75 Places To Submit Your Squidoo Site

Posted on October 31, 2007 
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Ever wonder how to get the word out to promote your new Squidoo lens? (Don’t forget you’ll find more info on Squidoo at PowerSquidoo.com and PowerSquidoo on Squidoo.com.) We’ve compiled our list of 75 blog-directories that’d love to hear from you. Remember that when you post, use keyrich usernames to promote the site. Just in case they ask for it, you may want to have handy a list of good keywords or tags to use.

Here they are in alphabetical order. Enjoy…

AdURLBlog.com
All-Blog.com
AuthorsBlogs.com
BiggerBlogger.com/
Blog.HotOrNot.com/
BlogAdvance.com/
BlogAnnounce.info/
Blogarama.com/
Blogazoo.com/
BlogCatalog.com/
BlogDigger.com/
Blogdir.co.uk/
Blogdir.com/
Blog-Directory.org/index.php
BlogDust.com/Blog-directory/
BlogExplosion.com/
Bloggeries.com/
Bloggernity.com/
BlogHop.com/
BlogHub.com/
Blogion.com/
BlogLines.com/
BlogMatrix.com/
Blogoriffic.com/
BlogPoint.com/
BlogPulse.com/
BlogRankings.com/
BlogRatingz.com/index.jsp
BlogRoll.net/
Blogs.tomstopsites.com
BlogScholar.com/
Blogs-Collection.com/
BlogSearchEngine.com/
BlogsForSmallBusiness.com
BlogsRating.com/
BlogStreet.com/
BlogTopList.com/
BlogTopSites.com/
BlogWise.com/
Bloogz.com/
BlurtIt.com/
BoingBoing.net/
BrowseBlogs.com/
BulkFeeds.net/
Crayon.net/
DelightfulBlogs.com/
dir.BlogFlux.com/
Directory.Autismlina.com/
Directory.BlogThat.net/
Esperanto.se/Kiosk/Engindex.html
FeedMap.net/BlogMap/
FeedPlex.com
FindingBlog.com/
Findory.com/Blogs/
GeekPhilosopher.com/
GetBlogs.com/
GlobeOfBlogs.com/
HeadlineSpot.com/
IceRocket.com/
KookKoo.com/
Memigo.com/
NewsTrove.com/
Portal.EatonWeb.com/
QuickBlogDirectory.com/
RateItAll.com/
RSSMad.com/
Sarthak.net/Blogz/
SeaBlogs.com
SearchBlog.com/
StarBlogs.com/
Technorati.com/
TheVital.net/
TruthLaidBear.com/
Wutzle.com/
YourWeBlogHere.com/

100 Internet Marketing Guru’s Distilled Down to 5 P’s — P Number One Is….

Posted on August 29, 2007 
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I know I am not alone. I, like many, have spent thousands of dollars getting trained by countless “Internet Marketing Guru’s.” Some well worth it. most not worth the electrons used to sell it to me online. But I have walked away from those trainings and distilled down to 5 principles or pillars that pretty much cover how to have success with your online business.

They are:
1) Prep It
2) Produce It
3) Propagate It
4) Profit It
5) Parlay It  Read more

Did Your Internet Guru Slice You Up With
“Glass From His Broken Window?”

Posted on August 24, 2007 
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   This whole idea of the Big Mouth Marketer is that this internet marketing “thing” is not as easy as some would have you believe…nor as hard as the gurus want you to think. We are here to debunk the bull…and that’s half a word and hopefully shed light on the truth.

   Great example, I recently signed up for a book and video training series by one of the guru’s making their rounds. Bought his stuff, then waited patiently for him to tell me how to access the private part of the forum where all the “juicy” tidbits of info were stored. Problem was not only couldnt I get access, I couldn’t get a response from the guru.

   He showed he had “broken windows.”

   If you’ve ever read Malcolm Gladwell’s TIPPING POINT, then you probably know the Broken Windows theory and its impact on helping to reduce crime in New York City during the ’90s. Gladwell writes,

   “Broken Windows was the brainchild of the criminologists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling. Wilson and Kelling argued that crime is the inevitable result of disorder. If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.”

   More recently author and media/PR expert Michael Levine, published a book entitled , BROKEN WINDOWS BROKEN BUSINESS, where he applies the broken windows theory to business. Levine’s premise? That a broken window in business happens when someone (stupidly) isn’t paying attention to details. He states,

   “A broken window can be a sloppy counter, a poorly located sale item, a randomly organized menu, or an employee with a bad attitude. It can be physical, like a faded, flaking paint job, or symbolic, like a policy that requires consumers to pay for customer service. When the waiter at a Chinese restaurant is named Billy Bob, that’s a broken window. When a call for help assembling a bicycle results in a twenty-minute hold on the phone (playing the same music over and over), that’s a broken window. When a consumer asks why she can’t return her blouse at the counter and is told, “Because that’s the rule,” that is a broken window. They’re everywhere. Except at the really sharp businesses.”

   If you believe Levine, those broken windows are sure and telltale signs to customers (us) that a business just doesn’t care. It also indicates to us that the business is poorly managed, and or it has become too big and frankly…arrogant to truely adequately deal with little details like the “broken windows.”

   He goes on to warn that customers eventually draw wide-ranging conclusions (usually negative) based upon their perceptions of the broken windows they find. These negative perceptions quickly undermine a business as that gross conclusion can turn a once highly-satisfied customer into very-dissatisfied customer who will take their business and money elsewhere.

   As the Tipping Point states the theory that the primary key to growth is paying attention to all the details. If you order a product, at least take the time to take care and wrap up the sale…a post close lock-up.

   In my case? I contacted the credit card company and cancelled the order. Too bad, I was really looking forward to it.