Writing on the Web from Patsi Krakoff, The Blog Squad

Articles for Sale: 25% Discount on Executive Coaching Articles

Every year since 1999 I offer an end-of-year article sale discount through Customized Newsletter Services. This is a niche company for executive coaches and management consultants that is part of Krakoff Wakeman Associates Inc., providing article content suitable newsletters and blogs directed at executives in corporations.

If this is something that interests you, go visit the article directory site at www.CustomizedNewsletterArticles.com using the discount link here:

http://snipurl.com/articlesale07 - Sale is on only until Dec. 31 midnight ET.

The 25% discount applies to all the content there, except for the new article The End of Management as We Know It. The articles are evergreen (not dated) and can be used with your name, and can be revised; you can add your own marketing info to them.

This is a great way to save time because the articles are well-researched based on leading business books and journals such as the Harvard Business Review.

New Poll: What Do You Need to Master for 2008?

I'd like you to vote on which writing tasks you feel you need to learn to master the most, if you want to explode your Internet marketing results in 2008.

As you may have noticed, I've changed the name of this blog so that I can cover all the different ways writing is used to grow and market your business online. I need to know what topics interest you, the readers, the most so I can make this blog as useful and relevant to you as possible.

The poll is on the right side bar. You can pick two out of this list. If you don't find what you want on this poll, hit the comment link and tell me what you need to learn the most. Thanks, and all the best for 2008!

Writing on the Web: New Blog Name

Here's why I've changed this blog's name from CoachEzines, to Writing on the Web: I started in 2004 primarily focusing on writing great ezines and blogs, but today's Internet marketing includes many more ways to communicate. If you want to leverage the Internet to Attract, Sell, and Profit, you must learn new ways of Writing on the Web.

Read this page if you want to know more: Why Writing on the Web is Key to Internet Marketing

Holiday Racquet & Smashes

Holiday greetings from Patsi (Just click to see my silly greetings to you...)

I hope you enjoy this season and take some time off to be with your loved ones.

The Yale Economic Review: Evil spammer???

Even when you follow the rules and use opt in lists and avoid overly promotional emails, you can get your emails blocked! We recently discovered our emails being blocked because of "spam content" - but it wasn't  us that was reported as the offending culprit.

Our email signatures contained links to our Web pages hosted by Hostgator, a hosting service. Hostgator has one of their other sites reported as a spammer. I researched the IP address on SpamHaus and found that the offender is none other than The Yale Economic Review!

Because The Yale magazine was reported for spam, our sites which are hosted on the same server get tagged as spam! I don't think many people know this can happen to them.

Related post:
Evil Spammers: The Yale Economic Review?

Ezines vs Blogs: What are the differences?

There's an excellent article published by Dr. Ralph Wilson of Web Marketing Today:

How Do E-Mail Newsletters Compare to Blogs?

The people we work with on their online marketing plans ask us this question all the time. Dr. Wilson offers a comprehensive review of the differences, however, he apparently doesn't know about email subscription services that are used for delivering blog content to subscribers.

Blog updates can be delivered via email and a subscriber list can be built up that is a valuable resource for marketing. Both Feedburner and Feedblitz services offer this email option.

Web Results: Have you "Googled" yourself lately?

Honestly I wasn't interested in ego boosting, just wanted to check to see where all that content was going that we've written and posted everywhere on the Web - articles, interviews, blog posts, press releases, etc.

Plus someone asked a question about how to know if a marketer was real or not, you know, trust-worthy. So we suggested that people check their names through a Google search to see if there were negative comments or reports.

A search for Patsi Krakoff gave 37,900 results on Google, and Denise got over 30,000. So that's why we encourage our clients to write content: each time you post on the Web it increases your chances of a potential client being able to find you.

Why Should We Believe You?

...a person submitted this question to us in preparation for our teleseminar Monday December 17: 5 Traps of Internet Marketing That Can Derail Your Business.

We speak about how there's a lot of hype and fluff being sold on the Internet. So it's a valid question: what makes us any different from the other marketers?

Kathleen Gage did a great job writing about the criteria people should use when evaluating a program, and how to research an expert to find out their reputation.

This is a post full of good info and well written by both Kathleen and Denise. Read it here: http://www.biztipsblog.com/2007/12/internet-expert.html.

5 Traps, 5 Truths: 3 Women Speak Out

What are the 5 traps of Internet marketing that can eat up your time and money? Denise and I along with Kathleen Gage are speaking out on a free teleseminar Monday December 17 at 6 p.m. ET.

Discover the 5 Traps of Internet Marketing that Can Derail Your Business

We're fed up with some of the myths LIES about how to get rich quick on the Web that are hyped by testosterone-fueled ego-driven shysters. We're fed up with the hype and fluff of email marketers.

And, we're going to do something about it!

You should be getting money OUT of your marketing efforts, not throwing it away on programs that are nothing more than motivational hype.

Register here: www.blogsquadteleseminars.com/5traps/

Build a Better Blog Contest: Win an Amazon gift

Have you entered our contest today? We're celebrating 1,000 posts on Build a Better Blog!

Each day this week, through Friday, we're giving away a $12 Amazon gift certificate to a reader who comments on that day's blog post, answering a specific question.    

You may enter the contest everyday. Click here.

Each day this week, through Friday, we're giving away a $12 Amazon gift certificate to a reader who comments on that day's blog post, answering a specific question.    

You may enter the contest everyday. Click here.