Weekly Marketing Schedule for Warriors

January 9, 2012

Guest post By Matt Smith

A marketing schedule is crucial for long-term success and consistent results. Put your optimal schedule down on paper then stick to it. A schedule makes you accountable and ensures you are getting enough content and exposure out there. I’m currently leveraging this exact schedule to promote my company BusinessPirate.com

Here are the core activities needed in the weekly marketing schedule:

1-2 emails per week

Email is the #1 medium for ALL online marketers. Use MailChimp or Aweber. The key here is to deliver real value to your email subscribers. Give them free stuff like ebooks or actionable videos. Then give your subscribers a discount off your app or service. Only after you have given your subscribers free and discounted stuff can you ask them to pay full price for your solution.

2 YouTube videos per week

Keep these videos less than 3 minutes. Use Google Keyword Tool to find topics that have potential to rank you on the first page of Goolge. Laura Roeder and others have indicated that traffic coming from YouTube converts 10 times better than random cold traffic. Make sure to create these videos on your YouTube Channel. The more likes, views, and video responses you can get the higher this video will rank on Google. For more info on YouTube videos scope out this video from Laura Roeder here.

One Guest Post or Interview per week

Guests blog posts help with exposure, credibility, and SEO. Write a great piece of content (like this) and pitch it to sites that utilize guest posters. You need to sell yourself and the content in order to get published. Including a short action video along with your guest post will increase the chances that you get published. A video interview is just as good as a guest blog post. Sites like Mixergy.com, TheRiseToTheTop , or IdeaMensch are money video interview candidates.

One give-away per week

Reach out to relevant blogs in your space and see if they would like to do a give-away contest with your app. If you are doing a SaaS product offer to give the blogger 5 One Year subscriptions. Make sure the contest includes both comments and tweets. An example of a contest I did from AppSumo can be seen here. Just copy this format.

2 Blog Posts on your site per week

Use the Google Keyword Tool research to determine blog topics to go after and attempt to rank for. Think about re-purposing content. Write about one of the topics you spoke about in your YouTube videos then include that video in your post. This way you enhance your blog post and don’t have to re-create the wheel. Use basic SEO principles in every blog post.

Tweet and Facebook everyday

Tweet and Facebook early and often. Use Hootsuite and Timely.is to automate your social network marketing. Mention and reach out to customers, friends, and experts on Twitter/Facebook. Twitter is awesome for customer service. Tweets shot out earlier in the day will have better performance and reach. At least 3 tweets and one Facebook update per day.

This schedule will help you in every aspect of your online marketing strategy but it is not perfect. Unbounce did an EPIC Free ebook focused on a 6-month Online Marketing schedule. You get it in exchange for a tweet here.

What did I miss? Please comment below and let me know!

Matt SmithMatt Smith is the co-founder of BusinesPirate.com. He was previously one of the BizDev guys at AppSumo and is currently getting his MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. His current venture, Business Pirate, helps educate sales and marketing pros through online video courses. When he is not playing on the computer, he likes to exercise and eat raw fish in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona.


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He Who is the Most Consistent Wins

December 22, 2011

As you are getting ready and doing all of that planning for the New Year, remember one very important step…be consistent.

Check out the video below to learn:

  • How to stay at the forefront of your customer’s minds
  • How serious commitment leads to serious success
  • How systems can help you achieve consistency
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What systems and consistent marketing do you do to keep your customers engaged? Share in the comments below.


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LKR’s Gift Guide Week 2: Books to Get Your Biz On

December 14, 2011

Last week we shared some handy dandy small business tools to help you get your work on. Our gift guide continues this week with one of our favorite things, BOOKS!

You can never go wrong with gifting books and the books below will go far beyond the winter break. These are books that have taught Laura things that have changed her business.

Double Double By Cameron Herold

Cameron Herold has personally taught Laura the principles that allowed her to double her business from 2009 to 2010, and then again in 2011. His book, Double Double is Laura’s business bible, in fact our entire team is currently going through it chapter-by-chapter to put Cameron’s guidance in place. This past year Laura was able to chat with Cameron about his book and biz. Click here to listen. Double Double By Cameron Herold

The Art of Non Conformity by Chris Guillebeau

Watch the video below to hear…

  • Why this is a must read book for changing your life
  • Chris’ idea about the new way to retire
  • How ‘The Art of Non Conformity” can help you hone in on crafting a life that you want
The Art of Non Conformity by Chris Guillebeau

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Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port

Watch below to find out…

  • Why Book Yourself Solid was essential to Laura in growing her business
  • How creating a red velvet rope for your business can boost your biz
  • How this book helped Laura move past the “I’ll work with anyone” mind frame
Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port
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Screw Business as Usual by Sir Richard Branson

Watch below to find out…

  • To check out Laura with Sir Richard Branson!
  • How the LKR team is screwing business as usual
  • How buying Screw Business as Usual will help you do good this holiday season
Screw Business as Usual by Sir Richard Branson
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Stay tuned, we’ve got another fun gift guide coming next week with LKR’s fave office supplies to help you rock your 2012.


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Pledging to Support Entrepreneurs: My Trip to the White House

November 29, 2011

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Two weeks ago I headed to the White House to be honored as one of the Top 100 Entrepreneurs under the age of 30 as listed on the Empact 100 list.  The visit to Washington DC was jammed packed but full of really great news for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

While at the US Capitol I heard from those that are pushing congress to support entrepreneurs. There were many promising ideas, from knocking down student loans for those starting a business of their own, to allowing “starting a business” to be equal to “searching for work” for those on unemployment.

While at the White House, I along with 12 others, pledged to do our part in supporting others as they follow the path to owning their own business. As you know, that is what I do every day here at LKR. My team and myself are driven by helping people take that leap to owning their own business and helping the economy one entrepreneur at a time.

Want to hear my pledge? Check out this video from my time at the White House last week.

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Here’s a link to the organization I mention in my pledge, http://www.cofed.org. They are a wonderful organization “committed to empowering students to create ethically-sourced, cooperatively-run food enterprises on college campuses.” Check them out and show them your support!

Cheers to small businesses everywhere!


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How To Use a Flowplayer WordPress Plugin To Show Any Video In WordPress

November 21, 2011
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In this video you’ll learn…

  • How to add your videos to a self-hosted WordPress site using Flowplayer
  • Where to house large videos on the web
  • How to install and set up the FV WordPress Flowplayer plugin
  • Why we love Amazon S3 for housing videos

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Review of Chris Guillebeau’s “The Art of Non Conformity”

November 10, 2011

Watch below to hear my take on Chris Guillebeau’s “The Art of Non Conformity

Hear me chat about…

  • Why this is a must read book for changing your life
  • Chris’ idea about the new way to retire
  • How ‘The Art of Non Conformity” can help you hone in on crafting a life that you want
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Free Webinar: Secrets To Killing It With Video Marketing

November 3, 2011

If you’ve been following my marketing lately you’re seeing me use a ton of video – video blogs, how-to videos, promotional videos, funny videos and even video sales letters.

Truthfully video has been killing it for me – check out how much higher my traffic converts from youtube than from other sources:

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That’s the percentage of people coming from that site that sign up for my newsletter – look how much higher YouTube is than the other websites around it!

A full 10% of people clicking over from YouTube submit their email address – NOT to a squeeze page but just my normal site. Kind of insane huh?

I think you should be getting those kind of conversion rates too, and you can be – that’s why we’re doing this free webinar.

I co-hosted it with Lewis Howes (you probably remember him from my LinkedIn webinar) and his co-founder of The Video Traffic Academy, James Wedmore.

People have been asking me about video so I knew this one would fill up fast!

Sign up below to grab the online video workshop the second it’s available!

Just put in your name and email below:

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Get Timely: How to Save Time on Your Twitter Marketing

October 6, 2011

In this video you’ll learn…

  • How to stay timely on twitter
  • My super secret “personal assistant” that helps me manage my twitter stream
  • How you can make the most of those genius tweets when they hit you

Get your own personal twitter assistant by signing up for Timely!


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Your Blueprint to Ranking in Google Places

October 3, 2011

Guest post by Madeline Gutierrez

Looking for the Blueprint to Ranking in Google Places?

Trying to place highly on Google? Have a brick and mortar company?  Then you know how important it is to be found.  Everyone is driving the lanes of the world wide web before venturing down Main Street.

People take to the internet before they take to the interstate.

What does that mean for you?  Have you been thinking about adding Google Places to your marketing strategy? Sure. Because you realize that knowing how to get your website to rank in Google – is knowing how to get your business in front of your consumers.

“No matter how big the sign is on the front of your building, if you’re not effective with Google Places, then you should expect the business to go to the one who is.”

What is Google Places?

Google Places is an integral part of Google and its search engine abilities.  Look up a business or service on Google, say under “plumber Orlando Fl”, and Google will present you with a list.  Anyone who has done a search on Google has seen one – it’s a list of websites Google believes best answer the question you are looking for. And – and this is the “Big And” – Google will call out, with its special up-side-down teardrop shaped marker, the brick and mortar businesses that are registered in Google Places before it calls out any business not registered. That’s what makes Google Places worth your time.

What does this all mean for your business?

Google Places gets your business to the top of searches with more ease than anything that has come before it.  This means more traffic online and on foot will be coming to your door.

The question is: “How to use Google Places to rank high when someone’s Googling?”

Simple. Watch the excellent video “The Blueprint to Google Places” shared here. Or if you’d rather keep reading, then you need to look at the three main elements to coming up in Google Places’ ranking:

  1. Citations
  2. Keywords

And of course -

  1. Google Places

Let’s start with citations.

What’s a citation? That would be your company’s big three:

  1. Legal name
  2. Legal address
  3. Legal phone number

Citations are the starting point when you want to rank in Google Places.   

You’ll want to get your company’s citations listed in as many major directories as possible.  That’s a basic step one.  Some of those directories are free and some aren’t.  Just remember that registering with a popular and well visited site lets some of their Google influence rub off on you.  It’s sort of like “having the right friends” or “being ‘in’ with the right people”.  So get all three pieces of info added to directories like Angie’s List, Yelp, and even the online Yellow Pages.  Simple and essential.

**Warning: do not make any mistakes when entering your information and always enter the same information.  For instance, if you have two office phone numbers, be sure to use the same number for every directory you use.

Step two is learning about ranking on Google with Keywords.

Although this part may sound a little like arcane magic it’s not really that mysterious.  A free keyword tool from can be found on Google’s Adwords. Guess what it’s called? The Google Adwords Keyword Tool.  Even without an Adwords account you can use this tool to find which words and phrases people are typing in when you are the answer to their search.  You can even find out the frequency a specific phrase, like “plumber Orlando fl” is searched.

The topic of proper keyword strategy is certainly packaged with a learning curve so be sure to look for a future “how to” blog and video about this project.

Want to use Google Places to its best advantage? That’s step three:

For this step the magic number is three again. Make sure you have:

  1. 10 photos
  2. 5 videos
  3. 1 completely filled out Google Places profile.

Wondering what kind of photos and videos to use? Don’t be too stressed. With most cameras today you can capture what you need fairly easily.  Why not take a look at what other businesses are posting in Google Places? It’s an easy way to get some simple ideas.

Want a little “magic sauce” to successfully use Google Places to improve your Google ranking?

Final touches: Make sure you have absolutely no spelling or entry errors within your information.  Also, don’t forget to activate your listing using the pin # on the postcard you will receive from Google.

Get reviews: Time to contact your family tree (family, friends, client, etc)!  You need them to add an outstanding review in your Google Places listing.  In addition, why not have them visit some of the citations you created so they can give you “5 stars” there, too.   More reviews equals more opportunity!

**Warning: whether you have 10 or 100 people willing to do this for you – you’ll want to ask them to do it over time.

Google Places is the “place to be” on Google

Google Places is the place to build a presence if you want people to be present in your business. Use this blog as a check sheet or simply build your foundation on Google Places by watching the video, “The Blueprint to Google Places.”  It’s not just accurate – it’s fun to watch.

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madeline gutierrezMadeline Gutierrez is 1 of 12 collaborators found within the Songbird Agency. She holds a Master’s in Design from Pratt and is an authority on design, content marketing and social media.

“Basically I am about helping people communicate with each other and I get excited when I see great design in anything.”

Check out www.songbirdagency.com and receive a free infographic outlining these topics with an additional list of free directories to get you started.


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Exclusive Video – How to Create Your Own Fame Using Social Media

September 1, 2011

Watch the video above to see me speaking at Marie Forleo’s Rich, Happy & Hot Live event - this has never been released before!

Did this video give you any “a-ha”s on building your own fame? Please leave them in the comments below.


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