MindValley Labs Internet Marketing Blog

Patrick rightfully notes that the week between Christmas and New Years is only as slow as you make it. We only have 52 weeks each year, so don't let this one slip through your grasp. Unless you're vacationing.
We've taken that message to heart, and to prove it we're opening ourselves up to a little [...]

Rich Schefren in the Attention Age Doctrine says Every Niche of Every Market is Fragmenting... and that's a good thing.
 
Here's why the fragmentation of your market should be viewed as a good thing (if you let the Attention Age Doctrine ebook help you).
When TV started out, you had 3 channels.
Then cable came and you had [...]

As you've probably noticed, we just recently updated our blog design. Over the next few days we'll be updating some links (a few are broken right now) and tweaking some of the design elements.
This makes it the perfect time to hear your thoughts on the new design. Like it? What works? What doesn't? In [...]

Every web site we build is optimized for 6 critical psychological triggers.
Use these triggers to inspire visitors to become leads and leads to become customers.
Note: With this power comes great responsibility.
It's the holidays, so we thought we'd share some of our strongest strategies with you.
There's a $474,500,000,000+ holiday pie to be split over the next [...]

Initial PPC Ad Positions are critical to your overall success.
What positions do your ads usually take in PPC?
When you launch a website or just begin advertising a product, one of the most important things you should consider is the PPC position of your ad.
Before you get started, you have to understand Google’s standpoint on this. [...]

Master the Secrets to Achieving Headline Greatness.
The Difference Between Good and Great Headlines.
On the average, 5 times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy. It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90% of your money.
~ David Ogilvy, World famous advertising executive and best-selling author.
Imagine staring at [...]

UPDATE: 30 new SocialRank sites launched
On October 1st we're launching a new service called SocialRank. We're really excited about this.
Here's why.
SocialRank is a mathematical algorithm that measures the importance of blog posts. Think of it as something akin to Google's Pagerank, but focused on blog postings rather than webpages.
Well, we don't expect the math to [...]

We have'nt been blogging for awhile. But MindValleyLabs has been moving at full steam ahead.
We just hired our 17th employee and are now looking for a larger office space.
But our personal lives have been good too.
First, Mike's is getting married tomorrow on the island of Mallorca, off the coast of spain, to his wonderful fiance [...]

Over the last one year, our team has worked on optimizing hundreds of sites and carefully compiling and testing results and failures.
We got pretty good at being able to very quickly figure out what was working and not working and then showing site owners how to make simple tweaks that could dramatically boost their conversion rates [...]

Ben Hunt blogged and blogged and blogged and out of his passion emerged a booming business, and how did it happen? I hear you ask . . . completely accidentally!
A blogging strategy can kick your competitors in the nuts and leave them gasping for air while you reap the rewards.
Let's let Ben tell his story [...]