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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]