS).[4] It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites.[5][click to continue…]

It was first released on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg[1] as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of February 2011, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 32.5 million times.

WordPress has a web template system using a template processor. Users can re-arrange widgets without editing PHP or HTML code; they can also install and switch between themes. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters are also included, providing standardized formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes). WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article. Finally, WordPress has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.

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