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Disqus is a global comment system that improves discussion on websites and connects conversations across the web Read More

There lots of ways to attract visitors to your web site, but the true measure of success is always conversion. When it comes to converting those visitors to subscribers, enrollments and buyers, one of the most effective tools is what is commonly referred to as a landing page Read More

My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week.

I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr Read More

My new book, The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself, ships next week so I thought I would share some of the key points via a slide show. Hope you grab something tweetable and, well, consider buying the book too :) – links to buy – Barnes & Noble, Amazon, 800-CEO-READ or Indie Boun Read More

Twitter seems to be headed down the path towards creating their own suite of apps. You might want to bookmark their media blog as it’s gotten pretty active. Last week brought the @anywhere platform for developers and this week they introduced a simple little tool that allows you to republish tweets like a screen grab Read More

Marketing, perhaps the most important function in a business, often gets pushed to the end of the to do list by whatever seemingly urgent needs that crop up during the day. To give marketing the attention it deserves you must make the practice a habit Read More

The title of this post may sound a bit bold, but I’ve personally witnessed three separate businesses dramatically impacted by their participati Read More

Free is a great model; it scales very well for the end user. Problem is, a business built on free can have some real trouble making a profit, or in s Read More

Marketing podcast with Liz Strauss (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes

Liz StraussMy guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is Liz Strauss, CEO and founder of SOBCon and author of the popular Successful-Blog.com. We talk about social media, of course, the upcoming SOBCon Conference in Chicago (April 30), and the blending of online and offline worlds – my current favorite topic Read More

posterousBy now you’ve likely heard of the online content publishing tool posterous. If not, it’s billed as the dead simple place to post anything – just email us.

Anyone can set up a posterous site and add just about any form of content by simply sending an email to your account. If you want to create a blog, you can get started in about 2 minutes. Families and groups can create a site and start adding all manner of information and pictures without any technical know how at all. You can make your posterous site private if you like, get fancy with professional looking themes and create custom domains. The tool can easily act, as it does for growing numbers, (Here’s Steve Rubel’s Stream built entirely on posterous) as an online business hub Read More