As some of you know, I own and run an executive recruiting firm as my occupation. A major part of my job is marketing and developing new business. I found a creative new marketing technique that is much better than sending a brochure or other marketing collateral. If you are a business owner or trying [...]
Entrecard sells out – Literally!
by Dan Keller on 16. Jul, 2009 in Marketing and Promotion
I received this comment from “Contest Hunter” this afternoon – “What do you think about entre card this time dude? Pls take a look at http://entrecard.com/blog/?p=1258″ In case you do not already know, Entrecard finally found a buyer and announced the sales earlier today. The new owner is a company called ZipRunner. Don’t bother googling [...]
Adgitize Review
by Dan Keller on 15. Jul, 2009 in Marketing and Promotion
I just wrapped up my first month of advertising on the Adgitize network. For those of you that are not familiar with Adgitive, they are an advertising site for bloggers. You can put their widget on your blog and make money by displaying ads. You can also advertise and place your ads on all of [...]
Promote your blog with a little help from your friends
by Dan Keller on 14. Jul, 2009 in Marketing and Promotion
I read a great blog post last week at the Wassup blog about word of mouth marketing that got me thinking a lot about the subject. I sure you have wondered how some blogs get tons of traffic without much promoting. It seems like their readers just grow and grow. I am putting Mashable in [...]
Tool to Eliminate Twitter Spam
by Dan Keller on 13. Jul, 2009 in Social Networking
We all know that Twitter spam is out of control. In fact, this is the most common reason given for people that stop using Twitter all together. If you are like me, you do a bit of research before you click the follow button to make sure that they are a “good follow”. Wouldn’t it [...]
secure your blog name on the major social networks
by Dan Keller on 10. Jul, 2009 in Social Networking
We all know that if you buy a domain name and pay for hosting, then you own your name. When you register your profile with free blog sites like Blogspot, Google owns it, but that is not really what I am talking about. What I want to highlight is a growing trend of people registering [...]
More Exposure for your Tweets
by Dan Keller on 09. Jul, 2009 in Social Networking
As bloggers we are always looking for more exposure for our posts and Twitter allows us to reach a much larger audience through connecting with our followers followers and their followers……you get the idea. I am talking about the phenomena referred to as retweets. I found a really cool and useful site today that will [...]
Top Ten Reasons to use Twittley
by Dan Keller on 08. Jul, 2009 in Social Networking
Several weeks ago I swapped my Tweetmeme button for the Twittley button and wrote about in the post ” Is Twittley better than Tweetmeme “ I continue to be impressed with the service and the value it has brought to my blog so far. I have decided to write a top 10 list of the [...]
EntreCard Contest – 37,000 EC Credits
by Dan Keller on 07. Jul, 2009 in Marketing and Promotion
Last month I started a little side blog called Daily Blog Contest . As the domain name suggests, it is a blog that will feature blog contests, cash contests, entrecard contests and Twitter contests as well. I am holding my first blog contest on that blog and since I get over 150 visitors from EntreCard [...]
ChoToan.com interviews Dan Keller (that’s me)
by Dan Keller on 06. Jul, 2009 in Marketing and Promotion
Just a quick post to let you know that I was interviewed by Toan of chotoan.com (formerlly Clickkt.com) and he published the interview today. Here is a link if you want to read my brilliant words of wisdom (a little sarcasm there). But seriously, you should check out Toan’s site, there are a lot of [...]

