Starting a Meetup on Internet Marketing

In the past I’ve found myself being more of a consumer of other peoples information, tips and services and putting those to practice use for my own specific purposes.  I’m certainly grateful for all the useful and practice information that I’ve received.

I feel that now is the time for me to start contributing and helping others. So much has been given to me that I think it’s time that I start giving back. I talked about this in an earlier posted about ‘Giving vs. Receiving‘ if you want to see my thoughts on that.

With that as one of my goals for this year and challenge to myself,
I’ve formed a local Meetup in Georgia about Internet Marketing

I’m Optimistic

I’m optimistic about the group and its potential success.

My primary goal will be to give people the tools and knowledge to help with their confidence knowing that they have what it takes to be successful online.  This does not necessarily have to include making huge amounts of money.

Measure Your Success by Your RESULTS

My experience with success is that it should not be measured solely by the amount of money you make.  Know why?  Because that is always relative.  Someone is always going to be making more than you and some will be making less.

Measure you success against yourself, against your accomplishments and feel good based on your personal results.

I plan to maintain an ongoing update on the progress and results of the Meetup.

Have you taken a step out of your comfort zone lately and done something that stretches you to be a better person?

Share your stories (oh yea, wish me luck)

Chris

Getting Traffic - Internet Marketers of Georgia (IMOG)

Getting traffic to your website is certainly one of the most, if not the most important aspect of running a successful online business. It doesn’t matter how great the look and feel of your website may be, or what a great sales letter you’ve written if there is no one to see it except for you.

Ouch…  Sometimes the truth hurts doesn’t it.

With this being such an important topic, we had 3 presenters at the May 2009 Internet Marketers of Georgia (imog) bring their best tips on getting traffic to your website. I presented on 3 areas that I know have worked well for me in the past and continue to work well even to this day.

Watch the video to find out the 3 key areas.

Chris Langston giving traffic tips

http://d3vsczf09etp7z.cloudfront.net/imog/chris-imog-may-09.flv

I think you’ll be so surprised to find out how all 3 of these are right in front of your face and you tend to overlook them all the time. I know for me, sometimes I fail to see the obvious and the plain and simple because I’m so intent on finding something new and exotic when all along the answers were staring right into my face.

Can you relate?

The other 2 presenters were Bobby Kircher from www.papayainternet.com and Bryan Ellis from http://www.bryanellis.com/

I don’t want to give away their presentations, but let me just say that both of these guys know there stuff and you’ll be well served to watch the associated videos.

Bobby Kircher on Traffic Tips

Here’s the presentation by Bobby and it’s related to getting high page ranking and a boost in “link juice” to use his term.

http://d3vsczf09etp7z.cloudfront.net/imog/bobby-kircher-imog-may-09.flv

Bryan Ellis on Traffic

I’d say the “bad boy” of the 3 presenters was by far Bryan. I think he’d he call himself the self proclaimed bad boy if you were to ask him. Just check out the opening paragraph on his blog to see why. Bryan talked about “black hat” traffic tips and seemed to really capture everyone’s attention with his presentation.

http://d3vsczf09etp7z.cloudfront.net/imog/bryan-ellis-imog-may-09.flv

Let me know what has worked for you in order to get more traffic to your website. Don’t keep all this information bottled up because we can all benefit from increased traffic.

Internet Marketers of Georgia May Meeting

Be sure to mark your calendars for the May 2009, Internet Marketers of Georgia meeting.

The topic for this month’s discussion is going to be “Traffic”.

If you’re not a member, it’s not too late to jump on board and join us May 27th at 7:00 p.m. You can find all the details at the meeting link
Meetup.com

The initial meeting Social Media was presented by Joey Smith. You can view the presentation in an earlier post that I put together here: imog social-media

The focus of the Atlanta area imog group is:
- Marketing
- Building sites
- Making money from scratch
- Affiliate marketing
- Driving traffic
- Social media
- Selling and conversion
- List building
- and much more

Be sure to join us this week.

Internet Marketers of Georgia (IMOG) Inaugural meeting

What do you think the response would be if you were to ask a group of people to have a mid-week get together to talk about the internet and marketing?

I forgot to mention that the weather would also be perfect for sitting outside on the patio and sipping a beverage of choice (mine was a mojito on this night of nights). To answer the question, I don’t know the exact number but I’d say there was at least 30+ folks there.

The topic for discussion was “Social Media” and was presented by Joey Smith as well.

You can see the video that I shot here (please excuse the quality)

What was the take away from the meeting? Embrace and utilize social media in all aspects of your business.

I had to break the video up into 3 parts to get around YouTubes 10 minute max length, so you’ll have to click on each file to play them.

Social Media Part 1

Get your social media on and get it NOW! The main areas identified were the usual suspects:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Myspace
• Linked In
• your own personal blog

Note that this list can be exhausting and I know that we’ve just scratched the surface here with this list, but I think you get the general idea.

Social Media Part 2

Social Media Part 3