Archive for July, 2009

by Matthew Loop

If you’re a chiropractor looking to do some aggressive marketing, you’ve probably fallen into the trap of getting an expensive website and paying some SEO firm to do your marketing and promotion. All of this has probably put a huge dent in your business, not to mention your profit margins.

If I told you that you could literally save over 70% by learning SEO yourself and outsourcing through specific channels, would that get your attention? The startling reality is what you don’t know is costing you thousands and possibly killing your chiropractic practice!

SEO, or search engine optimization, implies using specific key words and certain quantities embedded in titles and the bodies of articles to create more of a presence in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSM. When you use SEO techniques successfully, you’re able to have your chiropractic practice website pop up exactly where you want it to when potential patients search with certain key words. When done right, the popularity of your website and your practice can explode.

The beauty of SEO is that you can leverage so much of the marketing work out. You’re also saving truckloads of money when you learn to do it yourself and have proper guidance, and you get to escape the empty promises of marketing firms that cost you an enormous fortune to yield no results. Soon, with the help of SEO, you’ll have an unbelievable amount of new patients walking through your doors.

When learning the basics of SEO for your chiropractic marketing online, you want to incorporate things like video submissions, article submissions, social bookmarking sites, blogs, blog comments, forum posts, press releases, and back-links for specific keywords. Having a blueprint and combining all of these together regularly will sky-rocket your presence on the search engines and ensure your spot for the long-term.

Don’t be one of the chiropractors that spend a terrible amount of money on an “overboard” website but don’t have the first idea about how to get more people to actually visit the site. People don’t come to your website by magic. They need to be searching for someone or some topic related to your site in a search engine like Google, and your website needs to come at the top of that search for them to really want to click on your link. When you learn the tricks to get your site, or article, or video, to the top of the search engine, there’s no end to the success you can create.

The thing is that you have to learn about SEO yourself. You can’t trust someone to just take the marketing into their own hands and not let you in on what’s going on. This is how so many chiropractors lose money; by blindly trusting someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing. When you learn the tactics of SEO, and how to implement them yourself, you’re saving a huge amount of money and creating more success.

This type of leverage can go a long way at producing a steady stream of new patients and build social-proof very quickly. Application is everything, though. Knowing and applying are not the same and unfortunately many chiropractors.

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by Art Basmajian

Using social media is an excellent way to promote business for free and you, the serious entrepreneur who have been doing Online Marketing for quite some time, are probably learning this.

The problem is unless you know what you’re doing, you most likely are doing it the wrong way pissing off Google as well as people who thought they were your online “Friends” and possibly getting your Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace accounts shut down.

You are now branded as a SPAMMER!

One of the blessings of Web 2.0 is online social networking. A lot of people use these to remain in constant communication with friends, to meet new acquaintances, develop connections that are work-related and many more. However, people are always looking abuse this wonderful service and this is especially true with social networking online among other things.

An Internet property is any web page, and any web page that allows social interaction is considered social media. Web 2.0 is another name for sites that allow people to contribute material to it.

A blog is web 2.0 (for the blogger), Facebook and MySpace are web 2.0, Flickr and Twitter are web 2.0 and social bookmarking sites are all web 2.0.

And as the Internet became more popular and more people started using it, businessmen came to realize that they could promote their business through the web, and thought it was “This is free? This is soooo cool!”

But no one was around to tell them that it WAS NOT cool.

Social media a broad word that encompasses many kinds of sites but there’s an online etiquette that dictates which web 2.0 sites allow you to have a slice of the Internet property for yourself and your business – without ticking off the wrong people and causing you to lose your reputation as a serious entrepreneur in the network marketing industry.

Let me explain it this way:

It’s your day off from a long work week, the perfect time to relax and communicate with friends and maybe even meet new ones. So, you party and have a blast. But then someone comes out of the blue, tells him who he is and then instantly tries to sell you things that he’s got in store.

Oh come on! It wouldn’t be surprising if you suddenly hurl your drink at his face – at the very least. This is pretty much what happens when you use social media sites in ways that they’re not supposed to be used.

If you’re going to succeed in the Internet jungle of business, you have to understand that it’s not about making money, but rather, about making connections with people. Even if it’s on the Internet, you should conduct business the same way you would in person: With dignity and respect. Business has it’s time and place, and social media is generally not one of them.

Remember, force-feeding usually results in up-chucking. If you want to build a solid business, do so on a solid foundation of respect and friendship for each other’s person, even if you’re just online.

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by Art Basmajian

Well, your designs are not as morbid as those of the spider’s in that famous fairy tale, but that’s still the basic idea of creating a blog, site, or space – that is to say, for people to go and see it. At least, that was the idea that I had in mind. Unfortunately, I built it but no one came to see it.

I say “used to be” because after I learned about – and from – Mike Dillard’s Traffic Formula 2.0, everything has changed. My site had so many hits and I generated so many leads, I thought I was dreaming. Best of all, I didn’t even have to do the hip gyration thing.

Have It With Your Breakfast

You can even have it along with so that for the rest of the day, all you’ll be thinking about is how to follow all the leads you will be able to generate and spend all the money you will be making. It only takes 36 minutes to watch the free video that will help you tame the Internet monster and pretty soon, you’ll be making your own happy Traffic Formula 2.0 Review.

The Cost of Success

That’s a myth that I hope I can get rid of in this Traffic Formula 2.0 Review. It doesn’t have to hurt to benefit from this formula. I can tell you all about it, but it’s best if you find out for yourself. On June 3, 2009, you can do just that. So mark that date down in your calendar, in fluorescent paint if you must, so long as you can’t forget about it.

Now get your trigger finger ready and grab that mouse, if you’re not yet holding it. Drag it a little ways down to that little button, and do the most difficult part, which I swear won’t hurt at all.

Click on that button, and get your groove on.

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