NAMS 5 Webinar Series, and more...

A couple of weeks ago I was part of a week-long NAMS 5 webinar series - 26 hours of presentations on the latest tools and techniques in online marketing and productivity. 

My presentation was titled: Beat Procrastination...For Real This Time. It generated a bit of Twitter buzz, since it's a problem we can all relate to.

By the end of the week I had tons of notes and links from the other expert presenters that I've already put to use.

After the webinar series was over, organizer David Perdew kept working. He gathered all the Powerpoint presentations and put them on a download site. Then he added:

• PDFs and Audios of the presentations
• Audio files from FOUR previous NAMS 3-day conferences (150 hours) 
• Software - Article Twister and Local Domain Hound

As if all that isn't enough, he's including the following, which are coming up:

• 18 hours of "deep dive" interviews over the next few months
• A free ticket to the NAMS 6 live conference in August.

How much is he asking for everything (and more) mentioned above?

UNTIL FEB 4 at 5 pm Eastern, you can get it all for $397.

I've never seen so much quality, expert content offered for this fee. I strongly recommend that you take a look a this before the Feb 4 deadline.

Here's my affiliate link to learn more and sign up. I'll be at NAMS 6 in August. If you're there, I'll treat to dinner on Friday night.

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What if you could outsource a small task - say, do a voiceover for your video...or send out press releases...or even build a Facebook fan page for you - any of these for 5 bucks?

Fiverr.com brings together people willing to give a small sample of their work for $5, and those who are looking for help with these tasks. It's a great way try outsourcing and see how it works for you.

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5 Ways to be found in Google search results

Do you want to be more visible in Google search results? Here are 5 simple tips:

1. Get a free listing on Google Maps, When people search for a local product or service, a map of their geographic region is displayed ABOVE all the other search results. Even if you don't have a website, your business can appear on this map.
   
2. Post quality content on your website or blog, and post it often. Google ranks websites by the amount of content on a website as well the richness of content and how often it's updated. Great content is the best Google bait!
   
3. Try to match your keywords and key phrases with what your audience is probably typing into search engines. Use these keywords in the title and description metatags of your website or blog, and in the content you post on your website. Use the Google Keyword Tool for suggestions.
4. Post comments on other blogs and news sites. Arrange with colleagues to do a guest blog post on their sites, and invite them to do the same.
   
5. Get incoming links pointing to your site. Link from your Facebook and Twitter accounts. Ask noncompeting colleagues to link to you. Use contextual links that contain keywords such as marketing for professionals, rather than simply "click here." Contextual links that relate to what your website is about, are considered more relevant by search engines. If you have a lot of similar contextual links pointing to your site, you will likely get a higher ranking in search results when people search on those keywords.