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Internet Marketing & WordPress: Nancy Andrews Was Right - Forget Social Networking »
Written by Zain on April 26th, 2008
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Just a quick post about something I’ve been meaning to test on WordPress for a couple of weeks now. The idea comes from Nancy Andrews LiveBlueprints.com vNews (non affiliate link) on 7th April 2008 which looked really interesting:
“Blog posts work *REALLY* quickly. Forget Social Media”.
I’m going to summarise the essence of what she said in the vNews: basically, Social Media like Facebook and all of the other community type Web 2.0 sites aren’t really viable as Internet Marketing tools. It’s a controversial position but one also echoed by Michel Fortin in his excellent post “Is Facebook A Viable Marketing Tool?“.
Now, I’m not a natural Marketer - I’m willing to admit that - although I do happen to think that they might be right on this point.
Why?
Because here’s the proof that I’ve just found out for myself which I’ve screengrabbed for you:
Just a quick post about something I’ve been meaning to test on WordPress for a couple of weeks now. The idea comes from Nancy Andrews LiveBlueprints.com vNews (non affiliate link) on 7th April 2008 which looked really interesting:
“Blog posts work *REALLY* quickly. Forget Social Media”.
I’m going to summarise the essence of what she said in the vNews: basically, Social Media like Facebook and all of the other community type Web 2.0 sites aren’t really viable as Internet Marketing tools. It’s a controversial position but one also echoed by Michel Fortin in his excellent post “Is Facebook A Viable Marketing Tool?“.
Now, I’m not a natural Marketer - I’m willing to admit that - although I do happen to think that they might be right on this point.
Why?
Because here’s the proof that I’ve just found out for myself which I’ve screengrabbed for you:
Internet Marketing: FAQ-Tastic 1.0.6 Product Launch Outline »
Written by Zain on April 26th, 2008{ 2 comments }
Firstly, apologies for the delay on FAQ-Tastic 1.0.6. It’s been a really busy 2 weeks and it’s not been helped by school half term; having kids about; unexpected guests; cleaning the flat for unexpected guests; assisting on an NLP Practitioner training course; recovering my NLP breakthrough coach client’s hijacked WordPress website (now there’s a blog post case study…); doing NLP allergy interventions (I happen to be a fully qualified NLP Master Practitioner, Time Line Therapist and Hypnotherapist btw) and helping out on the official Skindred website (excellent RaggaMetal band well worth checking out - I’m also happen to be the admin for the Skindred Facebook group and we’ve now got more members than Sherman Hu’s “Friends of Sherman Hu” and “Beginners Guide to Mastering Web Basics” Facebook groups put together since I became the Skindred Facebook Admin! Sorry Sherman… and I’m not even a Facebook specialist! 
). Woah… that’s a load of link love!
As you can see, I’ve been a little busy and every moment has been a great learning experience. So now that I’m more on top of things, FAQ-Tastic Lite 1.0.6 will be coming very shortly.
If you check out the new FAQ-Tastic website, you can see how much high quality stuff I’ve been doing - like designing new product shots and putting together the new user manual for the Lite version. There’s still a whole load more to do - like adding the tell a friend scripts and the standard Aweber name captures to be done. It’s not been easy and yes, I did everything from setting up the site to the designs all by myself - I’m not just a pretty face 
Why email captures? Well, you Internet Marketers out there will probably get the feeling that I’m gearing up for a proper product launch for FAQ-Tastic Pro. And I am.
For all you newbie Internet Marketers out there you might want to read on, I’ll be detailing the 8 things I’ll be doing for this launch so you can get a better idea of what’s involved and things to do. It’s going to be quite a ride, with all the ups and downs, as I’ve never done a product launch before. There’s going to be quite a lot of things to learn and at the end of the process you’ll be able to gain the experience from my mistakes.
(Oh… and just to be clear: there are NO affiliate links in this post, just pure value!)
