I realize I just recently posted about another Marketing Contest, but no worries, this is not turning into a contest blog.

I only post contests that I feel are beneficial to your marketing efforts, and I think you’ll agree that CASH PRIZES are ALWAYS beneficial!

Mattaw from MoneyBites.com, a blog about how to earn online is giving a total of 75 to 3 lucky winners. 1st place 50, 2nd place $20, 3rd place $5.

It’s super simple to enter. Simply sign up to his RSS feed via email, write a blog post with at least one link back using the anchor text “how to earn online” and your done!

This money can very nicely be spent on many aspects of you marketing, such as Advertising, PPC, Domain Names, Web Hosting or whatever!

Never stop pushing forward!
Dennis

We love promoting marketing contests here that can really boost your marketing efforts. I have a great one for you today.

Techogy.com is holding their first ever contest and giving away$500 in prizes! Most of which is CASH sent directly to your Paypal account.

How cool is that! Think of the advertising, PPC, and whatever else you can buy to give your marketing that needed boost…and it’s FREE CASH.

Up for grabs with the cash is free domain names and web hosting…sweet!

Head on over and check it out. It’s super easy to enter, so TAKE ACTION now.

Never stop pushing forward!
Dennis

I’m still super busy putting the final touches on a rather large blog project for every one, but had to stop to give you something simple yet tasty to devour in the meantime.

Kinda like a really good soup

It’s common knowledge in the web world that readers LOVE lists, especially simple ones that can help earn some cash ;)The 10 tips I share here may seem general and even “common sense” to some, but they are very useful and in-fact, sometimes largely overlooked. Ironically, the “obvious” usually is.

1. Use a “P.S.” or more then one at the end of your ad copy. This is where you either want to repeat a strong benefit or your “call to action” or use a strong close like a free bonus.

2. Publish a free e-book and give it away. This will increase your traffic, sales and subscribers. Make it brandable to add the much needed viral effect.

Advertising your website is a matter of dollars and sense; as in, where does it make the most sense to put your dollars?

A recent survey conducted by Marketingsherpa.com (as reported in the Marketing Report newsletter) showed that search engine optimization and in-house generated email lists rank neck-and-neck as the top performers when it comes to return on investment.

A few highlights:

• Paid search ads are favored by 49% of marketers as the highest ROI.
• In-house email lists received the top rating for ROI by 47% of those surveyed.
• 34% of marketers plan to increase their spending on search engines by 5% or more.
• Search engine optimization is growing in efficacy; 45% ranked it as a high ROI compared to 33% in 2005.
• In-house blogs are planned by 35% of marketers, compared with 18% last year.

Opening up a new shop? Ready to launch your website? Got a big fundraiser in the works that you’d like to announce? Press releases are an excellent form of FREE advertising that can reach an extraordinary amount of people. Craigslist does this daily.

Although I have not done press releases as of yet (yet I say!), I wanted to get this to you…

Whenever you’re trying to generate interest in a business event, one of the first things you might try is a press release.

When published, it amounts to free advertising, and can be more effective than an ad due to the credibility of appearing as a news article.

But you don’t have to limit yourself to newspapers when it comes to press releases.

According to The Marketing Report, the huge classified ad site, Craigslist.org is an excellent place for your press release.