Commenting on other blogs is a pretty effective way to market your website to gain traffic and exposure. As you’d imagine, this technique is most effective when you’re able to land that coveted first comment spot, but being at the right place at the right time is tricky. You’ve got things to do and the most popular blogs seem to have people sitting there with their finger on the comment trigger.

You could go to less popular blogs to snipe those first spots, but finding them is so time consuming. And honestly, the time required to find these untapped gems can easily outweigh the benefits you’ll get from placing the comments.

So, is there a solution out there to make this marketing process more efficient? You betcha. Read more →

Being a strategic marketing ninja requires that you know some nifty tricks. This is especially true with social media marketing because the volume of content you have to keep pushing out is crazy.

I thought a lot of you might like seeing a couple awesome tools I use called Buffer and Bottlenose to help me Tweet out good content about marketing throughout the entire day.

Here’s a quick video I created to show you what I use and how I do it:

Honestly, I have to admit I don’t always have the time to read the articles found on Bottlenose, but I know that if the title interests me, it will probably interest my followers.  I’ve scrutinized the links on Bottlenose in the past and they’re almost always really good. And, because a Tweet (especially a bad Tweet) has such a short lifespan, I’m not too worried if one stinker sneaks through every once in awhile.  You can typically Read more →