The winner of our Marketing Makeover Contest, Glenda Watson Hyatt, has made SO good on her winnings. Here’s her thoughtful report on how her blog is climbin’ the charts after her virtual book tour.
“ …in eight weeks, my technorati ranking jumped up to 67,995 (150 links from 59 blogs) . I nearly caught up to [...]

I recently had fun asking an excellent designer I know, Sarah Van Male, to redesign my Discover Your Soul Purpose CD cover. The old design was kind of black and white and not very sexy … and I just thought it was time for a new overhaul. (I get a huge amount of traffic to [...]

I realize it’s not super relevant to helpful marketing tips, but I thought I’d take just a moment to share with you a tad of the rest of my life. The following are happening/have happened … not ranked in any order of importance.

My laptop died, I went looking for a replacement, and here I am [...]

In a recent panel I was on, I listened to comments by Jan B King, who is a publishing consultant and expert. Boy that was fascinating! Jan says 55% of all books sold today are not sold in bookstores but online. And that authors have become the primary marketers to the point where they’re doing [...]

Hallelujah! Reader Ken Burgin provided a good alternative to EzineCheck – Spamdance … See http://www.bmyers.com/spamdance/ This is a service that scans your ezine copy to make sure it doesn’t wind up in the Junk folder by accidentally including spam trigger words.
Right on!

As promised, here are the steps Kathy Cano Murillo took when building up that juicy list of 7000 on MySpace … which by the way, has scored her all kinds of media hits including four major women’s magazines, NPR, television producers, film directors and more. She’s also gotten a significant number of speaking gigs from [...]

Recently I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Kathy Cana Murillo, a Latina crafting expert and author. (Warning, her excellent page plays music … I know some of you folks are sensitive about that <grin>.) Kathy has used MySpace to build a list of 7000 and sell A LOT of books in just a little [...]

Reader Lissa Ann Forbes wrote us the following tip:
You might be interested in looking into http://www.liveofficefreeconferencing.com/index.htmlIt has some really nice features:

Easy sign up for free service
250 callers for free
Telephone pad controls AND web controls (mute all and recording with the click of a mouse—you don’t have to leave the call)

o Free [...]

Jeff Faller (not to be confused with my cousin, Jeff Falter) recommended the following as a good source for RSS feed buttons. Thanks Jeff!
I’d actually recommend using Add This for your RSS Subscription buttons. It lets your readers subscribe to your feed via a simple, two step process that includes 20 or so readers [...]

Here’s a neat source for your next VA – that’s ‘virtual assistant’ to those who don’t know. These lovely off-site administrators help you run your business efficiently, and gloriously easy by doing the stuff you can’t get to double quick and twice as well.
The referral in question is Team Double Click
Says my source, my own [...]