Author Archives: Trevor Dumbleton

How to Create Content for your Website Regularly

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The web thrives on content.

When you create content for your website regularly, some fun things start to happen!

Google has an insatiable appetite for content – but not just “any” content. It needs to be what their searchers want and it needs to hit all the right spots so that people don’t just click through to your website and then click straight back to Google.

If that happens, you’ll drop like a stone in the search results.

So how can you create content for your website on a regular basis and not run out of steam?

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Behind the Scenes in Internet Marketing

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I nearly didn’t write this post.

Like all industries, internet marketing has a public face and then a lot of things going on behind the scenes.

Some of the behind the scenes stuff is the usual boring material such as setting up websites, adding content, using autoresponders, that kind of thing.

But a thread in a forum I read reminded me of the other side (maybe even the dark side but that might be over-dramatic).

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Decisions. Decisions. Analysis Paralysis? What to Do?

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There’s often too much choice available.

Which means we can fall into the trap of using decision making to put off making a decision at all.

Sometimes that’s a good move – there are often good reasons that we’re being pushed to make a decision now, this instant.

But they’re not necessarily reasons that benefit us. More often, they benefit the vendor.

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How Not To Launch a Book: Learn from Paul McKenna

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Paul McKenna’s latest book launch (UK link here, USA link here) is almost an object lesson in what not to do when you launch a book.

There are so many schoolboy errors with this launch that if Bantam Press were my publisher I’d be having some very strong words and probably hunting either for a replacement publisher or deciding to self publish.

The launch date logic would sound good.

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Internet Marketing: Turning the Ordinary into Unique

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Often a very small twist or tweak can turn an ordinary business into a unique, extraordinary one.

Very often it’s the basics – customer service (Nordstrom in the USA, sometimes Waitrose in the UK) is often a really basic method that’s overlooked far too often.

A simple test is to step back from the market you’re in and ask yourself what you’d personally like to receive as a customer.

That’s what programs like AirBnB and Uber have done.

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Are You Delivering What You’re Promising Online?

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The question sounds so simple that the answer should always be yes.

After all, if you promised to do something in real life, there’s a good chance you’d either do what you promised or you’d feel so guilty about not doing so that you’d either work away until you delivered on your promise or you’d grovel and apologise to the person you’d let down.

But so often things online don’t live up to the original promise. And there appears to be no guilt or remorse.

I was recently on a 90 webinar from a UK marketer who I’d previously thought was OK.

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Online Marketing: Are You Being Jekyll and Hyde?

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Jekyll and Hyde is probably the most famous split personality case, even though it’s fiction.

But are you doing the same thing with your blog posts and emails?

Do you come across as one person in real life and a different one when you write on your website or send an email out to your list?

It’s an easy trap to fall into.

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