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I opened a free lance writing and Internet marketing business in 1996. I was one of the web’s pioneers to begin selling ebooks and info products. Of course, at that time, the word ebook had not been coined, Paypal was a glimmer in someone’s eye, and finding anyone to process my credit card transactions was a major challenge.

Today, I have a number of websites and continue to make a living through online marketing.

I live in not-so-sunny Vancouver, the most beautiful spot in all creation (but no doubt I’m prejudiced).

Research your Niche with Twitter Search

May 7, 2008 – 9:46 am

Summize is a new search engine that searches twitter conversations. The flexible search engine allows you to search by keyword, by phrase, by name, date, and even attitude of poster. You can stipulate words to eliminate, words that must be included and twitters with links.
Keep up with what people in your niche are talking about […]


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Avoid Duplicate Content in your Articles and Blog Posts

February 25, 2008 – 11:07 am

If you use article marketing to improve your search engine ranking, you probably know that Google uses what it considers to be the first or original article and ignores the duplicate ones when it calculates your rankings. DupeFreePro is a free software application that lets you compare two articles for duplice content. More info at […]


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Negative Marketing Attracts Last Minute Shoppers

February 15, 2008 – 3:00 pm

Recent research shows that last minute shoppers respond to negative marketing messages and shop to avoid punishment. Early bird shoppers respond to positive marketing messages and shop to make the recipient happy. Not only that, last minute shoppers will pay more for for a product with a negative message than for a similar product with […]


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Google’s Help with Digital Copyright Violation

February 5, 2008 – 5:29 pm

Tired of finding that ethically challenged bloggers and web site owners are using article crawlers, rogue bots and site scrapers to harvest your Ezine Articles content without making your link live? Ezine Articles won’t help you but Google will. Check out Google’s great solution to copyright violation. More info about Google’s response to the Digital […]


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Discover Google Alerts (if you Haven’t Already)

January 25, 2008 – 10:44 pm

Visit Google Alerts, and sign up to receive email notification when Google discovers new content containing your keywords.
This has so many uses — for researching content for articles, keeping track of what people are saying about you and so much more. See my blog posting about Google Alerts at the link below.
June Campbell: Visit […]


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