As some of you may know the online marketing world has been through some crazy stuff the past few weeks. This all surrounds marketers who sell free trial and continuity offers (membership sites & monthly autoship offers). This also touches any business who cross-sells and up-sells products and services.
These rules impact other businesses like direct mail and telephone merchants!
It’s important you fully understand the impact of this on your business. Visa, Mastercard & the FTC are all making some big changes and these new rules have the possibility to hurt your business if you don’t understand them. Read more...(2456 words, estimated 9:49 mins reading time)
We had a great show last night with a very good turnout. Thanks for everyone who tuned in live. If you missed it I’ve recorded the show and will post the video below. However, you really should tune in live if you can. It gives you a chance to ask questions live and get help from me directly live on the show. There’s no other way to get that right now (Other than sign up as a McIntosh Marketing client and pay the big bucks) Read more...(486 words, estimated 1:57 mins reading time)
I just posted this new YouTube video that shows you step by step how to set up your YouTube account & start using the brand new YouTube sponsored search advertising feature:
It should show you everything you need to know in order to get started. It basically works like any other PPC (pay per click) search advertising. You put in the keyword you want to target and the highest price you’re willing to pay for clicks. Read more...(216 words, estimated 52 secs reading time)
Yahoo Buzz has officially opened its doors to all website publishers. Up until today there was only a small list of publishers who could submit stories to Yahoo Buzz. Now the floodgates are open and any website can submit stories.
For example, this story is the first that I’m submitting. You can see my Buzz button in the upper left. In fact, I think I hear it calling, “Click me…click me”. Read more...(491 words, estimated 1:58 mins reading time)
Today Google announced the introduction of their new AdManager service. It’s described as an ad serving tool for publishers of small and medium sized websites. With it you can serve ads from AdSense and other networks along with serving in house advertising as well.
Google describes Admanager this way: Read more...(285 words, 2 images, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)
