MindValley Labs Internet Marketing Blog

Hel­looo, it’s called Social Media

Social media is turn­ing mar­ket­ing and pub­lic rela­tions upside down. The rules of the game are chang­ing and shift­ing, and amidst all of this won­der­ful, innovation-driven chaos, many get into social media with­out keep­ing a focus on the “social” in social media.
How many times have you got­ten onboard a social media […]

Last week, I blogged a post about a con­cept I call “Social Polar­ity” and how you can infuse it into your blog’s mar­ket­ing.
Cre­ate an enemy and don’t be neu­tral. Remem­ber, what we want is polar­ity, not neu­tral­ity. Neu­tral is bor­ing, and bor­ing is unat­trac­tive. It’s as sim­ple as that. In fact, I remem­ber Frank Kern […]

Blog com­mu­ni­ties and com­menters play a role in defin­ing the blogs they social­ize in. What’s your com­mu­nity of blog com­menters like? If you had a chance to build your blog all over again, what would you do dif­fer­ently?
There’s a preva­lent notion which says that if you com­ment in rel­e­vant blogs and forums, even­tu­ally peo­ple will […]

I’d like to intro­duce you to Amir Ahmad, the lat­est addi­tion to our Mind­Val­ley Labs blog.
Hav­ing been invited for con­fer­ences co-organized by Har­vard Uni­ver­sity and attended inter­na­tional ones, Amir is a blo­ga­holic and a pas­sion­ate observer of the blo­gos­phere. He has also built and grown a num­ber of suc­cess­ful blogs.
Amir will be blog­ging about blog­ging itself, SEO […]

I was doing research today on blog mar­ket­ing and wanted to share a few of the qual­ity links I came upon. The obvi­ous win­ner here is Dosh Dosh; the amount of qual­ity con­tent on that site is amaz­ing. My only gripe is that the date of pub­li­ca­tion is never obvi­ous.
With that, if you are […]

Ok, as I men­tioned, we did a few tweaks to the blog to see what would hap­pen.
The changes we did were:

Append “about the author” to the end of each post
Append “related posts” to the end of each post
Append a link to our free inter­net mar­ket­ing course to the end of each post

Sadly, I don’t think there are any […]

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, but the […]

Mark Joyner of Sim­ple­ol­ogy is releash­ing a free course on blogging.

It’s a multi-media course on blog­ging. For a while, they’re let­ting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:

The best blog­ging tech­niques.
How to get traf­fic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once […]

How to use a Blog as a Source of Com­pet­i­tive Advan­tage to Boost Your Site Sales?
We’ve found that a blog can be a great source of com­pet­i­tive advan­tage.
Ever been in this sit­u­a­tion?
You own a site sell­ing a spe­cific niche prod­ucts — say dog food. There are 20 other sites com­pet­ing with you. PPC costs are through the roof. […]

In a hyper com­pet­i­tive mar­ket online are there ways to gen­er­ate traf­fic that don’t cost you an arm and a leg? We are pleased to reveal the answer to this ques­tion is YES! This reveal­ing case study shows how to gen­er­ate traf­fic to your sites with­out fork­ing out on unnec­es­sary, extor­tion­ate PPC adver­tis­ing costs.
The fol­low­ing case […]