Marketing tactics have been around since commerce began thousands of years ago. Well before the explosion of public relations and Edward Bernays in the late 1920s, ancient Egyptians would nail papyrus to a wall or tree advertising their businesses.
For many individuals, hobbies remain just that – hobbies. However, with the right balance of drive, creativity and business smarts, you can transform any hobby into a profit-generating online business – simply by creating a blog about your hobby.
StumbleUpon and Digg are two sites that article marketers and the social network advertisers must take seriously. The sites are set up to send traffic to other websites, based on posts that users make. Frequently, it is the originator of a page, article, blog post or page comment, who will take the initiative to submit it to either or both sites.
Back when I was young and foolish – now I’m just the latter – I wrote for an educational children’s show that achieved critical acclaim, a Peabody, but no commercial success.
When most people think of hosting, they are thinking of public cloud services; with good reason. Public cloud hosting services are the most common on the Internet – where perhaps thousands of different users will share the same servers.
In order to be successful online it is critical that you improve the long-term exposure and search engine result success of your web site by taking the time to compose content that is user friendly and search engine optimization (SEO) friendly.
There can be a high level of value derived from guest blog posting for both the author of the content and for the blog owner alike. However, the problem is that, of late, guest blogging has become more of a new age type of spam; a type of spam that is more advanced than most.
Hosting on a managed private cloud solution offers some major differences from hosting on a public cloud – mainly in the areas of customization and security. On a public cloud, a variety of users access the same servers to store their data – reducing cost and creating an on-demand resource center.
