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I’m not exactly sure when or where these photos of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together on the same stage were taken but they’re being used for some extremely funny captions. If you can come up with a better caption, I would love to see it. My favorite caption is the one about flipping a coin. Which one do you like?

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Johnny’s Copyblogger Wrap-Up: Week of May 24, 2010

May 30th, 2010

Let's Do it for Johnny!

I decided this week that social media has jumped the shark.

It happened when I tweeted from the dentist’s chair to announce I was in the dentist’s chair. I thought, “This is something the world needs to know about.” Strangely, the world was apathetic, and no conversations ensued.

The system failed. My tweet did not bring me closer to people who were also in dentist’s chairs, or people who enjoy dentistry, or people who remember Bill Cosby’s “loose lips” bit about trying to talk with a mouth full of novocaine.

Online marketing’s demise can’t be far behind, which kind of renders this week’s Wrap-up pointless. Why should any of us read or write about copy or business when the New World Paradigm doesn’t work for oral hygiene?

But on the off chance that someone feels there’s a difference between teeth and business, here’s what happened this week on Copyblogger:

Monday:

How to Overcome Your Three Greatest Blogging Challenges

This is the post wherein Sonia Simone teaches us how to climb Mt. Everest and relates it to blogging. Specifically, she claims both take more than gumption and flowery thoughts. Both benefit from specific instruction, and it’s inadvisable to just kind of start walking and hope for the best.

Pshaw. Next she’ll be saying that prep for competing in the Ironman Triathlon is more than “keepin’ on keepin’ on” and “good-old-fashioned sticktoitiveness.”

Honestly, when you think about it, Sonia’s real message isn’t really that you shouldn’t wing it. It’s that that there are three main areas where you could get stuck… and then how to get past those stuck places. So basically: Wing it, but don’t get stuck.

So it’s totally okay to go ahead and climb Everest without preparation, but have this post printed out in case you get stuck. You know, if you can still hold it after losing fingers to frostbite.

Read the full post here.

Tuesday:

Get a Great Deal When You Join Third Tribe Before June 1, 2010

Looks like the price of membership in the Third Tribe will be going up on June 1st. That means that if you want to join but don’t do so until after June 1st, you’re either not thinking clearly or have a strange concept of economics.

What’s interesting about this post is that Brian has given everyone the suggestion to totally rip off the Third Tribe. When you join, you’ll get instant access to everything that’s up there now for one payment of $47, and then you could split and cancel your membership if you wanted. It’s almost like that “Gone until Monday – Alarm code is 3449″ sign that Brian puts in his yard every time he goes on a weekend trip.

So you should check it out. Be sure to bring your burglars’ tools and canvas bags with giant dollar signs on them.

Read the full post here.

Wednesday:

How to Monetize Your Site Without Causing an Audience Revolt

You know that phenomenon where someone is blogging about spleens and kidneys, and then is like, “Dude, I have black market organs for sale” and then his readership turns on him, telling him that they didn’t come here to have to pay for spleens, and that were just there for the spleen chat and free samples?

I hate that. I ran into this with my first three spleen blogs. You try to make a buck by selling something on your blog — and if you do it in the wrong way, your audience turns on you like a bunch of rioting free-organ hippies.

David Risley has the answer. He’s got some very specific tips for how you can walk that line where you draw people in with content, operate in a friendly, Third Tribe mindset, but still are able to sell things without being called a sellout.

Alternatively, you could do what I did. Naomi Dunford, who kind of acted as my mentor, recently told me, “You started as a sellout.” Ah, memories.

Read the full post here.

Thursday:

Landing Page Makeover Clinic #26: iGrowKids.com.au

The latest installment of Roberta Rosenberg’s Landing Page Makeover series addresses iGrowKids.com.au, which I will note is NOT some sort of Matrix-style farm where humans are grown.

The site suffers from the age-old marketing problem: great idea (easy-on clothes for babies; if you aren’t a parent, you won’t know how BADLY this stuff is needed) but slow sales. So in typical fashion, the Maven does her thing to explain how the site could convert better.

I’d only add that perhaps adding hilarious baby do’s and don’ts might help with sales.

Read the full post here.

Thursday Part 2:

Who is the Copyblogger Internet Marketing Newsletter for?

You should check out the free Copyblogger newsletter, Internet Marketing for Smart People. I mean, if you don’t, you’ve essentially said that you’re dumb. Who would do that? Why are you beating yourself up that way?

I joined because Sonia badgered me until I did, but I’m glad I signed up because I keep getting these cool nuggets in my inbox. Not chicken nuggets, though. Informational nuggets. If you think your inbox is a mess now, try letting a few chicken nuggets in there.

Check it out and get your free stuff here.

Friday:

Is F.E.A.R. Holding You Back?

To close the week, Brian wrote up a really important post about what F.E.A.R. is and how it’s different from fear. (Fear is instructional and usually good whereas F.E.A.R. is annoying and stupid — exactly like “learning your ABCs” and the 90s hip-hop kid band “ABC.”)

Basically, pay attention to this one if you’re not down with being immobilized and stuck in everything you do. You might also want to read it if you don’t enjoy being freaked out for no reason. If none of that applies, then stop reading and head over to Engrish.com because there’s clearly something wrong with you.

(NOTE: Go to Engrish.com anyway.)

Read the full post here.

Friday Part 2:

7 Quick-Start Techniques for Fighting the Fear to Write

Hey gang, Brian here. Apparently Johnny turned in his homework early and left town before realizing we published two posts on Friday. Who knew there was a weekend swap meet dedicated entirely to black market organs?

Anyway, following up on my F.E.A.R post, Catherine Caine gives you 7 specific strategies when writing is giving you the willies. So, you should, like, read it right away. How’s that for a Johnny imitation?

Oh, and by the way . . . if you’d like to see your name in the headline of these Copyblogger weekly wrap-ups, we’re now accepting applications. Just kidding, Johnny!

(No really, send ‘em in. This guy’s an unbelievable prima donna. What’s worse, he thinks that term relates to the time period before Lucky Star became a top-five hit).

Read the full post here.

About the Author: Johnny B. Truant has a dumb blog at JohnnyBTruant.com and is one of the guys behind Question the Rules. You should also really check out his Jam Sessions with Charlie Gilkey, because they’re filled with tasty informational nuggets that will make your business better.

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Top 10 Blogosphere Trends + 10 Great List Posts

May 29th, 2010

This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren

Each week, Regator brings you a list of the ten stories bloggers have been writing about most during the previous seven days (click any trend to see a list of posts about it). And while blogging about the week’s hottest topics may help you snag some new readers, it also puts you squarely in the center of a massive crowd, all talking about the same subject. That’s why, along with the top ten lists, I always give examples of posts that covered the week’s top stories in interesting ways.

We’ve already looked at interesting formats that can inspire you and add variety to your blog. Today, we’ll look in more detail at one of those formats: list posts. Writing a list post is the assignment for Day 2 of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook because (among other reasons) list posts are scannable, succinct, visually attractive, persuasive, and have a higher than average chance of going viral. If you’re new to this type of post, get some valuable tips by checking out “10 Steps to the Perfect List Post.” Let’s see how some bloggers used lists to cover this week’s top stories:

Gulf of Mexico – By offering five solutions, Inhabitat’s Top 5 Green Ways to Clean Up Oil Spills ensures that readers know exactly what they are being promised.
Rand Paul – The Atlantic Wire’s 6 Ways Rand Paul Is Like Sarah Palin uses a bullet-pointed list to break up what might otherwise have been an unwieldy block of text providing comparisons between the two politicians.
Google TV – 7 Ways to Watch Web Video Without Google TV gives readers value through tips on products, along with the pros and cons of each. Using a non-round number such as seven can have the effect of encouraging readers to add to the list in the comments, which has happened on this Gadget Lab post.
French Open – The Bleacher Report’s 10 French Open Observations, provides tennis enthusiasts with ten scenes from this important event. As one commenter noted, the post keeps things “brief and moving along.”
North Korea – As demonstrated by PajamasMedia’s North vs. South Korea: How Bad Could a War Get? list posts don’t always have to be numbered. Breaking this story down into “The Good News,” “The Bad News,” “The Worse News,” and “The Downright Scary News,” dissects and simplifies a complex situation.
World Cup – Abduzeedo’s The 10 Stadiums of the 2010 World Cup is appropriately image-heavy and text-light for this design-focused blog and uses the round number 10, which (like 25, 50, or 100) lends the post a certain amount of authority.
Mark Zuckerberg – Agree to Disagree’s 5 Ways to Deal with Facebook’s Privacy Policy shows that the list itself might be only part of your post. Create the list then spend the rest of your post playing devil’s advocate or debating the pros and cons of each item.
Craig Venter – Jacks of Science used a bold, attention-grabbing, humorous headline to sell 5 Reasons Craig Venter Might Kill You. It’s not a brand-new post relating to Venter’s recent creation of the first synthetic life, but it does provide interesting trivia in a fun-to-digest format.
Series Finale – BuzzSugar’s The Top 10 Highlights From the American Idol Season Finale! uses the word “top” to create interest. Words like “top” and “best” lead your readers to believe that they’re seriously missing out if they don’t read your post and therefore tend to do very well in the titles of list posts. Techland’s 10 Ways LOST Shouldn’t End takes the opposite approach and looks at the worst ways the show could end rather than the best. Lists of the “worst,” “most awful,” “most disastrous” also tend to do well. Call it schadenfreude.
Shrek Forever After – Reelz Channel’s Top 10 “Wow, You’ve Really Let Yourself Go” Movies uses one timely story to illustrate a trend, presenting each list item with a clear subheadline in larger text and bolded phrase that hopes to intrigue readers into reading the smaller text.

How often do you use list posts? Under what circumstances to you think they work best? Let us know in the comments.

Kimberly Turner is a cofounder of Regator.com and Regator for iPhone as well as an award-winning print journalist. You can find her on Twitter @kimber_regator.

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The Apple iPad Comes To Canada

May 29th, 2010

After a month long delay because of huge demands in the home market, the Apple iPad had finally landed in Canada and nine other counties. Now that everyone in the country can buy an iPad, I am no no longer special for having one since April.

Simply Computing invited me down to their store on Broadway to be part of the iPad launch and maybe make fun of people lining up for the magical device. While there were huge line ups at the two Vancouver Apple stores, the line up at Simply was a lot shorter, which made the iPad customers happier I’m sure.

While the iPad starts for $499 in the US, a Canadian buyer will have to fork over $549 for the same unit. With the US and Canadian dollar almost equal, some may wonder why Apple it trying to get an extra $50 out of customers from the great white north. The answer: because they can.

If you want an Apple iPad but don’t want to pay for it, I am giving two away. Go here for details.

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How to Turn Your Blog Into a Product Launch Engine [Free 78 Minute Video Plus 4 Free Workbooks]

May 28th, 2010

Over the last 18 months my blogging business has undergone a real shift in the way that I’m making money. While I first reached a six figure annual income 4-5 years ago based almost completely upon advertising revenue – in the last 18 months I’ve transitioned my business to close to a seven figure income by shifting some of my focus away from the ad game and toward launching my own products.

I’m not the only one who has done this – every week I’m seeing more and more bloggers releasing products, whether they be e-books, teaching resources, webinars, membership sites, software etc.

If you’re one of these bloggers today I have an exclusive teaching resource from product launch specialist Dave Navarro (pictured right) that I think you’ll find very helpful.

It’s a 78 minute video where Dave talks you through How to Turn Your Blog Into a Product Launch Engine.

I love the way that Dave approaches his online business. It’s all about delivering value, building a sustainable business (not just going for the fast dollar), acting with integrity (he’s very real and is not one of ‘those’ hyped marketers) and he’s very relational.

In the video Dave covers the following (and more):

Why most products fail before they’re launched (and how to guarantee yours succeeds)
How to stand out and get attention in a market saturated with “free” offers
My simple 6-step process for a successful product launch – use it again and again
How to make subscribers spread the word about your list so it grows quickly
The one question about your customers you MUST get crystal clear on to make money
What really makes people click the “Add to Cart” button (it’s not what you think)

Best of all – the video is based upon Dave’s insights just for ProBlogger readers – I sent him some questions that I knew readers here would find value in hearing answers about – it’s tailored for you.

In addition to the 78 minute video Dave’s also offering his four workbooks from the Launch Coach Library for free.

To get the video and workbooks all you need to do is sign up for his newsletter which I’d be recommending you do anyway as Dave’s constantly delivering insights and quality teaching.

There’s no obligation to do anything more than get the newsletter (which you can unsubscribe from any time if it’s not where you’re at).

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How to Turn Your Blog Into a Product Launch Engine
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Shirts My Way – Free Shirt Friday

May 28th, 2010

Shirts My Way is a really cool site that lets you design your own dress shirt, you can pick the colors as well as the style custom designing a shirt exactly how you want it. Plus you can enter your measurements for a perfect fit. (Which would have been nice for my shirt as it was a little too small) The shirt was really nice design your own at www.shirtsmyway.com!

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Sweeva Takes Web Browsing into the Social Sphere

May 28th, 2010

Remember about ten years ago when those auto-surfing services and ad-based toolbars hit the scene? Some people made some decent money with those services, but they quickly fell out of favor. Well, it seems that a somewhat similar concept has resurfaced with a social media slant to it.

In today’s review, we take a look at Sweeva, a new site and service that refers to itself as “social browsing.” What exactly does this mean and can it be profitable to you as an Internet marketer? Perhaps.

Like an Automated StumbleUpon?

Many of you may already be familiar with StumbleUpon and how it can send you a random website with the click of a mouse. Checking out the “How It Works” page on Sweeva, the fundamental concept is similar but the execution is vastly different.

Instead of only going to a new site when you click the button, the entire Sweeva membership views the same site at the same time. A new site pops up about every 30 seconds and the community then has the opportunity to interact with it: comments, Facebook shares, ratings, and so on.

The kicker is that the sites being displayed to the Sweeva community are actually submitted by the Sweeva members themselves. In this way, you could justifiably use Sweeva to promote your book, your blog, or whatever other site you’d like.

A System of Bids and Credits

After you go through the process of signing up for a new account with Sweeva, you’ll be greeted with the main user dashboard.

From there, you can use the navigational links near the top to add your sites to the Sweeva directory and place bids to have these sites appear. You see, Sweeva works on a system of credits.

You get credits for viewing the sites on the autosurf utility and referring other users. Alternatively, you can buy additional credits. There are four packages, ranging from $7.97 (1,000 credits) to $47.97 (10,000 credits).

Bidding on Promotional Power

These credits are then spent in a bid-based system. You can add as many sites as you want to your directory, but each bid is only valid for one of those. Since some times of the day are more desirable than others, the bid system accommodates such differences.

As you can see here, you can select the day of the week, as well as the time of the day that you would like your submitted site to appear for other Sweeva members. For both day and time, you can make multiple selections if you like.

After that, you’ll need to choose the number of credits you’d like to use in your bid. As you can probably suspect, the highest bidders for each surfing hour get to have their sites shown. These sites are chosen between 20 minutes and one hour prior to being shown on the Sweeva autosurfing utility.

What About the Autosurfing Itself?

Naturally, the main part of Sweeva’s social browsing is the autosurfing portion of the site.

The “winning” sites are shown in the main part of the window, of course, with the sidebar providing a space for comments and conversation. The person who submitted the site, along with any ribbons he or she may have earned, is shown at the top of this sidebar.

Below that are three buttons: thumbs down, unsure, and thumbs up. You vote on the site and it can earn said ribbons and awards. You will not be taken to the next site until you vote, it seems. You’ll also notice some links along the bottom for tweeting, saving the site, and so forth.

Web Browsing and Marketing on Autopilot?

At this point, it’s hard to say whether or not Sweeva will be a success. Many people do enjoy the utility of something like StumbleUpon, but that still has much more of a social aspect to it, whereas Sweeva attracts more Internet marketers.

Many of the sites shown during my time spent on Sweeva were promotional in nature, trying to push affiliate deals and the like. This is understandable, but almost regrettable. In terms of functionality, though, Sweeva is reasonably user friendly and easy to understand.

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Google Now Lists the Top 1,000 Websites On The Web

May 28th, 2010

Curious to know what are the largest websites on the web? While there are some lists around, none of them was regarded as accurate, and Google apparently wants to fix this. It just released its own Top 1000 Websites list.

As you can see below, the list shows the category of the website, its number of monthly unique visitors, page views, and whether or not the website accepts advertising.

top 1000 websites

The announcement was made on the official AdWords blog. In fact this list was developed to help advertisers target big websites that accept ads.

According to Google itself “the list excludes adult sites, ad networks, domains that don’t have publicly visible content or don’t load properly, and certain Google sites,” so keep this in mind.

Here are the blogs I spotted on the list:

#246 – The Huffington Post – 12 million Uniques
#434 – Engadget – 8,1 Million Uniques
#540 – Gizmodo – 6.7 Million Uniques
#696 – Mashable – 5.6 Million Uniques
#850 – TechCrunch – 4.7 Million Uniques

If these numbers are accurate they reveal some very interesting data. For example, Mashable is as big as PCWorld, one of the oldest and most established tech publications. Similarly, Engadget is as big as the Washington Post (on the web only, obviously). And The Huffington Post as big as Digg (counting uniques only, not page views).

I was hoping to see Daily Blog Tips around the last positions, but no luck…!

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