Bill McIntosh

Although I discussed this topic on my live show right before Christmas this past year, it applies to all of us from time to time. So I wanted to mention it now.

We often have the urge during traditionally “tough” economic times like holidays, to go into agreement with them, and blame those holidays or seasons for drops in our sales, low income, etc. What times are “tough” depend on what business you’re in. We say “Things are always slow this time of year” or “It’s the economy” or “It’s the holidays”. But saying those things doesn’t improve the situation, it just justifies low production.  Read more... (240 words, estimated 58 secs reading time)

Did you miss last Tuesday’s live show at BusinessInnerCircle.com?  Here’s what you missed!  The answers to the following questions:

1. Is Google just throwing out so many products they want to see what sticks?

2. What should a noob do to get into the Internet Marketing industry?

3. Does Google Buzz have an open API?

4. How do Google Buzz email alerts work?

5. What’s the difference between “white hat” and “black hat” marketing?  Read more... (162 words, estimated 39 secs reading time)

Do you have the idea that you have about as much control over your internet marketing as you do over a hand of cards at a blackjack table or a lottery ticket? Well, I’m here to tell you it’s not true. You DO have control over the outcome of your marketing efforts.  Read more... (282 words, 1 image, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)

Visa, Mastercard and the Federal Trade Commission are working out a new series of regulations to protect consumers and businesses from fraudulent online business transactions. To date, there are already hundreds of internet businesses which have lost their merchant accounts in the past couple weeks.

There are always pros and cons in making regulations for a few which affect the many, and this situation is no different.  Read more... (368 words, 2 images, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

This is your lucky day! I have answers!

BusinessInnerCircle.com’s forums are a place you can go to ask any and all your online marketing questions and get them answered by both our team of professional marketers and the awesome and knowledgeable public who use our forums. But don’t take my word for it, go over there and find out for yourself.

In this week’s show, Bill discusses everything you could ever want to know about forum marketing. Enjoy!  Read more... (139 words, 1 image, estimated 33 secs reading time)

Think about it, when you’re looking for restaurants, doctors, car repair shops or any of thousands of businesses you’ll need to actually visit, what do YOU put in the search field? Chances are you enter your own town into the search so that you don’t just get a list of places all over the world, right? Right. As a business owner, it’s vital that your company is represented online so that it actually shows up in these searches.  Read more... (351 words, 2 images, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Everyone wants to make money with Adsense.  And why not?  It’s free to set it up and has the potential to be an additional source of income for you.  But there’s more to making money with Adsense than just setting up your account and letting it go.  That’s the mistake a lot of people make.  So how DOES one make money with Adsense?  Read more... (297 words, 1 image, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)

Bill was asked in his live online show why he uses Adsense less now than he did in 2007, when he posted his infamous and enormous Adsense check in a video on Youtube.  He gave two reasons for the change in how he uses Adsense now.  Watch his reply in the video below.  And stop by BusinessInnerCircle.com Tuesday nights at 6:30 pm PST for lots of training about Adsense, Google, social networks, and many other topics related to online businesses.  The goal?  To make your business more profitable by learning from Bill’s mistakes instead of wasting a lot of time learning things through trial and error.

When it comes to online marketing, there are always questions.  My staff and I go through my forums at BusinessInnerCircle.com all the time and answer questions posted there.  Some of them I like to answer live on the show on Tuesday nights as well.

In the 22 December episode of the live Tuesday night show, we did a forum roundup of questions which had been posted during the week. The topics covered were:

1. Is it possible to make money with an Adwords-based website?  Read more... (224 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)

Welcome to the July 17, 2009 edition of Bill’s online marketing carnival. The submissions are all in and we review each of them to only bring you useful online marketing tips.  There were many great submissions.  They covered a wide variety of topics.  Everything from SEO and affiliate marketing to general advice about how to run an online business.    Drop me a comment on this post and let me if these were useful!

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