With so much activity (all or most of it advertising) here in this forum, I wonder if any of you take a break sometimes and just plug into some good information.
To that end I'm inviting you to pop over and view this forum on article marketing.
http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/921453.aspx

To Success~1~

Thanks Tim,

Very good little article.

I love to write.

My question is what's a squidoo lens?

Roger

FANTASTIC AND ABOUT TIME SOMEONE REMINDED THAT INFORMATION COMES BEFORE SALES.  I have added your site to my list of favorites.  Thanks again for the reminder. 

Hi Roger,

A Squidoo Lens is something like a blog only better. Squidoo is part of what people have been ranting wildly about when they speak of Web 2.0

Every marketing professional should be using blogs in conjunction with Web 2.0 techniques (yes..web 2.0 is not so much a "place" as it is a process)
One of those techniques is connecting your blog to your Squidoo lens. Both blogs and lenses are highly attractive to Google, and they are constantly spidering the Squidoo site picking up the activity there, and following the links flowing outwards. Thus connecting your marketing activities to both your squidoo and your blog make it that much more likely for Google to "see" you (and if Google see's you then searchers can see you too, the point being then to optimize your website or blog so it will rank high for select keywords thus creating that elusive commodity....traffic)

If you're affiliate marketing then you want your lens and blog to be concentrating on the keywords that are most relevant to your product or services, but neither place is intended for heavy advertising. Leave that for your marketing pages.

Social networking sites like Squidoo place a greater value on content, and you will be rewarded or penalized by the members of communities like Squidoo based on the content you provide. (the penalty primarily being that you will be ignored)

This is what we will be teaching more about in Success Patrol and I highly encourage those of you who don't want to be left in the  marketing "dark ages" to join with us and learn these very important techniques.
If you don't learn Web 2.0, your marketing results will continue to shrink driving you out of business.

Thanks Barbara!

Your support is encouraging! It's nice to know that people read and appreciate what I'm doing.

I hope that everyone takes notice of the number of viewers and participants here on my posts in this forum, as opposed to those postings which are just advertisements for the "next best thing"

The results and views that I get are clearly telling you something. Content talks to people and they listen. They find things they are looking for, and they keep coming back to read more of what you're saying time and time again.

Look at the numbers people..go far back in the record of this forum. If you don't see the pattern, then I suggest you take a closer look ;-)

Even my own posts that were mostly ad's didn't get as many responses aside from those of my well wishing and supportive friends.

It's information, content and answers that people hunger for, and I've found so much more success in providing that kind of service than I ever did in selling stuff. It's also a LOT more satisfying!!

The scary thing about this method is that you have to take the chance. You have to be patient (because it takes time) stretch yourself and learn new things, learn to share what you know and develop a philosophy that is based on giving, rather than taking.

In doing this you become MUCH more attractive to other people and quite suddenly things start to become a lot easier. People respond to you, they answer your mail, they post in your forums, and they join your offers.

I don't advertise anymore. I haven't posted a regular ad in months, and I don't intend to advertise the way I used to either!
I was much like those you see everywhere..posting my "urgent" notices, sometimes in "all caps" and all fired up about the importance of my message of benefit to you if you'll only just consider my offer......

I just breathed a HUGE sigh of relief, because I don't have to do that anymore, and guess what? I had 4 people join Success Patrol yesterday. People join my business every day now, and I DON'T ADVERTISE a lick!

Do you know what kind of pressure that takes off my shoulders?

Mind you that new responsibility places other kinds of pressures on me, but I can safely say these are the kinds of pressures I'd MUCH rather deal with :-)

So, once again..I hope you've found some value in this, that you've learned something that will assist you in your marketing career.

To Success!