MindValley Labs Internet Marketing Blog

A few weeks ago we started helping one of our partners set up a successful presence on Facebook. His name is Burt Goldman, The American Monk.
I’m guessing he’s probably the ONLY 81 year old monk with more than 1,000 true friends on the social network, which brings me to my story.
Owen Thomas, a blogger at [...]

Here are three more ways to spice up your body copy, and, being a writer, I couldn’t help but make them all start with the letter “S” -to help you remember better.
After you’ve written your body copy, bullet point and/or headlines, there are three tips in this evaluation process for your bullets or headlines.
Start With [...]

If you have ever wondered why you couldn’t convince your wife to buy that Ferrari, or why your customers don’t seem to ‘get’ what you are desperately trying to sell them, it’s really not your fault. Our Chief Mathematician revealed these mysteries through the power of maths/physics/scientific proof.
Below is his brilliant presentation during our [...]

If you construct your landing pages right, you’ve got a lot of beach time ahead of you. Your landing page is the first step to capturing all that traffic you’re paying for. A well-made landing page could be the difference between a website that’s your hobby and a website that funds your vacations.
If you’re spending [...]

I am at the Convention Center in KL and the room is packed with over 2,500 people.  There is a standing ovation even before Joe Girard has come on stage.  The energy in the room is electrifying… while I might have been tired just 5 minutes ago I am now wide awake waiting with eager [...]

As I write this, we are 8 hours and 45 minutes from launching a totally new product.
Before you go into a frenzy, it is not in the internet marketing field. It’s actually a new personal development product we’ve been working slaving over for several weeks and are now releasing to the world.
As you’ve probably [...]

I just had a reader post the following comment below our post on “How to Get from 20 Million to 100 Million in Online Sales”
I don’t usually publicize comments. But this is an exception. As I was reading this comment and the strategy the writer shared, it kept reminding me of some lessons I learned [...]

At Orlando I got invited to dinner with the very memorable duo of Travis Miller and Jimmy Vee. These guys are the authors of Gravitational Marketing: The Science of Attracting Customers.
It’s a fascinating concept and has to do with the idea of positioning yourself as a maven and being “different” from the norm.
I found Jimmy [...]

At the recent Strategic Profits seminar I attended in Florida I got introduced to Mary Ellen Tribby of EarlyToRise.com.

EarlyToRise is owned by Agora Publishing, which in Tribby’s words is an “Idea Company” and they focus on direct marketing.
I was totally blown away when they shared their metrics with me. They have a list of [...]

You may have noticed a month or so back that we briefly experimented with appending some “related post” links at the end of each entry. With a total disregard to building up the story, I’ll tell you the ending right now:
No change in page views.
The average user page view had no change, which was surprising, [...]