Comments on: Keyword Academy News: A New Brand, a Logo Contest, Affiliate and Job Opportunities

By: Riley West

Riley West — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:37:52 +0000

Hello Mark and Court!

I’m running into this a lot!

Error establishing a database connection…AND…if it happens after hitting add a comment…it loses the comment! Arrgghh!

I would like to contact you folks. Can you tell me a way to do this?

Your new customer,

Riley West – An Internet Marketer In The Making.

By: Soham

Soham — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:52:36 +0000

Following the advice from Court, I have submitted articles to different article directories. I want to know why many of those articles do not appear to be linking back except for the ezine ones, being all the articles indexed by Google.

By: Hubtonomy

Hubtonomy — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:03:48 +0000

It takes me far too long to design anything, I’d just keep on changing it.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:21:53 +0000

We’re not offering a residual, nor are we planning to have to worry too much about scale on the fulfillment side. This is going to be an education/consulting business. We’re avoiding actually doing the SEO for clients because, as you said, quality tends to suffer in most (all) big SEO shops.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:53:39 +0000

Are you offering a residual? I sold seo packages before and worked at 10x Marketing. How are you planning on doing the fullfillment scaling seo effectively is difficult and I would only want to push a quality service.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:39:21 +0000

Interesting concept Mark. As a former Small Business owner, and someone who still rubs shoulders with a few, I think two obstacles you’ll have to over come are:

1. Most small business people are busy running their own business and do not have the time or desire to learn SEO. Heck, a lot do not even know how to throw up a website.

2. A lot of SB owners don’t understand the value of SEO. Of course, this will be your job to show them. Showing them is one thing, getting them to fork over the money is another. I’d say most would rather pay YOU to do it rather than learn it their self…see obstacle #1 above…:)

Hope ya’ll make this work and if I run across anyone needing a course in Small Business SEO, I’ll send ‘em your way.

Don

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:15:35 +0000

Sounds like a solid new site Mark. =)

I’m not into sells or design, but if you need any help with anything in the SEO space, let me know.(a link, help teaching, etc)

By: A student

A student — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:24:29 +0000

Oh I sure do know all about that.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:24:48 +0000

Thanks for the thought; we won’t have anything close to the lead volume that a sales floor will need. We’re looking to work with a few people who do a combination of their own prospecting and converting whatever leads we generate through affiliates. Avoiding sales floors also goes a long way toward keeping people from hating you and wanting to shut down your business…and if you know anything about that industry you know exactly what I’m talking about .

By: A student

A student — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:57:40 +0000

Hey Mark, I know a guy who after a few years of running the show at a sales floor (near you) of a big name infomercial, is breaking away from the company to start his own floor. I think he’s looking for leads to pitch. Not sure if that is what you are looking for, or if he is looking for it either (he was heading towards doing a stock options course lead), but if so, I might be able to broker that. I’ll leave it at that, as that might not be what you are looking for at all.