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The Swank Meter - What Does Hilary Swank Have To Do With Page
By: Mike Makler, Mon Mar 20th, 2006
Some of the Top Internet Marketers will tell you that Name
Branding is key to earning Money online. We all can't be Oscar
Winners like Hilary Swank so we need to find other Methods to
Brand our Names and Increase our Page Rank. The Swank Meter is a
fun and simple Tool you can use to easily measure how well your
Name Branding techniques are working. We even throw in 5 Simple
techniques anyone can use to brand there Name.
Recently the wife and I were watching Million Dollar Baby. After
we were done watching the Movie my wife went on the Internet to
see which Karate Kid Movie Hilary was in. It turns out that
doing an MSN search on "hilary swank" came up with 190,231 Web
Pages, Doing an MSN Search on "mike makler" brought up 2,737
results. So 190,231/2,737 is 69.5. My Hilary Swank Rating or
Swank Meter is 69.5
After Looking up other Popular Internet Figures who Brand there
Name and calculating there Swank Meter's it seems that any Swank
Meter under 19 is fairly good.
Name Branding is Important because it sets you up as an Expert
in your Field, Lets Do a Word association if I say golf, what is
the first thing that Pops in your Mind. I Bet it is probably
Tiger Woods. Likewise if I say Hotel Conrad Hilton or J. W.
Marriott are 2 Names that have been branded to Hotels. For a
long Time A. L. Williams was Branded with Life Insurance.
Wouldn't you like to be Branded to your Niche Market Like Bill
Gates and Computers.
The Best way to become branded to a Niche Market is to raise
your Swank Meter. The More places online your Name appears the
better your branding efforts. The Question now of course is how
does one raise their Hilary Swank aka Swank Meter rating? The
Power of Viral Marketing is the best way to raise one's Swank
Meter. Below are 5 Viral Marketing techniques you can use right
now to Brand Yourself
1- Article Submission
One Popular Author Claims by writing a few simple articles and
submitting them to 20 or so popular Article Directories he
Achieved a Swank Rating of about 10. For Over 50 places to
submit articles go here. http://ewguru.com/article-s
ubmit
For Tips on Article Writing go here http://ewguru.com/write
2- Give Testimonials
Another Great way to go Viral is by giving Testimonials. Many of
the places my name appears and often a link to my web page is in
a testimonial.
3- E-Book Give Always
Free E-Book Give Always are Another great Viral Marketing Tool.
You can Turn your article Collection into E-Book(s) and give
them away as an Incentive for someone to subscribe to your
newsletter. Of Course to make it Viral allow others to give them
away too. It is fairly easy to convert an Article or set of
article to a PDF (E-Book) Using this Free Online Tool. http://ewguru.com/freepdf
4- Software Give Always
Free Software is yet another Twist on Going Viral. If you can't
create your own Software there are plenty of places on the
Internet that offer Free Software for redistribution. http://www.
ewguru.com/hbiz/freesw-top10page.html
5- Forums
Forums are also a great way to Go Viral. Simply find a few
Forums on Topics that interest you and respond to posts with
useful feedback, Some Forums will even allow you to post a Link.
As you have seen the Swank Meter is a Fun Tool to see how your
branding efforts are doing.
For more Ideas on Viral Marketing look in the Various Article
Directories. Here are a few I found recently http://www.ewguru.
com/hbiz/viral-toc.html
Copyright © 2005-2006 Mike Makler
About the author:
Mike Makler has been Marketing Online Since 2001, When he built
his first Sales organization of over 100,000 Members. Subscribe
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