http://internet-tycoons.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:27:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google has lots of excellent tools to help you research your niche - including Google Trends,  Google Reader - and now Google Blog Search. And they've just added RSS and Atom feeds to the Blog Search, to make it evn easier for you to get fresh information from your Target Market. Simply ... http://internet-tycoons.com/your-niche/niche-research/research-your-niche-with-the-new-google-blog-search/ I spent a fun and insightful day last week at Nick Tadd’s Social Media Workshop. Altogether a very useful and thought-and-action-provoking day! [gallery columns="2"] One of the questions I raised with Nick was the desirability of using corporate versus personal branding and accounts when using the social ... http://internet-tycoons.com/traffic-generation/social-media-schizophrenia-how-to-use-social-media-for-business/ I caught a Twitter and blog post from John Haydon about a video tutorial on feeding your Twitter stream with your Flickr activity by Ian Wilker that you may find helpful. This is a great approach for posting images that tell a story or update your Twitter followers - especially for ... http://internet-tycoons.com/your-business/blogging/video-tutorial-how-do-i-twitter-my-flickr-photos/ I came across this useful video on "How to tell a story" by Scott Simon. While the video is aimed at journalists, it is a very useful reminder of how to tell a story in your copywriting... It doesn't matter whether you're a Hack or Copywriter, we humans love stories and ... http://internet-tycoons.com/marketing/copywriting/how-to-tell-a-story-hack-or-copywriter/ Here's your invitation to a Tele-Interview I'm doing on July 8th with Thomas Power, Chairman of Ecademy, on how to find buyers and network using Facebook and Twitter... “Can you afford to not to be in a market with 300 million Prospective Buyers?” That’s the question that ... http://internet-tycoons.com/traffic-generation/%e2%80%9chow-to-use-twitter-facebook-to-find-buyers-and-build-your-network%e2%80%9d/ Google added a new set of tools on it’s search pages last month that will help you find new untapped niches! So go and check out the enhanced Search Options capabilities – including the ‘Wonder Wheel’! First, go to Google and do a search – say for ... http://internet-tycoons.com/your-niche/niche-research/find-untapped-niches-with-google%e2%80%99s-new-%e2%80%9cwonder-wheel%e2%80%9d/ On the same day that Microsoft unveiled its new Bing search engine (see upcoming post), Google has announced Google Wave, a new in-browser communication and collaboration tool that is set to change the way we work together online. Delegates at the Google I/O Conference last week were treated to an introduction ... http://internet-tycoons.com/your-business/google-wave-%e2%80%93-the-future-of-online-communication/ What a reminder that the Internet world is constantly changing! Google announced it’s new on-line communication and collaboration platform – Google Wave – on the same day as Microsoft unveiled it’s new search engine ‘Bing’ (it’s replacement for ‘Live Search’). And just preceding this was Wolfram Alpha, the new search engine that's ... http://internet-tycoons.com/your-niche/niche-research/google-wave-microsoft-bing-wolfram-alpha-wonder-wheel/ WARNING: YOU HAVE 3 SECONDS! That's right! Research indicates that you have between 3 to 8 seconds to get a searcher to click on your listing or to make your visitor decide to stay on your website, rather than ‘click on’ and go elsewhere. In a recent Conference Call, ... http://internet-tycoons.com/marketing/copywriting/the-golden-triangle-eye-tracking-website-conversion/ How does Google rank bidders on its Adwords program? That's a perennial question that Google never answers directly - and as a result, leads the web advertising industry a merry game 'catch-if-catch-can'! It also leads to much misunderstanding by those who can't afford to spend their days (and money) researching the actual ... http://internet-tycoons.com/traffic-generation/the-googleads-quality-score-mytery-unlocked/