David Jackson
Articles by David Jackson
November 12, 2009
If you got behind the wheel of a car without knowing how to drive, chances are, you'd crash. Yet, every single day on the Internet, thousands of newbies are performing the equivalent of the aforementioned driving analogy, by putting up a website without having the slightest idea how to promote it. A...
March 07, 2009
When it comes to marketing, I'm a fanatical tester. I test the color of my blog. I test font styles and sizes. When I write articles and ads, I test headlines and copy. I test website analytics for accuracy. I test domain names for catchiness, and mailing list services for efficiency. In a nutshell, I test virtually everything.
February 15, 2009
You need to have some sort of business plan, or plan of action before you start a business.
February 11, 2009
There are a variety of reasons why most businesses fail. Following are the ten most common reasons.
February 09, 2009
When you design your website, it should be designed with certain goals in mind, as to what you want your visitors to do. For example, I have three main goals for my visitors.
February 05, 2009
Dangerous computer viruses and other malicious software are often spread through e-mail attachments, that are sent along with an e-mail message.
February 04, 2009
Based on overall website design, user-friendliness, depth of resources and professionalism, in my opinion, StartupNation is the best small business forum on the planet.
February 01, 2009
According to PayPerClickSearchEngines.com, the following are the ten best ppc search engines.
January 31, 2009
The other day I was browsing the Internet doing research, when I came across something that caught my eye - but not in a good way.
January 29, 2009
One of the most popular topics discussed in small business forums is traffic, and how to generate more of it. I've noticed that most marketers jump from technique to technique, looking for new traffic sources.
January 28, 2009
Are you familiar with the story "The Boy and the Nettles?" It's a classic Aesop fable about a young boy who was stung by a Nettle.
January 26, 2009
What qualifies companies to be SEO experts is competence. And the way you find out if a company is competent as well as legitimate is to check their credentials thoroughly, by exercising good old common sense and following these steps.
January 25, 2009
The following four article directories provide me with the greatest amount of traffic and search engine visibility.
January 22, 2009
I was just checking my blog traffic stats for the month, and I noticed something extraordinary. 39.7 percent of my traffic is coming from the Startup Nation forums.
January 20, 2009
What's copy? Copy is the words on your website and in your ads - the words used to sell your products and/or services.
January 18, 2009
On forums all over the internet, millions of posts are generated each year. And at the end of those posts is something called a "sig file."
January 17, 2009
If you aren't practicing anticipatory marketing, you're working with a head-in-the-sand mentality that sharp competition will definitely exploit.
January 15, 2009
With the cost of pay-per-click advertising continuing to skyrocket, many marketers are looking for a cost-effective alternative.
January 12, 2009
Blog Search is a special Google search engine that indexes nothing but blogs.
January 10, 2009
A new marketing blog by writer and marketer David Jackson, provides free marketing tips and articles that can be freely published by other websites and blogs.
January 08, 2009
I am absolutely amazed at how the same old internet scams continue to work year after year after year. The question is why do they continue to work?
January 06, 2009
The only reason your business exists is because of your customers. Without them, you have no business. So take them for granted and risk losing them to your competition.
January 05, 2009
Marketing isn't a sprint. It's a marathon. It's not about who can explode quickest out the gate. It's about who can last the longest over time.
January 01, 2009
In addition to making it easier for your visitors to navigate their way around your site, sitemaps also make it easier for search engine spiders to crawl your site.
December 30, 2008
Writing articles allows you to present yourself as an expert in your field. This not only gives you instant credibility, it also gives you a leg up on your competition.
December 29, 2008
What's great about forums is the fact that there's a forum for every interest under the sun. And whether you're interested in accounting, beauty, business or pets, chances are there's a forum for it.
December 23, 2008
If you're opinionated like I am, have something to say and want to share your views and opinions with the world, then you'll probably find a comfort level with a blog.
December 23, 2008
Contrary to popular belief, there is nothing deep, dark or mysterious about marketing. It's a numbers game, plain and simple.
December 20, 2008
Do you know why most people go online? Believe it or not, most people go online not to
buy anything, but rather to search for information to solve a problem they have.
December 20, 2008
The number one mistake that most people who attempt to make money online make is they don't
have a plan of any kind.
December 19, 2008
And despite the advent of the internet, those fundamentals really haven't changed in all these years. For example you still need a product to sell. And unless you're a non-profit entity, that product has to have a price.
December 16, 2008
Internet marketing isn't stupid. Internet marketing does work! How do I know? Because I'm personally making my living online, as are several of my friends and colleagues. But it didn't just happen by chance. It's like anything else in life, you have to learn how to do it.
December 17, 2008
If you want people to buy your products you have to advertise. Unfortunately, there's no getting around that fact. Like it or not, advertising is a necessary evil.
December 17, 2008
Are you familiar with the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf?" It's a classic Aesop fable about a young shepherd, who fraudulently called for help by repeatedly shouting "Wolf!"
Local villagers who came to his aid several times discovered that his cries were bogus, and that he had wasted their tim...