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You name dropping, glass eyed dog owning expert you!

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@Erin - thanks so much for reporting in! Glad you are so fired up and willing to do the work. The rewards are very much worth it.

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Ugh, I thoroughly agree with #1!

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Awesome post Jack! As a member of Blog Success, I am making my way through your 60 day plan. I completed one month (lots of work - but so worth it) and received my first Google pagerank - a 3!

I identify with this post so much as I took December to go back over the first 30 days and try to catch up and get everything done that I skimmed or missed. The social sites get overwhelming, and it’s so easy to find yourself spending way too much time joining new social site after new social site.

As a newbie, I would honestly be lost without your help and the SPL/Blog Success group. I am currently integrating a sales funnel and then I am off to complete next 30 days.

Thank you so much for all the info you so freely share.

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Hi Jack

Great post today. I can see why the Diva put you at the top of her list
Thanks for the link to her blog. Now to check out the rest of the list
so I have some names to drop. I cant let my glass eyed dog beat me with his backflips over Problogger and Chris Brogan.

Gary McElwain

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Joe - no prob. I think it’s definitely the most promising of all the Twitter ad stuff to come out. Seems to satisfy both linker and followers without getting too “in your face” like others.

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Copywriting is absolutely the best thing I have ever learned. It is responsible in large part to my success. I would suggest learning about page designs that convert is essential, too. Goes beautifully with great copy.

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Jack,

Thanks for writing about Adjix and mentioning the latest features we rolled out yesterday. It’s much appreciated.

Cheers,
Joe Moreno
President
Adjix

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@Trent - DONE!

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Shama - And I can completely picture myself telling someone about you. I’m sure there’s a 99.9% chance I’d say “Go see Shama. She’s a social media expert.” I mean, just out of habit when I describe people who know a lot of stuff about something, that’s what I say.

I wondered about who I’d be catching in this web that was deserving of the label “expert” especially by the definition you’ve mentioned, but at the same time I wanted to get to the heart of the fact that we are all learning daily about this stuff too. I’m sure you agree, and that’s what makes it exciting to us. There’s always something around every corner every single day.

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Hey Jack,

Glad to see we are both fans of Maria - the web success diva. The girl knows her stuff! : )

I agree with much of what you have to say. There are definitely WAY too many self proclaimed experts out there who didn’t know what Twitter was 3 months ago.

That being said, I don’t shy away from the term “expert” myself. I don’t think an expert is a know-it-all. On the contrary, I think it’s someone who is constantly learning and stays one step ahead of the curve to serve others. And that’s a definition I can live with.

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Jack,

Your sense of humor honestly cracks me up!!

Between BlogSuccess, FTR and WebSuccessDiva I seem to find everything that I need to know.

Thanks. This post hits the nail on the head!

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Not trying to SPAM you but today (Jan 7) I blogged about a new Twitter service:
“Twitter Tweets From Great Figures In History” that’s quite funny.
What would Jesus, Gandhi, John Lennon be tweeting about?

Andrew Gouldings last blog post..Twitter Tweets From Great Figures In History

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Thank you so much for this list. I have been looking for a list like this for a long time. I knew about Ezine Articles, but I did not know about many of the others.

Jason
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anim8tr - I wasn’t going to stop until I got you something you could use! Would love to hear what you come up with!

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Jack, now that’s an idea that I can use.

I think the difference is that I look at link building from a product sales and marketing perspective and you’re looking at this more from a traffic building and social networking perspective.

I think it’s going to be hard for product marketeers to find a use for social networking in general, but I do like your idea of having companies reach out to others and then building lines of communication on a more personal level.

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@lemonpoof (that name just makes you smile) re: playing with Twitter - I’ve found a lot of great marketing value while simply “playing” with social media with no direct purpose at the moment. Sometimes you just have to let yourself surf and play like regular internet users to find interesting and useful things that can help you as a marketer.

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Augie - all links from legit sites are important. Google is the only thing that got people thinking they absolutely must have 100% niche relevant links to their sites. Today that’s just not a webmaster’s only concern. Big portals and social sites get links from every corner of the web on every imaginable topic. Taking those links away and leaving only what Google thinks is relevant would do massive damage to those sites.

So you need both to accomplish different tasks. Relevant for Google and more fired up, targeted direct traffic, and less “keyword relevant” nods from any other site you can get. It’s still a vote and it still has value in direct traffic and even the engines, though they won’t cop to that.

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@Mikael - I’m not telling but it’s way more than 1 or 2 people. If you click enough links in Twitter, you’ll start wondering who isn’t a social media expert.

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Jack,

I just found you via Utterli. Great stuff here. I’d add our blog at http://impactinteractions.blogspot.com/ as a resource for your followers. With over nine years of helping large organizations with their social media/online communities and measurement, we provide a lot of free best practices that just might help your audience avoid making mistakes.

Thanks again.

Mike

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anim8tr - Maybe it would help to think of it as publicity. How would a bike shop get publicity offline? They hold events, raise money for charity with bike-a-thons, put tricked-out bikes in local parades - they pull stunts and good deeds in their community.

Now, what’s the equivalent of that online? Getting connected and plugged in socially and raising money in an exciting way to get 30 poor kids new bikes for this coming summer.

Don’t let the technology blind you from good old fashioned marketing. It’s the same online as off. It’s just a different medium.

So if you can’t get competitors to link to you no matter what, you can get a lot of other people to link to you and talking about you for standing out and doing something neat. Some of those links could be bigger media sites wanting to do a story on you. But they can’t find you unless you’re out there mixing it up and building buzz enough to get the attention of big sites who are non competitors.

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It takes a fair amount of practice to really get good and video production. They tips in the above article are a great resource for anyone trying to learn how to make their own videos for their website or blog.

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Great post Jack but I can help wondering who it is you’re referring to but don’t mention by name. It is clear that you have one or more people that you’re “dedicating” the post to
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Jack-

Is there any usefulness of getting links to your site from unrelated sites? Or, if my site is about baseball and I get links to my free mortgage calculator, is that useless?

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anim8tr - Darren Rowse is a pretty direct competitor of mine, but he links to me. In the blog sphere, we are all competing for many of the same visitors. That competitor has to gain something by linking to you. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find out what they value and get them to act against the knee-jerk reaction to smother you with indifference. You aren’t protecting your business by not acknowledging your competition. You are isolating it. And after awhile, you can become irrelevant in the discussions going on in the niche by being a protectionist.

All the A-List bloggers in every conceivable niche link to each other. That should be a sign.

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